Apr 24, 2026 | Law, Politics
The debate over revising Election Law has once again returned to a familiar battleground: the parliamentary threshold. On paper, it is a technical mechanism—currently set at 4 percent of the national vote—to determine which parties qualify for seats in the House of...
Apr 24, 2026 | Market, Politics
In addition to procuring 28,300 Samsung Galaxy Tab Active 5 tablets, it was also revealed that BGN allocated Rp1.2 trillion on IT needs. However, according to BGN Head Dadan Hindayana, the actual expenditure amounted to Rp749 billion, comprising approximately Rp 199...
Apr 23, 2026 | Market, Politics
Following the controversy over the electric motorcycle procurement, reports surfaced that the Ministry of Housing and Settlement (PKP) planned to allocate a quota of 1,000 subsidized housing units for SPPG employees, specifically SPPI graduates. Although both BGN and...
Apr 21, 2026 | Law, Politics
The participation rate of Indonesian high school graduates and their equivalents who continue to higher education remains relatively low, with economic constraints as one of the primary barriers. Amid these challenges, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)...
Apr 21, 2026 | Law, Politics
House of Representatives moved to pass the long-delayed domestic workers protection bill, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad called it a “gift” for Kartini Day. After 22 years of legislative limbo, the symbolism is powerful. Millions of domestic workers—mostly women—have waited...
Apr 20, 2026 | Market, Politics
Hashim Djojohadikusumo described food safety failures in the government’s Makan Bergizi Gratis (MBG) program as “normal,” he may have intended to contextualize the challenges of scaling a massive initiative. But taken together with his remarks about...
Apr 17, 2026 | Law, Politics
The Constitutional Court (MK) recently declared a judicial review of the Police Law inadmissible, the ruling seemed, at first glance, procedural. The petition, which challenged the absence of a fixed term for the National Police chief, was rejected not on substance...
