August 17, 2015 edition
The message via WhatsApp interrupted Putri's (not her real name) preparation of soto ayam (chicken soup) last Monday. The message was sent by her attorney, who had just exited the court room at the South Jakarta District Court. The time difference between Putri's home in Europe and Jakarta was five hours.
Over the phone, Putri expressed her surprise. "Our lawsuit was rejected. What do you think?" she said, recalling the attorney's question when Tempo met her Tuesday last week. "We've got to file an appeal," Putri replied. "This case must not be forgotten."
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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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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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