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Tenggara Backgrounder November 13, 2020
POLITICS
Radical Muslim cleric returns to lead an “Islamic revolution”
Firebrand cleric and Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Muhammad Rizieq Shihab returned to Indonesia this week after more than three years in self-imposed exile in Saudi Arabia. Tens of thousands of his supporters turned up at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatt...
Jobs law still fraught with controversy
Shortly after the contentious Job Creation Law was signed by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo last week, a wave of criticism arose due to “fatal errors” found in the final draft. While this may strengthen justification for a judicial review of the law...
Opponents of jobs law turn to court
After staging a wave of protests against the highly contentious Job Creation Law in more than a dozen regions across the country, labor groups have opted to take their fight to the Constitutional Court (MK) by filing a motion for a judicial review. Q...
From hastiness to caution, govt delays mass vaccinations
The government has backtracked on its ambitious claim that a COVID-19 vaccine would be available by November. Instead, the national COVID-19 vaccinations have been postponed to the third week of December. As observers have been skeptical about a vacc...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
Newly appointed renewables, oil and gas directors face difficult tasks
The newly appointed Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry’s renewables director general Dadan Kusdiana and oil and gas director general Tutuka Ariadji have tough challenges ahead. Dadan has the responsibility of accelerating clean energy development...
Garuda and 16 other tourism SOEs put under holding company
The SOEs Ministry has used the current health crisis as an opportunity to realize the long-planned establishment of a holding company for all SOEs in the tourism sector. A total of 18 SOEs, with total assets exceeding Rp 150 trillion (US$10.3 billion...
Past bribery scandals haunt Garuda with high operating costs
UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched an investigation on suspected bribery involving Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier and a former executive of Garuda Indonesia. The new investigation follows the SFO’s earlier cooperation with the KP...
Biden’s victory triggers foreign capital inflows to Indonesia
The financial market is buoyed by the victory of Democratic presidential contender Joseph “Joe” Robinette Biden Jr. against the incumbent, President Donald Trump, in the 2020 United States presidential election. For the financial market and the busin...
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