April 5, 2016 edition
The town of Tarakan in North Kalimantan was abuzz over the arrival of two military aircrafta Hercules C-130 and a CN-235at Juwata airfield in Ampana, Central Sulawesi, on Tuesday last week.
Juwata authorities said little about the new aircraft, with Tarakan airport chief Syamsul Bandri saying only that he had been asked to provide 'parking space' for the TNI aircraft.
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March 29, 2016 edition
THE one-stop 'aspiration market' goes through me, so tell the others," was a message sent by head of the National Highway Construction Center (BPJN) IX of Maluku and North Maluku, Amran Mustary, to potential contractors.
This was the statement made according to Windu Tunggal Utama CEO, Abdul Khoir, who has been interrogated five times by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in recent weeks for allegedly bribing Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician Damayanti Wisnu Putranti.
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March 22, 2016 edition
A photo of a small house is posted on the ministry of villages, disadvantaged regions and transmigration electronic procurement system website. According to the site, the house, located at Dusun Ponokawan RT 2 RW 01, Sidoarjo, East Java, is the headquarters of Indo Teknika Sarana Pratama, a company that won a ship procurement tender worth Rp10 billion from the villages ministry last year.
On Thursday last week, Tempo visited the address. A notice was posted on the window informing that Indo Teknika had moved to Jalan Situs Raos, Gempol, Pasuruan, East Java. Mas'amah, the owner of the house, declined to comment on his relationship to the company. "Please ask about it over there," he said, providing the address of the Indo Teknika office in Pasuruan.
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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