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Edition 19 October 2020
Cover Story
The Secret Articles
Several articles in the Job Creation Law only appeared after the law was passed. There were differences between each draft, some of them having to do with the law’s substance. The Golkar Faction insists on keeping the tax cluster, which was only added in later. Some are making the accusation that the law was never agreed upon together.
Cover Story
Stepping on the Gas
AGRARIAN and Spatial Planning Minister Sofyan Djalil said he has been working overtime at his office since Wednesday, October 14.
Cover Story
One-Narrative Lobbying
Businessmen are lobbying protestors. The government asks regional governments for help.
Cover Story
Pejaten’s Gift for Trunojoyo
The State Intelligence Agency is supplying information to the police concerning actors behind the protests against the Job Creation Law. But youths are already mobilizing resistance on the streets.
Economy
The Staging of the Baddie and the Goodie
The government will rescue Jiwasraya with insertion of state capital. Other plans are in the books to bridge the limited funds.
Economy
Long Legal Battle Ahead
Four defendants in the Jiwasraya corruption case have been given life sentences. Retrieving back the loss, however, remains a big question mark.
Economy
Killed by the Omnibus law
The Job Creation Law cancels the formation of a special state company for executing upstream oil and gas business activities. It has to wait for the revision of the Oil and Gas Law.
Economy
Two-headed Dragon
The energy and mineral resources cluster within the omnibus law is regarded as a way to extend the old, problematic mineral and coal mining law. The royalty exemption clause for coal companies becomes a new controversy.
Law
Eighteen Years of Waiting
Hundreds of victims of terrorism have not yet received any compensation from the state. Requests can be submitted up to June of next year.
Law
Law
The Limits of Compensation
Law
Trail of Ashes at the AGO
The police suspect that the fire at the AGO’s Main Building was ignited by a smoldering cigarette butt discarded by a worker doing building renovation work. There were no usable fire hydrants on the grounds.
Interview
Drug Permits Can be Revoked
Penny Kusumastuti Lukito, Chair of Food and Drug Monitoring Agency:
Science & Technology
Phytopharmacy’s Slow Progress
Numerous problems are hindering the development of phytopharmacy in Indonesia, from the reluctance of doctors to prescribe herbal medicines to lack of regulatory support. The industry must work to promote the use of phytopharmaceuticals among medical professionals and the public.
Science & Technology
Bambang P.S. Brodjonegoro, Minister of Research and Technology/Head of National Research and Innovation Agency: Phytopharmaceuticals will Soon be in the BPJS Kesehatan
Heavy dependency on medicine’s raw material from abroad has pushed the government to develop herbal medicine as one of the 2020-2024 National Research Priorities.
Photo
Picture Window
Rest Stop
A scavenger is sleeping on her cart in Kalibata, Jakarta, Saturday, October 17. The Institute for Development ofˀ Economics and Finance (Indef) projects Indonesia’s poverty rate will rise in September. The number of poor residents will grow 1.63 million or a 0.56 percent increase during the Covid-19 pandemic./ANTARA/Indrianto Eko Suwarso
Letters
Contents of 12-Kilogram LPG Tubes
I AM a pensioner of a state-owned enterprise living with my wife. Our gas and electricity consumption relatively has not changed much for over a decade.
Opinion
Omnibus’ Dead End
THE Job Creation Law is a cul de sac—a dead end without a way out, without hope.
Opinion
Responsibility towards Victims
The government has made it easier for compensation to be paid out to victims of terrorism. But it is still not yet on the side of the victims of human rights violations.
Opinion
A Long and Winding Road
Not all of Indonesia’s biodiversity has been exploited to make natural medicines. Government subsidies must not be the determining factor.
Opinion
A Lifeboat for Jiwasraya
The government injected Rp22 trillion into Jiwasraya by establishing a new insurance company. This is the best of all the possible schemes.