The National Police’s Criminal Investigation Unite (Bareskrim) named Alex Usman and Zaenal Soleman as graft suspects in the procurement of UPS (uninterruptible power supply) for several high schools in Jakarta. Alex is the Section Head of Facilities and Infrastructure for Secondary Education in the South Jakarta Region II, under the auspices of the Government of the Capital City Jakarta (PEMPROV DKI). Whereas Zaenal is the former Head of Central Jakarta’s Secondary Education, who now serves as PEMPROV DKI’s Head of Sports and Youth Agency.

On February 26, 2015, Jakarta City Council (DPRD) agrees to use their right of inquiry to investigate a set violations allegedly committed by the Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama. Ahok has been facing the challenge head on, defending his decision to send a budget different from the one the DPRD approved—the move DPRD consider illegal. The DPRD has finished their investigation and is now set to declare their findings on a plenary session to be held this week.

The international fisheries pattern has changed ever since the ratification of the exclusive economic zone in various countries. Fishing vessels have become more specialized for the purpose maximizing a particular catch. These vessels conform to certain standards in which they are designated classes based on several criteria.

The MV Hai Fa tramper ship was arrested in Port Wanam, Papua, on December 24, 2014. When caught the ship’s cargo weighed 900.7 tons, 800 tons of which were frozen fish and 100 tonnes were frozen shrimps. Among the frozen fish were Hammerhead Sharks and Cowboys Sharks, protected fish that cannot be exported. The cargo belongs to PT. Avona Mina Lestari, and it was bound for export to China. The Hai Fa ship itself was under the agency PT. Anthartica Segara Lines.

On Thursday, March 26, 2015 The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) handed the indictment of Sutan Bhatoegana, the former chairman of the House Commission VII from the Democratic Party, to the Corruption Court of the Central Jakarta District Court. This process is inline with the KPK’s commitment to continue processing Sutan’s case.

The Indonesian Judicial Commission (KY) will continue to examine Judge Sarpin Rizaldi, the sole presiding judge for the infamous pre-trial of Police Commissioner General Budi Gunawan. Sarpin received free legal aid from a well-known lawyer Hotma Sitompoel. Such gratuitous service allegedly constitutes a violation of the code of ethics of judges. KY had summoned Hotma for questioning, but a supposed administrative flaw in the summoning process forced KY to repeat the process.

The Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law, and Security Tejo Edhy Purdjiatno proposed the idea of forming a Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) for preventing the worst case scenario with regards to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Tedjo felt that the existing regulatory framework didn’t provide the way for detaining Indonesian Citizens (WNI) trying to join ISIS or those who’d joined ISIS and had returned to Indonesia with newfound motivations.