After facing various lawsuits for Suspension of Debt Payment (PKPU), with the threat of being delisted from the stock exchange since 2020, textile giant PT Sri Rejeki Isman Tbk (SRIL or Sritex) and its subsidiaries has been declared bankrupt, at last. The past four...

After the inauguration ceremony conducted through a plenary session of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) on Oct. 20, 2024, Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka officially became President and Vice President of Indonesia for the 2024-2029 period. After the inauguration, President Prabowo announced the composition of his makeover cabinet consisting of 48 Ministers and five ministerial-level officials, and 56 Deputy Ministers. Among the names mentioned, some are Ministers and Deputy Ministers who will be responsible for legal sector.

After going through a rather chaotic political turned personal drama and accompanied by criticism from many parties, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024, President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka were finally officially inaugurated. This inauguration ended the 10-year administration of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, but before his term ended, President Jokowi had issued several important regulations that would support the duties of the new administration, including changing the provisions in the Law on State Ministries. With this change, the number of ministries which was previously limited to only 34 can now be adjusted to suit needs. This change in regulations was utilized by the new administration with the Red and White Cabinet (Kabinet Merah Putih) which was composed of 48 ministries, consisting of seven coordinating ministries and 41 technical ministries. Among these changes, the Ministry of Law and Human Rights and its Coordinating Ministry also experienced drastic makeover.

It has been a while since the last time we reported on the geostationary orbit scandal and the alleged violations in satellite management cooperation at the Ministry of Defense. The management cooperation that was originally intended to support the Government's...

The Satgas BLBI, now under new leadership, keeps facing new problems. Back in August 2024, a lawsuit was registered to the Central Jakarta District Court against the decision of the Satgas for the confiscation that was carried out nearly a year ago. The plaintiff is...

In 2021, amidst the drama of internal conflict between the leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and dozens of its former employees, the National Police (POLRI) appeared and provided shelter. The former KPK employees were made civil servants at the Directorate of Corruption Crimes (Dittipikor) which is part of the Criminal Investigative Unit (Bareskrim). Some time after that, discourse emerged to separate Dittipikor from Bareskrim and make it more powerful. Over two years later, in March 2024, the POLRI Chief, General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, said that the formation of the Corruption Eradication Corps (Kortas Tipikor) was just waiting for the President’s approval. Last week, the long-awaited approval has finally arrived.

What we have witnessed from the prolonged drama between the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and Gazalba Saleh is proof that even the KPK still has shortcomings and proof that there are criminals who do not feel guilty. In the end, corruption, especially when carried out massively, is proof of greed. Unfortunately, as mentioned, the judges who should be the enforcers of justice, are vulnerable to losing to their greed. Gazalba Saleh is not the first, and if there is no change in the justice system and law enforcement, he may not be the last.

The drama on the law enforcer’s efforts to punish the disgraced Supreme Court Justice, Gazalba Saleh, is finally over. After the Panel of Judges of the Corruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court gave a surprising interlocutory decision earlier this year, Saleh faced his trial again in June 2024. This week, Saleh was finally found guilty. In our records, at least in the cases that have been made public, Saleh is the umpteenth judge who, instead of fighting corruption, has been involved in corruption.

Recently, news about the dispute between the former President Commissioner of PT Berkah Beton Sadaya Tbk (BEBS), Asep Sulaeman Sabanda, along with over 30 other parties, with PT Mirae Asset Sekuritas Indonesia surfaced to the public. There was no other information conveyed to the public other than that the value of the dispute reached more than Rp8 trillion. Later, Mirae Asset spoke out and stated that the lawsuit was baseless and it turned out that, a few weeks before the lawsuit was filed, Mirae Asset had already sued Asep with more than 40 other parties as co-defendants on allegation of default with a dispute value of more than Rp7 trillion. What a mess.

The dispute over ownership of land covering an area of more than six hectares in Dago Elos, Bandung, West Java, became public on Aug. 14, 2023, after a chaotic event resulted from clashes between residents and the police became viral on social media. By then, what we know is that after more than six years of dispute in court, in 2022 the Supreme Court declared that the land in question was legally owned by the heirs of the Muller family. However, the residents who occupied the land did not accept the decision and the events after that finally resulted in a more confusing situation. However, when the case finally gained national attention, we learned something odd. The documents that were used as the basis for legal considerations at the Supreme Court are documents that, if examined according to historical records, should not have existed. Here we are over a year after the chaotic incident with news that the Muller brothers had been found guilty of fraud. Oh how the tables have turned.