March 8, 2016 edition
A report distributed to the five leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in mid-February contained an unflattering picture of Sr. Comr. Karyoto's tenure as KPK investigator from 2003 to 2008.
Over the past month, Karyoto, a mid-level police officer from the National Police's crime investigation unit, has been closely scrutinized by KPK leadership. Proposed by the National Police as their pick for KPK director of monitoring, Karyoto was quickly rejected by many rank-and-file KPK employees.
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March 1, 2016 edition
DJODI Supratman took a free moment to stop by his former office on the fifth floor of the Supreme Court building on Jalan Medan Merdeka Utara, Jakarta, Friday four weeks ago. There he found the office's current occupant, Andri Tristianto Sutrisna, at work. "I just said hello," Djodi told Tempo on Tuesday last week. Andri moved into the office after being named head of the subdirectorate of civil cassation at the Supreme Court near the end of 2012.
A little while back, a staff member in the same subdirectorate, Djoko, was released from prison in July 2015 after completing a two-year prison term for brokering bribes at the court. At the time of arrest, Djodi was a staff member at the Supreme Court's Legal Training Agency.
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February 23, 2016 edition
A one-on-one meeting between Bandung Mayor Ridwan Kamil and businessman Sandiaga Salahudin Uno took place on January 31 under the media's radar. Oddly enough, no one was aware of the mayor's agenda that day. The two met at the mayor's official weekend residence. During the meeting that lasted an hour-and-a-half, the two men talked about the plan to modernize 37 traditional markets in Bandung.
Just before the call to prayer at sunset, however, Sandiaga brought up the topic of the election for the next Jakarta governor. As the meeting was coming to an end, he asked Ridwan abouthis readiness to be a candidate. Ridwan said he would think about it. "In that case, I'll start (campaign) activities before you in Jakarta," Sandiaga said. Last Thursday, Ridwan dismissed the news that their meeting had been specifically to discuss the election. "It's only about investing in the markets," he said.
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February 16, 2016 edition
ATTORNEY General Muhammad Prasetyo met with five leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in his office two Mondays ago. During the meeting, he was flanked by several assistant attorneys general.
KPK Chairman Agus Rahardjo, according to a senior prosecutor, promptly explained why he and his colleagues had come. Agus asked Prasetyo whether the news was true that the case involving KPK investigator Novel Baswedan had been transferred to the Bengkulu District Court. "The attorney general confirmed it and the trial would begin soon," said the senior prosecutor last Tuesday.
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February 9, 2016 edition
For much of the latter half of the 20th century, Indonesia's family planning program was the toast of the developing world.
The nation's list of achievements, which included halving the number of births per woman (TFR) and doubling the number of contraceptive users between 1972 and 2002, meant by the close of the century, some 75 million births had been averted, helping to create the fiscal room needed to lift millions out of poverty.
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February 2, 2016 edition
THE video recording showed a group of men gathered in the main room of a house. They were paying close attention to an instructor expounding on a subject. Armchairs, sofas and tables had been shifted against the room's walls, billowing with white and green curtains. There were at least 30 men in the room. As the lecture went on, the instructor as well as the trainees could be seen holding folio-sized sheets of white paper.
One of the trainees said the recording showed people engaging in tadrib. In hardline Islamic circles, the Arabic term means warfare training. The trainee pointed out that the instructor had referred to his urban warfare training as a method in amaliyah, or charity. For them, terror attacks are holy war tactics against unbelievers.
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January 26, 2016 edition