Those with a mobile phone connection in Indonesia would have received messages from anonymous senders offering credit consolidation services to risqué encounters. Some have learned so accustomed to this they simply ignore the spam notifications and carry on with their lives. They might have wondered how these unidentified senders obtained their number, but they have no means of preventing such a violation of privacy. 

By the end of 2018, the Governor of Jakarta decided to stop the controversial Jakarta Bay reclamation projects. Several months later, PT Taman Harapan Indah, a subsidiary of PT Intiland Development Tbk (DILD), filed a lawsuit against the Governor. PT Taman Harapan Indah holds the reclamation license of Island H. Last week the public learned that the lawsuit had been granted by the Panel of Judges of the Jakarta State Administrative Court. There are three other similar lawsuits filed by different developers of the reclamation project. One of them was filed by PT Agung Dinamika Perkasa, who do not own any reclamation license. The subsidiary of PT Agung Podomoro Land Tbk (APLN) is only a partner of PT Jakarta Propertindo in the plan to build Island F. 

The Corruption Court of the Central Jakarta District Court convicted the last defendant in the corruption scheme involving officials of the Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) back in November 2018. The KPK continued the investigation after that and named a new suspect a month after the last trial ended. We thought that the KPK might have changed its target to politicians mentioned in the trials, but apparently, the KPK decided to go beyond. The KPK named PT Meriel Esa as the corporate suspect in the case in March 2019. Earlier this week, the KPK announced that they had developed their investigation and started a new inquisition on a different case, but with the same key person, i.e., Bambang Udoyo.

The Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) recently read their decision on the case of cartel-like practices in the increase of salt prices. The Commission Assembly, interestingly, decided that there is not enough evidence to prove the allegation. The decision was reached, although there was a dissenting opinion from a member of the assembly.

The trial of Sofyan Basir, the former President Director of PT PLN (Persero) who is now a defendant in the Riau Power Plant graft case, continues. Earlier this week, the Court listened to the accounts of several key witnesses in the case. The prosecutors have been slowly revealing why they believe Sofyan Basir was involved in the scheme.

On July 25, 2019 the Commercial Court at the Central Jakarta District Court registered a lawsuit on Suspension of Debts Payment (PKPU) filed 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). There are no other details regarding the cause of the dispute, however, several information available in two other district courts pointed the Company’s apartment project named The Jarrdin @ Cihampelas as the problem.

It has been over four years after the Constitutional Court through decision No. 85/PUU-XI/2013 granted the Judicial Review on Law No. 7/2004 on Water Resources and ruled that the Law unconstitutional. The Law and all of its technical regulations were thus annulled. The Government was forced to re-enact the Law No. 11/1974 on Irrigation and since then had enacted several ministerial level regulations to fill the absence of an up-to-date Law, but these are not enough.