No Peace In Harjokuncaran
For over 30 years, there has been no end to a raging land dispute between villagers of Harjokuncaran in Malang and the Indonesian Army (TNI). Three hamlets in that village have disappeared.
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For over 30 years, there has been no end to a raging land dispute between villagers of Harjokuncaran in Malang and the Indonesian Army (TNI). Three hamlets in that village have disappeared.
The number of people suspected of protecting online gambling sites increases to 18. Employees of the Communication and Digital Affairs Ministry are involved.
The Communication and Digital Affairs Ministry is tidying up house now that 10 of its employees are accused of participating in online gambling. Their flow of cash is being scrutinized.
One of the suspects of the online gambling case is a regular in the ministers’ social circles, and active in the arts scene.
Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology Satryo Soemantri Brodjonegoro explains BRIN’s position in the Prabowo government.
The position of BRIN remains uncertain under Prabowo Subianto’s administration. The restructuring of the research agency is hampered by political interests.
Danantara will reduce the authority of the SOEs Minister. Transferring the management of major SOEs will make the Ministry almost powerless.
Interviews with Industry Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita and Sritex President Commissioner Iwan Setiawan Lukminto on the company’s bailout.
The term “Medan Block” emerged during the trial of former North Maluku Governor, Abdul Gani Kasuba. Medan Block is believed to refer to pre-allocated nickel mining concessions in Halmahera.
Sri Mulyani and several economic ministers from Jokowi join Prabowo’s cabinet, with encouragement from two former presidents.
Indonesia’s delegation at COP16 CBD in Cali, Colombia, is not led by a minister. Biodiversity funding is at risk of not being agreed upon.
A number of policies from Minister Sakti Wahyu Trenggono are riddled with conflicts of interest. They benefit his son, Indra Trenggono.
Explanations from State Secretary Minister Pratikno and Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry on fishery business and the case of illegal ships in eastern Indonesia.
Minister Sakti Wahyu Trenggono revives a shutdown port. There is indication that the minister’s son is involved in the fisheries business.
Tempo’s interview with Minister of Communication and Informatics Budi Arie Setiadi about Jokowi’s campaign before the end of his tenure.
Jokowi’s campaign promoting his successes is considered as not portraying actual conditions. Customary communities are among the victims of his administration.
Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan on the issues ranging from sea sand export policy to Prabowo Subianto’s bureaucratic management style.
There is a strong aroma of politics around the appointment of Saifullah Yusuf as Minister for Social Affairs. President Jokowi should focus on dealing with the problems of poverty.
Just months before the end of his term, Jokowi appointed Bahlil Lahadalia as Energy and Mineral Resources Minister. The position is considered prone to conflicts of interest.
Minister of Manpower Ida Fauziyah explains the issues surrounding the mass layoffs in the industrial sector.
The willingness on the part of Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama to accept mining concessions will turn into a problem. This is prone to corruption and could lead to horizontal conflicts.
Muhammadiyah accepts the government’s mining concession offer. Many members are against it. Busyro Muqoddas, Chair of Muhammadiyah’s Law and Human Rights Council explains.
Muhammadiyah cadres and administrators are divided in their response to the mining concession. There are whispers from the government and the entrepreneurs.
The Papua conflict continues to rage during Jokowi’s administration. The fate of the refugees is neglected.
In a decade of Jokowi’s administration, deforestation reached 4.37 million hectares. This is partly attributed to national strategic projects in the food and energy sectors.
The DPR and the Religious Affairs Minister disagree regarding an additional quota of haj pilgrims. The DPR deems Yaqut Cholil Qoumas has broken the law.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology clarified the matter of the network of professor assessment teams. It is suspected that journals were engineered in addition to suspicious transactions.
Indigenous people and villagers in Central Halmahera are facing clean water crisis. Community wells and river water are contaminated by nickel mining.
Communication and Informatics Minister Budi Arie explains the cyberattack on the Temporary National Data Center. He dismisses allegations of negligence.
Infinite Earth responds regarding the revocation of Rimba Raya Conservation’s ecosystem restoration permit.
The government grants mining concessions to religious organizations. What are the considerations behind the policy?
Communication and Informatics Minister Budi Arie Setiadi talks about the polemic over the planned revision of the Broadcasting Law and the Starlink Internet service.
Agriculture Ministry high-ranking officials routinely took up collections to raise money for Syahrul Yasin Limpo from 2020 to 2023. They often used the treasurer’s cash account.
Prabowo Subianto intends to form a cabinet of 40 ministers. This will result in a bloated bureaucracy and wasted public money.
Illegal tin mining is rampant in the waters of Bangka Belitung. The environmental damage is much greater than investigators estimated.
An interview with Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Pandjaitan on mining permits for mass organizations and his relationship with Bahlil Lahadalia.
Interview with Minister of Investment Bahlil Lahadalia about mining business permits IUP for mass organizations, and the debate with Luhut Pandjaitan.
The role of Bahlil Lahadalia in revoking mining business licenses draws attention of the House of Representatives and civil society groups, amidst concerns of possible licensing corruption.
Luhut Pandjaitan and Bahlil Lahadalia discussed the allocation of mining permits. For the sake of delivering Jokowi’s promise.
The legalization of illegal mining and oil palm plantations in forest areas is rife with irregularities. This is plundering of natural resources using the Job Creation Law.
Corruption Eradication Commission’s Deputy for Prevention, Pahala Nainggolan, on the mechanism of administrative sanctions for companies mining illegally in forest areas.
Administrative fines for whitewashing illegal mining are deemed ineffective to battle environmental damage. The fines are also vulnerable to corruption.
Bahlil Lahadalia explains the uproar over the revocation of mining permits as well as alleged extortion of money and shares in exchange for reinstatement of the permits.
Religious Affairs Minister Yaqut Cholil Qoumas explains the regulation regarding the use of loudspeakers in mosques and outlines plans to ensure that religious affairs offices provide services for all faiths.
The declining trade surplus is the culprit of the rupiah’s weakening recently. Partly, it is the fruit of the government’s own doing.
The Attorney General's Office is investigating alleged corruption over tin mining permits in Bangka Belitung. The investigation must also reveal the backers.
Three Timah directors become suspects in a tin mining corruption case in the Bangka Belitung Islands. Estimated losses sustained by the state amount to Rp217 trillion.
Investment Minister Bahlil Lahadalia has revoked mining permits and then reissued them. There are indications of illegal buying and selling of permits.
Deforestation and illegal nickel mining continues in Halmahera. It became widespread after Minister Bahlil revoked some mining licenses.
Allegedly, there are tributes to Investment Minister Bahlil Lahadalia. This coverage is supported by International Media Support
An interview with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry’s Director-General of Climate Change Mitigation Laksmi Dhewanti about the REDD+ program.
An interview with Juniver Girsang, the lawyer of Fajar Bhakti Lintas Nusantara directors, on the role of the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Pandjaitan in the internal dispute of a nickel company.
Ministry of Religious Affairs and Ministry of Agriculture’s right of reply on support for presidential candidates.
What are the functions of the cabinet minister’s special staff?
The Palestinian homeland neither originates from the distant past, nor is it a hope for the future.
A number of President Joko Widodo’s ministers campaign for their respective political parties ahead of the 2024 elections. How to scrutinize a possible misuse of state facilities?
Helmut Hermawan, who admitted to bribing Deputy Justice and Human Rights Minister Eddy Hiariej, is indicted in 11 criminal cases. It is the fallout from fighting over company stocks.
The water of the Sagea River in North Maluku is polluted by nickel mining. The environmental danger is becoming more real as the price of nickel on world markets plummets.
Sagea River is polluted as a result of deforestation by a number of nickel mining companies. Its water is no longer safe for drinking.
Syahrul Yasin Limpo is the sixth of Jokowi's ministers to be caught up in a corruption case. This is a sign of failure in the recruitment of cabinet members.
The appointment of the Environment Ministry Director-General of Planning appears to have been made based on a forged signature. His track record is also controversial.
The signature of Sarwono Kusumaatmadja was used to validate the names of candidates for echelon-I officials of the Environment and Forestry Ministry. The announcement letter was issued when he was hospitalized in Malaysia.
Former government employees at the Foreign Affairs Ministry are demanding the disbursement of unpaid wages. How did it come to happen?
The National Genome Center set up in 2018 is gone. Does it change into the Biomedical and Genome Science Initiative of the Health Ministry?
A former campaign volunteer for President Jokowi is named a suspect in relation to an illegal nickel mining worth Rp5.7 trillion. A crooked syndicate that must be investigated.
Businessman Windu Aji Sutanto is caught up in a case of illegal nickel mining at the Mandiodo Block. He is known as a broker for arranging the outcomes of legal cases.
The mining downstreaming policy gives rise to issues. Mineral processing has not been optimal without processed materials being absorbed by manufacturing industries.
Minister Mahfud Md’s statement regarding a loan claim by Jusuf Hamka could be considered influence peddling. This is treading on very thin ice.
Through people close to him, Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo allegedly received tributes to fund his personal needs.
Sandiaga Uno and Erick Thohir are cozying up to political parties. Even opposition parties have been lobbied to support the current administration.
Small islands face the threat of disappearing under the water as a result of the sand mining. This worsens the abrasion caused by rising sea levels.
Sand mining exacerbates threats for smaller islands. It creates environmental damage and less catch for fishermen.
Police seized a Lamborghini Aventador with a fake license plate from a Russian tourist. The car disappeared twice.
A summary of the week’s news on the huge transactions discovered in the finance ministry, the transfer of the Haris-Fatia case to the prosecutor's office, and the verdict received by the Kanjuruhan Tragedy defendants.
An investigation by Tempo found illegal nickel mining by people claiming to be close to the authority.
Ferdy Sambo, who is currently facing trial in the case of the killing of his adjutant, is suspected to be connected to an illegal mining bribery case involving Ismail Bolong.
Discussions to decide the provincial minimum wage for 2023 get hot. Workers are lobbying the president to issue a discretion, while employers are suing manpower minister regulation.
Minister Erick Thohir promises to ban former corruptors from becoming directors of state-owned enterprises. Mere gimmicks are inadequate for a comprehensive cleanup of state-owned enterprises.
Nadiem Makarim has outside teams attached to some directorate-general offices at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology. Consisting of about 400 people, these shadow organizations create waves inside the ministry.
PT PNM put 100 Jakarta Branch Account Officers as training participants so they can be more aware and obey the traffic rules. #Infotempo
Barring the entry of five foreign researchers underlines the anti-science and anti-criticism stance of Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya. This is a danger for the environment.
The training and provision of NIB is one of the supports for MSMEs in advancing the people's economy. #Infotempo
The Agriculture Ministry has a letter on the right of reply to Tempo’s report about the procurement of the foot-and-mouth disease vaccines.
Through this training and mentoring, PNM builds emotional relationships and provides support to customer assistants. #Infotempo
Through this training and mentoring, PNM builds emotional relationships and provides support to customer assitants. #Infotempo
President Joko Widodo again chooses deputy ministers from political parties. It is part of his accommodation politics.
The attorney general names Lin Che Wei the fifth suspect in the graft case surrounding the export of crude palm oil and its derivatives. Investigators are also looking into Trade Minister Muhammad Lutfi’s role in the affair.
The police are investigating Rudy Salim following videos of the sale of a Lamborghini Huracán to a binary option fraud suspect, Indra Kenz. The car should not have been sold because it was imported using the ATA Carnet facility.
Russian Ambassador to Indonesia, Lyudmila Vorobieva, claims that the assault on Ukraine is carried out to prevent the country from being used as a weapon to attack Russia.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Ambassador to Indonesia, Vasyl Hamianin points out that it is wrong for Russia to use such fear as an excuse to invade Ukraine and kill civilians in the process.
Letters on a note to Minister Nadiem Makarim, digital detoxification and the US-China tension.
The inspectorate-general at the ministry of education, culture, research and technology backs the accusations of plagiarism against the rector of the Semarang State University. This is a stain on the face of the education system.
Local communities protested against Aneka Tambang for polluting the mangrove area in Tanjung Moronopo, East Halmahera North Maluku, with waste from its mining operation. The mine is changing both the waters and the lives of fishermen.
Objection of the Ministry of Villages Regarding a Government Official Suspected of Brokering Personnel Recruitment.
ASEAN leaders finally came to a number of consensus, such as finding a peaceful solution through dialogue and sending a special envoy to Myanmar. Further steps are still needed. Tempo interviewed Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Retno marsudi.
Ministry of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration writes a response to the article titled Fees for Positions in Kalibata in Tempo English April 12-18, 2021 issue.
Taman Mini reflects the view that life is only the status quo—as though in every phenomena, every difference, there is only the everlasting.
Alleged trading of postings within the Villages Ministry shows a major flaw in the practice of good governance. Placement of politicians in ministries are most often problematic.
Problems abound for village assistants. These problems are in part due to structural changes at the villages ministry.
Julia Suryakusuma received an award from the Kingdom of Belgium for her struggle to voice human rights through writing. She is uncomfortable with being called a feminist.
The ministry of health clarifies a sentence on the article Vaccine Opportunist in Tempo English, 22-28 March, 2021 issue.
Several rectors are still in office despite having committed plagiarism. They have the support of education ministry officials
The 2025 State Budget’s Financial Note illustrates Prabowo Subianto’s financial policies. There is hope for economic improvements.
The 2025 State Budget accommodates several of Prabowo Subianto’s programs. Lobbying efforts are underway to ensure the smooth implementation of these priority programs.
The government is anticipating a rise in the number of Covid-19 cases due to the spread of the Omicron variant in 57 countries. Flights are canceled and quarantine regulations tightened. Rules on public activities during the holidays have changed.
Former chairperson of the Indonesian Women’s Movement left the history of 1965 behind upon her release from prison. Umi Sardjono did not say much about the bloody event of September 30, 1965.
After being replaced as National Police Chief, Hoegeng Iman Santoso spent his days painting and playing music. His political activity with the Petition of 50 created a lot of difficulties in his life, including being prevented from traveling abroad.
TIDORE, the sea, the old European fort: there are still remains on this tiny, clean and calm island. Here, 500 years ago, history and the world map shaped each other, tricked each other.
The 35,000-megawatt electricity program will almost certainly miss its deadline due to a lack of funding and poor planning.
ERDHIKA Securities analyst Adrian Priatna regards the hospital business as an investment that cannot lose money. He calculated that, over the last five years, the four hospital share issuers listed on the Indonesian Stock ExchangeSiloam, Mitra Keluarga, Omni, Mayapadaall grew between 15 and 25 percent.
The two-day 'National Symposium on Dissecting the 1965 Tragedy: A Historical Approach' last week got nationwide and international attention.
It was, after all, the first time that the government hosted a forum to openly discuss and debate the mysterious and dark events of 1965.
One by one on that last evening in October 2015, the amateur performers introduced themselves. Within a very short time, the audience at the Yogya Cultural Center began to feel thoroughly amused by what they were watching.
The show was entitled 100% Yogyakarta. It did not feature any professional actors. All those up on the stage were ordinary people from around the city, including a parking attendant, a grave digger, a street tough, a housewife, a transvestite, a neighborhood association head, a teacher, and the head of a hardline Islamic organization.
Lying in state at the Adi Jasa funeral home on Tuesday, December 15, Ben Anderson was clad in a brown-colored Madura batik shirt. "That's my batik shirt," said Sugito, the driver who always accompanied Anderson since 2009 whenever he toured East Java. Sugito wiped his tears and tenderly touched the edge of the laced cloth covering the coffin.
Anderson arrived in Surabaya with his close friend, Edward Hasudingan, a.k.a. Edu, five days earlier. Both met in 2004 when Edu studied at Ithaca College in the United States. They stayed at Hotel Santika Pandegiling in Surabaya.
The International People's Tribunal 1965 a hearing last week on crimes against humanity in Indonesia following the 1965 political upheaval held in the Dutch capital of The Hague, impacted three distinct groups. The first are the condemned and the vilified, senior military officers and government officials, and even a few historians clinging to tired old slogans about 'latent dangers of communism'.
The second group are those who regard the tribunal as little more than a game, not worth their time. The third group are people who believe that the tribunal is an effort to record the facts, which in turn would lead to pressure aimed at a United Nations resolution.
The 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair ended in mid-October. As the guest of honor at the world's largest book fair, Indonesia chose the slogan '17,000 Islands of Imagination' to lead its presentation.
It was a huge success, although the team only had two years to prepare for the event, compared to the five to six years other countries had.
Hana Salomina Hikoyabi is an activist from Papua, who uses her bureaucratic savvy to get things done. She was vice chair of the Papua People's Assembly during the 2006-2011 period and is currently the head of the Regional Development Planning Board for Jayapura Regency. Hana founded the tabloid Suara Perempuan Papua (Voice of Papuan Women), to publicize issues related to violence against women, the need to acknowledge people living with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), for information on access to justice and the conservation of Papua's mega-biodiversity.
The tabloid has been influential in changing perceptions on gender in Papua, and she is not giving up on the idea that women should continue aiming for 30 percent representation in the legislature. For her unrelenting advocacy to give voice to the women's plight in Papua, she was presented with the 2015 SK Trimurti Award by the Indonesian Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) at the beginning of September.
Revolution is never careful. There is no revolution carried out carefully, meticulously, and protected from going astray. Going astray is what revolution is about. Revolution does not set out to follow what has been laid out by the power that preceded it.
This is why August 17, 1945, was a revolutionary moment: on that morning the birth of a new country was declared. The rulers of the Netherlands Indies, so neat and repressive, had fallen. The Japanese military regime, so strong and cruel, had also lost. They were no more. Power relations in Indonesian changed radically.
Singapore has come a long way since its independence on August 9, 1965. During its early years, the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita was a mere US$500 and unemployment exceeded 10 percent. Like other developing countries, there were racial tensions, housing shortages, slums with poor sanitation, a high crime rate and even corruption. There were also hostile neighbors. Malaysia expelled Singapore from its Federation and Indonesia just ended its armed 'konfrontasi' with the Malaysian Federation, which at that time still included Singapore. Lastly, there was the departure of the British colonial government and its Royal Navy, which provided not only security, but also helped to drive the local economy.
Fast forward half a century later and Singapore's GDP per capita (at purchasing power parity) stands above US$56,000, the third highest in the world, with a mere two percent unemployment rate. Today, as visitors land at Singapore's Changi airport, one of the world's most efficient and modern airports, they will see a neat row of gleaming wide-bodied aircrafts belonging to Singapore Airlines, the nation's flag carrier, often voted the world's best airline. Driving from the airport, they will notice the country's efforts to turn itself into a 'garden city', with lush shady greenery along its multi-lane highways. Crossing the Kallang River visitors enter an ultra-clean and orderly modern cosmopolitan city with a state of the art broadband connectivity. Further west of the glittering city skyline is Asia's busiest container port and beyond that, is the world's third largest oil refinery complex.
The Southeast Asia (SEA) Games is not a new arena for Lim Teck Yin, 54, CEO of the Singapore Sports Council (SSC), the statutory board under the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports of Singapore. This lead agency is tasked with responsibility to develop and cultivate sports for the nation. Brig. Gen. (ret) Lim Teck Yin won six gold medals in water polo at Southeast Asia's biggest sporting event. "Those six gold medals I received consecutively in the SEA Games from 1985," he told Tempo.
President Jokowi's 2015 revised government budget is his first, and, as such, is interesting to get a more detailed view of his policy spending priorities, how he expects to implement them and, more importantly, how to fund them. But, understanding where the government is spending its money this time is critical because the recent cut in fuel subsidies allows the government some real spending power to make a difference. A quick glimpse into the 288-page document, shows three areas that particularly stand out. They are infrastructure with a maritime bent, food security and social services.
Yet, this book measuring 14 centimeters x 21 centimeters is a fascinating sign of fresh creativity in the world of art, exposing the young and upcoming Indonesia artist,30-year-old Syaiful Aulia Garibaldi. He has morphed science with art in a dictionary of a newly invented language named Terhah. Words are denoted by characters derived and imagined from the changing shapes of developing micro-organisms seen through his microscope. The dictionary is the second in a series and has 1,500 words on 64 pages. It also has Indonesian and English translations in Roman script.
Syaiful new invented language, Terhah, he says is inspired by various words expressing an idea or a thought that combines with his artistic imagination. He had studied printmaking at the experimental division of the School of Fine Arts and Design at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), after a stint of agronomy at the University of Padjadjaran's School of Agriculture, also in Bandung.
FOR many Indonesians, 2015 began on a positive note: subsidized fuel prices had fallen with global oil prices. Premium gasoline dropped from Rp8,500 to Rp7,600 per liter, and automotive diesel oil went from Rp7,500 to Rp7,250 per liter.
With that in mind, President Joko Widodo was optimistic 2015 would bring improvements for the Indonesian economy, with the government able to cut subsidies and free up funds. "This money can be diverted to build infrastructure such as reservoirs, irrigation, toll roads and railways outside of Java," Jokowi said.
The world has seen yet another horrific terrorist attack. This one came in Peshawar, Pakistan, when seven members of the Pakistani Taliban broke into an army-run school on Tuesday morning and went on a killing spree.
The incident took the lives of 145 people, including 132 students aged 12 to 16. One survivor, Salmannot his real namewas in a careers guidance session in the auditorium with his classmates when the gunmen stormed in. "Someone screamed at us to get down and hide below the desks," the 16-year-old boy said at the trauma ward of Lady Reading's Hospital in the city. "Then one of them shouted, 'there are so many children beneath the benches, go and get them'," he said, as quoted by AFP.
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As we close 2014 with a weak rupiah, a high domestic interest rate and a slowing economy, the only bright spot seems to be a new government with a new style of leadership that provides hope that changes will come. And, maybe the year-end is a good time to make an assessment on what we can learn for 2015. Let me start with the rupiah, as its weakness throughout the year does reflect alot of what is wrong with our economy.
On the rupiah's weakness, we must differentiate on the source of weakness where we have little control of and where we can do something. As it is always easier to blame others for our problems, the world's two largest economies would be high on the list of external sources of our currency's problems.
The US economy, because it is the only major economy that is growing well due to its loose monetary policy, has the US dollar becoming more attractive. But the Fed realizing that good things do not last forever, is concerned of potential inflation ahead and plans to raise interest rates, making the US$ even more desirable. Just remarks that it plans to raise rates has lead to massive conversions to US dollars worldwide. This year, the US dollar has strengthened against nearly all other currencies. However, as the emerging market currencies lack deep markets, the weakness is more apparent, which unfortunately includes our rupiah.
President Joko Widodo attended his first Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on November 12-13. He asserted during the meeting that Indonesia was ready to support the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) free market in 2015. "Indonesia will not let itself be merely a market," he said.
According to Joko, an increase in inter-ASEAN trade will be the key to AEC success. "Within the next five years, I hope the value of trade between ASEAN member states can reach at least 35-40 percent," added the president. As of now, inter-ASEAN trade volume is 24.2 percent. He also urged other member states to work together in doubling the ASEAN GDP, from US$ 2 trillion to US$ 4 trillion, and reducing the poverty rate to 9.3 percent by 2030.
Rahmat Pramono, the permanent representative of Indonesia to ASEAN, said that Indonesia's readiness to face the AEC is only 82 percent. He sees the integration as an opportunity for economic growth. Sri Adiningsih, an economist from Gadjah Mada University said that Indonesia has been ASEAN's main support because of its central location in the region. "Our trade balance in the area, be it oil or non-oil, experienced surplus for a while," she said.
Pending economic problems await Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kalla's administration. In addition to the narrow room for maneuvering the budget, global economic uncertainty will be the economic challenge throughout 2015. Raising subsidized fuel prices is a policy option that must be taken as soon as possible.
Djajeng Pratomo was held at the Dachau concentration camp from 1943 to 1945. The Nazis put him to work as a nurse and carrying corpses.
As the UN's Millennium Development Goals approaches its 2015 deadline, nations are coming together to draft a new global development agenda. Democratic reform within the UN is deemed critical to the process.
Tibetans commemorate the 50th anniversary of a failed rebellion. The Chinese government is more firmly entrenched in Tibet than ever.
Indonesian students in the Netherlands published the 1925 Manifesto, considered to be more important than the Youth Pledge of 1928.
Attempts to bring to trial cases of human rights violations during the 1965 tragedy still have a long way to go. Suharto somehow managed to remain out of the justice system’s reach.
THE Adam Air Boeing 737-400 on the Surabaya-Manado route disappeared somewhere over Sulawesi. Critics put the blame on competing low-cost airfares compromising passenger safety. Ever since 2001 when the budget airline industry took off in Indonesia, the number of air travellers shot up by 130 percent and the number of flights by 26 percent. From 2001-2005 there have been 29 accidents involving national carriers. There were 26 accidents during the previous five-year period. The difference in the number of accidents may not be highly significant, but there is much to be gained from a strict monitoring on the long-term impact of the budget-airline industry.
Cemex plans to sell off its 25.5 percent share in Semen Gresik. Peter Sondakh and Bakrie are reportedly interested.
Commotion at Wiranto-Solahuddin camps across the archipelago increases in anticipation of the July 5 D-Day.
It is not easy to catch Tommy Suharto, the fugitive connected with PT Goro Batara Sakti's property-swap scam who has disappeared for nine months. Greater Jakarta Police's Special Detective Team have ransacked a number of places and tailed many people, but Tommy has proved slippery. The son of Suharto even stopped by his sister's house on July 15 for her birthday party, despite the Cendana area being the police's top priority target area. Just where have the police found Tommy's trail?
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