SUPERSEMAR Foundation Chairman Subagyo was taken aback by a news report Monday two weeks ago: His foundation had been defeated at the Supreme Court and would have to pay trillions of rupiah in compensation to the state.

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.

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.

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.

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.