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July 14, 2015 edition

Mere days away from the end-of-fasting-month celebration Idul Fitri, 40-year-old Rasmanah is becoming increasingly frustrated. The worker at Warna Unggul factory, located in Jalan Raya Campaka, Purwakarta, West Java, is waiting anxiously for the full payment of her salary from the company she has worked for the past 16 years.
Her June wagepaid in installments by the companyhas not yet been given to her in full. From the Rp3.1 million she should be receiving each month, the company still owes her Rp900,000. "Don't talk about THR (holiday allowance)even our salaries are paid in four installments," she complained when Tempo spoke with her at a mosque next to the plant, two weeks ago.

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July 10, 2015 edition

Thousands of large boxes containing used clothing items are stacked to the ceiling in port warehouses belonging to the Customs Directorate-General. The staggering amount of illegal goods was seized only during the first half of 2015. They are worth more than Rp20billion. These confiscated goods are only a fraction of tens of thousands of bails that are stored in Customs' warehouses in other provinces.

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July 7, 2015 edition

From Athens To Beijing: The Aftermath
Volatile markets from Athens to Beijing dramatically marked the end of this

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June 30, 2015 edition

A meeting held last April among members of the Association of Meat Producers and Feedlot Indonesia at the association's office in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta, ended in tumult. Calls were made to kick out members for introducing harmful fattening substances into their cattle feed. Executive Director Johny Liano said the growing rift was a serious one. "I have to neutralize this problem if I want the association to survive." he told Tempo on Thursday last week.
The Association of Meat Producers and Feedlot Indonesia (Apfindo) is an organization of breeders who import cattle feed from Australia. Their goal is to fatten cattle from 250 kilograms to 450 kilograms within a span of three to four months before they are slaughtered for sale.

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June 23, 2015 edition

FRIDAY morning three weeks ago was the last time Lenny Sugihat chaired a meeting of the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) as its CEO. Twenty-odd attendees were present at the room on the first floor of the corporation's headquarters in Jalan Gatot Subroto, South Jakarta, with a single agenda: to finalize plans for establishing a National Food Agency.

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June 16, 2015 edition

After four years at the branch office of Orix Indonesia Finance in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Hana Farida has begun to feel something is amiss. Whereas she used to process were lease applications, now it seems all she receives are 'accounts-receivable' forms. "The flow of work is still the same, but the type of work is far different," Hana said two weeks ago.
In April 2011, Hana was there for the coal and crude palm oil export boom, when dozens of credit applications for the purchase of heavy equipment landed on her desk each week. In early 2014, as mining and plantation commodity prices began to fall, however, things began to change.

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June 9, 2015 edition

Pelindo II Director Richard Joost Lino was in Hamburg, Germany, when the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) called him on Friday two weeks ago. He was summoned for questioning as a witness in a case of alleged corruption in the development of paddy fields projects.

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