Before Joko Widodo as president, we have never seen in our history that some major infrastructures are built at the same time in the greater Jakarta area: mass rapid transit (MRT), light-rail transit (LRT), double-double track (regular train service), inner city toll road, Jakarta outer ring road (JORR)-2, and elevated toll road connecting Jakarta and the trans-Java toll road.
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Businessman Erick Thohir are getting some show of support following the news that he could become the next chairman of the Indonesian Football Association (PSSI). Erick, who is now the head of the campaign team of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and K.H. Ma’ruf Amin (Jokowi-Amin), has publicly expressed his willingness to take the job.
Read MorePollsters have released the result of their respective electability survey this month. Two of them look into the electability of presidential contenders in every region and in every political party.
Read MoreIn July 2018, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) conducted a Sting Operation inside the Sukamiskin Penitentiary, the facility used to detain almost all high-profile graft-convicts. The KPK managed to arrest six individuals and named four suspects in the case, including the main convict in the Bakamla graft case Fahmi Darmawansyah and the Chief of the Sukamiskin Penitentiary Wahid Husein. The operation brought the spotlight onto the Ministry of Law and Human Rights. But even after the trial began, we have not heard of any intense examination on the Ministry. The latest hearing held on January 30, 2019, listened to the accounts of Tubagus Chaeri Wardana (Wawan, the brother of the former governor of Banten Ratu Atut Chosiyah).
Read MoreThe trials of the four defendants in the case of bribery involving Billy Sindoro and the former Regent of Bekasi one Neneng Hassanah Yasin continue in Corruption Court of the Bandung District Court. Billy Sindoro allegedly bribed Neneng in order to obtain licenses for the Meikarta township project—a project developed by PT Mahkota Sentosa Utama, subsidiary of PT Lippo Cikarang Tbk (LPCK). The ongoing trials revealed crucial details. In the latest hearing the court listened to the accounts of eight witnesses of the nine witnesses summoned by the prosecutors. The one witness who failed to answer the court summon was James Riady.
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