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Tenggara Backgrounder September 09, 2022
POLITICS
Supporters keep hope alive for Jokowi to stay beyond 2024
Die-hard supporters of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo held a congress in Bandung on Aug. 28 to keep their hopes alive for him to continue to serve the nation beyond 2024 when his current term in office ends, in defiance of the constitutional two-term...
Interim regional head appointment: What’s next for Jakarta and Anies?
Anies Baswedan’s tenure as Jakarta governor will come to an end on Oct. 16, making way for the appointment of an interim regional head who will lead the city until the new governor is elected in late 2024. Apart from Anies, more than 100 regional hea...
Illicit arms trade underpins cycle of violence in Papua
A recent murder and mutilation case in East Mimika, Papua, involving six personnel of the Indonesian Military (TNI) has shed light on how rampant illegal arms trade underpins the recurrence of violence in the region. To solve Papua’s longstanding con...
Time to set up external supervision for police
The repercussions of the high-profile murder case involving former police internal affairs chief Insp. Gen. Ferdy Sambo have put the role of the National Police Commission (Kompolnas) in question and mounted calls for an external and independent over...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
Fuel price hike met by demos, but not politically endangering -- yet
The government’s recent decision to increase the prices of subsidized fuels by around 30 percent has sparked protests and demonstrations across the country; and yet, there is no indication of political fallout, as all political parties in the governm...
Govt to develop sorghum amid global wheat scarcity
The global wheat supply chain disruption induced by the Russia-Ukraine conflict has highlighted Indonesia’s dependence on wheat imports. To solve this, the government is developing sorghum expecting it could substitute wheat as the main ingredient of...
Misunderstood, finance minister to reform civil-servant-pension system
Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati was misunderstood, especially in the social media, when she presented the government’s proposal to the House of Representatives to reform the pension system for civil servants and members of the military and the...
Stagflation risk looms in Indonesia as fuels price hikes
The hike of subsidized fuels prices on Saturday (3/9/2022) might increase the at-home risk of stagflation and possibly jeopardize the still-recovering demand side. The spending of the growing group of lower-income households is particularly at stake....
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