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Tenggara Backgrounder April 06, 2023
POLITICS
Grand alliance in talks for presidential election
Pro-government political parties are making a move to build a grand alliance for the 2024 presidential election, which, if materialized, will turn the race into a three-way tie as has been widely predicted. The new alliance will likely amalgamate the...
PDI-P, Ganjar smarting from U20 soccer fallout
The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) led the campaign to reject Israel’s participation in the FIFA Under-20 soccer World Cup, which Indonesia would have hosted in May. Now that the soccer governing body has taken the venue out of Indon...
Finance Ministry graft case sees no end, House inquiry to come next
The brouhaha over “suspicious transactions” involving the Finance Ministry will continue to make headlines due to discrepancies in data between Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Mah...
National Police, TNI undergo rotations ahead of elections
Both the National Police and the Indonesian Military (TNI) have announced a major reshuffle, which many deem as strategic ahead of the elections scheduled for February next year. National Police chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo ordered rotations and p...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
Ex-taxman Rafael Alun charged with corruption as tax compliance slides
Rafael Alun Trisambodo, whose massive wealth was exposed following his wealth-flexing son’s aggravated assault against a minor in February, has been declared a corruption suspect and detained by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). The exposu...
Repeated fire accidents urge investigation into Pertamina facilities
In less than a month after the fatal accident at the Pertamina Depot in Plumpang that took 33 lives, a refinery unit owned by state-owned energy company Pertamina in Dumai, Riau, caught fire again. A blast presumably caused by a hydrogen leak injured...
Govt rolls out VAT cut to boost demand for electric cars
The Indonesian government has rolled out a value-added tax (VAT) cut to boost demand for electric cars and buses. The tax incentive is introduced in Finance Ministerial Regulation (PMK) No. 38/2023. In enacting the VAT incentives, the government hope...
Ramadan effect to increase inflation rate in April after March easing
While the March year-on-year (yoy) inflation rate fell below the 5 percent mark to 4.97 percent, lower than analysts expected, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) warned that there was potential for the consumer price index (CPI) to begin rising again as Indo...
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