July 12, 2016 edition

REGARDING The Tenuous Money Trail to City Hall article in Tempo's June 20-26, 2016 edition, the following are responses from the parties mentioned:
Hasan Nasbi and Cyrus Nusantara
The news article has insulted my self-esteem and integrity. Tempo's accusation is a slander. The accusation that Friends of Ahok indirectly received money from Cyrus Network is also tendentious, baseless and fabricated.

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July 5, 2016 edition

Dress to Impress During Ramadan
A Japanese professor, Masaru Emoto, examined the relationship of positive words and the formation of hexagonal crystals of water. Saying 'thank you', for instance, in any language can lead to the formation of beautiful, perfectly shaped water crystals.

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June 28, 2016 edition

When Tempo was announced the winner of the Editors Lab innovation competition by Evangeline de Bourgoing, program director for the Global Editors Network (GEN), in Vienna, Austria, two weeks ago, all of us at the Tempo office at Palmerah, West Jakarta were stunned. This is the first time Tempo was invited to send a team to compete in the media hack-a-thon-we would have been happy just to reach the final round.
Tempo is fully aware that digital technology is a new battlefield in the media industry. However, transforming that understanding into a new work scheme, new products, new innovations and perspectives will certainly take time.

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June 21, 2016 edition

Adaro's Clarification
WITH regards to the Royalty Vs. Refunds article published in Tempo's June 13-19 issue, we, Adaro Energy, as effective shareholders of Adaro Indonesia (Adaro), wish to deliver our clarification. The article's subtitle contains inaccurate information that does not correspond with actual facts, stating that Adaro is one of the five royalty defaulters with arrears amounting to Rp1.2 trillion and US$399 million. This could potentially cause misperception among readers.

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June 14, 2016 edition

Right of Reply from the President's Press Office
IN response to the A Lot of Lobbying for Rosneft cover story published in Tempo's June 6-12, 2016 issue, we need to express our clarification and objection towards several issues we deem as inaccurate and not based on facts. The corresponding matters are as follows:

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June 7, 2016 edition

The Term Yahweh in Bible
PRESIDENT Joko Widodo must immediately order the Indonesian Bible Association to stop damaging the Indonesian language in translating the Bible. The association has translated the term Yahweh to 'Tuhan' and 'Allah' although according to the rule, such names should not be translated.

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May 31, 2016 edition

Asian Agri's Response
REGARDING the article in Tempo's May 9-15 edition, pages 42-56, titled Plundering Oil Palm at Tesso Nilo, here is our right of reply.

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