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Tenggara Backgrounder April 08, 2022
POLITICS
Terawan’s expulsion caps a long feud with IDI
The Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) has finally expelled former health minister Terawan Agus Putranto from the organization, capping a dispute that evolved in 2013 over a popular form of therapy that the medical group says violates scientific no...
General tries to exorcise ghosts of military’s anticommunist past
The Indonesian Military (TNI) is lifting the ban on descendants of members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) from joining the country’s armed forces, nearly six decades after the party was purged and tens of thousands of its members were jailed...
The anomalous succession in Kopassus
Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers are well trained to move fast for operational or organizational purposes, including in rotation. But three changes of guard within the Army’s Special Forces (Kopassus) within only four months should raise many eyebr...
Discourse on Jokowi’s third term in office unlikely to die down
Less than a week after hundreds of village heads grouped under the All-Indonesia Village Administration Association (Apdesi) reportedly chanted their support for President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s third term of office right in front of him, Jokowi aske...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
Govt shifts cooking oil subsidy to cash transfers for the poor
As cooking oil prices remain high, the government is set to disburse Rp 6.9 trillion (US$480 million) of cooking oil subsidy in the form of cash transfers (BLTs) to low-income families and street vendors selling fried food. The funds, to be sourced f...
Govt rushes to complete cost-inflated HSR project ahead of G20
The government is rushing to get the Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway (HSR) ready for a trial run during the Group of 20 (G20) Summit while securing funds to cover the project’s cost overruns. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo plans to be joined by se...
Unfinished regulations delay govt’s plan to carbon tax PLTUs
The government has delayed implementation of the carbon tax for coal-powered power plants (PLTUs) from April 1 to July due to incomplete regulations. The government seems to be in a dilemna over carbon taxing PLTUs and other carbon-intensive industri...
Indonesia’s government debt is at a record high, yet remains within safe limits
Indonesia’s government debt amounted to Rp 7.01 quadrillion (US$488 trillion) at the end of February. Many highlighted the rapidity with which the figure increased over the past years, although experts are confident the country’s debt policy remains...
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