On the Dago Land Dispute and the Nationalization of Dutch-owned Companies

The prolonged dispute over the ownership of Dago Christian High School (SMAK) between the West Java Christian Higher Education Foundation (Yayasan BPSMK-JB) and the Christian Lyceum Society (PLK) led by Edward Soeryadjaya entered a new chapter. Earlier this month, the Yayasan decided to take the dispute to the Constitutional Court. Apart from that, the criminal proceeding related to the dispute ended earlier this month after the Panel of Judges of the Bandung District Court sentenced one of the three defendants in the case. But as we all know, Edward Soeryadjaya, who was one of the defendants, never attended the trial.

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