Controversies over Covid-19 vaccination continue to occur. While some health care workers are having difficulty getting vaccine booster shots, some government officials already received their third shot.

So even as the economy falls into ruin because of the pandemic, banks are still raking in profits. Meanwhile, the government is straining under its weight.

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators arrested Probolinggo Regent Puput Tantriana Sari and her husband Hasan Aminuddin, for their alleged involvement in trading administrative appointments. The KPK has been following this possible corruption case for two years, but was unsuccessful to make arrests until now as sting operation plans were frequently leaked.

Kaesang Pangarep, Raffi Ahmad, Atta Halilintar, and other celebrities bought League 2 soccer clubs. Not because it promises financial gains, but rather to change the face of soccer politics.

Indonesia’s carbon footprint market and tips to safely play games during the pandemic.

President Joko Widodo appointed Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto to oversee the enforcement of multi-level public activity restrictions or PPKM outside Java and Bali following the surge in Covid-19 cases caused by the Delta variant. Amid the challenging job of managing the pandemic, Golkar Party’s Chair still manages to go on political canvassing trips to several regions.

Cartoon: Toni Malakian

Jokowi's administration is once again pursuing the debtors who received Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance (BLBI) totaling Rp110.4 trillion. There must be no seeking of political benefit.

Sunda Hejo was started by a group of people concerned about their environment in Garut, West Java. Now it runs a coffee cooperative that breaks through international markets.

President Biden’s decision to withdraw forces from Afghanistan is – as when Saigon fell to Vietnamese forces – a sign of failure. Meaning, even the state with the strongest economic, technological and military power is not an unlimited force.

RESIDENTS walk along piles of woods and tree trunks carried away during a flash flood in Rogo village, Sigi, Central Sulawesi, Monday, August 30. The flash flood which occurred on the night before due to heavy rains broke the river embankment, swept away and buried dozens of houses. Antara/Basri Marzuki

SOUTHEAST Asia has faced numerous human rights violations and abuses, ranging from the worst crimes against the Rohingya and other religious and ethnic minorities in Myanmar to extra-judicial killings in the Philippines under President Duterte’s administration. Many enforced disappearances have also occurred across the region, along with violence against human rights and democracy defenders, attacks on freedom of religion and belief, freedom of expression, and some other incidents. 

It does not mean the region has no institution that addresses human rights issues. Since 2009, member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have had the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights or AICHR. But critics said this body has been ineffective and ‌incapable of protecting human rights in the region. 

To commemorate the International Human Rights Day on December 10, TEMPO TALKS presents Yuyun Wahyuningrum, the representative of Indonesia to AICHR who will explain about human rights problems in the region and how her organization addresses the issue on TEMPO TALKS