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Edition 29 January 2019
Cover Story
From Prison to Prison
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.
Cover Story
An Ulama of Both Worlds
Jokowi and Prabowo embrace religious figures to win Muslim voters. Supporters of the 212 movement are divided.
Cover Story
Politicians, Ulemas, Voters
RELIGIOUS leaders are given crucial roles in the 2019 presidential election.
Cover Story
The President Can Be Contested and Lose
Adviser to the Joko Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin Campaign Team, Yusril Ihza Mahendra:
Investigation
Freeport’s Waste Disaster
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.
Investigation
Subsisting on Fouled Fish
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.
Investigation
The High Cost of Waste
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.
Investigation
Divestment Does Not Erase Environment Issues
Ilyas Asaad. Inspector-General of the Environment and Forestry Ministry:
National
Rotation at the Police Headquarters
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.
Economy
Economy
Charged by China’s Batteries
Economy
Waiting for Incentives
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.
Market Pulse
A Lifeline Near the Deadline
There is an aura of anxiety surrounding the global financial market.
Law
The Thick Book of Meikarta
Bribe money for Meikarta project was allegedly distributed to provincial legislators and officials through numerous intermediaries and code words.
Photo
Picture Window
Plastic Plague
Outreach
Empowered Domestic Workers
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.
Letters
Word Watch Wanted
For many years my friends and I have enjoyed reading Jennifer Lindsay’s Word Watch column in Tempo magazine.
Opinion
Unnecessary Blunder
President Joko Widodo staked his own reputation with the planned release of Abu Bakar Ba’asyir.
Opinion
A Tale of Losses and Waste
Losses to the environment from the Freeport waste amounts to Rp185 trillion. The government must not wash its hands off the problem.
Opinion
The X-Factor
Promotion and mutation system of the national police force is mostly fraught with favoritism. It needs a total overhaul.
Opinion
Cleaning up Meikarta
The company’s involvement in the Meikarta project must be exposed. All sources of illicit income for public officials and politicians must be severed.
Sidelines
What is the commotion in politics, deafening us and stimulating us, making us believe and disbelieve? Words.