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Tenggara Backgrounder April 30, 2020
POLITICS
Data accuracy still a concern as COVID-19 cases drop
Two months after the government announced the first two confirmed COVID-19 cases, policies to deal with the pandemic have yet to generate far-reaching effects. While a number of promising results have slowly started to surface, major flaws remain, ra...
Sri Mulyani seeks legal immunity for COVID-19 policies
As the nation struggles to keep the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at bay, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati is working on a different type of immunity: She wants a waiver on any legal and civil legal actions against her and her staff at the...
Repression, intimidation on the rise amid COVID-19 pandemic
Arrests and the reported intimidation of activists and government critics have stolen the show in the country’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The acts of repression have led to speculation that the government is resorting to a security approac...
Compromise reached as opposition to omnibus bill mounts
The government and the House finally agreed to postpone the deliberation of labor provisions within the draft of the job creation omnibus bill after President Jokowi met last week with representatives of the country’s major labor unions. It remains u...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
New ISPO rules mandatory, market acceptance still a long shot
At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has issued Presidential Regulation No. 44/2020 to strengthen the Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certification system, which has been around since 2011 and yet it is stil...
Bank Banten to merge with BJB after business restructuring failure
The Banten provincial administration’s decision on April 21 to withdraw its regional publicly treasury account (RKUD) from the Banten Regional Development Bank (Bank Banten) and transfer it to the provincial-owned West Java Barat and Banten Regional...
Govt struggles to stabilize sugar, chicken prices
Prices of chicken and other basic commodities have been falling or staying flat in the past few months, except the prices of sugar, which have soared by 50 percent. The culprit behind the rise of sugar prices is the government’s inaptness in issuing...
US govt to bail out oil industry after WTI price crash
The global economy is facing global oil glut at the scale it never see before. Oil tankers across the world, mostly filled, are stranded at the oceans costing oil companies US$30,000 a day per vessel, as oil refineries and storage facilities nearly r...
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