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Tenggara Backgrounder July 26, 2024
POLITICS
Deputy ministers: Jokowi bridges the future
In a strategic move to ensure a seamless transition of power, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has appointed three new deputy ministers closely linked to his political ally and successor, president-elect Prabowo Subianto.
Military flexes muscle ‘to get back’ in business
Some three months before Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto is inaugurated as Indonesia's next president, the Indonesian Military (TNI) is already flexing its muscle to try to win more concessions and reenter domains outside national defense. It has p...
Recalculating Prabowo’s promise of free meals
As the transition of power nears, president-elect Prabowo Subianto's signature free meal program for schoolchildren, promised during his presidential campaign, is undergoing some adjustments. The initial value of Rp 15,000 worth of free meals for eac...
Is corrupt behavior normalized in Indonesia?
With just under three months to go until President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's second and final term ends, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) reported the Indonesia Anti-Corruption Behavior Index (IPAK) revealed a score of 3.85 this year to date, down from 3.92 l...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
Govt expands Simbara system to tackle illegal nickel, tin practices
In a push for better governance of the mining industry, the government has expanded the Mineral and Coal Information System (Simbara) to now cover nickel and tin toward future expansion to other minerals. The decision to expand the tracking system to...
Govt forms illegal import task force to protect failing industries
After several missteps in curbing imports, the Trade Ministry has established a task force to combat illegal imports and the dumping of consumer products, including textiles and garments, to protect dying domestic industries. The task force, however,...
Indonesia narrowly avoids IT disaster, highlighting need for IT experts
As the world was struck by a global information technology (IT) outage, debilitating public services such as airports and banks, Indonesia narrowly escaped the crisis with the impact limited to only two commercial airlines. Saved by a stroke of luck,...
Jokowi calls for coconut downstreaming for bio aviation fuel
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has called for the success of natural resources downstreaming policy, the strategy of creating added value from natural-endowment by means of manufacturing, to be expanded to coconuts. A factor motivating the outgoing p...
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