Recurring Conflict in National Strategic Projects
Another bloody clash occurred on Rempang Island. The embers of conflict failed to be extinguished in national strategic projects.
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Another bloody clash occurred on Rempang Island. The embers of conflict failed to be extinguished in national strategic projects.
PGN’s gas supply for industrial customers fell sharply this year, resulting from poor management of the energy and gas business.
To the detriment of the public at large, the House of Representatives’ Ethics Council is becoming a tool to silence critics in Senayan.
Jokowi and Hasto Kristiyanto are bluffing one another over the Harun Masiku case, resorting to cowardly means to win.
The House of Representatives’ Ethics Council is examining several critical House members. The verification process of the reports appears questionable.
The government is pushing forward with the Rempang Eco-City National Strategic Project despite opposition from local residents. The development is reportedly sidelining indigenous communities.
The KPK claims that designating Hasto Kristiyanto as a suspect in a corruption case is not politically motivated. The charges are based on new evidence.
Hasto Kristiyanto maintains that there are political motives behind the bribery case he is currently embroiled in. These motives may be aimed at shaking the PDI-P.
Xanh SM, a Vietnamese taxi operator, is aggressively expanding in Indonesia. It is linked with an electric vehicle manufacturer.
Hasto Kristiyanto prepared several videos and documents detailing alleged corruption cases involving Jokowi and his close associates. The PDI-P also organized various countermeasures, including lobbying the Chief of Police.
Three days after taking office, the new leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission immediately named PDI-P Secretary-General, Hasto Kristiyanto, as a suspect. There is speculation that the new KPK leadership received support from Senayan.
Primary and Secondary Education Minister Abdul Mu’ti on the school zoning system as well as the importance of evaluating the learning system.
Industrial players struggle to find alternatives to increasingly expensive gas. The only options are to reduce production levels or raise prices.
The gas supply from the Corridor Block pipeline plummets. Gas-using industries in Java and Sumatra face rising costs.
Uncertainty in the government’s policy on VAT increases risks in Indonesia’s financial markets. It could erode investor confidence.
A human who has never met another human can still have morality. It already exists within the human mind.
Readers’ letters on the diploma of Jokowi and Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the New Order-style regional elections, and work termination in the industrial sector.
Cartoon: Yuyun Nurrachman
Tempo’s People of the Year 2024 are those who managed to mobilize the public to make a move. Instead of individuals, they are movements or groups, not only in Jakarta but also in the regions.
Corruption under the guise of social programs at the Bank of Indonesia has been exposed again. It is time to eliminate the source of repeated scrounging.
Actor Fedi Nuril talks about his activism in protest of the democratic decline, and the leadership of Jokowi and Prabowo.
Women in various villages are fighting against mining and nickel downstreaming. Some have been criminalized while others have suffered losses.
Cartoon: Yuyun Nurrachman
The collapse of several peer-to-peer lending fintech companies has brought much concern to individual investors. They were late in anticipating the huge risks involved.
Despite various pressures, civil society movements provided much hope in 2024. They need to be more solid and strategically directed.
The new government's foreign policy has no direction. It is made worse by cabinet ministers with minimal experience.
President Prabowo Subianto has repatriated foreign prisoners, Mary Jane and members of the Bali Nine. There were special requests.
The people of the Marind-Anim traditional community are against a food estate project to create rice fields and sugar cane plantations in Merauke. They are speaking out in Papua and Jakarta.
University lecturers mobilized to criticize the Jokowi regime. They became restless after the infamous Constitutional Court ruling.
The Thursday Action has been held every week for 17 years. Starting as a silent protest action, it has now become a solidarity movement.
The late Faisal Basri, Sigit Riyanto, and Hariadi Kartodihardjo were three academics who always upheld academic integrity.
Dirty Vote exposes President Jokowi and state institutions’ dirty tricks in the 2024 general elections. The film’s resource persons received intimidation.
The government is projecting to build a nuclear power plant. A reader suggests the plan needs to be thoroughly prepared.
The rate of youth unemployment has potential to soar. Job creation needs to be a priority.
Student protests on August 22, 2024, managed to put a stop to Jokowi and his family’s maneuvering. The protests were spontaneous yet effective.
Abdur Arsyad and Bintang Emon joined the August 22, 2024 protests, while Fedi Nuril continues to post his criticisms on social media. What moves them?
Why do we celebrate a new year? What really is new?
The government reduced the price of plane tickets in the run up to Christmas and the New Year. Many components of these high prices need to be re-examined.
The Batanghari River is becoming increasingly polluted from illegal mining. This is a result of corruption and policies that ignore the environmental carrying capacity.
The potential for conflicts of interest is overshadowing the new leadership of the KPK. The process is prone to external intervention.
Prabowo Subianto wants regional heads to be once again selected by Regional Legislative Councils. This would weaken democracy and deprive the people of a voice.
A number of regional head candidates spent billions of rupiah in the 2024 elections. The elections were rife with money politics.
Efforts to return the election of regional heads to the DPRD emerge under every administration. Direct elections are considered more democratic.
Prabowo Subianto wants to have direct regional head elections be conducted through regional legislative councils. His supporters are maneuvering to push the plan through.
Supratman Andi Agtas explains President Prabowo’s idea to hold indirect regional elections or Pilkada.
Illegal mining exacerbates the critical condition of the upstream Batanghari River Basin Area (DAS). The fraudulent practices involve many actors.
The unemployment rate among Generation Z tends to be high. They are considered less resilient, but possess great potential.
The government lowers air ticket prices during the Christmas and New Year period. State-owned enterprises sacrifice, but the root causes remain untouched.
KPK’s new chief, Setyo Budiyanto, is confident in tackling investigation and prosecution challenges and determined to unite all staff under his leadership.
Doubts arise over the track records of the 2024-2029 KPK leaders. Some were implicated in gratuity cases.
Cartoon: Yuyun Nurrachman
The coming year, 2025, poses significant risks to Indonesia. The government and Bank Indonesia are exacerbating the situation by adopting the risky policy of debt monetization.
Agung Sedayu Group’s right of reply regarding the interview with Aguan, and letter on the free lunch program.
Radical evil holds the view that evil only exists outside of us. This closes off the possibility that evil could be within us.
The Prabowo administration has ambitions to start building a nuclear power plant next year. There are many aspects still open to question.
The Sahbirin Noor corruption case once again exposes conflict of interest within the KPK. It shows how outside forces continue to pull strings.
Prabowo Subianto refused a demand from the Ridwan Kamil-Suswono pair to challenge the Jakarta gubernatorial election results. Signs of divergence with Jokowi.
The JETP program failed to proceed in line with the plan because only a small amount of the assistance funds were disbursed. Indonesia actually increased the number of coal-fired power stations.
Pramono Anung’s political career is quite impressive. He chose to remain neutral during Jokowi’s conflict with the PDI-P.
President Prabowo Subianto ordered Ridwan Kamil and Suswono to cancel their planned lawsuit regarding the Jakarta gubernatorial election results at the Constitutional Court, contrary to Jokowi’s wishes for a two-round Jakarta election.
The plan to retire the Cirebon 1 PLTU early is stalled. PLN is requesting an assignment scheme to avoid accusations of causing state losses.
Cartoon: Imam Yunni
The funding needed for energy transition is difficult to fulfill. The JETP scheme is stalled, and alternative funding remains elusive.
The JETP energy transition program is at a standstill. Captive power plants hinder the preparation of investment plan documents.
The KPK claimed to have obtained hundreds of evidence in Sahbirin Noor’s bribery case. Still waiting for investigators to formulate the case.
Two directors at the KPK are suspected of obstructing the designation of Sahbirin Noor as a suspect. Investigators already reported this to the commission’s leadership.
Housing and Settlement Minister Maruarar Sirait on the three million homes project, and his relationships with Jokowi and Prabowo.
Hashim Djojohadikusumo, head of the Indonesian delegation at COP29, revealed that Indonesia wants to develop nuclear energy. Are we ready?
The government is considered hasty in building the first nuclear power plant. Everything is imported, from technology, expert personnel, to fuel.
The trade war between the US and China is poised to create significant challenges for the global economy. However, the Indonesian government appears indifferent.
The legal division of Agung Sedayu Group replies regarding Aguan’s interview over the IKN.
Asian writers no longer explore grand themes such as war and peace, man’s fate, or this earth of mankind. Is this noticeable shift an allegory of social change?
The government amended the beef import regulations in order to smooth the way for the free nutritious meal program. This will have a negative effect on the management of the livestock sector.
The investigation into the killings of a father and a grandmother by a 14-year-old boy must uncover the real cause. The child should be treated as a victim.
Prabowo continued Jokowi’s methods of bringing about victory for favored candidates. This damages state institutions.
Development through the model of national strategic projects is a source of conflict and violations of human rights. One of the causes is excessive favorable treatment in the implementation of projects.
Indonesia still lags behind other countries that already implemented free school lunch programs.
A former subordinate of President Prabowo won the regional head election in North Sulawesi. There are suspicions that the police and military helped ensure his victory.
The psychologist’s take on the murder of a father and a grandmother. The perpetrator is only 14 years old.
A 14-year-old student, who killed his father and grandmother, is suspected of experiencing academic pressure from his parents and sleep deprivation.
The government will issue regulations requiring the industry to purchase local milk. There are issues with quality and unscrupulous actors.
The government is involving cooperatives and private companies in the free nutritious meal program, which they hope will bring additional capital.
The government asks businesses to assist in importing cattle for the free nutritious meal project, with import recommendation issuance becoming the leverage.
Agung Sedayu Group Chief Sugianto Kusuma alias Aguan talks about Nusantara Capital City, the national strategic projects and oligarchy.
Aguan is involved in various government flagship projects. He started out in the import business.
Aguan participates in the construction of three million affordable homes, amid suspicions of receiving project rewards from the government.
There are various problems at Pantai Indah Kapuk 2 and the strategic mangrove forest tourism project. Aguan claims no one is at a disadvantage.
Under Aguan, a group of conglomerates pooled funds to develop the new capital city in a bid to attract foreign investors.
The government’s economic policies fail to inspire investor confidence, leading to a turbulent time in the market ahead
Mythical symbols of religion, like stains or sins, can open the mind to the possibility of human fallibility and wickedness.
Cartoon: Yuyun Nurrachman
Reader’s letters from a non-formal teacher, locally known as a guru sertifikasi (certified teacher), who complains about not receiving allowance. Other readers raise concerns about the role of civil society and the CIA’s alleged involvement in a secret mission behind the failed coup attempt by Indonesian communists, known as the G-30-S PKI movement.
A total of 117 lakes in West Java and Banten are shrinking, or even disappearing. These national assets should not be forgotten.
The problem of overcrowding in jails has never been resolved. The law enforcement authorities need to put forward alternatives to punishment.
Pramono Anung is leading in the Jakarta gubernatorial election. This is a form of resistance to intervention from the national leadership.
The government is increasing the 2025 provincial minimum wage. This ignores national economic conditions.
Immigration and Penitentiary Affairs Minister Agus Andrianto on the issues ranging from the inmate escapes from Salemba Detention Center to Mary Jane’s repatriation.
The Salemba Detention Center guards are suspected of negligence in the case of seven inmates escaping. It is alleged that someone supplied tools to the escapees.
Summary of events of the week, from the People’s Tribunal trying Jokowi to the nine years sentence for former Pertamina CEO Karen Agustiawan.
The DPR and the government will shortly pass the omnibus Health Bill. They want to repeat the process used for the passing of the Job Creation Law.
Through people close to him, Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo allegedly received tributes to fund his personal needs.
Bulog is suspected of handing over imported buffalo meat distribution to Suri Nusantara Jaya. The agriculture ministry took action to block the monopoly.
The omnibus health bill allegedly was entrusted to the DPR by the government. It would give health ministry great authority.
Rationalization of the healthcare omnibus bill by Health Minister Budi Gunadi and Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) Chair Adib Khumaidi
The government issued a job creation omnibus regulation in lieu of law (perpu) ignoring a Constitutional Court ruling. This is proof of the increasing signs of autocratic legalism.
The PPSK Law was passed with relatively fast deliberations. This financial omnibus law unifies 17 laws, changing the gameplay of many financial services institutions and businesses.
Indonesia is on the list of countries with risky pension systems. There is a sufficient gap between the contributions paid and pension income received by retired civil servants. The government will soon issue regulations on reforming pension schemes.
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The National Zakat Agency (Baznas) encourages digital transformation as a strategy to strengthen the performance of alms management. However, Baznas CEO Mohamad Arifin Purwakananta views that the digitalization that has been seriously developed since 2016 has not really been evenly distributed.
Deliberations on the Omnibus Bill is continuing in the midst of a recess period and at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Golkar Party is giving its full support.
The central and regional governments have begun distributing social aid for those impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. But the disordered database of recipients has resulted in improper aid distribution. Losses may be suffered by the state.
The omnibus bill on job creation will be discussed in the Legislation Body. It could share the same fate as in the revision to the KPK Law.
Preventing public participation in the drawing up of the omnibus law is anti-democratic. There is no reason to continue with this unrealistic project.
Numerous dissemination efforts seem unable to prevent demonstrations planned by labor unions to protest the omnibus bill. New problems appear to arise outside of the official draft content.
Yopie Hidayat (Contributor)
The government plans to turn in a draft of the Omnibus Law to the House of Representatives (DPR) this month.
The deliberations of omnibus laws that are taking place behind closed doors are causing suspicion. The government and the DPR must involve the public.
THE House of Representatives (DPR) has finished designating leaders of its agencies for the period of 2019-2024. The decision on the leadership distribution was made at a plenary meeting of the DPR on Tuesday, October 22.
The development of the Batang Toru hydro power plant in South Tapanuli, North Sumatra, is partly due to the Pasaribu family. Permit processing went smoothly thanks to the Pasaribu brothers.
Lebanon acknowledges Indonesia’s contribution to maintaining world peace, particularly by placing its Garuda Contingent in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
The Afghanistan High Peace Council expects Indonesia’s contribution to establishing peace in their country.
THE International Peoples' Tribunal, held in Nieuwe Kerk, the Netherlands, two weeks ago to address human rights violations committed in Indonesia during the violent events of 1965-1966 might have been nonbinding. It did, however, help bring some of the atrocities committed 50 years ago out of the shadows and into the light.
Several witnesses told stories of being tortured for supposed links to the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). Some said the abuses were even ordered by members of the armed forces.
The national film industry lacks players in the distribution sector. Producers must often double as marketers.
Supreme Court Secretary Nurhadi claims he often resorts to using personal funds to cover work-related expenses. The source of his wealth and the motives for his contributions are under question.
There is strong suspicion that fertilizer subsidies valued at trillions of rupiah have long been misused. The Regional Information and Analysis Center found violations in seven out of 10 towns studied last year. Consequently, poor farmers may not have benefitted by the prices of fertilizers as determined by the governmentvictims of a fertilizer distribution system lacking transparency and difficult to access.The head of the Model Farmers and Fishermen's Association Winarno Tohir and Gunaryo, director-general of Domestic Trade at the Trade Ministry, exposed the chaotic distribution of rice fertilizers to Tempo reporters Akbar Tri Kurniawan, Eka Utami Aprilia and Y. Tomy Aryanto.
A number of ministries have announced they will follow the example of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and undergo restructuring. Is this an effort to distribute the locus of decision-making?
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