The Vicious Circle of Judicial Mafia
With the Supreme Court’s judicial mafia, when one branch is lopped off, another 10 grow in its place. It needs to be comprehensively cleaned up.
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With the Supreme Court’s judicial mafia, when one branch is lopped off, another 10 grow in its place. It needs to be comprehensively cleaned up.
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Victims of human trafficking for online gambling and scamming in Cambodia claimed of being forced to work 12-hour shifts and being beaten. Recruitment is still ongoing.
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Personal protective equipment corruption suspect, Budi Sylvana, denied inflicting up to Rp300 billion of losses to the state. He revealed the roles of other officials in the case.
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The PDI-P is preparing to replace Hasto Kristiyanto after he was questioned by the KPK in the Harun Masiku case. They are wary of the Palace’s interference.
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Communication and Informatics Minister Budi Arie Setiadi talks about the polemic over the planned revision of the Broadcasting Law and the Starlink Internet service.
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Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno assures that the tourism fee will not be imposed on plane tickets.
The Constitutional Court rejected lawsuits disputing the results of the 2024 presidential election. The option of disqualifying Gibran was discussed in a meeting of the judges.
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The government opens the option of switching energy subsidies for the free lunch program. This threatens poor households.
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THE doors at a sundries shop painted orange on Jalan Asir-Asir, Lut Tawar District, Central Aceh Regency were tightly closed. The owner of the shop-Mak Cak-has not appeared for two months. "Mak has returned to Medan," said Ati, 53, the shop's assistant.
Mak Cak, 60, returned to Medan after being publicly whipped with a rattan switch in the Central Aceh Arts & Sports Building in Takengon. The Takengon Sharia Tribunal found her guilty of storing and selling liquor (khamar), sentencing her to 30 lashes minus two lashes for the 47 days she was in jail.
AIDUL Fitriciada Azhari, 48, turned out to be the dark horse in the search for a chairman of the Judicial Commission. He was a last-minute entry after the House of Representatives' (DPR) law commission rejected two of the candidates, and he got the job. "I wasn't even under consideration so it was just pure chance," said Aidul at his Jakarta office last week.
He is now responsible for completing the work to be done by the commission, from reinforcing its legitimacy to ironing out relations with the Supreme Court and addressing the problem of judges' safety. "All this is to protect the integrity of the judiciary," he told Tempo reporters Tulus Wijanarko, Fransisco Rosarians and Raymundus Rikang.
On September 28, Tri Rismaharini must give up her job as mayor of Surabaya city to an acting mayor appointed by the East Java Governor Soekarwo. That will be the end of her term.
Her bid re-election did not go smoothly. It was not because she failed to lead and develop Surabaya. In fact she did them so well that she became very popular, scaring away other challengers. So far she and Whisnu Sakti Buana are the sole contenders.
Twenty-two year old college student Irene Kharisma Sukendar did it again. In early February, she was in the Russian capital of Moscow to compete at the 2015 Moscow Open Students Grand Master tournament. And she won.
Out of the nine rounds of chess tournaments she has played since January 31, Irene managed to garner 7.5 points (6 wins and 3 draws), beating out other students from Russia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Poland and Mongolia.
Surabaya has become beautiful and tidy. If the city still floods, the water takes only a night to recede. Traffic has improved. New parks and sidewalks have been developed.
For Surabaya Mayor Tri Rismaharini, 53, no matter how well a park is developed, if its footpaths are damaged and traffic congested, it will not be of any use. Therefore, architects like Risma, as she is known, need to think about a city's people, not merely its physical structures. "Surabaya is always in here," Risma said, pointing to her head during an interview last week.
For Azi Rianto, something was missing. The 26-year-old had been working in the information technology division at Medan State Polytechnic for three years. But he felt it was not his true calling. Music, especially the guitar, was his real love. "But my family wondered how I would make a living doing that. There is no future in it," Azi said. Medan's music scene left a lot to be desired. There were fewer bands than in Jakarta and other large cities. "My friends said that at best, musicians here end up becoming teachers if they want to earn money."
Azi received some clarity two years ago. He attended a free music class organized by Akademi Berbagi (the Sharing Academy). The speaker was Widi Asmoro, a practitioner in music and entertainment. Widi explained the ins and outs of the music industry and opened Azi's eyes. "I learned that music is not just about playing a musical instrument. There are many other people working behind the scenes," he said.
MAINTAINING that it was a big sacrifice, Mayor of Surabaya Tri Rismaharini finally closed down the legendary red light districts of Gang Dolly (Dolly Lane) and Jarak, located in the city's Putat Jaya district. The closure was executed symbolically, through a declaration signed by hundreds of approving citizens. Those who opposed the closure, took to the streets to protest.
Risma now admits that when she was first pressured into closing Dolly she actually refused. Her reasoning at the time was that the administration lacked the resources to provide the sex workers and their pimps the compensation in exchange for giving up their livelihood. But she agreed that the chain of prostitution in the city must be broken, particularly as it increasingly involved the trafficking of children. Saving the children became her main concern for closing down the area.
Kaharingan, a faith of Central Kalimantan, has long been lumped with Hinduism for bureaucratic purposes. Now its adherents are moving to break away.
Marzuki Alie and a number of Islamic scholars have been implicated in a scam allegedly committed by GTIS. The Indonesian Council of Ulama endorsed this business by giving it a sharia label.
Ever since high school, Saniah had always wanted to be a journalist. I want to see changes," said the 39-year-old activist, who was born and raised in the once strife-torn, resource-rich province of Aceh. She is one of nine siblings whose mother continues to push her cart daily, peddling fresh cuts of beef around her village, just outside of Lhokseumawe town. Lacking funds to go to university, Sania went to neighboring Malaysia as a migrant worker at 18, returning six years later to enroll for journalism classes, earning a degree in 2005. She plunged enthusiastically into a career mired in political challenges and full of social taboos, in Sharia-based Aceh.
Tired of working as a building contractor, Djuhhari Witjaksono turned to the craft of creating miniature ships. His work has won recognition from UNESCO.
Moderate Islamist Party Ennahda is ahead in Tunisia's election. The party promised not to impose sharia laws on a moderate Islamic society.
Sharia-based regulations in Dompu, West Nusa Tenggara, originally adopted for political reasons, are no longer strictly enforced.
A number of regions are competing to issue sharia-based regulations, although they may be political tools to amass funds and votes.
The area covered by Sharia is spreading wide. It is more effective on the lower layers of society but has little impact on the wealthy and the elite.
CVC Capital has taken over the majority shareholding in the Matahari Department Store from the Lippo Group. However, many doubt that the group really released one of its cash cows.
Dozens of people died over a charity handout. No coordination with police.
Fajar Taslim, said to be a pupil of Dr Azhari the bomb maker, was arrested after the Singapore government sent a red notice.
A well-known 'motivator' threw millions of rupiah out of an airplane. This is an insult disguised as charity.
Bhairawa, the frightening giant of a statue, is a centerpiece exhibit at the Jakarta National Museum, the spiritual symbol of King Adityawarman, ruler of the 14th century Kingdom of Dharmasraya in Sumatra.
Not much is known about Dharmasraya. It’s mentioned only in the inscriptions in Amoghapasa and Negarakertagama manuscripts. Dharmasraya is believed to have been a powerful kingdom, so much so that the Javanese Kingdom of Singasari sought its assistance to drive out Kublai Khan’s Mongol invaders.
Tempo’s Febriyanti recently traveled to Padang Roco on the bank of the Batanghari River, believed to be the site of the Kingdom of Dharmasraya and where the Bhairawa statue was found. Her report is complemented with an article on Ulrich Kozok, a German-born scholar who discovered an old manuscript that lifts a little of the mystery surrounding the existence of Dharmasraya.
Large banks are competing to enter the Shari’a banking business. However, the growth of assets is still low.
Companies are starting to make use of funds from the Shari’a capital market for expansion. But the value remains small.
A THOUSAND years ago, the Batanghari River brought globalization to all corners of Sumatra. Scores of ancient cultural sites were found along the rivers bank. Stretching as far as 7.5 kilometers, the Jambi estuary (Muara Jambi) is the largest. Seven hundred years later, some of the sites still lie buried underground and in the jungles, but seven sites of almost 70 temples have been restored. Tempo reporter Kurie Suditomo reports from the location.
As Sharia or Islamic Law becomes entrenched in Aceh, questions are being raised as to who benefits from it and what its impact is likely to be on the rest of Indonesia.
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His long hair was slightly wavy and graying. He wore a haj cap casually, slanting it to the right and then to the left. Despite his sloppy look, he was hospitable and courteous. His speech was now and again philosophical. This is Kiai Haji Maksum Djauhari, leader of Pesantren (Islamic boarding school) Lirboyo in Kediri, East Java. This elderly cleric of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), nicknamed Gus Maksum, is as eccentric in appearance as in the way he perceives current issues. Indeed this is the case with his attitude to the crisis within the National Awakening Party (PKB), which has now split into two: the Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) camp and the Matori Abdul Djalil camp.
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