The investigation and inquisition into the case of alleged corruption in State-owned insurance company PT Asuransi Jiwasraya (Persero) continue. The investigators of the Attorney General's Office (AGO) had completed the dockets of three suspects and handed over the...

The Government finally decided to implement social restrictions on a large scale accompanied by strict sanctions for violators. This decision was taken to suppress the increasing and massive spread of COVID-19. In a Limited Meeting held on March 30, 2020, the...

On March 23, 2020, the Government through the Ministry of Finance issued the Regulation of the Minister of Finance (PMK) No. 23/PMK.03/2020 which regulates tax incentives for taxpayers affected by the Coronavirus outbreak. In this PMK, the Government provides at least...

Nearly four years ago, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) uncovered a scheme of corruption in the Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla). Since then, the case had brought down seven convicts, but the investigation continues to this day. In mid-2019, the KPK named...

In September 2018, we reported that the employees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) had filed a lawsuit against their leaders. The lawsuit was filed after the employees held a protest in August 2018. Two days after the lawsuit was filed, another similar lawsuit was filed. The Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN Jakarta) has rejected a second lawsuit following an out-of-court settlement process, but the first lawsuit continues to be examined. The leaders of KPK won at first, but recently nearly two years after the lawsuit was filed, the Supreme Court decided in favor of the employees. 

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry recently announced that it was investigating a case of illegal logging in Maluku. At the beginning of this year, an agrarian dispute between CV Sumber Berkat Makmur (SBM), a plantation company operating in the Eastern District of Seram regency (Seram Bagian Timur); and the inhabitants around the Company’s operating location (Sabuai village residents) heated up. The indigenous people of Sabuai protested the Company’s activities that they believed were damaging the environment and traditional sites, such as ancestral graves.

On October 9, 2019, we reported that the Commercial Court of the Central Jakarta District Court held hearings on the two lawsuits filed by PT Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia (RCTI). The lawsuits were filed against several broadcasting companies that RCTI accused of violating their copyrights. In the two lawsuits, RCTI demands compensation of close to Rp9 trillion. RCTI failed to get what they wanted, but before RCTI filed the lawsuit, one of the cases had been investigated by the Government. The Government, through Directorate of Investigation and Settlement of Disputes, Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DJKI) at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, apparently had been working on the case since late 2018 and the West Jakarta District Court examines the case. Recently we learned that the court had decided in favor of DJKI.

The Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) recently decided to loosen business competition law enforcement amid the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. According to the KPPU, this decision is needed in an emergency as it is now. Leniency is given related to several issues, including reporting obligations of corporate actions (mergers and acquisitions).

For the past two weeks, many have questioned the continuity of the trial in the judiciary under the Supreme Court. Until recently, trials throughout Indonesia were still carried out with a number of precautionary rules. But with the widespread outbreak, the Supreme...

On August 15, 2019, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) announced that they had named five suspects in the case involving the Commissioner of PT Wahana Auto Ekamarga one Darwin Maspolim. Graft case in taxation is not a new thing, unfortunately, but what the...