May 23, 2017 edition
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National
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Cover Story
Protests continue against the policy of the environment and forestry ministry on restoring cultivated land back to its original peatland condition. The protests come from not only from those in the plantation business and commercial forest industry, but also from a number of governors concerned with the impact on their local economies. Complaints surfaced after Industry Minister Airlangga Hartarto sent a letter to Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the end of last March. It laid out the potential losses to the industry if the regulation on restoring peat land was put into effect. This is about business certainty," Airlangga told Tempo reporters Agus Supriyanto, Wayan Agus Purnomo and Ayu Primasandi, last week. During the interview, Airlangga was accompanied by the director-general of agroindustry, Panggah Susanto.
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Economy
High political tension in the last two weeks have not brought any ill tidings to Indonesian financial markets. Investors seem unaffected by the unrest on the future of the country's diversity, which is fundamental to its existence and unity. Amidst this tension, S&P Global Ratings raised Indonesia's credit rating into investment grade of BBB-. In the last 40 minutes of trading last friday, share price soared by 2,59 percent.
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Indicator
BASUKI 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama, the former Jakarta governor, was found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to two years in prison, citing Article 156a of the Criminal Code. The charge of blasphemy came from a speech he made when he was campaigning for re-election at the Thousand Islands, on September last year. The court also ordered him to be detained immediately.
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News Capsule
Anti-corruption activists questioned the justice and human rights ministry's decision to prematurely release Urip Tri Gunawan, a former prosecutor sentenced to 20 years in 2008 for graft in the Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance (BLBI) case. Lalola Ester Kaban, a researcher at the Indonesia Corruption Watch, is among those who see the release as inappropriate.
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Word Watch
Ask many young people today what the distress signal SOS stands for, and few know. Save Our Souls. And when explained, there is puzzlement about the word 'soul'--is this a call for religious salvation? Why not 'Help'? But the word 'soul' here of course means 'life'. It is a call sent when lives are in grave danger.
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Scene & Heard
She is one person who is always asked to head selection committees of various state institutions. Yet, Betti Alisjahbana says she is always ready to accept new responsibility. She does not regret, for example, sitting on the committee to select members of the General Election Commission (KPU) and the General Election Supervisors Agency (Bawaslu), despite having gone through some unpleasant experience in the past. "Some people protested because their candidates failed to make it through the selection process," she recalled, a few weeks ago.
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Interview
The secretary-general of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Hasto Kristiyanto refutes charges that he failed to deliver for his party in the 2017 regional and local elections. But the fact is that 44 PDI-P candidates running for various offices around the country, among them the former Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama and his running mate Djarot Saiful Hidayat who vied to be reelected, failed in their bids.
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Diplomatic Bag
Tempo Talks
Improving Connectivity, Boosting Cooperation
This year, Indonesia and India mark 75 years of diplomatic relations. However, the ties between the two nations have existed much longer, predating the establishment of the Republic of Indonesia and the Republic of India. These connections span social, cultural, religious, economic, and trade aspects. But do those close ties of the past have any bearing on the present relationship? Why is there no direct flight between the capitals of the two countries?
Indian Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor-Leste, Sandeep Chakravorty, shares his views on this matter at TEMPO TALKS.
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