Some new and small political parties are striving to rope in public figures that can attract voters. They hope to pass the parliamentary electoral threshold for the 2024 General Elections.

The management of Halim Perdanakusuma Airport is entering a new chapter. Arsjad Rasjid and Sakti Wahyu Trenggono are in the new company operating the airport.

The European Union will implement a due diligence regulation to ensure that products entering the continent are deforestation-free. Is Indonesia’s Timber Legality Assurance System compatible with the new regulation?

Hartono, Chief of Peatland and Mangrove Restoration Agency, explains peatland and mangrove restoration efforts and their complex challenges. The agency does not support peatland being used for the food estate project.

The European Union proposes a draft regulation on products that are not linked to deforestation and forest degradation. It could potentially negate the Timber Legality Assurance System.

The formation of a team for settlement of past gross human rights abuses.

ICEL's clarification and the right of reply of Semarang State University.

Cartoon: Yuyun Nurrachman

It is not only a sports tournament, but also a friendship forum between BUMN personnels and journalists. #InfoTempo

The police name Putri Candrawathi, wife of Ferdy Sambo, a suspect in the premeditated murder of Brig. Yosua. It is time for reforms within the National Police.

In August 1945, it turned out to be not Germany, but America that succeeded in producing and using this new type of bomb. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were razed, and Japan surrendered. Germany was too late.

TWO tabuik being paraded before being dumped into the sea, at the Gandoriah Pariaman Beach, West Sumatra, Sunday, August 14. According to the Pariaman City government, around 200,000 visitors flock to the beach to observe the annual Shia-influenced tradition celebrating Asyura Day to commemorate the death of the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, Hussein bin Ali. The festival is a series of events that combines both religious and cultural features, as well as being the most crowded tourist attraction in that province/ANTARA FOTO/Iggoy el Fitra

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