Archive for June, 2011
Jakarta: It’s Complicated
If I were to describe my relationship with Jakarta, it would be: “it’s complicated”.
Filed under: Lifestyle, Social | 8 Comments
Tags: Jakarta, urban planning
I’m not against the idea of buying a Presidential Plane, I’m just questioning whether it is necessary at this point of time.
Filed under: Economy, News, Politics | 1 Comment
Tags: budget transparency, Indonesia, plane, SBY
Our movies are back…
The Hollywood movie stand-off between the Indonesian government and the movie distributors will end soon, said Jero Wacik, the Indonesian Minister for Culture and Tourism. I wrote about the cause of our missing Hollywood movies in my other blog post the other day, but after reading the news, I’m skeptical to rejoice because we can’t tell whether the distributors are willing to pay their due taxes.
Filed under: Economy, News, Social | 2 Comments
Tags: Indonesia, movies
Nunun Nurbaeti is a suspect regarding Miranda Goeltom’s bribery case surrounding her voting as the Senior Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia in 2004, following the testimony that Nunun distributed Rp 22 billion in bribes to dozens of government officials and lawmakers. She suffered from “memory loss” and thus undergoes treatment in Singapore, but then she fled to Thailand and later it was found out that she’s in Cambodia.
Filed under: News, Politics | 2 Comments
Tags: Bribery, corruption, Indonesia
Australia stopped some of its cattle exports to Indonesia following some video footage on the condition of the abbatoirs in Indonesia. Obviously there is a lack of monitoring on the standards practiced in these abbatoirs and I’ll be giving some quick analysis on the issue (Warning: this post will contain some gruesome images, viewer’s discretion advised).
Filed under: Economy, Health, News, Social | 7 Comments
Tags: abbatoir, Australia, cattle, halal, Indonesia
The Indonesian Constitution stipulated that at least 20% of the government’s expenditure should be allocated to the education budget. How are we doing so far and is this rule feasible to be implemented?
Filed under: Economy, Social | 1 Comment
Tags: Education, evaluation, Indonesia, public spending, transparency
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