The Jakarta Arts Council submitted a motion of no confidence against the Jakarta Provincial government. Governor Anies Baswedan altered the city’s grant-making scheme.

The government is suspected of giving privileges to electronic cigarettes issued by HM Sampoerna. Receiving excise cuts, the IQOS and HEET products enjoy a fast lane to obtain the Indonesian National Standard label.

Inflation in the United States hits the highest record in the last 40 years. It is a big risk for Indonesia

A reader believes that ‘vitality medicine’ advertisements commonly seen on the streets could trigger sexual violence. 

Taufik Abdullah, former Chair of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, asserts that no one is happy with the idea to amalgamate various research institutes into the National Research and Innovation Agency. He highlights a number of initiatives the government can take to foster a climate conducive for researchers.

Cartoon: Yuyun Nurrachman

The merger of all research institutes into the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) has a political motive. It is not in compliance with the law.

Rahmat Effendi is suspected of involving his children as well as officials of the Bekasi City government to hold bribe money. The KPK will charge him with money laundering.

The locomotive and train wagons are part of social history: the story of social mobility, but also of power out to get as much as it can.

A MAN is drying fabrics in the sun after the dyeing process at the textile craft center in Krajan village, Sukoharjo, Central Java, Saturday, January 15. The fabric, commonly called beach cloth, will be used as the raw material for clothes to be sold in various tourist areas in Indonesia such as Yogyakarta, Solo, Jakarta and Bali. ANTARA FOTO/Maulana Surya

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