With its ruling on Law No. 11/2020 concerning Job Creation, the Constitutional Court seems to remind every stakeholder that the strategic purpose of a law should not ignore the constitutionality of the formation of laws. Public participation and transparency are...

The Constitutional Court made a historic decision last week. With four dissenting opinions, the Assembly of Justices ruled that the process of establishing Law No. 11/2020 concerning Job Creation is formally flawed. This is the first time in Indonesia’s judicial...

Two months ago, the former Governor of South Sumatera Alex Noerdin was named a suspect of corruption in two different cases. One of the cases in question is corruption in the construction of the Sriwijaya Mosque that allegedly made the State sustain Rp130 billion in losses. The case has implicated 13 people. Last week, the Panel of Judges of the Corruption Court of the Palembang District Court read their decisions for the latest batch of defendants. All were found guilty.

Fransiska Kumalawati Susilo, Edward Soeryadjaya’s second wife, recently filed a lawsuit at the South Jakarta District Court. Fransiska has appeared in the news from time to time because of several lawsuits and police reports that she filed against her in-laws’ family and other important parties, including Sandiaga Uno. After a long silence, Fransiska filed a pre-trial lawsuit and questioned the decision that the Police made in 2019.

Two months ago, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) named three people as suspects in the case of bribery related to the procurement of goods and services in the Hulu Sungai Utara regency of South Kalimantan. This week, the KPK announced the progress of the investigation. The KPK also named a new suspect: the Regent of Hulu Sungai Utara Abdul Wahid. 

In 2015, the Jakarta High Prosecutors Office (Kejati Jakarta) began investigating Bank DKI’s 230-billion-rupiah credit facility scandal. Three of the bank’s former executives went to prison in 2017. A similar scheme has been carried out by executives at two branch offices of Bank DKI. The Central Jakarta district prosecutors office (Kejari) has begun an inquisition and named three suspects, including the President Director of PT Broadbiz Asia, the developer of Paragon Village in Tangerang. The company has been declared bankrupt since 2018.

The case of corruption and conspiracy involving Joko Soegiarto Tjandra was uncovered over a year ago. All suspects in three different cases were found guilty. Even so, many questions remain unanswered. Some of the said convicts are still trying to avoid punishment,...

On Nov. 16, 2021, the Central Jakarta District Court registered a lawsuit against one Jason Surjana Tanuwidjaja. The plaintiffs are two companies. The lawsuit centers on a land dispute that has lasted for over a decade. In 2005, Jason Surjana Tanuwidjaja and Tansri...

The trial on the case of corruption that brought down the Governor of South Sulawesi Nurdin Abdullah will soon end. Unlike the grand revelation of the case, the court proceedings continued far from media coverage. After four months of examination, on Nov. 15, 2021,...

The pandemic has taken a toll on the performance of PT Pan Brothers Tbk (PBRX), but the situation further deteriorated when one of the Company’s executives was examined as a witness in a corruption case involving State-owned insurance company PT Asuransi Jiwasraya...