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Tenggara Backgrounder August 28, 2020
POLITICS
AGO on fire amid investigation into high-profile cases
Fire razed the main building of the Attorney General’s Office in South Jakarta over the weekend, destroying mainly the human resources, legal and planning departments as well as the AGO’s intelligence office. As the blaze came when the AGO was invest...
Politics behind jobs bill: From stiff opposition to grudging acceptance
The omnibus bill on job creation has been laden with controversy from the very start of its formulation. Opposing views on the contentious bill have prompted quarrels between parties and government officials and resistance from labor unions and the g...
Anti-Jokowi coalition, how far and how low will it go?
When the Coalition to Save Indonesia, or KAMI in the Indonesian acronym, was declared on August 18, it took many people by surprise. How could 150 or so public figures of a diverse range of backgrounds and political ideologies come together and make...
Anies issues stricter regulation amid COVID-19 spike, political pressure
As Jakarta continued to see an upward trend in the number of COVID-19 infections, Governor Anies Baswedan has again mulled pulling the “emergency brake”. Anies also issued Gubernatorial Regulation No. 80/2020 on the implementation of the transitional...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
OJK facilitates Kookmin to control Bukopin, Bosowa goes to court
OJK prevented conglomerate Bosowa Corporindo, a controlling shareholder of trouble-ridden Bank Bukopin, from voting during the bank’s extraordinary shareholders meeting on Tuesday (Aug. 25) to facilitate KB Kookmin Bank to become the majority shareho...
Govt struggles to set consistent regulation on air travel
Air travel is the key to save the battered tourism industry from the COVID-19 pandemic, but it also opens the gate to virus transmission from red zones to other regions in the country. Some provinces, such as West Java and Bali, are trying to boost t...
Bareskrim chief forms PEN task force amid rivalry for police chief position
Indonesia’s National Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) head Comr. Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo formed a new task force on national economic recovery (PEN) within the police force. The new task force, which aims to safeguard governme...
Trade surplus swells, while FDI goes South
Indonesia’s trade surplus widened to US$3.26 billion, from $1.25 billion in June. As a result, the accumulative trade surplus from January to July this year swelled to $8.75 billion. Nevertheless, economic activity remained in the contraction zone as...
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