Acceleration of Renewable Energy Development for Electricity Supply
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 112/2022 was published last month. Not much attention is given, but the provisions of this Perpres will have an impact in the future. In addition to increasing investment, Perpres 112 also aims to accelerate the achievement of the...
Lawsuit against Sime Darby et al
PT Asa Karya Multipratama (PT AKM), a low profile private company, filed a lawsuit against Sime Darby Plantation Berhad and three other parties back in March 2022. In the lawsuit, the company demanded compensation in the amount of nearly Rp6 trillion including...
Latest on the IPDN Case
It has been over five years since we first reported on the allegation of corruption in the procurement for the construction of the Institute of Public Administration's (IPDN) faculty building in Agam, West Sumatera. What began as a simple case turned into a massive...
Latest on Corruption in Taspen Life
Earlier this year, the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) announced the progress related to the alleged corruption case at the insurance firm Taspen Life and named two suspects. In the chronology of the case described, familiar names was mentioned. The inquisition stage continue far from media coverage and recently we learned that the case had been registered to the court.
Police turned Murderer
A police officer was murdered at the official resident of a General whom he was supposed to protect back in July 2022. Brigadier Nopriansyah Yosua Hutabarat, also known as Brigadir J, is the aide to then Head of the Professional and Security Division at the National Police (Kadiv Propam), Ferdy Sambo. Later, POLRI announced that Brigadir J died of premeditated murder and to date dozens of police officers including several generals have been sanctioned and even dishonorably discharged because of their involvement. Dockets of the murder suspects is planned to be expedited to court today, Oct. 10, 2022, but with an investigation lasting for only three months, can we trust the results?
Latest on the Food Estate Project
In 2016, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo officially recognized the customary forests of several indigenous people and customary communities. The recognition was given in the form of a Decree on the Inclusion of Customary Forest and Customary Forest Determination Letter...
Acceleration of Infrastructure Development
Recently, the President signed Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2022 which regulates the Special Assignments in the Context of Accelerating the Implementation of Infrastructure Development. This special assignment is given to the Ministry of Public Works and...
New Suspect in Garuda Indonesia Corruption Case
The last hearing on the trial of Hadinoto Soedigno, Garuda Indonesia's former executive vice director for Engineering and Maintenance Services, was held in mid-2021. Hadinoto was found guilty for alleged involvement in the scheme of corruption conducted under the...
On the Dismissal of Justice Aswanto
The plenary session of the House of Representatives conducted on Sept. 29, 2022 took many by surprise. One of the results was the decision to dismiss Justice Aswanto from the Constitutional Court. Justice Aswanto is one of three Constitutional Justices who are...
Financial Omnibus Law: Politicians in Bank Indonesia?
The Bill for Development and Strengthening of the Financial Sector (RUU PPSK) dubbed as the Financial Omnibus Law is being discussed. The Bill is designed to amend the provisions of several Laws at once and similar to the controversial Law on Job Creation, there are several new proposals from the House of Representatives in the Bill that need attention. Moreover, there is also topic that cause problem. Said problem arose because the House of Representatives decided to provide an opportunity for politicians to become members of the Board of Governors of Bank Indonesia. Their reason is because these positions are chosen through a political process and therefore the limitation of positions on members of political parties is considered to have lost its relevance. However, is that reason enough to be used to bring political interests into the central Bank?