Penulis: Kang Ridwan

While resisting attacks from the National Police on its commissioners, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is still getting no help from President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, who refuses to intervene in the attempts by police to engineer legal cases against the agency’s leaders. President Jokowi met with Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Tedjo Edhy …

Indonesia is taking a tough stance against China in its fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by confiscating Chinese vessels and severing recent privileges given to China to fish in Indonesian waters. After confiscating more than nine Chinese-linked vessels for alleged poaching, the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry said on Friday that the …

The year 2015 began on a gloomy note for Indonesia following the crash of AirAsia flight QZ8501 in the Karimata Strait. Search and rescue efforts for the 162 passengers and crew of the aircraft, bound for Singapore from Surabaya on the morning of Dec. 28, have been going on for a week. President Joko “Jokowi” …

The more than 55 percent plunge in oil prices since July has resolved several potentially explosive political and economic problems for the new government of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. But he should not get complacent, as the condition is largely a matter of good fortune. As the saying goes, lightning never strikes twice in the …

The massacre by Muslim gunmen of a dozen employees of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7 was an abomination, an outrage, an atrocity and “an evil deed without a name”. It was a savagely disproportionate act of revenge. massacre – the killing of a large number of people, esp. people who …

Following the lead of national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, which nixed a plan to relocate flights from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Banten to the Halim Perdanakusuma Airport and Air Force Base in East Jakarta, low-cost carrier AirAsia Indonesia has announced it will not be relocating any of its flights to the Air Force base. nixed …

Garuda Indonesia’s low-cost subsidiary Citilink and low-cost carrier Indonesia AirAsia have proposed buying stakes in Tigerair Mandala, following the budget airline’s huge losses last year, says a government official. “Tigerair Mandala is seeking an opportunity for long-term investors,” the Transportation Ministry’s director for air transportation, Djoko Muratmodjo, told reporters on Wednesday. “Two of the potential …

I refer to an article titled “AirAsia admits administrative negligence,” (The Jakarta Post, Jan. 14). It cannot be as simple as it is described here. How could it be that passengers’ booked flights months in advance of the flight date, without suspicions being aroused? How could it be that flight controllers at Indonesian air traffic …

As more than 30 bodies from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 were recovered from the Karimata Strait this weekend, leaked official documents have given rise to allegations that AirAsia Indonesia violated procedures that lead to the disaster. The first allegation came to light in a leaked document that was originally sent by the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics …

A massive search operation to locate AirAsia flight QZ8501 and its 162 passengers and crew has been the focus of national and international media coverage since the Airbus 320 was first believed to have crashed in the Karimata Strait on Dec. 28. The Indonesian Military (TNI), National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), the National Police …