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Thu, July 20, 2017 Published on Jul. 20, 2017 Published on 2017-07-20T12:04:44+07:00

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Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo  listens as he joins the meeting with the Special Committee of Elections Bill at the House of Representatives on May 30, 2017. Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo listens as he joins the meeting with the Special Committee of Elections Bill at the House of Representatives on May 30, 2017. (Antara/Wahyu Putro A. )

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  • After months of deliberation and intense negotiations the House of Representatives is expected today to vote on a new law that would decide the mechanism and outcome of the 2019 presidential and legislative elections. The 10 political factions at the House have been wrangling over the presidential threshold, the minimum percentage of the popular vote a party or coalition of parties needs to nominate a presidential candidate. Lawmakers are expected to pull off an all-nighter to work on their differences.
  • Graft defendants Irman (right) and Sugiharto -- who are both former Home Ministry officials -- attend their hearing at the Jakarta Corruption Court on June 22. (Antara/Wahyu Putro A.)
  • The Jakarta Corruption Court is expected today to deliver verdicts for two former senior officials at the Home Ministry, Irman and Sugiharto, for their alleged role in siphoning off Rp 2.3 trillion from the state budget in the electronic identity card (e-ID) graft case. KPK, prosecutors have demanded that the judges sentence Irman and Sugiharto to seven and five years in prison, respectively.
  • A child touches Salvador Dali's tombstone inside the Teatre-Museu Dali (Theatre-Museum Dali) in Figueras on July 18, 2017 ahead of the exhumation of the artist's remains. The remains of the world-famous surrealist, who is buried in his museum in Figueras, in northeastern Spain, were ordered exhumed after a woman who claims to be his daughter filed a paternity claim. (AFP/ Louis Gene)
  • From Spain, we learn today that the remains of surrealist artist Salvador Dali are to be exhumed from his hometown to prove a fortune teller’s claim that the artist is her father.

 

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