The creditors of PT Bumi Resources Tbk (BUMI) still have to wait before they an vote on the Company’s peace proposal. The Commercial Court of the Central Jakarta District Court decided to extend BUMI’s period of Suspension of Debts Payment (PKPU) to November 28, 2016.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo signed the Presidential Decree (Perpres) No. 87/2016 on October 20. With this Perpres, the establishment of Saber Pungli (Pungli/Illegal Levies Eradication) Task Force was officially established. At the same time, the Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law, and Security Affairs, who was assigned as the Supervisor of the Task Force, issued Decree No. 78/2016 completing the legal framework needed for the Task Force to conduct its duties.

Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo told the press on Wednesday (Oct. 26) that investigators of the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) had found a breakthrough in the case of fraudulent tax restitution of PT Mobile-8 Telecom Tbk (which was a subsidiary of MNC Group,a business group owned by media mogul Hary Tanoesoedibjo). The AGO, Prasetyo said, would soon announce a suspect in this case. Who will that suspect be?

Last week, Gujarat-based Electrotherm (India) Ltd (NSE: Electherm) won the default lawsuit that they filed at the South Jakarta District Court against one Iqbal Hadromi, the partner of Hadromi & Partners Law Firm. Iqbal is the legal counsel of PT Putera Negeri Sakti and PT Apple ETPNS, the subsidiaries of Hong Kong-based Apple Commodities Limited.

The first trial on the graft case involving the former member of the House Commission III of the House of Representatives (DPR) I Putu Sudiartana (Democratic Party) was held in September 2016. The first suspect tried in said trial is Yogan Askan. Several facts were presented at the hearing. Later on October 24, 2016, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) told the press that Putu’s investigation file had been handed over to prosecutors.

More than a year has passed since the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) began investigating the graft cases involving the disgraced Governor of North Sumatera Gatot Pujo Nugroho. Gatot is allegedly involved in four different cases, and he’s been facing trial for two of said cases. On October 20, 2016 the Corruption Court of the Medan District Court was supposed to hear the prosecutors’ demands for Gatot’s abuse of the social assistance funds of North Sumatera, but the hearing was postponed to November 10, 2016.

The former chairman of the Constitutional Court (MK) Akil Mochtar was arrested on October 2, 2013 for his involvement in bribery. Since then, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named thirteen suspects connected to Akil Mochtar’s corrupt tenure. But just as we thought that that Akil’s case had faded into history. On October 19, 2016 the KPK issued a warrant of inquisition (Sprindik) for the Regent of Buton Samsu Umar Abdul Samiun. Samsu is the fourteenth suspect connected to Akil Mochtar.

The Government and the Budget Committee (Banggar) of the House of Representatives (DPR) reached an agreement on the posture of the 2017 State Budget (APBN) for each of the ministries and state institutions. The total amount of the approved budget is Rp763.57 trillion. It’s an increase from the original proposal in the financial note, which was Rp758.37 trillion. In addition to approving the budget for the ministries and state institutions, the DPR also approved the proposed Capital Injection (PMN) for State-Owned Enterprises and the Public Service Agency under the Ministry of Finance.

In the past two weeks, the Corruption Court of the Central Jakarta District Court held two separate hearings on the two suspects in the bribery case involving the registrar of the Central Jakarta District Court Muhammad Santoso. The suspects tried are the Partner of Wiranatakusumah Legal & Consultant Office Raoul Adhitya Wiranatakusumah and his associate Ahmad Yani. In both hearings, the public prosecutor of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) read the defendants’ indictment.