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A leaked document from the Defense Ministry Inspectorate-General about a Rp4-trillion purchase of Brazilian rockets two years ago has been leaked to the media, causing a controversy. The document said the purchase was too expensive. It mentioned an alleged Rp1 trillion markup.
At the time, according to one high-ranking Defense Ministry official, the government was looking to purchase Astros II rocket launchers produced by Brazil's Avibras Industria Aeroespacial. The weapon used by Saudi Arabia had proven its resilience in the Gulf War. "The initial decision was to buy them direct from Brazil, without a tender," the official said.
NURDIN Halid, who oversaw the Golkar Party's national congress in Bali last week, read out the results of the vote for the party's chairman. The winner, with 534 of 537 ballots: the incumbent, Aburizal Bakrie. "Agreed?" Nurdin asked the floor. The participants roared back: "Agreed!"
The participants shouted for joy. Some of them embraced and kissed Aburizal. The Bakrie Group boss had become the first man to head Golkar for two periods in a row.
After the Chaos
President Joko Widodo has prohibited his ministers from attending parliament sessions until the mayhem there is over, reasoning that the cabinet members' presence could worsen the conflict between his administration and the opposition. "There might be a misunderstanding if we join," Jokowi said at the Presidential Palace in Bogor, West Java, last week.
The ban issued via a circular memo dated November 4 and signed by Cabinet Secretary Andi Wijayanto has compelled State-Owned Enterprises Minister Rini Soemarno to postpone a hearing with Houseof Representatives (DPR) Commission VI for Trade, Industries and State-Owned Enterprises, now filled by lawmakers from the camp that backed Prabowo Subianto's failed bid for the presidency against Jokowi in July. Rini said her subordinates would not respond to the invitation until the two coalitions reconcile.
The plan was hatched in late October at the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party's meeting room at the Jakarta Legislative Council (DPRD). In attendance were representatives from the parties that supported Prabowo Subianto's failed bid for the presidency in July. The agenda: formulating a strategy to frustrate Basuki Tjahaja 'Ahok' Purnama's ascent to the seat left by Joko Widodo when he became president.
Around 15 people from five factions were present at the time. They included DPRD Deputy Speaker Abraham Lunggana, a United Development Party (PPP) politician, and Justice and Prosperity Party Deputy Chairman Triwisaksana as well as representatives from the Democrat Party, the National Mandate Party (PAN) and the Golkar Party.
By shuttering the Dolly red-light district earlier this year, Surabaya Mayor Tri Rismaharini intended above all to keep local children away from the sex industry.
But the move was criticized last week by a former minister and a United Nations health expert at a panel discussion organized by the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club last week, on the subject of prostitution, trafficking and HIV/AIDS.
The Pagu woman raised her voice in the presence of officials from the mining company that had caused her so much grief.
To cement her tribe's territorial claim, she invoked centuries-old place namesand a landmark Constitutional Court ruling from last year.
"This is our land, not the state's land!" Afrida Erna Ngato hollered in the hearing room in Ambon, Maluku. The gallery cheered.
Hundreds of people were crowded in the Grand Mutiara meeting hall in downtown Kupang on Thursday night last week. Public figures, heads of local government offices, leaders of the Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) and local politicians filled the two-storey hall, the largest building in the capital city of East Nusa Tenggara. They were celebrating the selection of Setya Novanto as chair of the House of Representatives (DPR) for the 2014-2019 term.
Setya, general treasurer of the Golkar Party, had become a legislator representing this election district. Speaking to reporters, he said this was not the only thanksgiving event being held in Kupang. Before that particular reception, he had been at many other places, including the Diocese of the Catholic Church of Kupang, the Yesus Maria Oebelo Pilgrimage Park and a livestock farm in Amfoang, 150 kilometers outside the city. "I am going to turn East Nusa Tenggara into a repository of livestock," he said.
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