After the lawsuit filed against PT National Sago Prima (NSP), a subsidiary of PT Sampoerna Argo Tbk was partially granted by the Panel of Judges of the South Jakarta District Court, on August 11, 2016, the Palembang High Court also partially granted the appeal filed against PT Bumi Mekar Hijau (BMH), a subsidiary of Sinarmas Group. The Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya Bakar confirmed the news on August 28, 2016. The Minister also said that the Government would file for a cassation.

After the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Unit (Bareskrim) launched an investigation in case of alleged corruption in Pertamina Foundation last year, today it’s the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) turn to investigate allegations of corruption in PT Pertamina Patra Niaga (Patra Niaga). It has been a very colorful couple of years for Pertamina’s subsidiaries, has it not?

The former member of the House Commission V of the House of Representatives Damayanti Wisnu Putranti of PDI-P, who is allegedly involved in the case of alleged bribery related to the Trans-Seram road project in the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (Kemen-PUPR), has heard the Prosecutor’s demands on hear crime. The hearing was held on August 29, 2016. But the case still leaves so many important clues unsolved and important people unexamined.

The trial of disputes related to business competition on powdered beverage, which has been handled by the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU), is finally over. The KPPU declared PT Forisa Nusapersada, the owner of the brand “Pop Ice” as guilty of conducting unfair business competition and must pay fine in the amount of Rp11.46 billion.

Not long after successfully revealing the bribery in the making of fake visa-on-arrival for the ship crew of PT Fujian Anda Oceanic Fisheries (the business partner of Tomy Winata’s PT Maritim Timur Jaya (MTJ)), the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Unit (Bareskrim), which was at the time led by the Commissioner-General (Pol) Budi Waseso (Buwas), investigated the office of MTJ and Fujian Anda in Tual, Southeast Maluku. Rumor spread that the 27 Bareskrim investigators handling the operation had acted arbitrarily. Later in September 2015, the Directorate of Specific Economic Crime applied for a search warrant to raid MTJ’s representative office in Artha Graha Building. The raid was canceled because Tomy Winata had reportedly reacted strongly against it. In his statement to Tempo, Tomy denied that he ever did so. MTJ’s legal counsel Desrizal, however, hinted at something else. What actually happened?

In August 2015, the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Unit (Bareskrim), which at the time was led by the Commissioner-General (Pol) Budi Waseso (Buwas), thwarted a drug smuggling attempt and started an investigation into narcotics production in Indonesia. The investigation led the Bareskrim to several parties involved in the making of counterfeit visa for the ship crew employed by PT Fujian Anda Oceanic Fisheries, which is closely related to the Fujian Provincial Pingtan County Ocean Fishing Group Co Ltd. In Indonesia, Fujian Anda is the partner of PT Maritim Timur Jaya (MTJ), a company belonging to Tomy Winata.

On June 15, 2016, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) conducted a Sting Operation in Sunter, North Jakarta and arrested the Registrar of North Jakarta District Court Rohadi and 3 others. The next day, Rohadi and the other three arrested were named suspects of bribery in a sexual abuse case involving a celebrity named Saipul Jamil. After developing their investigation, the KPK found that Rohadi was involved in another case of a bigger scale. On August 26, 2016, the KPK named Rohadi a graft suspect in a different case, but details on said case has remained undisclosed. Speculations quickly began to spread.

PT Indosat Tbk (ISAT) must once again face a lawsuit filed by one of its partner PT Lintas Teknologi Indonesia (LTI), the subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent. Both companies have actually been in a civil dispute since 2014 and today the dispute is still at the stage of cassation. But despite that on-going process, LTI felt necessary to sue ISAT once more by seeking to place the latter in Suspension of Debts Payment (PKPU).

The trial of the former Head of the Specific Civil Appeals and Reconsideration Sub-Directorate in the Supreme Court (MA) Andri Tristianto Sutrisna is over. The Panel of Judges of the Corruption Court of the Central Jakarta District Court decided to sentence Andri to 9 years in prison. The trial, however, led to the introduction of many new evidence, which has moved the KPK towards conducting further investigation.