At Odds with Antimonopoly Legislation

The Business Competition Supervisory Commission has suffered another loss at the hands of Indonesia's courts; a decision causing legal observers to question the use of antimonopoly legislation.

September 10, 2002

On Monday, September 3, the Central Jakarta District Court ordered the Business Competition Super-visory Commission (KPPU) to pay Rp2 billion in damages to PT Cipta Sarana Duta and PT Trimegah Sekuritas, on charges of slander. This decision was the culmination of a string of losses for KPPU at the hands of Indonesia's courts, that has left KPPU director, Syamsul Ma'arif, scratching his head. "We were only applying the antimonopoly laws," said Ma'a

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