August 11, 2015 edition

For the past two months, work has declined at Sarimas Ahmadi Pratama engine factory in Cilodong, Depok. The reason is simple: there are no new orders.
Dozens of workers have left the company. "As there are no projects, the company cannot pay their salaries," Ginting Gumelar, Sarimas Head of Personnel, said on Wednesday two weeks ago.

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August 4, 2015 edition

Hundreds of Jakarta Metro Police officers charged into the Trade Ministry building on Tuesday afternoon last week, taking officials by surprise.

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July 28, 2015 edition

Nur Kholis, Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM), was stunned by the proposal forwarded by the Attorney General's Office (AGO) last April. In a meeting held at the AGO headquarters on April 20, AGO officials presented Nur with a plan to address past human rights abuses through the creation of a Committee for Reconciliationone that, conspicuously, lacked any fact-finding undertaking.
In other countries with checkered human rights records, past rights violations have been settled through a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (KKR). The AGO, however, said difficulty finding evidence and the deaths of the suspected perpetrators made the creation of such a KKR commission unfeasible.

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July 14, 2015 edition

Angga Dwimas Sasongko received rather disturbing news at the end of last year. The organizers of the CinemAsia Film Festival 2015 in Amsterdam had disqualified his film, Cahaya dari Timur: Beta Maluku (Lights from the East: I Am Maluku). "Because [the film] had already been pirated and could be viewed on the Internet," said the Indonesian Film Producers Association board member last Monday.
At the time, he knew the festival committee was not just bluffing. Angga understood that almost all international festival organizers tightly screened films seeking to participate. These festival organizers would immediately reject films already illegally shown on the Internet. Before Angga heard the news that his film had been disqualified, he was already aware that The Raid by director Gareth Evans, for instance, had not been shown in several countries because the film had already been uploaded to free download sites. "This is an example of how cyberspace piracy is impacting the film industry," Angga said.

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July 10, 2015 edition

LAST Monday morning dozens of unknown people arrived together and began shouting in the grounds of the regent's office on Morotai Island in the North Maluku. They burnt old tires of various sizes in the compound, which had just been used for the office staff's morning roll call.

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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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