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Tenggara Backgrounder September 6, 2019
POLITICS
Papua set aflame, who started the fire?
The escalation of violence in Papua has turned into a horizontal conflict as various civil groups are now involved. Not only have civilians been pitted against each other in a divide between proreferendum and fervent nationalists, the involvement of...
Jokowi under scrutiny over KPK candidates
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) selection team has submitted the final list of 10 candidates for the antigraft body’s leadership posts to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. Among the names, one candidate particularly stands out because of th...
Questioning PAN’s future
The National Mandate Party (PAN) will not hold its national congress to elect its chairman until next year, yet the race has apparently started early as rumors on several potential candidates to lead the party circulate.
Post-2019 legislative election, where are the losers?
The 2019 legislative election raised the bar too high for some political parties. With the parliamentary threshold set at 4 percent, seven parties, including one ruling coalition member, flopped. Their chance to play a part in national politics looks...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
Rini strengthens her grip on SOEs
State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) Minister Rini Soemarno punished Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) president director Suprajarto by appointing him to lead state housing lender PT Bank Tabungan Negara (BTN). Suprajarto retaliated by turning down the new job.
Luhut brokers cooperation between BPJS Kesehatan and Ping An Insurance
The government has been struggling to overcome the perpetual financial loss suffered by the Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan), estimated at Rp 32.84 trillion (US$2.33 billion) this year. Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Lu...
Jokowi maintains expansionary fiscal policy in 2020 budget
The Indonesian economy has shifted to a downward cycle, as marked by a slowdown in gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the second quarter of 2019 to 5.05 percent year-on-year (yoy) from 5.27 percent in the same period last year. In support of BI’s...
Hanif reforms foreign worker regulations
Manpower Minister Hanif Dhakiri issued a Ministerial Decree that centralizes foreign worker regulations under the Manpower Ministry’s supervision. Not only centralizing regulations across ministries, but the decree also simplifies the regulations wit...
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