Hadi Tjahjanto, the former TNI Commander who previously served as Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning (Head of the National Land Agency), was officially appointed as the Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security this week in place of Mahfud MD who decided to resign from his position to participate in the 2024 election. Hadi, as we all know, is one of the people who is loyal to President Jokowi. Their relationship can be traced back to when the President was still serving as Mayor of Solo. Immediately after being appointed, Hadi met his predecessor, Mahfud MD, and discussed their unfinished homework, one of which was completing the tasks of the Satgas BLBI.

Dudy Jocom, the mastermind behind the case of corruption in the procurement for the construction of the Institute of Public Administration’s (IPDN) faculty building located in West Sumatera, had been found guilty in the first case several years ago. The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), however, alleged that the crime did not only occur in one region. As a result of the development of investigation, a second case was announced towards the end of 2021. Dudy stands trial for the second time towards the end of 2023. This week, the prosecutors once again read their demands. If found guilty again, Dudy will have to serve longer time in prison.

At the 2020 National Press Day held in South Kalimantan, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo asked the press community to submit a draft of regulation aimed at improving the survival of press companies. The draft, which was then dubbed as draft on regulations concerning...

Towards the end of 2022, we reported on the business dispute involving companies under the CT Corp and Gudang Garam business group which took place far from the media spotlight. By then, the dispute had been examined for more than a year at the Sidoarjo District...

Last year, an individual taxpayer named Surianingsih and a corporate taxpayer PT Putra Indah Jaya (PT PIJ) submitted judicial review application to the Constitutional Court and questioning the provisions of several articles in Law No. 7/2021 concerning Harmonization of Tax Regulations (UU HPP) which they believe is contrary to the 1945 Constitution. The articles in question regulates the authority of the Director General of Taxation to carry out preliminary evidence examinations before carrying out investigations into tax crimes. This week, the lawsuit was partially granted by the Assembly of Justices, but with several dissenting opinions.

In recent years, the Attorney General's Office (AGO) has succeeded in gaining public sympathy with its good performance, especially in uncovering various mega corruption cases. In the process, the Asset Recovery Center (Pusat Pemulihan Aset – PPA), which is tasked...

The examination on the BAKTI case, the case of alleged corruption related to a project at the Ministry of Communication and Informatics, continues. The prosecutors recently read their demands for the latest defendants and the compensation punishment for former...

PT Ricky Kurniawan Kertapersada, subsidiary of PT Matahari Kahuripan Indonesia (Makin Group), which is controlled by Susilo Wonowidjojo (one of heirs of cigarette giant Gudang Garam), was declared bankrupt recently. Bankruptcy is a normal occurrence in business, but this time it is unusual because the company was punished for its “contribution” to the 2015 forest fires. The problem is, the legally binding decision on the forest fire has not been executed and the company has not paid the penalty according to the court decision, but the bankruptcy process was not notified to the Ministry of the Environment and Forestry. As a result, the Ministry now suspects that there is a conspiracy in this bankruptcy process.

Earlier this month, the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) announced that they had been investigating allegations of corruption related to the tin trading system carried out in the Mining Business License (IUP) area owned by PT Timah Tbk (TINS). The investigation started in October last year and by the time the announcement was made, the institution had named several suspects, including on a development of investigation. Towards the end of last week, the AGO finally named more suspects in the predicate crime, one of whom is the former President Director of PT Timah, Mochtar Riza Pahlevi Tabrani.