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Tenggara Backgrounder September 15, 2023
POLITICS
Will Muhaimin reap NU votes for Anies?
Winning votes in East Java, among other key provinces, will be a deciding factor in the upcoming presidential election, as it was in the last two races. Because the province is a stronghold of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama...
Violence taints national strategic project, again
National strategic projects have often aroused controversy, which ends up in violence, as recently happened on Rempang Island, which is part of Batam free trade zone. Clashes broke out between security forces and local people who oppose plans to deve...
Meet the real Democratic Party of struggle
The Democratic Party under the leadership of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, its chief patron, is clearly struggling, in contrast to the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), which going by opinion surveys, looks like it will ret...
Proposal from antiterror body attempt to control religious freedom
National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) head Rycko Amelza Dahniel suggested that the government take control of all houses of worship, including mosques, to combat extremist ideologies in the country. However, mainstream Muslim organizations rejected...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
IKN to receive investment boost from domestic conglomerates
Domestic investment in the Nusantara Capital City (IKN) is brewing as a handful of prominent national conglomerates are committed to investing in the country’s new capital. The conglomerates, through the domestic direct investment (PMDN) consortium,...
Govt ‘flood the market’ strategy insufficient to curb rice prices
The government, in an attempt to rein in rising rice prices, has employed various instruments such as Bansos programs and market operations to flood the market with rice from the national reserves. However, rice prices have skyrocketed above initial...
Trouble after trouble hits Jakarta-Bandung HSR ahead of launch
The Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway (HSR), a rail service developed as well as run by a joint venture between the Pilar Sinergi BUMN Indonesia and Beijing Yawan HSR consortiums called Kereta Cepat Indonesia China (KCIC), is facing several troubles...
OpenAI CEO first to receive govt's newly rolled out golden visa
The government has officially launched the golden visa program for foreigners in Indonesia, accessible to the wider public in October, with OpenAI founder and CEO Samuel Altman becoming the first foreign national to receive the pass. The new visas ai...
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