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Koran Investor Daily digugat karena pencemaran nama baik. Hakim meminta hak jawab digunakan lebih dulu.

LENDO Novo memilih mengikuti perintah pengadilan. Setelah menimbang sekitar dua pekan, staf khusus Menteri Negara Badan Usaha Milik Negara (BUMN) ini akhirnya menetapkan pilihannya. ”Saya putuskan menggunakan hak jawab saja,” kata Lendo kepada Tempo, Rabu pekan lalu. (more…)

JUDGES Kresna Harahap’s and Made Hendra Kusumah’s attempts to evade pursuit by journalists were in vain. Even though they left through the back door of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) offices, journalists and cameramen were still able to “catch” the pair. “It was nothing. Just a goodwill meeting,” said Kresna referring to a visit of around 20 minutes at the KPK.On Tuesday last week, the two Corruption Court non-career ad hoc judges met with KPK Deputy Chairman Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean. What was discussed, among other things, was the issue of the now almost completed Draft Law on the Eradication of Corruption produced by the government. Under the new law, the Corruption Court is under threat of being abolished. (more…)

Did military or police leaders assist in the disappearance of a Jambi timber baron?THE large white mansion with fences 2 meters high does not look like an office. It seems quiet and deserted. Actually, the two-story building in Lorong Kuningan 111, Talangbanjar, East Jambi subdistrict, Jambi, is the head office of PT Dekapura Kencana, at the same time the house of timber tycoon Ahi alias Sudiman. “Now it’s only me and my two children living in this house,” said Ati, a domestic servant, last Wednesday. (more…)

Ahi bebas sekitar satu jam setelah pembacaan putusan sela. Polisi memasukkannya ke daftar pencarian orang.

RUMAH besar putih berpagar setinggi dua meter itu tak tampak seperti kantor. Lengang dan sepi. Padahal bangunan dua lantai di Lorong Kuningan 111, Talangbanjar, Kecamatan Jambi Timur, Kota Jambi, itu adalah markas PT Dekapura Kencana, sekaligus rumah cukong kayu Ahi alias Sudiman. ”Kini hanya saya dan kedua anak saya yang menempati rumah ini,” kata Ati, pembantu, Rabu pekan lalu. (more…)

SIA-SIA saja hakim Kresna Harahap dan Made Hendra Kusumah menghindari kejaran wartawan. Meski keluar melalui pintu belakang kantor Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi, wartawan dan juru kamera tetap bisa ”menangkap” keduanya. ”Tidak ada apa-apa. Cuma silaturahmi,” kata Kresna Harahap tentang kunjungan sekitar 20 menit ke KPK itu. (more…)

For the first time ever the Supreme Court reactivates a bank that had previously been frozen by BI. Shareholders are convinced there are new investors.

THE three-story building on Jl. Gajah Mada in Denpasar was locked. There were guards, let alone smartly dressed officials like bank employees coming in and out. Nowadays the central office of Bank Dagang Bali (BDB) is like a building without a master. Three years ago Bank Indonesia (BI) withdrew the operating license of the bank that was the pride of the Balinese people. “If BI permits it, Bank Dagang Bali could begin operating again,” said the bank’s majority shareholder I Gusti Made Oka on Wednesday last week. (more…)

Untuk pertama kalinya Mahkamah Agung menghidupkan lagi bank yang sudah dibekukan Bank Indonesia. Pemegang saham yakin ada investor baru.

GEDUNG berlantai tiga di Jalan Gajah Mada, Denpasar, itu terkunci. Tak ada penjaga, apalagi lalu-lalang pegawai berbaju rapi layaknya karyawan bank. Kan­tor pusat Bank Dagang Bali itu kini bagai gedung tak bertuan. Tiga tahun silam Bank Indonesia memang telah menca­but izin operasi bank kebanggaan­ ma­syarakat Bali itu. ”Kalau BI meng­izin­kan, Bank Dagang Bali bisa kembali berope­rasi,” kata I Gusti Made Oka, sang pemilik saham, Rabu pekan lalu. (more…)

Articles on indecent acts remain in the Draft Pornography Law. The PPP is threatening to resign from the Special Committee if this is betrayed.

TWO photographs are perched on the wall of room number 504 at the Nusantara Building at the House of Representatives (DPR) complex in Jakarta. The photographs depict DPR member Agung Sasongko posing with a number of Papuan women with curly hair and topless, or bare-chested. “That was when I made a working visit [to Papua] in February last year,” said the Deputy Chair of the Special Committee deliberating the Draft Anti-Pornography and Porno-Action Law when speaking with Tempo on Wednesday last week. (more…)

Pasal tentang pornoaksi tetap ada dalam RUU Pornografi. Partai Persatuan Pembangunan mengancam keluar dari panitia khusus jika dikhianati.DUA foto bertengger di dinding ruang nomor 504 di gedung Nusantara, kompleks DPR, Jakarta. Pada foto itu anggota DPR Agung Sasongko berpose dengan sejumlah perempuan Papua. Para perempuan berambut ikal itu terlihat topless alias bertelanjang dada. ”Itu saat saya melakukan kunjungan kerja pada Februari tahun lalu,” kata Wakil Ketua Panitia Khusus Rancangan Undang-Undang Antipornografi dan Pornoaksi ini kepada Tempo, Rabu pekan lalu. (more…)