The relationship between Joko Widodo and the PDI-P is strained due to signals of support for Ganjar Pranowo. The party is looking at potential presidential candidates besides Puan Maharani.

Ahmadi, former regent of Bener Meriah, Aceh, is arrested for selling Sumatran tiger pelt, along with two other suspects. There are only 200 tigers left in Aceh.

Foreign investors quit government bonds due to reckless macroeconomic policies. The government faces big risks due to subsidies.

A Response to the UFOs Sidelines and an idea to prevent general election frauds.

Cartoon: Imam Yunianto

The government asked the Supreme Court to inaugurate the members of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) Board of Commissioners despite the fact that it is not yet time. This could be against the law.

Azyumardi Azra is the new chair of the Press Council with the mission to revitalize the agency to become a critical partner of the government. He discusses the role of political and business oligarchs behind the democratic decline.

The Indonesian National Sport Climbing Team is optimistic about winning medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Indonesian athletes in the boulder and lead categories could be world’s number ones at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy, wrote his testimony of a battle in Sebastopol. He wrote that war always interested him.

The private sector has created innovations to support the era of electric vehicles. The government should come up with regulations to achieve economic benefits. #infotempo

A TEAM member of the Nusantara River Expedition (ESN) shows medical plastic waste that are not properly managed and are thrown away haphazardly and finally end up in the river in the Ujung Pancu, Greater Aceh Regency, Aceh, on Thursday, June 2. The ESN team found chlorine, phosphate, and heavy metals exceeding capacity, and microplastics in health studies and detection operations at the Aceh Krueng and several other rivers in the city of Banda Aceh and Greater Aceh. ANTARA FOTO / Irwansyah Putra

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