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Sri Hartini-Director of Faith and Tradition, Ministry of Education and Culture
Maintaining the substance, reducing the superficial

Various traditional and cultural rituals in Indonesia can be quite expensive to carry out. Among the people of Toraja in South Sulawesi, for example, one traditional ceremony can cost billions of rupiah. Getting out of such rituals is not easy, although many communities around the country are determined to let go of certain traditional requirements that can often impoverish them, such as the villagers of Borokanda, at Ende Lio, Flores.

Director of Religion and Traditional Faith at the Education and Culture Minister, Sri Hartini, said that a simplification of rituals can be achieved through deliberations without reducing the substance of tradition. "Only the superficial aspect is simplified," she told Tempo English reporters Isma Savitri and Dahlia Rera in an interview, three weeks ago. Excerpts:

Outreach Tuesday, February 23, 2016 Edition

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto
Scholar, Activist and Bureaucrat

The year 2015 will go down as the year of consolidation, when President Joko Widodo must find his way through the intricate political web he inherited from the previous administration before he can actually begin the job of governing the nation. This is why to many observers, Indonesia seems to fit the description of 'a nation in waiting'. Just how long the waiting is expected to last is anyone's guess but it seems that one year is not enough. The uncertainty, Kuntoro Mangkusubrotoscholar, a former bureaucrat and activistsaid, is likely to carry into the next year when the government feels confident enough to settle down and do the serious job of governing.

Kuntoro has often been called 'a man for all seasons' for his rich and varied background as an academic, a cabinet minister, a successful administrator of billions of dollars worth of post-disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction program and, lately, as a government watchdog and campaigner for transparency and open government. It's no wonder he is much sought after for his views on a variety of issues and topics. We at Tempo English seek him out at every end of the year for his assessment of the state of the nation and his vision for the future. Last week, he shared his worldview with Yuli Ismartono and Amanda Siddharta. Excerpts:

On The Record Tuesday, December 29, 2015 Edition

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto:
I threw out the Aceh Master Plan

THE December 26, 2004, tsunami not only destroyed much of Aceh, it landed Kuntoro Mangkusubroto on the shores of Indonesia's westernmost province. Between 2005 and 2009, the Purwokerto-born graduate of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), took on the monumental job of heading the Aceh-Nias Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Board (BRR). "You only live once, why not take the chance," Kuntoro told Tempo, in an interview at the ITB School of Business and Management in South Jakarta, two weeks ago.

Under Kuntoro, BRR succeeded in building more than 140,000 new homes for victims of the tsunami, 1,000 health clinics, some 2,000 schools and 3,000 mosques. More than US$7 billion had been donated from governments around the world to the recovery process. The BRR programs is acknowledged as the most successful post-natural disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation program in the world.

Cover Story Tuesday, December 23, 2014 Edition

Non-subsidized life

IF Indonesia wants to avoid bankruptcy, the policy of subsidizing fuel must be ended. By the end of 2014, the funds used in subsidizing fuel is predicted to reach Rp285 trillion, almost a fifth of the amended 2014 State Budget, which is Rp1,6354.4 trillion. The rupiah, which has been weakening since 2011, has helped to contribute to the deficit.

Indonesia is no longer an oil-rich country. Our reserves are estimated to be a mere 3.7 billion barrels of oil, but the price of oil is now cheaper from oil-rich countries like Iraq, with oil reserves of 150 billion barrels. Since 2004, Indonesia has become an oil-importing country. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that by 2018, Indonesia will be importing US$63.5 billion-worth of oil.

Opinion Thursday, January 1, 1970 Edition

Mitsubishi to Produce MPVS Locally

Mitsubishi Motors announced plans to build a new automobile factory in Bekasi in May 2017. According to plan, the new factory will produce multi-purpose vehicles (MPV) with a production capacity of 160,000 units and will continue to develop until it reaches 240,000 units a year.

"We'll begin production in 2017 with a total investment of US$600 million (Rp7.2 trillion)," Mitsubishi CEO Osamu Masuko said at the Industry Ministry last week. He added that 20,000 of the Japanese corporation's total production in Indonesia will be exported to Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines. "The rest will be marketed in Indonesia," he said.

Economy Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Edition

Rojava

In that embattled territory, children were watching the Charlie Chaplin film, The Kid. They laughed uproariously. Their parents or older siblings were probably keeping watch on the border with their rifles cocked, but in Rojava, in the area of North Syria occupied by the Kurds, there was a pause in war, and people were building hope.

Who knows for how long?

Sidelines Tuesday, November 24, 2015 Edition

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