It has been over eleven years since the Montara H1-ST1 wellhead caught fire in 2009. The incident supposedly caused environmental damages to Indonesia’s coast. The companies involved in the case insisted on their innocence. Representatives of the affected people and farmers decided to file a class-action lawsuit in the Australian Federal Court. In Indonesia, the Government also tried several means to demand the parties to be held accountable. The proceedings ended last week with a very satisfying result.

The investigation into the case of corruption in Cirebon is ongoing, although the key actor in the case, the former Regent of Cirebon Sunjaya Purwadisastra, had been found guilty. As previously reported, it is necessary to continue investigating because there is one remaining suspect to be prosecuted. While the case does not receive much attention in the country, it causes a stir in both South Korea and Japan because the last suspect is a General Manager of Hyundai Engineering & Construction at the time of the incident. The project under investigation is the Cirebon 2 power plant, whose construction is funded mainly by Japanese corporations.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) uncovered a graft case involving the then Regent of Cirebon Sunjaya Purwadisastra in 2018. Several people were named suspects, including an employee of Hyundai Engineering & Construction. Sunjaya was found guilty, and the trial of one of the bribers started recently. We need to note that while the case does not receive much attention in Indonesia, it causes a stir in both South Korea and Japan. 

The economic consequences of the pandemic still linger. The year 2020 was full of bankruptcy lawsuits and petitions for debt restructuring (PKPU). This year looks to be the same. In March 2021, the Commercial Court of the Central Jakarta District Court registered lawsuits against several well-known companies.

Last week the Chief Commissioner of PT Exploitasi Energi Indonesia Tbk (CNKO) Andri Cahyadi filed a police report against Indra Widjaja, son of the late Eka Tjipta Widjaja who is also the chief commissioner of PT Sinarmas Sekuritas. Apart from Indra, Andri also made...

The investigation and trial of the corruption case involving PT Dirgantara Indonesia (Persero) (PTDI) continue. The trial of the first two defendants will soon end as the prosecutors have read their demands in the latest hearing. Meanwhile, the investigation still has...

Bosowa Corporindo has been in a feud with the Financial Service Authority (OJK) for too long now. We started 2021 with news of Bosowa’s victory, but the OJK strikes back. Last week, in response to the report submitted by OJK, the Indonesian Police (POLRI) named Sadikin Aksa, former managing director of Bosowa, a suspect for allegedly deliberately ignoring and/or not carrying out written orders given by the OJK.

After years full of drama, the case of corruption involving the former Secretary of the Supreme Court Nurhadi has come to an end. The Corruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court declared that Nurhadi and his son-in-law Rezky Herbiyono guilty of corruption. Nevertheless, the sentences handed to them are far from what the prosecutors had demanded.

From the previous article you can see that the banking crime scheme known as social engineering is often used and often made victims. Of the many cases that occurred, not only at Jenius but also at other banks, most of them ended up with the transfer of responsibility to the customer. However, as I said, customers do make mistakes, but does this mean that the bank can escape from its responsibility?

Jenius, a digital banking application developed by PT Bank BTPN Tbk (BTPN), was immediately recognized since it was introduced in 2016. The various facilities and attractive features offered with its youthful image have attracted many customers, including me. At first, I wanted to have a Jenius account. However, an acquaintance had a bad incident and since then I have often heard and read about bad experiences related to Jenius. I personally afraid of all things digital, with the incident happened at the time, I finally gave up my intention of becoming a Jenius customer. Several years later, yesterday, a friend who is a loyal Jenius customer, experienced a similar bad incident. Her savings worth more than Rp200 million from working for a dozen years disappeared immediately after being trapped in a so-called “social engineering” crimes. I took the initiative to find out through social media whether anyone had experienced a bad incident as a Jenius customer. The response I received was shocking. The kind of crime my friend had just experienced was not the only record that Jenius needed to pay attention to. But most importantly, why do similar cases often happen to Jenius customers?