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Tenggara Backgrounder June 10, 2022
POLITICS
Political drama overshadows inaugural Jakarta Formula E race
Jakarta held the Formula E electric motorsport race on June 4, almost two years from its original 2020 scheduled date, delayed not only by the COVID-19 pandemic but also by the political fights that accompanied it.
Cabinet reshuffle needed to regain public trust in government
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is said to be planning to shuffle his Cabinet yet again in the near future. Some have speculated that the day will be June 15, which falls on a Wednesday that coincides with Rabu Pon in the five-day week of the Javanese...
PDI-P rattled by Ganjar’s maneuvering
Consistently emerging among the top three in numerous opinion polls, Ganjar Pranowo looks promising as a potential candidate for the 2024 presidential race. With rumors that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo might endorse him, the Central Java governor’...
BIN in hot water for alleged illegal arms purchase
Conflict Armament Research (CAR), a London-based monitoring group, reported that Indonesia’s State Intelligence Agency (BIN) purchased around 2,500 mortar shells from Serbia for Indonesian agents in Papua and dropped them on villages in 2021.
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
Communications ministry’s remote 4G tower project suffers further delays
A Rp 11 trillion (US$770 million) project launched in 2019 by the Communications and Information Ministry through its public service agency BAKTI to build 4G base transceiver station (BTS) towers in outermost and remote areas is way behind schedule,...
Govt to use PeduliLindungi app to monitor bulk cooking oil distribution
PeduliLindungi, the national mobile COVID-19 tracing app, is set to add a new function after the government announced its plans to monitor the distribution of bulk cooking oil through the app. The move is aimed to prevent further manipulation of the...
Govt sets infrastructure budget, recruits 200,000 workers for new capital city
The government is pushing ahead with its plan to build the new capital city by allocating some Rp 30 trillion (US$2 billion) for the city’s infrastructure in the 2023 state budget and preparing to recruit 200,000 workers for its construction.
Commodity boom to subside in 2023, stagflation threat persists
After years of rallying since 2020, the commodity boom is expected to subside next year as a result of generally lower demand following the recent global trend towards contractionary monetary policies. Meanwhile, the risk of stagflation persists.
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