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.