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Tenggara Backgrounder September 30, 2022
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Jokowi scouting next TNI chief
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has reportedly moved to select the new Indonesian Military (TNI) chief as the current commander, Gen. Andika Perkasa, will reach his retirement age of 58 on Dec. 21 and Jokowi does not seem to consider an extension of A...
Lukas Enembe and his run from KPK
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named Papua Governor Lukas Enembe a graft suspect for allegedly receiving Rp 1 billion (US$66,678) worth of gratuities. To top it off, the state-run Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PP...
Indonesia has digital data protection law, but skepticism abounds
Eight years in the works, the House of Representatives on Sep. 20 endorsed the bill on private data protection to end a series of embarrassing reports of data leaks held by government and private institutions. But cybersecurity experts warn that when...
House seen as meddling with Constitutional Court
Since its establishment in 2003, the Constitutional Court has undergone transformation either through organizational restructuring or a legal reform. Therefore, changes to the Constitutional Court Law are considered normal. It has been revised seve...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
PLN restructuring paves way for subsidiary privatization
State-owned electricity company PT PLN recently formed four sub-holding companies, two that consolidate all its power generation assets, one that integrates primary energy management and one that develops services beyond electricity. The two power ge...
PLN cancels electric stove conversion program after political backlash
State-owned electricity company PT PLN abruptly canceled its electric stove conversion program just days after it had begun a trial of 2,000 beneficiaries in Denpasar, Bali, and Surakarta, Central Java. The decision was taken following political back...
Inflation-fired: Mass layoff trend in tech industry continues
Continuing the trend that has struck the tech industry since the end of the pandemic this year, more tech companies have recorded large-scale employee layoffs over the last week. E-commerce giant Shopee reported on Sept. 19 that it had laid off 3 per...
BI follows Fed, lifts rate by 50 bps as inflation pressure intensifies
Bank Indonesia (BI) has followed the hawkish stance of the United States Federal Reserve (Fed) by raising its policy rate, the BI 7-Day Reverse Repo Rate (BI7DRRR), by 50 basis points (bps) to 4.25 percent at its monthly Board of Governors September...
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