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Tenggara Backgrounder December 13, 2019
POLITICS
Legislation program shows government’s order of priorities
The House of Representatives Legislation Body (Baleg) and the government have agreed on 50 priority bills for the 2019-2024 National Legislation Program (Prolegnas). Apart from draft laws that have drawn public debate like the sexual violence bill, t...
Calculating Tito’s maneuvers: Policing civil realms?
President Jokowi's Indonesia Onward Cabinet has been mired in controversy from the onset due to his unusual choice of appointees, including then-National Police chief Tito Karnavian as the home minister. With all due respect for Jokowi’s prerogative,...
Golkar faces an existential crisis
Golkar has reappointed Airlangga Hartarto as chairman following its congress this month, but the once powerful ruling political party that propped Soeharto in power for more than three decades, faces an existential crisis with ever declining support...
Concerted efforts against anticorruption drive continue
The Supreme Court’s recent rulings to curb prison sentences for graft convicts only aggravate the weakening of the country’s anticorruption drive. The move of the judicial power came after the House of Representatives, the legislative power, passed r...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
Ari’s dismissal from Garuda an opportunity to end cartel practices
The recent luxury goods smuggling scandal that led to the dismissal of Garuda Indonesia president director I Gusti Ngurah “Ari” Askhara Danadiputra has not only uncovered deep rooted poor corporate governance practices within the national flag carrie...
Jiwasraya under AGO, BPK investigation
State-owned insurance company PT Asuransi Jiwasraya is in hot water. Besides facing pressure from the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Ministry to resolve the postponement of payments to thousands of Jiwasraya’s JS Saving Plan policyholders, it also fa...
Johnson’s Brexit wins big in UK election
The result is in. The United Kingdom’s incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson won the 2019 general election with a solid majority. Out of 650 seats contested yesterday, Johnson’s Conservative Party won 364 seats, 66 gains from the previous election....
Labor unions to join omnibus bill discussion, submission postponed
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has changed his strategy to reform Law No. 13/2003 concerning manpower. Rather than pursuing a full revision of the Manpower Law, which had failed due to strong resistance from labor unions, President Jokowi is now purs...
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