Day: August 15, 2024

Eddy Sindoro, once a trusted person in Lippo Group, was found guilty for his involvement in the case of bribery implicating the conglomerate several years back. A few years after that, the then Secretary of the Supreme Court, Nurhadi, who supposedly had a side job in brokering cases, was found guilty for his involvement in a different case of corruption. Nurhadi was then named as a suspect in a case of money laundering, but we have not heard of any progress since 2021, until this week. Apparently, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) continued the investigation and summoned Eddy as witness. The question now is, how far up will the KPK go this time?

We all know the commotion caused by the Constitutional Court last year. The Court, which was still led by Anwar Usman, who is married to the President’s sister, changed the norms of the general election regulation which eventually paved the way for the nomination of Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the President’s eldest son, as vice president. With pressure from many parties, the legal process was brought to the Ethic Council of the Constitutional Court (MKMK), who finally declared Anwar to have committed a serious ethical violation and thus must be removed from his position as chief of the Constitutional Court. Anwar, however, refused to accept the decision and decided to file a lawsuit with the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) amidst the scorn of many parties. Unfortunately, this week, the PTUN decided to partially grant Anwar’s lawsuit. What a mess.