September 1, 2015 edition

Cover Magz Tempo - Edisi 2015-09-01

Special Report

One-and-a half-years after moving to Bekasi, West Java, 30-year-old Nanda no longer travels frequently to nearby Jakarta. She said her house was cool enough to stay put. "It's nice, really. And cool," said Nanda at her home in Griya Mitra housing complex in Bekasi two weeks ago.

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National

KPK Hopefuls In The Hot Seat

Economy

Weekly Business

Sidelines

Wallace

National

POLICE work is all Yotje Mende knows.
A former Papua police chief who spent 34 years in the force, most of them in criminal investigation units, Yotje is one of the candidates being considered to head the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

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Big Lake, Big River

Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama:
People Just Want The Money

Furor At Kampung Pulo

Economy

Infrastructure
Upgraded Border Infrastructure Still Years Away
President Joko Widodo said border-zone infrastructure in West Kalimantan will be completed in two years time. "The remaining 700-kilometer roads must be completed within that time period," he said, two weeks ago.

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Buybacks To Intercept Crisis

China's Pain Rattles The World

Sidelines

Science begins with a child's wonder.
Alfred Russell Wallace-the Englishman who together with Charles Darwin discovered the 'theory of evolution'-noted how, as a child, he had been fascinated watching bees. He found bees a marvel in every meadow, and thought anyone unfamiliar with them missed out on an endless source of enjoyment and fascination.

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Arts

Performing artist Melati Suryodarmo carries a thin, rolled up mattress to the grubby yard. She smacks the bundle against the body of artist Hendra Setiawan, covering them both in a cloud of dust. She and five other artists from Plesungan Studio in Karanganyar, Central Java, lay the mattress down on the ground and lie down.

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Interview

SUSILO Bambang Yudhoyono, 66, is an orderly and cautious person, more on the intellectual side. Those are traits he cultivated when he was in the military, a cabinet member in the presidencies of Abdurrahman Wahid and Megawati Soekarnoputri and as president of Indonesia for the past 10 years. Today, although it has been 10 months since he relinquished his presidential authority, none of that trait is gone.

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On The Record

A few months ago, cases of Indonesian migrants workers in Hong Kong being abused by their employers came to light, such as the plight of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih and Elis Kurniasih, who died accidentally in an overcrowded shelter. "We need to have a system to deal with those bad cases," said Emily Lau, 63, a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council and chairperson of the Democratic Party.

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Asean & Beyond

In the nation's capital of Kuala Lumpur, over 100,000 demonstrators turned out peacefully at Merdeka Square to commemorate the nation's 52nd independence anniversary, starting from Saturday, August 29 through midnight the following Sunday. The rally was extraordinary, given the police declaring it illegal and banning the protestors' signature yellow T-shirts.

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Law

TWENTY employees of Victoria Securities International Corporation were trapped in their office until the wee hours of Wednesday morning two weeks ago. They could not go home because 10 investigators from the Attorney General's Office (AGO) searched their office on the ninth floor of Panin Tower in Senayan City, South Jakarta.

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Cover Story

Back from a working trip to Hong Kong, Manpower Minister Hanif Dhakiri was faced with a barrage of questions over the vast number of Chinese workers in Indonesia. He told Tempo reporter Pingit Aria last week, in an interview at his office, that foreign workers were allowed to work only in certain areas and sectors needing specific criteria. Additional responses to previous questions sent by email were added to the interview.

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The Blue Collar Offensive

Guest-workers

Laboring Under Dubious Pretenses

Opinion

It would be wise of the government to take extra caution when it urges state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to buy back their shares from the stock market. This effort can indeed raise share prices of SOEs and even activate the bourse. But if the buybacks are not executed carefully, the SOEs can lose their money, or worse, be entangled in debt.

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Re-arming The KPK

Lessons From Kampung Pulo

A Blue Collar Invasion

Indicator

IT takes guts to block a convoy of large motorbikes-often called moge-especially when they are being escorted by police.
Elanto Wijoyono, 32, has done it twice. The last time was in mid-August at the Condong Catur intersection in Yogjakarta, where he blockaded a convoy of moges taking part in the 2015 Jogja Bike Rendezvous.

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Letters

Objection from PGN
IN the magazine's August 24-30 issue, page 13, within the articles Flop at Fasken Block and Risky Business, page 34 to 36, Tempo wrote about the declining share price of Swift Energy Co at the NYSE and linked it to the potential loss of PGN's investment in Fasken shale gas area, Texas, the United States. With regard to these reports, we would like to explain the following:
1. Saka Energi Indonesia (SEI), a subsidiary of PGN, has never invested in Swift Energy, nor has it acquired shares of said company as traded at the NYSE.

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Outreach

TODAY, there are only 20,000 known researchers in Indonesia, although those actively conducting studies and surveys number a mere 1,000 persons. This acute shortage is a big concern to Yohanes Surya, physicist and trainer of the Indonesian Physics Olympics team since 1993. "The United States is advanced because it has 1.5 million researchers of their 400 million strong population. If we could ony have one million, we would be doing all right," said Yohanes.

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'Pure' Genius

Young Inventors And Innovators

Picture Window

Tempo Talks

Improving Connectivity, Boosting Cooperation

This year, Indonesia and India mark 75 years of diplomatic relations. However, the ties between the two nations have existed much longer, predating the establishment of the Republic of Indonesia and the Republic of India. These connections span social, cultural, religious, economic, and trade aspects. But do those close ties of the past have any bearing on the present relationship? Why is there no direct flight between the capitals of the two countries?

Indian Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor-Leste, Sandeep Chakravorty, shares his views on this matter at TEMPO TALKS.

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Investing in Women, A Huge Benefit for the Nation

Greener Means Richer

MSF Wants to Strengthen Collaborations with Indonesia in Addressing Climate Emergency

How Does ASEAN Improve Human Rights Protection in the Region

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