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Tenggara Backgrounder October 04, 2019
POLITICS
Meet new House, MPR, DPD leaders
New and old faces grace the House of Representatives and Regional Legislative Council (DPD) as the elected 711 members of the two bodies for the 2019-2024 term, who form the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR), were sworn earlier this week. The star...
Legislature vs President – which is more powerful?
Major political events during the last weeks of September raised the alarm about the kind government Indonesia will have for the next five years as newly elected officials took their positions this month following the April general election: the legi...
Jokowi’s goodwill to issue KPK Perppu questioned
In a sudden turn of event, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo appears to revoke his previous support for the controversial revisions of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Law and start mulling the possibility of issuing a government regulation i...
Papua breeds horizontal conflicts
As a wave of protests over racial abuse across Papua began to subside, fresh violence erupted in Wamena, the capital of Jayawijaya highland regency, where mostly native Papuans rioted, vandalized and attacked migrant settlers. To date, it remains unc...
20 years on, students manifest influence
The past two weeks saw students and other people take to the streets in Jakarta and elsewhere to protest a number of bills they deemed as a threat to democracy. While the circumstances are different, many still saw some resemblance between the curren...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
Coal mining barons hit another dead end
After their failure lobbying for another revision of a 2010 government regulation (PP) because of the intervention of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), coal barons with expiring concessions have shifted their battlefield to the House of Re...
Andi Gani Nena Wea emerges as a contender for manpower minister seat
Andi Gani Nena Wea, the son of former manpower and transmigration minister Jacob Nuwa Wea from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), is in the race for the manpower minister seat. His candidacy was mentioned by the Confederation of Ind...
Technology transfer an issue for Jakarta-Surabaya train
Indonesia and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Sep. 24 finally sealed the Summary Record on the Java North Line Upgrading Project, a memorandum of understanding outlining the two countries’ collaboration in developing a medium-spe...
Police suspect fraud over Duniatex’s debt default
The National Police launched a criminal investigation into Duniatex’s debt failure. Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) investigators questioned Duniatex directors as well as lending officers from various banks, including Bank Mandiri, and...
Food price inflation down 2.2 percent but problems remain
The government has successfully lowered food price inflation. According to Statistics Indonesia (BPS), this year’s accumulative food price inflation from January to September fell to 3.51 percent, thanks to food price deflation in the past two months...
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