CILINCING is one of President Joko Widodo's favorite places to deliver important messages. From this North Jakarta district two years ago, he officially announced his candidacy in the presidential election. Jokowi, who at that time was governor of Jakarta, chose Si Pitung's house in Marunda as the place to declare he was running for office.

In the afternoon of February 11, 2011, dozens of journalists gathered for a press conference with National Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Commissioners at the commission's headquarters. They were startled by the sudden intrusion of three unidentified men. Suddenly, one of them began ranting about the unfair police treatment of someone named Daniel Sinambela.

Nine National Police investigators combed through the files of hundreds of former patients in the medical records room of Cipto Mangunkusumo Kencana Hospital (RSCM Kencana) in Central Jakarta two weeks ago. Aided by some of the medical staff, they were searching for data on 14 people who underwent kidney transplants from 2013 to 2015 at RSCM Kencana, the country's largest state-run hospital.

When President Joko Widodo broke ground and thereby symbolically indicated the start of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed train project construction three weeks ago, the required operational licenses still had not been issued. The transportation ministry was reluctant to issue the routing permit because the contracting consortium had demanded a government guarantee. The situation was further complicated when a number of landowners refused to sell their lands on which the tracks would lie. To make matters worse, there were more requests for additional stations to be built along the way.