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April 28, 2015 edition

THE carcass of a bull elephant lay in the forest of Kareung village, in West Aceh, two weeks ago. Mukhtaruddin, a forest caretaker, immediately identified the pachyderm by name: Yinphiek. Its skull had been cracked open, and its trunk was gone. "Its tusks were also gone," he told Tempo.

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April 21, 2015 edition

THE lyrics became very famous in Sudan after the 1955 Asia-Africa (AA) conference in Bandung. The song Asia-Africa was again played repeatedly in Sudan ahead of the 60th anniversary of this year's conference. The Sudanese creator and composer, Abdel Karem Wlkabili, was inspired by the spirit of Sudan's struggle for independence.
"The song was created right after the Asia-Africa Conference in Bandung. The composer did not come to Bandung, but he could feel the spirit when the conference took place," Abd Al Rahim Al Siddig, Sudan's ambassador to Indonesia told Tempo two weeks ago.

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April 14, 2015 edition

INDONESIAN PRESIDENT Joko Widodo had prepared two pages of a speech he intended to read during the opening of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) conference in Sanur, Bali, last week. He was helped by Minister/State Secretary Pratikno, who was accompanied by two State Secretariat staff. They discussed it on the back porch of the State Palace in Central Jakarta.

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April 7, 2015 edition

A LIMITED cabinet meeting at the Presidential Office on March 16 was disrupted by the intermittent protests of Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said. His source of unhappiness was Presidential Deputy Chief of Staff Darmawan Prasodjo who commented on Sudirman's speech. And to add insult to injury, Darmawan gave his own presentation on the Mahakam Block at this ministerial meeting led by President Joko Widodo himself.
After the meeting, Sudirman came to Darmawan and shook his hand. "We need to talk. It's about etiquette," one witness quoted Sudirman as saying, giving an account of what happened. According to this government official, the cabinet meeting should have only been for the president, ministers and minister-level officials. "Not staff," they grumbled.

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January 1, 1970 edition

UNDER a blue sky in the town of Tal Abyad, in the Syrian province of Ar-Raqqah, a black flag flutters in the autumn breeze. The flagpole is as high as a minaret, standing behind brown walls.

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January 1, 1970 edition

Since they were sworn-in on October 20 last year, President Joko Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla have shown differences of view and positions with each other. Among them, the nomination of Police Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan as the new chief of police, the issue of criminalizing the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and giving remission to convicted corruptors.
Their differences of view became wide open over the establishment of the Presidential Staff Office. Kalla claimed he only knew that this unit was to be led by Luhut Binsar Panjaitan when Jokowi was about to take Luhut's oath of office on December 31 last year. Kalla has reportedly become ever more upset at the increasing authority given to Luhut, which he views as undermining the function of the vice president.

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January 1, 1970 edition

AN Olympic tanker is sailing halfway around the world to deliver 950,000 barrels of oil to Java. After leaving West Africa, this 150,000-ton tanker will reach Cilacap in Central Java, on March 24.

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