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Tenggara Backgrounder January 17, 2020
POLITICS
PDI-P in hot water ahead of regional elections
The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the country’s largest political party of which President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is a member, has found itself at the center of a corruption scandal. Accused of abusing its power to allocate a House o...
KPK goes after high-profile, low-impact corruption scandal
Less than a month into its work, the newly revamped Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) uncovered a high-profile bribery scandal involving a member of the General Election Commission (KPU), defying critics who had claimed that the antigraft body...
Omnibus laws set to overhaul political system
The government and the House of Representatives have agreed to produce several omnibus laws that will merge and streamline a number of politics-related laws, aiming to serve as a basis for the current crisscrossing political laws and regulations. Cur...
Questioning Communications and Information Ministry under Johnny
Few would make a big fuss about the appointment of NasDem Party secretary-general Johnny G. Plate as the new communications and information minister as there have been far more controversial picks in President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s Indonesia Onward...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
The same market players in the downfall of Jiwasraya, Asabri
Two state-owned insurance companies are suffering a financial crisis that only continues to worsen after both of their stock portfolios plunged, causing combined losses of more than US$2 billion. The two companies, state-owned Jiwasraya and Asuransi...
Coal barons strike again
Coal barons with expiring concessions have once again flexed their muscles to bend the rules by trying to convince state officials to revise a government regulation that would give them an extension without a reduction to their concession areas. The...
Jokowi lures foreign money for new capital city, wealth fund
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is on a fast track to boosting foreign investment, securing new multibillion dollar deals with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Japan-based SoftBank and the United States’ International Development Finance Corporation (I...
US-Iran conflict de-escalation eases tension in global oil market
On Jan. 3, the United States military assassinated Iran’s Major General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Al Quds force, under a direct order from US President Donald Trump. The assassination was carried out in response to the killing of a US civ...
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