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Tenggara Backgrounder November 26, 2021
POLITICS
Rivalry between contenders for NU chief post heats
The Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) congress to elect the group’s leader is around the corner, with two strong contenders for the post, the incumbent Said Aqil Siradj and Yahya Cholil Staquf, having already confirmed their participation. It is not surprising th...
The race for Kostrad’s chief post: Will the youth take the lead?
The promotion of Gen. Dudung Abdurrachman to the Army chief of staff last Wednesday, has left the post of Army Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad) chief vacant. For decades the post has served as a stepping stone to the Army’s top job, as in the cas...
Defense Minister Prabowo tackles diplomacy in his own way
Unlike most of his predecessors, Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto has taken a more active role in the country’s diplomacy, and his appearance at an international meeting in Bahrain last week raised a few eyebrows at home and abroad about the possibi...
Persistent threat of terrorism: Jemaah Islamiyah amid society
The country is coming under a latent danger of terrorism as evident in a series of arrests the National Police’s Densus 88 counterterrorism squad made in the last couple of weeks as part of its bid to crack down on the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
Govt ready to take legal action against BLBI debtors, obligors
The government is showing no sign of slowing down in its hunt for businesspeople bailed out by the Bank Indonesia Liquidity Support (BLBI) during the 1998 financial crisis. The BLBI Task Force announced on Monday that it had given legal notice to ban...
Gojek, TOBA establish Electrum, invest Rp 17 trillion to build EV ecosystem
PT Aplikasi Karya Anak Bangsa (Gojek) and PT TBS Energi Utama Tbk (TOBA) have officially joined hands to build an electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem by creating a joint venture called Electrum. This joint venture is expected to invest up to Rp 17 trilli...
Jokowi reprimands Pertamina, PLN, pushes for energy transition
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo gathered directors and commissioners of state-owned oil and gas holding company Pertamina and state-owned electricity company PLN only to reprimand them for their tardiness in responding to investor interest in Indonesi...
Provincial minimum wages to rise 1% under jobs law
The government is set to increase the provincial minimum wages (UMPs) by 1.09 percent in 2022. Determined using a new formula derived from the Job Creation Law, the increase has been criticized by unions, which consider it insufficient.
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