After drawing a wave of ire for failing to defend democracy by
allowing the passage of a law that scraps direct elections for local
leaders, outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono…
A People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) plenary meeting on Monday
maintained an internal regulation that makes it difficult to remove a
serving president, as well as amend the 1945 Constitution.
The House of Representatives on Monday unanimously passed into law a
bill that allows president-elect Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to force chairman
of the Bakrie Group, Aburizal Bakrie, to fulfill his…
A street vendor has set out on foot on a journey of hundreds of
kilometers to fulfill his nazar (promise) of meeting president-elect
Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in Jakarta.
In what could be seen as a last ditch attempt to salvage what’s left of
his tattered credibility as a champion of democracy, President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono spoke late Sunday…
The Finance Ministry has prepared contingency measures in the newly
approved 2015 state budget to anticipate future shocks, including one
that may emerge from the planned increase of the US…
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