OPINION

IO - Articles 64-66 of Law No. 13 of 2003 (the Labor Law) regulate outsourcing, or the re-assignment of part of a work assigned to one company by the appointed to another company. The re-assignment for part...

IO - In an extraordinary turn of events, with less than six months after being re-elected and only weeks away from being sworn into office for a second term, President Jokowi now finds himself under fire and...

IO - It was two years ago. I forgot the exact day and date. What I remember was that a close friend called me in full anxiety and sadness: he said to me that he had...

IO - Indonesia’s actual economic growth within the first two quarters of 2019 is far below the annual economic growth target at 5.3%, i.e. at 5.07% (Q1-2019) and 5.05% (Q2-2019). This is a concern for many, because...

IO - For some time, many people have been speculating that Jokowi’s Government is penniless and it would not be able to finance itself until the end of the year. This reasoning is based on the...

IO - Pennywise, the clown related to the disappearance of children in the American town of Derry in the movie IT Chapter Two, is the right figure to embody the terror of children throughout...

IO - Indonesia is in fact the world’s biggest importer of garlic, compris­ing 17.6% of the world’s import market in 2016. That signified a foreign currency outflow of USD 674 million, or about IDR 9.5 tril­lion using the...

IO - Quite a few Indonesian economists are focusing on foreign debt as the most influential factor in attempting to kick-start the sickly national econ­omy. This ambitious attitude encour­ages the Government to load up...

IO - There are two types of levies that the government applies to its citizens. Tax and retribution. According to Law No. 28 of 2007 concerning General Provisions and Procedures for Taxation, tax­es are...

IO - President Jokowi has expressed his disappointment in his econom­ic team: Out of the 33 companies migrating from China between June-August 2019, only one chose to move to Indonesia; 23 others went to Vietnam. Indonesia is clear­ly...

IO - Every year, the Ministry of Fi­nance, as the designated manager of State finances, is assigned to create a State Budget as a national financial plan. When the House of Represen­tatives (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat – “DPR”) approves...