July 7, 2015 edition
The residents of Temon Subdistrict can now breathe more easily after defeating Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X at the State Administrative Court [PTUN]. "We reject the construction [of an airport] on our land," Martono, coordinator of Paguyuban Wahana Tri Tunggal [the Trinity Community Forum], an organization formed by Temon locals, told us last Wednesday.
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June 23, 2015 edition
The man on the telephone confirmed that Thailand would defeat Indonesia in the semifinal of the SEA Games Singapore 2015. "If not 3-1, then 4-0 or 3-0," the Malay-accented man told Balbalan Sakti-not his real name-on Saturday two weeks ago. Balbalan had telephoned the man he knows as 'Das' several hours before the match between the two countries was set to start.
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June 16, 2015 edition
At the morgue at Denpasar's Sanglah General Hospital, an officer gazes at Hamidah, who is waiting to identify the body of her missing child. "Are you sure you're ready?" the officer asked her last Friday. She nods.
As he unzips the body bag, the face of a young girl comes into view. It is Angeline, Hamidah's daughter. "Who did this?" Hamidah wailed, bursting into tears. "They too must die."
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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