October 20, 2015 edition

Five student activists arrived at the Jakarta Police's Service Centerlate in the evening Tuesday last week. They were there to report a suspected abuse of power in the Constitutional Court's recent decision on the selection of judges for first-instance courts. "We observed impropriety in the decision-making session," said Secretary-General of the Jakarta Law Students Movement (GMHJ), Lintar Fauzi, on Wednesday last week.
Farhan Ali, Victor Santoso Tandiasa, and Alfian Akbar Balianan joined Linhar as reporting parties. They questioned the court's ruling handed down a fortnight ago which granted a request by the Indonesian Judges Association (Ikahi) to examine the first-instance court judges.

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October 13, 2015 edition

Hadi Poernomo wasted little time cross-examining Jamin Gintinga professor of law at Pelita Harapan University and the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) expert witnessin a judicial review hearing at the South Jakarta District Court last week.
A former director-general of taxation, Hadi's line of questioning sought to cast aspersions on the KPK's power to appoint the investigators to his case. "Yes, the investigator is appointed and then discharged by the KPK," Jamin Ginting told him in court.

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October 6, 2015 edition

Udar Pristono was unable to restrain himself after a panel of judges at the Jakarta Corruption Court handed down a much lighter sentence than what had been sought by prosecutors. As soon as the judges finished reading the verdict, the former head of Jakarta's Department of Transportation got out of his wheelchair and walked over to shake each by the hand.
That Wednesday two weeks ago, a panel of judges, headed by Artha Theresia, sentenced Udar to five years' imprisonment and a fine of Rp250 million. The verdict in the Transjakarta buses procurement case was less than a third of the 19 years in prison and Rp1 billion in fines sought by prosecutors.

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September 29, 2015 edition

THE Constitutional Court decision rendered Tuesday last week flies in the face of one it made three years earlier, when it invalidated the presidential warrants required to question lawmakers accused of crimes.
In an 111-page decision, the Constitutional Court has reversed course, once again obliging investigators to secure presidential warrants before questioning House of Representatives (DPR) members with criminal allegations.

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September 22, 2015 edition

Wardoyo had already circled the Pacific Place shopping mall in South Jakarta's Sudirman Central Business District (SCBD) five times. "He told me, 'just keep driving around'," Wardoyo said, recalling the directions of his passenger that morning late last August.
Wardoyo became suspicious. But before Wardoyo could decide what to do, police officers cut him off near the Bengkel Caf at the SCBD. "Only then did I realize I'd been set up," he said.

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September 15, 2015 edition

THE late August meeting at the vice-presidential secretariat office was supposed to be about the government's low budget uptake. Oddly, however, most of those present were law enforcers, including officials from the National Police, the Attorney General's Office (AGO), the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK), and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). A fair number of activists were also in attendance.

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September 1, 2015 edition

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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