Last week, the Central Jakarta District Court registered an interesting lawsuit. The tort lawsuit was filed by the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy or the Head of the Tourism and Creative Economy Agency Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno against a company whose name is familiar, PT Grahalintas Properti with relation to Samin Tan. We later learned that the dispute that led to this lawsuit was also mentioned in the Company’s debt restructuring process five years ago.

The Court is of the opinion that PT Gandaerah Hendana (PT GH) had failed to anticipate and resolve the fires in its concession and thus contributed to the 2019 forest fires. PT GH was finally found guilty. The Panel of Judges gave the Government a warning with its decision.

Richard Joost (RJ) Lino, the former CEO of state-owned port management company PT Pelabuhan Indonesia II (Persero) (Pelindo II) was found guilty. Nevertheless, the court proceedings raised a lot of questions, especially because the presiding judge provided a...

The land dispute case in East Jakarta, which was later dubbed as the land mafia case, remains convoluted even after the trials in the district court ended. The alleged key perpetrator in the case, one Benny Simon Tabalujan, is still on the run. Recent development adds...

The trial of Richard Joost (RJ) Lino, the former CEO of State-owned port management company PT Pelabuhan Indonesia II (Persero) (Pelindo II) is over. The lengthy process ended as predicted: Lino was found guilty.

Textile giant PT Sri Rejeki Isman Tbk (SRIL or Sritex) has been having a rather terrible year. The last lawsuit for Suspension of Debt Payment (PKPU) against its affiliated company was granted by the Commercial Court at the Semarang District Court. Five companies in the group, including the parent company, and one affiliated company are in a temporary PKPU period. On that note, one PKPU process on a subsidiary ended peacefully, while the last PKPU process was granted an extension just last week.

The past few years have been difficult for PT Garuda Indonesia Tbk (GIAA). The Central Jakarta District Court recorded 20 lawsuits related to Garuda Indonesia within the period, not to mention disputes in other countries. By the end of January 2021, a United Kingdom...

It has been over two years since the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) uncovered a corruption scheme in Muara Enim. The case brought down the Regent of Muara Enim Ahmad Yani (Democratic Party) and several other people, including the Chairman of DPRD Aries HB...

Over two years ago, we reported on a lawsuit registered to the Commercial Court at the Central Jakarta District Court against PT Kagum Karya Husada and its founder one Henry Husada (Kagum Group). The one filing the lawsuit is PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Agroniaga Tbk (AGRO), seeking Kagum Group to restructure its debts. AGRO kept trying to force the Group to restructure its debt (PKPU) through several similar lawsuits until its lawsuit was finally accepted in mid-2020. Towards the end of 2020, the Group and its founder were declared bankrupt. But the Group refused to give up. It filed a lawsuit against the team of curators in the bankruptcy process and asked the court to overturn the bankruptcy decision on the Company.