January 26, 2016 edition

There's something different about Bambang Widjojanto, former deputy chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). Arriving to attend the launching of Tempo's 45-year celebration logo last week, where he was a keynote speaker, Bambang was seen to drive a shiny black sedan automobile. What's unusual about this is that Bambang almost never drove a car but always used public transportation to get around town.
Has he changed his lifestyle now that he's no longer in the limelight as head of the anti-graft organization? No, was his answer, that he still rode the commuter trains going to and from work. "After I get to the office, then I may ride in a car, usually not mine," claimed 56-year old Bambang: Once an activist, always an activist.

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December 1, 2015 edition

The three daughters of the late Mohammad Hatta, Indonesia's first Vice President and co-proclamator of the nation's declaration of independence in 1945, recently got together in Jakarta to witness the launching of a reprint of their father's book on cooperatives.
It was an auspicious occasion for the Hattas Meutia, Gemala and Halida whose father wrote Membangun Kooperasi dan Kooperasi Membangun ('Building Cooperatives and Cooperatives Build') back in 1971. Bung Hatta, as he was popularly known, believed that cooperatives were an alternative economic system that could work in building a democratic society. The book contains a compilation of the thoughts and speeches of Bung Hatta on a number of topics that stress on the principle of gotong-royong, or mutual assistance.

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