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Under the spotlight, the government withdraws its intention to release Abu Bakar Ba’asyir. The plan to release the terrorism convict is believed could hurt Jokowi’s electability. The planned release was Yusril Ihza Mahendra’s maneuver.
Jokowi and Prabowo embrace religious figures to win Muslim voters. Supporters of the 212 movement are divided.
RELIGIOUS leaders are given crucial roles in the 2019 presidential election.
Adviser to the Joko Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin Campaign Team, Yusril Ihza Mahendra:
FREEPORT-McMoRan is no longer the majority shareholder of Freeport Indonesia. Since December 2018. the Indonesian government has control over 51.2 percent of the company’s shares. Freeport-McMoran got Rp55.8 trillion for the divestment and left behind a pile of wastes that injures the Papua sea, rivers, and sago fields. The damage is estimated at Rp185 trillion. The remaining gold processing tailing had destroyed locals’ livelihood—isolating four districts. This report is based on a a five-month investigation by Tempo and Tabloid Jubi Papua.
Four districts in Mimika, Papua, become isolated as a result of the Ajkwa River being polluted with waste from Freeport. They can no longer plant their fields.
THE Rp55.8 trillion price tag for 51.2 percent of Freeport Indonesia stock purchased by the Indonesian government is nothing compared to the environmental damage which has resulted from gold mining tailings which have polluted rivers, damaged sago fi elds, and isolated the local Papuans.
Ilyas Asaad. Inspector-General of the Environment and Forestry Ministry:
Dissonance seems to haunt the process around the officers’ rotation at the National Police Headquarters. The Presidential Palace rejected Idham Azis’ candidacy as the National Police’s deputy chief before he finally received his third star.
The government is planning incentives to allow electric vehicles to be available to Indonesians at affordable prices. Electric car production is targeted to reach 400,000 units in 2025.
There is an aura of anxiety surrounding the global financial market.
Bribe money for Meikarta project was allegedly distributed to provincial legislators and officials through numerous intermediaries and code words.
Plastic Plague
Lita Anggraini and her colleagues mobilized thousands of domestic workers to unionize. They also allowed domestic worker issues to be recognized as a national issue.
For many years my friends and I have enjoyed reading Jennifer Lindsay’s Word Watch column in Tempo magazine.
President Joko Widodo staked his own reputation with the planned release of Abu Bakar Ba’asyir.
Losses to the environment from the Freeport waste amounts to Rp185 trillion. The government must not wash its hands off the problem.
Promotion and mutation system of the national police force is mostly fraught with favoritism. It needs a total overhaul.
The company’s involvement in the Meikarta project must be exposed. All sources of illicit income for public officials and politicians must be severed.
What is the commotion in politics, deafening us and stimulating us, making us believe and disbelieve? Words.
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