In The Shadow of the Danantara Risk
Established to provide an opportunity to obtain loans, Danantara could sink Indonesia into a debt quagmire. Risk mitigation is key.
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Established to provide an opportunity to obtain loans, Danantara could sink Indonesia into a debt quagmire. Risk mitigation is key.
Prabowo Subianto is establishing BPI Danantara to manage state-owned enterprises. There are reportedly tug-of-wars and a number of obstacles in the process, including the obligation to revise laws.
The gemoy dance is quite popular among young people. The campaign team for Prabowo-Gibran brings together many influencers to gather support.
In the “jogetin aja” political campaign, all criticisms are swept under the dance floor. What human rights violations? Just dance it off. Ethics? Ethics your head.
Both banning and forcing schoolgirls to wear hijab are dangerous to the social system in Indonesia. This could strengthen identity politics.
Forcing economic growth in such volatile conditions is a dangerous policy. It is akin to driving a bus through a hailstorm. As long as it does not slow down immediately, the bus is at risk of crashing anytime.
Indonesian Village Administration Association Chair Arifin Abdul Majid expresses his concern about a village association national gathering during which the much-debated presidential term extension was promoted. He warns against the dangers of village officials getting involved in politics.
The “Jokowi three terms” movement is dangerous for our democracy. It must be stopped before it spreads.
There are problems with the entire management process for hazardous and toxic waste from hospitals in East Java. It is endangering public health.
IN connection with the letter from Mr Andreas I.W. on letter page last week titled Danamon and Unkept Promises, we have contacted the person concerned to provide an explanation. T
Danarto died the night of April 11, 2018, a few hours after he was hit by a motorbike in heavy traffic at south Tangerang, as he was walking.
Danarto wished to eliminate strict barriers between art forms and to create text that strained and pushed against itself, while functioning as a unit.
Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has issued some controversial decisions. This could endanger democracy.
Unlike her previous album, Singer Danilla Riyadi's new album Lintasan Waktu, or Across Time, is both gloomy and poignant.
Indonesia is home to 1.6 million children with special needs, according to the Ministry of Education and Culture's estimate. Many of these children are robbed of the chance to enjoy the full range of opportunities that should be available to them, both due to the lack of access to special needs education as well as the limited range of activities offered to them. These unfortunate conditions motivated a couple in Denpasar, Bali, to establish Sandi Muni Kumara, a dance studio dedicated for deaf children. In Mataram, the Chantiqa Dance Studio offers a class for children with disabilities. Tempo English reports in commemoration of National Children's Day, July 23.
The government has overreacted by issuing Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) No. 2/2017. This regulation, which allows for the banning of organizations seen as being at odds with the Pancasila state philosophy or the 1945 Constitution, endangers democracy. Many non-government organizations, not only the hardline Islamist Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), can become the potential target. Moreover, there was no need to issue this Perppu in the first place because the banning of organizations is already covered by Law No. 17/2013 on Mass Organizations.
Balabala, the second installment in Eko Supriyanto's Jailolo trilogy, recently premiered in Yokohama. The dance was also performed in Belgium and Germany this March.
THE first order Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto gave to his subordinates after he took office as Makassar's mayor in May 2014, may seem unconventional. Instead of sticking to the usual practice of asking the staff to translate campaign vision and mission statements into programs, the new mayor ordered all civil servants, including neighborhood and hamlet chiefs, to download WhatsApp on their mobile phones.
The mayor, who goes by 'Danny', was not the messaging app's brand ambassador. "I was only looking for a quick and effective communication channel," he explained.
Short-term populist economic policies are increasingly dominating the world. One is protectionism. In his first days in office, US President Donald Trump immediately pulled his country out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Trump also invited Mexico and Canada to meet and reassess the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Indeed, protectionism benefits firms that enjoy the protection. But in the long run, inefficiencies and hidden costs will emerge, and that will rot the economy from the inside out. This is the danger that has economists and analysts around the world wringing their hands.
THE first order Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto gave to his subordinates after he took office as Makassar's mayor in May 2014, may seem unconventional. Instead of sticking to the usual practice of asking the staff to translate campaign vision and mission statements into programs, the new mayor ordered all civil servants, including neighborhood and hamlet chiefs, to download WhatsApp on their mobile phones.
The mayor, who goes by 'Danny', was not the messaging app's brand ambassador. "I was only looking for a quick and effective communication channel," he explained.
Short-term populist economic policies are increasingly dominating the world. One is protectionism. In his first days in office, US President Donald Trump immediately pulled his country out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Trump also invited Mexico and Canada to meet and reassess the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Indeed, protectionism benefits firms that enjoy the protection. But in the long run, inefficiencies and hidden costs will emerge, and that will rot the economy from the inside out. This is the danger that has economists and analysts around the world wringing their hands.
The visit last week of Denmark's Queen Margarethe II and her husband Prince Henrik to Indonesia is one indication of improving relations between the two countries. Beyond the usual protocols were serious meetings and discussions between Indonesian government and private sector representatives with a Danish delegation 62 business people, the first of such in the 65 years of relations between the two countries.
"Relations between Indonesia and Denmark will change from a cooperation based on development assistance to a commercial or business-based cooperation," said Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen, who was part of the delegation.
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:
BENNY Moerdani asked Teddy Rusdy for a sheet of paper. On the paper he wrote: "Dear Pak Yoga, from now on, the show is mine!-LBM". The intelligence deputy chief for defense and security then asked Teddy, a Defense Ministry (Hankam) Intelligence Staff Officer Assistant VII, to take this message to General Yoga Soegomo, chief of the intelligence coordination agency, at the crisis control center, 400 meters from the DC-10 Sumatra aircraft. It was then the very early hours of Tuesday, March 31, 33 years ago.
The DC-10 Sumatra served as the flying headquarters for Benny Moerdani and the 24 personnel of the Sandi Yudha Force (Kopassandha) command, led by Lt. Col. Sintong Panjaitan. They were getting ready to take back the Woyla DC-9 airplane which, on March 28 had been hijacked to Bangkok's Don Muang Airport, 12 minutes after taking off from Palembang.
On Friday, May 23, at the pendopo (pavilion) of Tejokusuman, Yogyakarta, I witnessed an important event: the reconstruction and documentation of the dance Srimpi Ronggojanur created by Sultan Hamengkubuwono VIII (1921-1939). This was part of a program put on by Taman Budaya Yogyakarta in conjunction with well-known dance association Krida Beksa Wirama.
At 7:20pm, the gamelan (traditional musical ensemble) musicians, dressed in maroon Yogya-style jackets, batik headcloths with a black background and wrapped batik sarung, took their places behind the instruments. Soon after that, the female singers followed, dressed in kebaya (traditional blouses) of the same maroon color and wrapped in long batik skirts and with their hair wound up in buns. At precisely 7:30pm, the gamelan began to play, greeting the guests. "The performance will take more than one hour," said the emcee, who politely asked that the audience turn off all electronic gadgets. Any noise disturbance would force the presenters to repeat the entire dance from the beginning.
AT 5am on Sunday, May 18, choreographer Retno Maruti called me, conveying the sad news of the passing away of ballerina Farida Oetoyo.
Born in Solo, Central Java, on July 7, 1939, Farida studied ballet at the age of eight at the Fine Arts of Movement Studio in Singapore. From 1950 to 1954 she studied at the Royal Academy of Dance in Australia where she gave her first performance at the Albert Hall in Canberra.
Nuri Muliana improved the services of seven village health posts in Dangiang, North Lombok. Also serving as an information center, the health posts is now a place where residents exchange news and ideas.
When the 2014 National Education and Culture convention was held at the start of this month, one of the priority topics of discussion was the need to conserve traditional culture. To be more specific, to preserve the dances representing the wealth of our diverse arts and traditions sadly being neglected by the younger generation. An effort is now underway to financially support and sustain traditional dance studios all over the archipelago to make it more attractive for youths. Tempo English reports on the revival of these studios in Sumbawa, West Sumatra and Central Kalimantan.
The East Java city of Lumajang is looking to patent its unique dancing horse attraction. The price of horses has soared to ridiculous levels.
For the past two decades, tarling dangdut music has been a popular entertainment on the north shores of West Java, especially in Cirebon and Indramayu. This form of music, which merges tarling (guitar and flute), the traditional music of Cirebon, with dangdut music, is known as the public entertainment of choice when harvest season arrives, or during the major months, from May to July.The rise of tarling dangdut, synonymous with its sensual dance moves, has led to the emergence of a number of local superstars with thousands of devoted fans. Shows of this type have further brought about the establishment of hundreds of new tarling groups. Tempo looked into this music phenomenon currently raging in PanturaJava's north coastincluding mystical backstage tales.
The Indonesian Dance Festival in Jakarta treats audiences to a week of performances.
Despite a shortage of funds, dance workshops in Kalimantan are attracting young people to join in the effort to save the Dayak dance.
The Saman Dance of the Gayo people, in danger of extinction, has gained its rightful place on the World Heritage List.
Daniel Sinambela, the former business associate of top graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin, is sentenced to jail. Prosecutors however had failed to present Yulianis, a crucial witness in the case who happened to be the bookkeeper and right-hand person of Nazaruddin, the former Democrat Party treasurer.
Mirotos new work is based on the lives of several dancers. He employs an approach using movements previously not thought of.
The broadcasts of TPI are no longer educational, as the television station’s name would suggest. It is now seen more as a channel for dangdut music.
Red birds of paradise are only found on Raja Ampat, West Papua. Their existence is protected by the international conservation union and they are on the list of endangered birds.
The pattern of dormitory school education in Papua produces a series of quality schools for poor, neglected, or uncared-for children. It is developed under the “lucky hands” of Daniel Alexander, who started the model 15 years ago.
Competent, inflexible, and nonpartisan, Daniel can eliminate conflict of interest in this department.
Traditional Sundanese cuisine awaits the discerning diner at Lumbung Padi, a recently opened Jakarta restaurant.
HE came from an upper middle-class family, part of the government bureaucracy in Solo. Towards the end of the 1950s he joined the air force and began a career that later went badly wrong. It was the G30S affair that destroyed Air Commodore Omar Dani’s career. He was accused of being involved in the Indonesian Communist Party rebellion and thereafter was to spend a third of his life as a political prisoner. Tempo recently interviewed Omar who is now 85 years old after he survived a critical bout of Hepatitis C. He recounted to Tempo the events of the September 30 affair and his relationship with Suharto.
AS he promised to do when he was sworn in as National Police Chief five months ago, Police General Bambang Hendarso Danuri continues to restructure his personnel. Problems of illegal logging, gambling, illegal fishing, narcotics and disruptive activities have been his top priority.
He is not just targeting the low-level officers; everyone seems to be given his ‘once-over’ assessment. “It is all to build public trust,” he explained. In line with the Police Force’s strategic plan, raising the people’s trust must be accelerated so the target of a 2010 completion date can be achieved.
The Mangkunegaran mourning dance is reborn after a century ‘in the wilderness’.
PORNOGRAPHY LAW
Dangers in the Name of Porn
The Law on Pornography was finally ratified. The dangers of taking the law into one’s own hands still exist.
Whirling dervishes performing the samaa’ or Sufi dancing, as introduced by Rumi, are becoming increasingly popular. It is the dance of those who have succeeded in abandoning their egos.
The incident happened despite the presence of thousands of army and police units assigned to protect President Yudhoyono. Unofficial cakalele dancers approached the President and almost unfurled the outlawed RMS flag. The authorities are now blaming each other. In Los Angeles, RMS President Alexander H. Manuputty claimed the action had long been planned by his followers. “That is the political right of the Maluku people.”
Security for the President’s visit took two months to prepare, but the cakalele dancers turned out to be smarter.
HE is known as Pangeran Samber Nyawa. He is Mangkunegara I, founder of the Magkunegaran dynasty. In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the dynasty Pura Mangkunegafan has reconstructed Bedhaya Dirodo Meto, a dance of his creation.
Here is a classical court dance that has not been performed for over the past 200 years. Little records are available on the choreography and musical accompaniment of the dance.
How did Pura Mangkunegaran reconstruct Bedhaya Dirodo Meto, the Raging Elephants? What is its significance as an identity of Pura Mangkunegaran? Tempo looks into the rediscovery of the long-lost dance.
Another Art Suku (Tribal Art) festival has been held, an effort to present the dances of hinterland communities threatened with extinction.
Due diligence on Bank Danamon revealed that its owner, Usman Admadjaja, had cleaned out the bank's coffers.
Investigation continues into an archeological find on Tantrayana in Sumatra. TEMPO is tracing the excavation at Tanjung Medan site, West Sumatra.
Asia Finance Indonesia won the tender of the sale of the 51 percent stake in Bank Danamon without any real opposition.
The "drilling" dancer Inul Daratista has attracted support from many people. Now she has become a symbol of the oppressed.
The share prices of Bank Danamon have fallen since the government announced its plans to sell its stake. What needs to be done?
Dangdut singer Inul Daratista is censured for her eroticism, leading to calls for a ban on her performances.
Several investors have been reminded that Usman Admadjaja may make a return to Bank Danamon. Is this a repeat of the Farindo fracas?
This is the golden age of dangdut music. Young singers have shot to fame and fortune in record time.
For a dance maestro, the most important thing is perbawa or taksu. It’s an aura, a magical light, which announces to the world that he’s a dancer. Once on stage, even without any movement whatsoever, the audience would know and say: here’s a maestro. Of course, it isn’t easy to attain so prestigious a perbawa. It needs extreme patience and hard work. Tarwo Sumosutragio, for instance, had to go through a prihatin mood, including a puasa ngrowot, to attain perbawa. During this fasting period, she survived only on fruit and ketela roots.
What of the other maestros? Following are excerpts of interviews TEMPO recently had with some of the maestros of different traditional backgrounds:
Alone on the stage, spotlighted in the darkness, pulling at the air, caressing the soul. A dancer’s entire body is tested when he performs a solo dance. On the empty stage, also at stake are the dancer’s techniques, spatial imagination, and ideas. For the first time ever, the Teater Utan Kayu held a Solo Dance Festival as part of the Indonesian Dance Festival 2002. Do our modern solo dancers draw inspiration from tradition? What is the difference in body management between the modern and traditional solo dancer? Follow TEMPO’s report and meet a variety of gurus in their twilight years, who continue to earn a living through traditional solo dancing.
Arts & Culture Thursday, January 1, 1970 Edition
One of the sources of esthetic inspiration for Henri Cartier-Bresson is Retna Mohini, a Javanese dancer and his first wife.
Ever since President Megawati Sukarnoputri's dance with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Indonesia's hope of winning a LNG contract worth US$10 billion has increased.
Ahead of the Chinese New Year some weeks ago, Chinese culture suddenly became an attractive and saleable commodity. Television stations competed with each other for ratings by featuring programs with Chinese themes. Quality was of secondary concern. But more important, was the realization of a true Chinese New Year celebration. A new film, Ca Bau Kan, adapted from Remy Sylado's novel, which discusses aspects of Chinese culture, was also part of this momentum. A festive atmosphere was to be found in every shopping center, where Gong Xi Fa Cai (Happy Chinese New Year) banners and lion dance performances were prominently on display. The climate of exhilerating openness initiated by Abdurrahman Wahid's presidency can be considered a chief contributing factor to this development. Unfortunately, after 30 years in the shackles, artistic expression amongst ethnic Chinese Indonesians may have been stunted. The wayang potehi, or Chinese hand-puppetry, seems to be facing extinction. Join us in a TEMPO special on the arts and culture of China that are once again shining in Indonesia.
An Indian 'kathak' instructor offers students not only dance instruction, but also some insights into the seldom-discussed artistic styles that derive from Islam.
Danareksa is threatened with closure as a result of its debt mountain. What are the chances of saving it?
An Indian 'kathak' instructor offers students not only dance instruction, but also some insights into the seldom-discussed artistic styles that derive from Islam.
Two choreographers recently took to the stage in Jakarta. Different in terms of setting and story, both productions are derived from the country’s wealth of traditional dance.
Omar Dani's Plea offers up a new fact regarding Bung Karno's presence at the Halim Perdana Kusuma air base. It's another piece of information from an actor with a role in history, muzzled for 30 years.
Who is Daniel? Well, actually there are two. One Daniel is a respected attorney, while the second is just the opposite. The latter is notorious for his ability to influence the outcome of prominent court cases. Furthermore, recent allegations point to the involvement of a Supreme Court chairman with Daniel number two—the court case "fixer".
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