maaf email atau password anda salah

Other Tempo Media
Majalah Tempo
Koran Tempo
Tempo.co
Subscribe

Tom Lembong: I’m More Convinced This Case was Fabricated

Monday, September 8, 2025

Tom Lembong talks about the sugar import case, the abolition from Prabowo, his daily life in prison, and his relationship with Joko Widodo.

arsip tempo : 177349363587.

Minister of Trade 2015–2016, Thomas Trikasih Lembong, at the Tempo Building, Jakarta, August 15, 2025. Tempo/Tony Hartawan. tempo : 177349363587.

AFTER spending about nine months behind bars, Thomas Trikasih Lembong admits his manner of speaking to the public has changed. Opening an interview with Tempo’s editorial team on Jalan Palmerah Barat, South Jakarta, Friday, August 15, 2025, he urged Tempo team not to hold back. “I’ve become long-winded because I had so much time in prison,” he said, before bursting into laughter.

Tom—as the former Minister of

...

Subscribe to continue reading.
We craft news with stories.

For the benefits of subscribing to Digital Tempo, See More

The Best Choice

Rp 750.000/12 months

  • *Flexible payment methods
  • *Unlimited access to Tempo Plus & Tempo Magz
Subscribe

Rp 386.280/6 months

  • *Auto-renews every 6 months
  • *Cancel at anytime
  • *Unlimited access to Tempo Plus & Tempo Magz
Subscribe

See Other Packages

Already a Subscribed? Log in here
To receive daily news by Email, Sign up for Tempo ID.

Raymundus Rikang

Jokowi Tom Lembong sugar imports Trade Minister
Prev Next

More Articles

More exclusive contents

  • March 9, 2026

  • March 2, 2026

  • February 23, 2026

  • February 16, 2026

Independent journalism needs public support. By subscribing to Tempo, you will contribute to our ongoing efforts to produce accurate, in-depth and reliable information. We believe that you and everyone else can make all the right decisions if you receive correct and complete information. For this reason, since its establishment on March 6, 1971, Tempo has been and will always be committed to hard-hitting investigative journalism. For the public and the Republic.

Login Subscribe