June 9, 2015 edition
Repeated phone calls at 2am one night in early August last year finally woke Alex Usman. The caller, a messenger acting on behalf of Fahmi Zulfikar, a member of the Jakarta City Council (DPRD), was waiting in front of Alex's house. The man, who identified himself as Erwin, asked Alex, now a suspect in a corruption case involving the supply of electricity storage units, to immediately go outside.
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June 2, 2015 edition
The weekend party at Venue in Kemang, South Jakarta, usually ends around 3:30 in the morning, when the music is shut off, and the house lights flicked on. Such was the case when Jopi Teguh Lasmana Peranginangin, an environmental and rights-based activist, and a group of his friends left the club Saturday two weeks ago.
"As we began walking out, some people started shouting 'Finished. Out, out!' at us," said Mario Franklin Kossim, Jopi's friend, on Tuesday last week.
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May 26, 2015 edition
Bambang Widjojanto received a letter from the Association of Indonesian Advocates (Peradi) on Friday two weeks ago, sent by the head of the Peradi Supervising Committee, Timbang Pangaribuan. The letter informed the former Deputy Chief of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) that he had committed no ethics violations in his role as a prosecuting attorney in an election dispute at the Constitutional Court regarding a 2010 governor's race in West Kotawaringin, Central Kalimantan.
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May 19, 2015 edition
MIRZA Iskandar received the package on Tuesday afternoon last week. There was no sender's name, not even an address. Director of Investigation and Immigration Enforcement at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights was also stunned when unwrapping the black plastic. It contained 33 passports belonging to Chinese nationals who were arrested by the Jakarta police on Wednesday two weeks ago.
Police arrested dozens of people when they raided a house on Jalan Kenanga, Cilandak, South Jakarta. Initially the police received a report that the house was believed to be a center for online prostitution. Later, it was revealed that dozens of people were involved in a syndicate of credit card extortion and theft, a crime commonly refered to as carding.
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May 12, 2015 edition
The mosque on Jalan Karya Bakti in Medan is no longer bustling with excited youth. When Tempo visited on Thursday afternoon last week, only a few youths could be seen performing a zikir prayer ritual at the mosque. "Usually, hundreds of people come here," said Rico Purba, one of the tarekat (Muslim group) members.
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May 5, 2015 edition
Debate between Constitutional Court justices at a meeting last March seemed to always end in I Dewa Gede Palguna's 'defeat'. Five justices backed the position of Constitutional Court Chief Justice Arief Hidayat, while Palguna's view was supported by justices Aswanto and Muhammad Alim.
The nine justices were debating articles in Law No. 8/1981 on the Criminal Code Procedures (KUHAP). "The root of the debate involved one article," Palguna said on Wednesday last week. The justice declined to mention the article in question, but said it was "the most crucial point, as compared to the lawsuit's other matters."
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April 28, 2015 edition