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Aiko Kurasawa:
I'm The Target Of Japanese Rightwingers' Threats

To some conservative Japanese reactionaries, writer Aiko Kurasawa is unpatriotic because she wrote a book on the cruelty of the Japanese military in Javanese villages. She has been branded by some as a communist. Kurasawa's interest in Indonesia began a long time ago, when she first read about Sukarno, whom she regards as a hero of the Asia-African movement. Not surprisingly, when the 1965 events exploded, she was devastated upon reading about the resulting fall of Sukarno. "I was shocked," said Kurasawa, who was recently interviewed at her home in south Jakarta.

Literature Thursday, January 1, 1970 Edition

Mighty Majapahit

Regarded as the Golden Age of Indonesian history, the vast maritime empire of Majapahit reached its apogee in the 14th century. Though it thrived for only 300 years (late 13th century to early 16th century), Majapahit was Indonesia's greatest state, the last in a long line of Buddhist and Hindu Javanese kingdoms. Islam had ostensibly erased Indian cultural traditions by the 16th century, yet Buddhist-Hindu traces can still be seen in the rituals and architecture of the kraton courts of Bali and central Java, and innumerable motifs and styles of the earlier cultures are found everywhere in Indonesian art.

Books Thursday, January 1, 1970 Edition

Gustav F. Papanek, Economist:
"The only way to help the poor is to provide jobs"

For the second time this year, and against his doctor's advice, senior economist Gustav F. Papanek from Boston University returned to Indonesia. With a new government in place, this 87-year-old former advisor to the 'Berkeley Mafia'influential economists of the New Order erafelt the need to address a very urgent problem: The declining income of the poor, which as he noted "is immoral and also politically undesirable; therefore, it is important to take substantial steps to increase their income. The only way you can do that is by providing industrial jobs."

Although he was unable to meet President Joko Widodo, he managed to meet Sofyan Djalil, Economic Coordinating Minister; General Moeldoko, Armed Forces Chief; and ChatibBasri, former Finance Minister, and gave talks in three universities and Bank Mandiri as well as numerous interviews with the media. In a packed schedule, averaging two presentations a day, he found ways to push his ideas.

On The Record Thursday, January 1, 1970 Edition

Dato Sri Tahir, Chief Commissioner of Mayapada Group:
The best opportunities are still in Indonesia

The banking business is in a flux as a result of the war of interest rates among banks. But the owner of the Mayapada Group, Dato Sri Tahir, is optimistic that the banking sector in Indonesia will continue to grow. "Growth depends on situations and conditions," Tahir told Tempo, two weeks ago. Having travelled all over the world, Tahir concluded that the best investment opportunities are still found in Indonesia.

He believes that investment opportunities in Indonesia are still better and that includes the business prospects of his Mayapada Group. He told Tempo reporter Christine Munthe in an interview that he would never sell Mayapada for whatever price. Excerpts:

Economy Thursday, January 1, 1970 Edition

False Hopes from Harapan Baru

Lured by bombastic ads on local and national television, thousands of cancer patients have become victims of the Harapan Baru traditional Chinese clinics, particularly its branch in Medan, North Sumatra. Harapan Baru guarantees cures with its herbal treatment while infusing patients intravenously with chemotherapy, an illegal procedure given that the traditional healers are not licensed to practice modern medicine. Steroids about 200 times the strength of morphine are another 'magical' cure. This medical and ethical violation has been going on for years, yet the regulatory seem to turn a blind eye.

International Thursday, January 1, 1970 Edition

Erry Riyana Harjapamekas:
The TNI’s competence is not in doing business

There have been increasing demands to implement one of the key elements of the 1998 Reforms. Indeed, a number of things have been achieved, like cutting down the military’s political rights in parliament during the 2004 General Elections. Law No. 34/2004 on the TNI says the TNI businesses must be cleaned up. After the data collection team—implemented by Secretary of State-Owned Enterprises, Said Didu—verification will be carried out by the National Team on TNI Assets Takeover, led by Erry Riyana Harjapamekas.

National Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Edition

The Plunder of Ketapang

For years, a timber mafia worked in unison to plunder the forests of Ketapang, West Kalimantan. They consist of dealers, loggers, members of the Forestry Office, police officers, officials of the Forestry Department and authorities from the local regency government. The Joint Team of National Police Headquarters and the Forestry Department estimates that state losses amount to Rp32.4 trillion annually. This is equivalent to 26 times the 2008 regional budget for West Kalimantan province.

Three weeks ago, the Joint Team was able to dismantle the mafia’s timber network in Ketapang. Among those arrested were the head of the Ketapang Office of Forestry, the Chief of the Ketapang District Police, and a candidate for the office of regent. Tempo reports from Ketapang.

Cover Story Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Edition

Nahum Situmorang: The Forgotten Lapo Tuak Songwriter

VERY few people know of Nahum Situmorang (1908-1969). A dire lack of scholarly research and literature on the songwriter is one of the reasons. Yet Nahum Situmorang is a legendary song composer. In his lifetime, he wrote around 200 songs, most of which were composed at lapo tuak, or roadside palm wine drinking stalls. To this day in Medan, his songs are still being sung in roadside stalls, though not many know who wrote them. The most popularly performed Batak songs were written by someone who is now practically forgotten. In 1928, one of Nahum’s songs won second place in the competition to compose Indonesia’s national anthem. Alas, Nahum’s entry is now lost to the ages for not being filed and noted. To honor his achievements, a community of North Sumatran musician-artists celebrated Nahum Situmorang’s 110th anniversary at the Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Jakarta, in mid-February.

Album Monday, April 23, 2018 Edition

Constitutional Court Justice Saldi Isra: We Have to Restore Public Trust

Saldi Isra's life has changed drastically since April 11, the day President Joko Widodo appointed him as a Constitutional Court (MK) Justice. He had to move to Jakarta, give up his career as a lecturer of the Andalas University, Padang, which he held for the past 22 years, abstain from writing in the media and withdraw from many of his social circles. "It's been a 180-degree turn," Saldi said three weeks ago during a ride, as his car, a black Toyota Camry guided by a motorcycle escort, waded through Jakarta's notorious evening traffic.

Interview Tuesday, June 27, 2017 Edition

Above the Constitution is God

The plan of Constitutional Court Chief Justice Arief Hidayat, 61, to take some days off in his hometown of Semarang three weeks ago, was not to be. When he landed at Ahmad Yani Airport that Thursday morning, he was all set to go teach at the 17 Agustus 1945 University in the city. But a telephone call from Jakarta made him turn around and fly right back to Jakarta. But not before a journalist gave him the shock of his life, when he was asked to comment on a news report that the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) had arrested one of his judges.

That evening, back in Jakarta, Arief received confirmation that Patrialis Akbar, one of the Constitutional Court judges, had indeed been arrested. The charge against Patrialis was bribery involving a judicial review of Law No. 41/2014 on Livestock and Animal Health. Patrialis, who was justice and human rights minister from 2009 to 2011, was also accused of leaking the results of the judicial review, to Basuki Hariman, a beef trader who is suspected of bribing the judge. "Here we go again, another blunder," said Arief. This is the second time Arief has gone through such an incident. The first case involved Akil Mochtar, his predecessor, who was accused of accepting a bribe over a dispute on the results of the regional chief executives' elections in 2013.

Interview Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Edition

Patrialis Akbar, Constitutional Court Judge: This is a though Test

After he was questioned for 15 hours, Patrialis Akbar, a judge of the Constitutional Court, did not immediately return to his cell at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) detention facility. It was already 1:00am on Friday, last week. Wearing a vest given to detainees, Patrialis sat ruminating for some time, on the porch of the detention facility. He occasionally spoke to KPK officers escorting him from the interrogation room to his cell.

"This is a very tough test," said Patrialis, a justice and human rights minister during the presidency of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Linda Trianita from Tempo had a chance to ask Patrialis a few questions.

Cover Story Tuesday, January 31, 2017 Edition

Patrialis Akbar, Constitutional Court Judge: This is a though Test

After he was questioned for 15 hours, Patrialis Akbar, a judge of the Constitutional Court, did not immediately return to his cell at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) detention facility. It was already 1:00am on Friday, last week. Wearing a vest given to detainees, Patrialis sat ruminating for some time, on the porch of the detention facility. He occasionally spoke to KPK officers escorting him from the interrogation room to his cell.

"This is a very tough test," said Patrialis, a justice and human rights minister during the presidency of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Linda Trianita from Tempo had a chance to ask Patrialis a few questions.

Cover Story Tuesday, January 31, 2017 Edition

Said Aqil Siro, Nahdlatul Ulama Chairman
The NU will always follow the Constitution

Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Chairman Said Aqil Siroj was one of the first people President Joko Widodo reached out to following the November 4 mass demonstration. The President conveyed his gratitude to the chairman of the country's largest Islamic mass organization, for his calming statements during the protests against Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, for his allegedly blasphemous statements. In fact, just before the protests, the NU had indeed urged all of its memberstotaling more than 40 million peopleto help placate the tension by not being provoked.

In other words, Said and other NU leaders discouraged their members from joining the protests. "In Islam, there is no such thing as a demonstration," explained Said. However, he was critical of the government, saying it was slow in building communications with Islamic mass organizations. Said, 63, said the government should not communicate only when there are conflicts. "I am very happy to be approached and to have my existence acknowledged," Said commented. However, he regretted the President's statement that there were politicians who piggy-backed on the demonstrators during the November 4 protests, for their own particular purposes.

Interview Tuesday, November 15, 2016 Edition

Belitung-Style Tourism

IT was dusk, the right time for Saiful Alam to venture into the forest. The 36-year-old man is a tour guide in West Belitung, tasked with helping tourists find tarsius (tarsius bancanus saltator)-a small, beady-eyed primate that comes out at night.

Guided by a headlamp, on Wednesday two weeks ago, he led two students from the Bandung Institute of Technology into the protected forests of Gunung Tajam.

Outreach Tuesday, May 31, 2016 Edition

Sri Rahayu Research Coordinator, Center for Plant Conservation Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)
Regional parks have become strategies for conservation

Since it was created in 1817, the Bogor Botanical Garden has succeeded in conserving 60 percent of rare plant species, including endemic ones, 111 of which the International Union for the Conservation of Nature have classified as on the 'red list'. The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) is currently conducting a conservation program in four national botanical gardens. They are the gardens in Bogor and Cibodas in West Java, Purwodadi in Central Java, and in Bali. Lately, LIPI has set out to create more than 30 botanical gardens in the regions, among them in North Sumatra, South Sulawesi, West Kalimantan, Riau, and Papua.

According to Sri Rahayu, botanical gardens in the regions were established as an effort to cultivate endemic plants in their original habitat. This is important because some plants are difficult to grow outside of their habitat.

Outreach Tuesday, March 22, 2016 Edition

Dwi Susilaningsih Head of Infrastructure Research CenterBiotech Division, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
Renewable energy technology must reach the people

Indonesia is a vast archipelago with bountiful resources. This is the reason why Dwi Susilaningsih has spent more than 20 years researching marine microbes that can potentially be converted into energy. She lamented, however, that Indonesians were slow to take advantage of such sources as the sun, wind or sea currents as renewable energy sources. As of today, only five percent of the total energy produced in Indonesia is renewable.

"And those renewable energy sources are small scale," said Dwi, head of the Infrastructure Research Center at the Biotech Division of the Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI). Not surprisingly, she hopes the government will put more effort into producing energy from renewable resources, instead of from fossil fuels. This would be in line with the commitment made by more than 180 countries, including Indonesia, to reduce global emission after the UNFCCC-COP21 in Paris last year.

Outreach Tuesday, March 8, 2016 Edition

Substituting Rice

An Alternative to Rice

Women's groups in Bangka Regency produce and market a healthy rice substitute from cassava known as beras aruk. It is healthier than white rice and can even help those with diabetes control their blood sugar.

Outreach Tuesday, January 26, 2016 Edition

Sidney Jones Executive Director, Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict
Home-Grown Terrorism and ISIS Linkages

Last week's attack in the middle of Jakarta should be seen as a wakeup call for the authorities. We may have been lulled by the six-year hiatus of bombings that were a feature between 2000 and 2009. In reality, however, the signs were all there to see. The comings and goings of radical Islamic elements in and out of Syria, their increasingly assertive campaigns on social media and most recently the discovery of a plot to carry out attacks on Christmas and New Year. The fact that only two fatalities resulted from last week's terror attack should also not be a reason for complacence. Responding to written questions posed by Tempo English, Sidney Jones, executive director of the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict and longtime student of radical Islam in the region, believes that, "We could be in for a period of more intensive terrorist activity."

Cover Story Tuesday, January 19, 2016 Edition

A Constitutional Court indiscretion

Who knows what was in the mind of Constitutional Court Chief Justice Arief Hidayat when he asked the police to investigate allegations of falsification of signatures by advocates working in the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI). After all, the hearing to review the Police Law and the Road Transport and Public Transport Law that began two weeks ago was already underway.

It is unlikely that Arief would have misunderstood the police and the YLBHI were on opposite sides of the dispute. Asking the police to check the authenticity of signatures of the judicial review plaintiffs showed bias, something that should be far from the minds or the actions of fair-minded judges.

Opinion Tuesday, October 20, 2015 Edition

Spiritual Guidance

Gusti Raden Mas (Crown Prince) Dorodjatun had a lot in his mind when he heard the whispers. Late one afternoon in February 1940, while he was resting in Yogyakarta Palace Gedhong Jene (Yellow House), the prince's drowsiness overcame him and he nodded off. Half asleep, he grew conscious of a presence who delivered this wisik (spiritual inspiration) message: "Wis, thole, tekena wae. Landa bakal lunga saka bumi kene (Everything will be okay son, just sign. The Dutch will soon leave our land)."

Cover Story Monday, August 17, 2015 Edition

Yanto Santosa Conservation Expert, Faculty Of Forestry, Bogor Institute Of Agriculture
The People's Welfare Is An Indicator Of How Forests Are Preserved

ILLEGAL logging and forest fires have became daily news in Indonesia. It causes untold damage to the environment, and our forests continue to disappear. "There must be a drastic change of mindset to overcome this problem," said Yanto Santosa, a lecturer of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecotourism at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB). Yanto, who is a graduate of the Languedoc Science and Technical University in France, is also the initiator of unique ways to conduct forest conservation, which requires people's participation. His expertise has been used in a number of UN Development Fund projects on climate change. Tempo English reporter Amanda Siddharta interviewed him recently at IPB. Excerpts:

Outreach Tuesday, August 4, 2015 Edition

Yanto Santosa Conservation Expert, Faculty Of Forestry, Bogor Institute Of Agriculture
The People's Welfare Is An Indicator Of How Forests Are Preserved

ILLEGAL logging and forest fires have became daily news in Indonesia. It causes untold damage to the environment, and our forests continue to disappear. "There must be a drastic change of mindset to overcome this problem," said Yanto Santosa, a lecturer of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecotourism at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB). Yanto, who is a graduate of the Languedoc Science and Technical University in France, is also the initiator of unique ways to conduct forest conservation, which requires people's participation. His expertise has been used in a number of UN Development Fund projects on climate change. Tempo English reporter Amanda Siddharta interviewed him recently at IPB. Excerpts:

Outreach Friday, July 10, 2015 Edition

Roh Santoso Budi Waspodo Hydrologist, Bogor Institute of Agriculture
The government should map out all water sources

Clean and potable water do not come easily to Indonesians. So far, according to the Mineral and Natural Resources Ministry, only 68.9 percent of the population have access to clean water while only 20 percent get potable water. Given the government's inability to provide water supply, the poor are usually the worst off. "To meet basic needs, the government is able to provide the poor with rice, but with water? No such program exists," Roh Santoso Budi Waspodo, 52, who teaches hydrology at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture's Faculty of Civil Engineering and Environment told Tempo English.

Roh is quite familiar with problems relating to clean water supply. In the 2000s, he initiated a clean water project in Banten. He assisted the Public Works Ministry to supply potable water in coastal areas and small islands from 2004 to 2005. Besides teaching, one of his activities is to map out water sources for a private company. According to Roh, there are alternative ways to access clean and potable water. "We should not be dependent on the state-run water supply company," he urged. Contributor Lina Wulandari interviewed Roh two weeks ago.

Outreach Tuesday, April 21, 2015 Edition

Daniel Kaufmann, President, Natural Resource Governance Institute:
Good Governance Means The Rule Of Law Not The Rule Of Man Prevails

Measuring the social and economic development of a country has been done countless times, by means of various accepted formulas. But only in the last decade has the understanding of good governance as the key to effective development been seriously and intensively studied and researched. Based on 40 data sources, and produced by 30 organizations worldwide, since 2002, the Worldwide Governance Indicators have been applied to 200 countries to measure the country's level of governance. This has provided watchdog groups with the necessary tools to monitor policy and initiate reforms, which also helps to immeasurably assess perceptions of corruption among businesses, public officials and politicians. Much of the work can be attributed to Dr. Daniel Kaufmann when the studies were initially conducted at the World Bank Institute, where he worked. For the past two years, Kaufmann has headed the Natural Resources Governance Institute (NRGI), which pioneered the Resource Governance Index to measure the transparency levels of countries in managing their extractive industry. Kaufmann was in Indonesia recently to meet with public figures in government, the business community and members of the local civil society, and to be the keynote speaker at a panel discussion on 'The Impact of Low Oil Prices on Indonesia's Reform Agenda' which was co-organized by the NRGI and Tempo English magazine. He was recently interviewed by journalists Hermien Y Kleden, Sadika Hamid, Gusthida Budiartie dan Edward Stephens from the Tempo Media Group. Excerpts:

On The Record Thursday, January 1, 1970 Edition

Solitude

Power engulfs people with solitude, and sometimes curses them with loneliness. This can happen to leaders anywhere, but only one novel has managed to depict it: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's famous work.

Sidelines Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Edition

Sudradjat Coconut Expert, Bogor Institute Of Agriculture
If Our Economy Is To Be People-oriented, The Coconut Industry Must Be Better Developed

It has been 30 years since Sudradjat 'fell in love' with coconuts. The thesis and dissertation of this lecturer of Agronomy and Horiculture at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) were all about coconuts. He claimed to have been attracted to the philosophy of the cocounut tree-also known as 'the tree of life'. The coconut can grow anywhere and it has become, "the symbol of beauty in the tropics," said Sudradjat.

Outreach Thursday, January 1, 1970 Edition

Hamdan Zoelva, Constitutional Court Chief Justice:
This was our toughest case

FOR almost a year, Hamdan Zoelva has only managed to sleep five hours a day. As the chief justice of the Constitutional Court he has had to bear the consequences of his predecessor Akil Mochtar's actions. Last year Akil was arrested, tried and sentenced to jail by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). "Many people don't trust the Court anymore," said 52-year-old Hamdan.

Akil was guilty of accepting bribes from regional chief executives whose elections were in dispute. He was arrested in early October 2013, in the process of receiving money from Hambit Bintih, district chief of Gunung Emas. The case shook the Court. When Hamdan took over, public trust in the judiciary was at its lowest.

Cover Story Tuesday, August 26, 2014 Edition

Constitutional Court Chief Justice Hamdan Zoelva:
Election monitoring bodies are not competent

CONSTITUTIONAL Court Chief Justice Hamdan Zoelva turned red and his voice rose one decibel higher as he presided over the lawsuit submitted by the Jambi-based National Democrat Party. Two of the three witnesses had given conflicting information. When they were questioned further, they had no valid data. "It was very clear they were making it all up," Hamdan told Tempo.

The inaccurate testimony, according to Hamdan, was one among many problems in the court proceedings looking into disputes arising out of the recent legislative election. Some 700 cases submitted by political parties and legislative candidates were pending, with only three weeks to go before the deadline on June 30. "This week we will evaluate the cases so that a week before the deadline, all is in place."

Interview Thursday, January 1, 1970 Edition

Ancestor Ritual in Tanah Karo

The tradition of ritual-enacting to pay respects to their ancestor remains very much a part of the Tanah Karo people in North Sumatra province, as demonstrated by the ngampeken tulan-tulan ritualplacing the remains of an ancestor to a better placewhich took place three weeks ago at the Bintang Meriah village. This particular ceremony involved a procession to place the skull of King Senina Lingga of Tanah Karo, who died 400 years ago, in a special place, after the skull had been put in safekeeping elsewehere since 1946, when Tanah Karo experienced certain after-war turmoil. Three weeks ago, Tempo correspondent Soetana Monang Hasibuan witnessed this unique ritual.

Outreach Tuesday, July 2, 2013 Edition

Sri Soemantri: A Key Constitutional Player

The young Soemantri came from a remote spot in East Java to make history for himself in the middle of the last century. He was involved in the heated debates that took place in the Constitutional Assembly.

These days, as an intellectual, along with several colleagues he is still endeavoring to put the Constitution into order so that it can become the soul of the nation in coming centuries.

Speaking with Widiarsi Agustina from Tempo, he spoke about how different the political disagreements were during the era of the Constitutional Assembly compared with the current era of reform. Throughout the discussion with Tempo, not once did he have to refer to notes to recall dates or names. He is far from senile. “The secret lies in the three b’s: prayer (berzikir), thought (berpikir) and love (bercinta),” he said.

Memoar Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Edition

Ngaben: A Ritual Undergoes Reform

Today, the Balinese cremation ritual of ngaben need not be identified with geni (fire), nor should it cost millions of rupiah. Having been reformed to assume a more democratic character, it is now an affordable and festive event. A priest of the common people and one of the "upper class" can now jointly lead the ceremony. To find out more on how this democratic ngaben is performed, TEMPO reporter Seno Joko Suyono, assisted by correspondent Made Mustika, traveled last week to Pujungan village in Tabanan, Bali, where a mass ngaben took place. The following is his report:

Intermezzo Tuesday, February 19, 2002 Edition

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