National Commission on Human Rights Chair: Human Rights Enforcement Cannot Rely Solely on Political Maneuvers
National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Chair Atnike Nova Sigiro on human rights enforcement in the Prabowo Subianto era.
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National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Chair Atnike Nova Sigiro on human rights enforcement in the Prabowo Subianto era.
Judicial Commission Chair Amzulian Rifai on the corruption in judicial institution involving judges.
The PDI-P received the most positions as leaders of the DPR working bodies. Surya Paloh met with Bahlil Lahadalia to discuss the allocation of commission chairs.
KPU Chair Mochammad Afifuddin on turbulence within his institution following the dismissal of Hasyim Asy’ari, and the Constitutional Court’s decision on the regional head elections.
A number of Prabowo Subianto supporters have been appointed as SOE commissioners. This risks compromising their oversight function.
BP Tapera Commissioner, Heru Pudyo Nugroho, explains the compulsory 3 percent cut of monthly income for the public housing savings scheme.
The government will lower its renewable energy mix target. The goal of low emissions is getting further away.
Every country will submit a greenhouse gas emission reduction report at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Indonesia has not reached its target.
Judicial Commission Chairman Amzulian Rifai explains the boundaries of his authority in dealing with judges, and the Judicial Commission Bill.
News summary, from the dismissal on Budiman Sudjatmiko to Food Estate.
Nadea Nabilla Putri develops a solar power boat engine. It is the initial step to contribute to the reduction of carbon emission at sea.
A number of 1998 student activists now enjoy new positions as commissioners of state-owned companies. It is a reward for supporters of Joko Widodo.
Readers’ letters on state universities' admission process, millennial writers’ task and cigarette advertising in the Health Bill.
The KPK chairperson has dismissed a police general who objected to the handling of the Formula E case. This is fresh evidence that the KPK has become a political tool.
The General Elections Commission (KPU) allegedly intimidated regional KPUs when carrying out factual verification. This damages the legitimacy of the 2024 election results.
Seventeen political parties qualify to run in the 2024 general elections. There are many reports about data manipulation suspected to have been done upon the instructions of central KPU commissioners.
A year after taking over the case of Pertamina’s LNG procurement from the Attorney General’s Office, the Corruption Eradication Commission is still keeping the name of the suspect secret. The target is an official during Yudoyono’s presidency.
Indonesia increases its target for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions yet again. This will only be of any use if it is accompanied by real action and transparency of data.
Indonesia steps up its target of greenhouse emissions reductions to 31.89 percent through its own resources. Its strategies to achieve this target raise many questions.
The Corruption Eradication Commission arrests the rector and some top officials at Lampung University in bribery case involving student admissions. Corruption is still rife on campus.
The criminal nature of the gratuities accepted by Lili Pintauli Siregar was enough to take the deputy chair of the KPK to court. This is momentum to restore the dignity of the anti-graft commission.
Businesses are benefiting from oil palm subsidies. At the same time, oil palm farmers are mired in debts, forests keep on disappearing, and emissions continue to rise.
The Covid-19 social assistance corruption case allegedly involving PDI-P politicians, Herman Hery and Ihsan Yunus, has stalled. They are under the protection of high-ranking officers in the Corruption Eradication Commission.
Government’s plan to apply a carbon tax next year triggers reactions. Academics and environmental activists say this is merely one way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Environmentalists are criticizing President Joko Widodo for his lack of ambition to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. This is proof that the government does not care about the climate crisis.
President Joko Widodo made no mention of a time frame to achieve net zero emission at the Leader Summit on Climate 2021 initiated by the US President. Indonesia’s target is deemed far below expectations.
The Climate Ambition Summit was organized to help push for a renewed commitment on emission reduction, in order to achieve the target of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degree Celsius by 2030. Indonesia is seen as lacking ambition to meet its emission reduction target.
President Joko Widodo once again received the red card from the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) for failing to live up to his human rights commitments.
A number of key witnesses in the case of acid attack against Corruption Eradication Commission investigator, Novel Baswedan, were not presented by the prosecutor to court. Their testimonies are different compared to what is described in the indictment.
Three months of Firli Bahuri’s chairmanship has ended hopes for the Corruption Eradication Commission. A betrayal of the reformasi mandate.
Barely two months after its establishment, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) supervisory board already received a complaint against the commission leadership for alleged ethic violation.
VARIOUS peculiarities have colored the investigation into the suspected bribery of former General Elections Commission member, Wahyu Setiawan.
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator, Novel Baswedan, has doubts about his alleged assailant Brig. Rahmat Kadir Mahulette’s statement, calling him a traitor.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid ended with no agreement. The government’s aim to reduce carbon emission has become progressively difficult.
THE National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has just completed collecting facts and statements surrounding the riots during the May 21-23 protests which broke out on the heels of the presidential election result announcement.
SOME issues have cropped up since Law No. 19/2019 regarding the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) went into effect on October 17.
The Law on the Corruption Eradication Commission has given the anti-graft agency a new face. Its board of commissioners is seemingly placed under a newly-created board of supervisors selected by the president.
The House of Representatives (DPR) has just approved a proposed revision of Law No. 30/2002 on the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). This revision breaks one of the important foundation stones of the battle against corruption by the anti-graft commission.
THE leadership selection process at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is under scrutiny following the selection committee’s announcement of 20 shortlisted candidates last Friday for the agency’s top seats.
A number of problematic candidates have passed the selection process for the leadership of the Corruption Eradication Commission. This is a failure of the selection committee.
JAKARTA and a number of other regions in Java have not been the only places in the world to suffer from a power outage. In several other countries, similar incidents have occurred, even repeatedly. Causes vary, from transmission error, routine maintenance problems, to suspected cyber attack.
SIX police generals passed several stages of the selection process for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) new leadership. After they were declared passing the psychological review stage on Monday, August 5, they underwent a profile assessment three days later. Of the 40 candidates which passed, the largest share hails from the national police. Some of those one and two-star generals have had some ‘negative’ track records. One has never submitted a report of their personal wealth to the KPK.
A police officer in Central Java was dismissed on evidence of being gay. The legal basis of the dismissal was weak.
Unethical conduct by Commissioners of the Judicial Commission has led to internal conflict. Oversight of judges must not be neglected.
Leadership in the Judicial Commission has split in the past three years. There was an anonymous letter highlighted on a number of commissioners.
Last weekend, the General Election Commission (KPU) began the next phase of its task when it started receiving applications from presidential and vice-presidential candidates for the 2019 presidential election.
It took four years for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to name a suspect in a case of suspect corruption involving the turning over of assets for Bank Dagang Nasional Indonesia (BDNI) to meet its financial obligation to repay Bank of Indonesia Liquidity Assistance (BLBI) funds.
THE Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) rejects the Criminal Code (KUHP) draft revision currently in deliberation at the House of Representatives (DPR).
The government should push the DPR to carry out a fit-and-proper test of the prospective KPPU commissioners. The DPR should not question the work of the selection committee.
THE furor over the issue of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community suddenly became a discussion at the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM).
BEING reported for alleged graft- twice within a week- does not help Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chairman Agus Raharjo’s mood. In early September, the anti-graft agency chief was reported to the Attorney-General’s Office (AGO), as well as the National Police’s criminal investigation unit.
The National Police has named President Commissioner of the MNC Group Hary Tanoesoedibjo suspect in the an alleged threat message delivered to Yulianto, chief special crimes investigator at the Attorney General's Office (AGO). Hary requested a pretrial, but the request was later rejected.
During the recent fasting month of Ramadan, a number of employees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) did not head straight home after working hours. After performing the tarawih, an optional fasting-month prayer, they gathered to discuss the plans of members of the House of Representatives (DPR) to form a Special Inquiry Committee to investigate the work of their institution.
THE House of Representatives' (DPR) plan to disband the civil apparatus commission is impetuous and reckless. The commission, barely two years old, is tasked with safeguarding the merit system and keep watch on the conduct of state apparatus. It will be a huge setback to bureaucratic reform efforts if this idea becomes a reality.
The termination of the state apparatus commission is clearly stipulated in the draft amendment of Law No. 5/2014 on State Civil Apparatus. Legislators pushing to dissolve the commission argue that the institution impedes the appointment process of state officials and that the task of monitoring civil servants' behavior should be returned to the relevant ministries.
THE restructuring of Asuransi Jiwa Bersama Bumiputera 1912 has yet to happen. In fact, the state of finances of this, the oldest insurance company in Indonesia, is very worrying. As of the end of last year, Bumiputera's assets were worth just Rp15 trillion, half of the company's liabilities of Rp30 trillion. That is why the Financial Services Authority [OJK] completely reworked the management of Asuransi Jiwa Bersama Bumiputera 1912 in the middle of last month. It then appointed a number of people as statutory managers. Their job: to source fresh capital to inject. "We must protect the fates of our 6.7 million policy-holders," the OJK Deputy Chief Supervisory Commissioner II for the Non-Bank Financial Industry, Dumoly F. Pardede, told Tempo Ayu Prima Sandi by telephone last week.
On what basis did the OJK say Bumiputera is unhealthy?
In the last five years, its claims have risen very significantly, while the income from premiums did not match that. In the end, over the past five years, the management sold off assets to cover claims. If they had waited until next year, its risk-based capital (a ratio for measuring financial health) could go awry. We had to take over Bumiputera through statutory means to source new investors.
The Public Information Commission orders the Munir fact-finding team's report to be publicized, but the State Secretary claims he does not possess the investigative report produced by the Yudhoyono-era team.
The government plans to relax the rule on remissions, including those for convicted corruptors. The anticorruption commission opposes.
Besides its increasing numbers, violence against women is taking on a broader pattern. The National Commission Against Violence Against Women has observed this change through several of their studies. The Commission noted that violence happens in households as well as within the general public.
For example, in 2015, some 321,752 cases of violencemostly physicalagainst women were recorded in people's homes. This differed from the previous year when in addition to the physical, there was also psychological violence. In communities, sexual violence is still predominent: about 61 percent out of 5,002 cases.
ATTORNEY Made Rahman Marasabessy gave his client Jailani Paranddy an unusual bit of advice. Instead of fighting the corruption charges against him, Made suggested Jailani turn himself in to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). He also advised the KPK to take the 40-year-old man into custody if necessary.
Made said the advice was sound, as there was little doubt Jailani played a role in the graft case facing Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician Damayanti Wisnu Putranti. Jailani was thrust into spotlight when CEO of Windu Tunggal Utama, Abdul Khoir, began to reveal a bribery scheme at the House of Representatives (DPR) infrastructure commission.
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.
Hasrul Azwar's name repeatedly appears in the charges lodged against Suryadharma Ali, a former minister of religious affairs. The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has also named the United Development Party (PPP) politician a graft co-conspirator, together with Suryadharma. Both are said to have hatched a plot to speed up deliberations on the 2011 haj costs (BPIH). In return, the House of Representatives' (DPR) Commission VIII, which oversees matters related to the pilgrimage, would receive a kickback from the pilgrims' accommodation project. Hasrul talked about accusations of his involvement in the case with Tempo's Sunudyantoro, Jobpie Sugiharto, and Wayan Agus Purnomo at his House office in Senayan, Jakarta, last Friday.
The distribution of a revised Bill on Bank Indonesia at the House of Representatives' (DPR) Commission XI last June was a public shocker. A number Commission XI legislators claimed not to know anything about the revised law being drafted by Fadel Muhammad, as commission chairman. Some worry that the revised law will reduce the authority of both the Financial Services Authority (OJK) as well as the Finance Ministry. Tempo reporter Gustidha Budiartie spoke with Fadel by telephone last week, to clarify the background of the draft legislation.
Despite all good intentions, the plan to establish a human rights abuses commission announced by the Attorney General's Office a few weeks ago, is marked by serious problems. The Commission will have many stumbling blocks for various reasons.
One of these is that there is no longer any legal basis for the commission. In December 2006, the Constitutional Commission revoked Law No. 27/2004 on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In its considerations, the Court found that the law actually made reconciliation more difficult because of the need for a presidential amnesty if the person responsible and the victim had made their peace. The law also required an uncovering of the facts, a confession and forgiveness. If the truth behind a case could not be revealed, reconciliation would be difficult.
THE Charoen Pokphand Indonesia company has denied it was monopolizing the market, following protests by poultry farmers. "We want to make a profit, but farmers must do the same," said Charoen Pokphand Indonesia Deputy Chief Commissioner, Tjiu Thomas Effendy, contacted by Tempo reporter Akbar Tri Kurniawan last week.
THE controversy over the appointment of a new police chief has receded to the background. But its domino effect continues. One key aspect in the spotlight is the controversial verdict over the pre-trial motion issued by Judge Sarpin Rizaldi at the South Jakarta District Court. He granted the motion submitted by Police Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan to invalidate his indictment by the KPK.
His verdict created a wave of legal and political reverberation. One day later, anti-corruption activists under the Coalition of Civil Societies reported Sarpin to the Judicial Commission, a state organization mandated to supervise and review legal verdicts as to whether the judges' code of ethics has been breached. "The worst sanction against him would be dismissal," said Judicial Commission Chairman Suparman Marzuki.
THE verdict of Judge Sarpin Rizaldi in granting the pretrial motion of Police Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan is not only questionable, it makes no sense. The judge determined that Budi was not a law enforcer at the time of his alleged crime, hence his indictment for corruption by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is legally flawed.
Budi's position from 2003 to 2006, when he was charged with accepting bribes and gratuities from officers seeking promotions, was chief of career development at the Office of the Deputy Police Chief in charge of Human Resources. Judge Sarpin determined that the position required Budi to carry out only administrative tasks, unlike other police officers who must pursue and investigate criminal cases. As such, according to Sarpin, Budi should not be investigated by the KPK.
ADRIANUS Meliala-a member of the National Police Commission (Kompolnas)-nervously stroked his hair, scratched his face, stared at his hands and stammered when he spoke. "I never knew it would turn out so bad. What will Kompolnas do to me?" he asked.
The public was recently shocked by his statement in a television interview last month that two police officers assigned to the West Java Police Crime Unit had been indicted for the crime of gambling online. Even more astounding was his revelation that the same Crime Unit was an ATM (cash machine) for police officers. When other sections needed money, they always came to this unit for help. "Like it or not, we must admit that the police has indeed been involved in shenanigans," said Adrianus in the interview.
The government's regulation on abortion has triggered significant public controversy, particularly among the state agencies. The Commission for the Protection of Children (KPAI) regards Government Regulation No. 61/2014 as full of loopholes that can be misused by irresponsible people. KPAI Secretary Erlinda explained her institution's view to Tempo reporters Febriyan and Yuliawati last week.
HUSNI Kamil Manik stared at the chess board in front of him, his brows wrinkling as he contemplated what to do with the black king, trapped by the white king and two of his pawns. "Look at this black king, he will definitely lose," he said. He picked up the black king and threw him out of the game.
Husni, the current commissioner of the General Elections Commission (KPU) is no stranger to pawns, rooks, ministers and kings, since his elementary school days. If there was no one to play with at home, he would play alone, learning by reading strategic tips published in newspapers. Playing chess has taught him to be cautious but also to be decisive at the same time, when contemplating important steps.
Riots in Tanjung Gusta prison coincided with a movement to demand revision of remission regulations. The House speaker's role has come under scrutiny.
The Justice and Human Rights Ministry is tightening the rules on remission and parole for graft convicts. A number of convicts are resisting the changes, including by appealing them to the Supreme Court.
The DPR has just passed the new Judicial Commission Bill. Now, not only having the power to compulsorily summon Supreme Court Judges, the commission may also tap the telephones of any judges who show signs of acting inappropriately.
Artalyta Suryani will soon be released. Artalyta, who bribed prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan, gets generous remissions.
A total of 24 candidates still in the running for membership of the Judicial Commission will soon be sitting their final interviews. Many of the favorites had earlier been eliminated after failing the academic paper test.
With new members, the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission is expected to be more professional, free from the interference of media conglomerates. Its predecessor’s performance is considered ineffective.
The Government Commission aspires to dismiss the General Elections Commission through revision of the relevant legislation.
It has not been easy going for tobacco magnate Budi Sampoerna to ask for his money which was embezzled by former Bank Century owner Robert Tantular. He asked for the assistance of the chief of the Crime Investigation Division at National Police Headquarters, Commissioner-General Susno Duadji, to facilitate its disbursement. This minor action on the part of a high-ranking police officer aroused some suspicion. Was he really to be paid a commission for his efforts?
The DPR’s legislation body is finalizing a revised draft of the Judicial Commission Law. The Commission will be authorized to impose penalties on judges.
The Supreme Court favored IBRA in the dispute over the Unibank deposit certificates. Suspicions of collusion behind the promissory notes need to be investigated.
The president will soon appoint nine people as members of the National Police Commission. Unfortunately it will have limited powers.
Without funds and without the president's concern, the National Law Commission may wither away and lose its purpose.
It's unlikely that the MPR Annual Session will approve the Constitutional Commission proposed by President Megawati. Opposition to the idea has come from her own party, PDI-P.
The dismissal of Djohan Effendi from his position as state secretary, apparently had to do with a case involving land owned by veterans.
Indonesia's parliament was determined to have a decent-sized anti-corruption commission. Ultimately they got it, despite the president's objections. Could it be a scheme to divide the spoils?
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