May 28, 2026 | Market, Politics
In celebration of Eid al-Adha 2026, President Prabowo Subianto distributed 1,098 sacrificial cows worth Rp 100 billion, funded through the state budget. In other words, the cattle were purchased with public money, not from the president’s personal wealth. But the way...
May 28, 2026 | Law, Market
The government, through the Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DJKI), is studying the creation of a collective management organization to collect royalties from AI companies that use copyrighted materials to train their models. The proposal would function...
May 28, 2026 | Law, Politics
The adoption of the “right to be forgotten” in the revision of the Human Rights Law has reopened a difficult question: in a democracy, who gets to decide what society deserves to remember? The Ministry of Human Rights argues that the policy is necessary to protect...
May 28, 2026 | Law, Politics
Indonesia’s proposed revision to the Human Rights Law is officially described as an effort to modernize and strengthen the country’s human rights framework. Yet the growing backlash from activists, academics, and National Commission on Human Rights itself suggests a...
May 26, 2026 | Market, Politics
The government’s latest signal that some functions of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise may eventually be shifted to the newly formed Danantara Sumberdaya Indonesia (DSI) is more than a bureaucratic adjustment. It reflects a deeper political strategy...
