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Tenggara Backgrounder February 10, 2023
POLITICS
PDI-P presidential candidate selection process a mere formality
The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has begun what it claims is the selection process to determine its presidential candidate, with talk of the party’s roster being narrowed to five currently unnamed party members. However, reflecting...
Surya Paloh, a case of having his cake and eating it too
A few people can defy President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and get away with it. One of which is Surya Paloh, the media baron and chairman of the National Democratic Party (NasDem) as he pushes ahead with nominating former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan f...
2024 elections distraction: whether governors elected or appointed
Ahead of a tumultuous political year with the 2024 general elections, an old debate over whether a governor should be directly elected or not has come to the surface again. This time, the National Awakening Party (PKB) has proposed getting rid of dir...
Disparities in Constitutional Court ruling on justice dismissal
The Constitutional Court is once again under the spotlight for a discrepancy between two versions of the court’s opinion regarding the controversial dismissal of Court Justice Aswanto. The ruling that was read in November 2022 over the dismissal of A...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
MIND ID prepares to increase stake in Vale Indonesia
State-owned mining holding Mining Industry Indonesia (MIND ID) is preparing to acquire a larger stake in Vale Indonesia as the government concluded that the state should take the 11-percent divestment of the subsidiary of Brazil-based mining and logi...
Govt adopts another ill policy over scarcity of cheap cooking oil
The government has decided to increase the portion of domestic market obligation (DMO) of crude palm oil (CPO), the raw material of cooking oil, and slow down CPO exports to reign in the recent hike of government-sponsored, simple-packaged cooking oi...
Jokowi to expand metal ore export ban, even as smelters still incomplete
Although Indonesia is facing a trade dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over its ban on nickel ore exports, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is adamant about expanding the export ban on more commodities, starting with bauxite in June, to be...
Nickel ‘downstreaming’ contributes to reduction in Java-centricity
In a speech on February 1st, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo stated that development in Indonesia is no longer Java-centric. The basis of his statement was that an estimated 53 percent of investment in Indonesia throughout 2022 went outside of Java. S...
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