Budget Feud and the Procurement System

At the heart of the feud between the Jakarta City Council and the Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) are the thousands of dubious appropriations for the procurement of goods and services. The Rp12 trillion Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) procurement budget is...

Legislative Journal 19/05/2013

In this edition of Legislative Journal we will review two of the thirty-seven bills that are included in the 2015 National Legislative Program (Prolegnas) to be passed this year. The two Bills are the Bill on Banking and the Bill on Bank Indonesia. Bill on Banking...

Legislative Journal 18/03/2015

In this edition of Legislative Journal we will review two of the thirty-seven bills that are included in the 2015 National Legislative Program (Prolegnas) to be passed this year. The Bills are: the Bill on Construction Services and the Bill on Architects. Bill on...

The Sarpin Effect

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) may not have foreseen the grave consequences of naming then POLRI Chief nominee Budi Gunawan suspect in a graft investigation. This move didn’t only plunge the country into political crisis, it also gave birth to a legal...
Consignment & Land Acquisition Headaches

Consignment & Land Acquisition Headaches

Statement from agrarian and spatial planning minister Ferry Mursyidan Baldan about completion of land acquisition for the giant 2×1000 MW coal-fired power plant in Batang Regency, Central Java turned out to be untrue. Sofyan Basir, CEO of PT Perusahaan Listrik...

Legislative Journal: The Criminal Code

The Bill on the Criminal Code, unlike the other bills we’ve discussed in our journals, is a beast of its own. It has the ambitious aim of defining Indonesia’s own penal code, not some byproduct of colonization. Indeed, Indonesia still uses the adopted version of Dutch...

Legislative Journal 16/03/2015

In this edition of Legislative Journal we will review three of the thirty-seven bills that are included in the 2015 National Legislative Program (Prolegnas) to be passed this year. The Bills are: the Bill on Trademarks, the Bill on Patent, and the Bill on the...

Legislative Journal 13/03/2015

In this edition of Legislative Journal we will review three of the thirty-seven bills that are included in the 2015 National Legislative Program (Prolegnas) to be passed this year. The Bills are: the Bill on Broadcasting, the Bill on Radio and Television of the...
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