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Tempo Subscription Price
Suggestions over Tempo subscription prices and letters to the editor for the magazine. A reader’s also raises a concern that the polemic on Jokowi’s diploma might distract the nation’s attention from other crucial issues.
Letters Edisi : Monday, June 16, 2025

The Squared Circle of Saving Garuda
Garuda is to receive a capital injection of Rp20 trillion from Danantara. The danger of Prabowo’s narrow nationalistic ambitions.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, June 16, 2025

Making Fashion Environmentally Friendly
Sustainable fashion is an alternative way to reduce environmental damage. Be trendy while still thinking about future generations.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, June 16, 2025

Foreign Worker Permits Grease Money
The KPK is investigating extortion in the processing of foreigners’ work permits at the Manpower Ministry. It also happens in other institutions.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, June 16, 2025

The Natural Resources Curse
The nickel mining permits in Raja Ampat violate the Constitution. They are concessions for party elites and tycoons supporting the government.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, June 16, 2025

The Destructive Ambition of the Giant Sea Wall Project
Prabowo wants to accelerate the construction of the giant sea wall megaproject on Java’s north coast. Tasking Danantara in the ambitious project is dangerous.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, June 9, 2025

PLTSa, a Partial Solution to Waste
Waste cannot be partially managed by building waste-to-energy power plants. Waste must be reduced from the source.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, June 9, 2025

The AGO Must Stop the Displays of Legal Populism
When investigating the alleged corruption in laptop provision at the Ministry of Education, the AGO is putting on a performance of the legal process. It is another act of legal populism.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, June 9, 2025

The Quick Way to Become a Failed State
Without any transparency or oversight, Danantara is accelerating the establishment of extractive economic institutions in Indonesia. The first step to becoming a failed state.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, June 9, 2025

Suggestions for Tempo
A reader’s critics and suggestions for Tempo. As well as solution to overcome the high unemployment rate.
Letters Edisi : Monday, June 9, 2025

Prabowo's Favoritism Wrecking the Bureaucracy
The selection of two strategic echelon I officials at the Finance Ministry draws controversy. The process lacked transparency and reeked of favoritism.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, June 2, 2025

Uncovering the Sritex Credit Scandal
It is not enough for the Attorney General’s Office to charge three suspects in the Sritex credit corruption case. The full extent of the scandal must be exposed, including those who orchestrated it.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, June 2, 2025

Intimidation of Those Opposed to Militarism
Intimidation of critics of the revised TNI Law is spreading. President Prabowo Subianto’s government is becoming increasingly militaristic.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, June 2, 2025

Forests for Tycoons
Hundreds of major business groups are lining up to obtain concessions for 4.8 million hectares of forest. There is a lack of transparency and it creates inequality.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, June 2, 2025

An Unempathetic Official
Airlangga Hartarto is not concerned that household consumption growth is lower than 5 percent, indicating the absence of empathy from government officials.
Letters Edisi : Monday, June 2, 2025

The Increasingly Troubling Thuggery
Thuggery is becoming more disturbing to the society. State apparatus, instead, has been protecting mass organizations.
Letters Edisi : Monday, May 26, 2025

Danantara’s High Risk Investments
Danantara is set to take on several high-cost downstream projects. The business feasibility is questionable, and there is potential for conflicts of interest.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, May 26, 2025

Pertamina Oil Fields of Corruption
Corruption in the management of oil at Pertamina happens at every level. They buy oil at too high a price and sell it at below market price.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, May 26, 2025

Governments Do Not Determine History
The Prabowo administration is rewriting the official history of Indonesia. It will be selective and will obscure many of the dark events of the New Order.
Opinion Edisi : Monday, May 26, 2025

A Quick Guide to Becoming an Oligarch
After obtaining business concessions, Haji Isam is going into politics. Building an oligarch power.