August 4, 2015 edition
JAKARTA Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has opened the doors of the city to new residents.
Basuki said he lacks the authority to bar citizens from visiting the capital city. As such, he will not carry out the customary sweeps and raids of new residents that normally follow the Ramadhan holidays. He said such operations were ineffective and poorly targeted.
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July 28, 2015 edition
MINISTER of Bureaucratic Reform Yuddy Chrisnandi was noticeably perturbed after a meeting with Vice President Jusuf Kalla. Yuddy had just issued an instruction allowing officials to use government cars to go home for Lebaran, provided such officials lacked car of their own and paid for their own fuel. Kalla was not happy. "I used my own discretion on the matter, but later, since it was forbidden by the Vice President, I submitted," Yuddy said.
Yuddy, however, refused to retract the instruction outright. Instead, he entrusted the matter to the heads of local governments. In the end, district heads and city mayors crafted different policies.
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July 14, 2015 edition
ON June 30, Hercules C-130B plane crashed into the Jamin Ginting area of Medan. The airplane hit a Joy FM radio antenna located 3,200 meters away from the Soewondo Airport runway. The passengers consisted of 12 crew members (three were pilots), one navigator, 8 technicians, and 110 passengers. All died.
Just before the crash, pilot Captain Shandy Permana requested permission to return to base. The request is assumed to be an indication that a problem occurred two minutes after the plane took off. The definite cause of the accident is still under investigation. But something was clearly amiss: why were there so many civilians aboard the military aircraft?
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July 10, 2015 edition
THE assumption that shopping online is unsafe was reinforced when the public recently heard of a person who ordered an iPhone 6 and was sent a bar of soap. In the middle of such news, last week's Tempo poll showed that of 466 readers, 54.1 percent felt that online shopping is susceptible to crimes.
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July 7, 2015 edition
THE tradition of returning to one's native village at Lebaran or the Eid holiday essentially involves moving heavy traffic from big cities to different areas of the country. Last year, more than 30 million people went home almost all at once to their home villages. In Java, the exodus caused roads on the north and south coasts to be very congested. Eleven to 19 hours of traffic jam could not be avoided.
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June 30, 2015 edition
Gambling is nothing new in the world of soccer. Gamblers, players and referees have worked together ever since the Galatama era to manipulate matches and earn a buck.
There is also what is called 'elephant soccer', which was on full display in October 2014, when two soccer teams, PSS Sleman and PSIS Semarang, each scored five 'suicide' goals during the Indonesian Super League Main Division Big Eight competition. The two soccer clubs were competing to lose and face off against a weaker club in the next match.
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June 23, 2015 edition