The Jakarta Post
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search resultsattorney-general-office
Politics 1 year ago
PREMIUM
Prosecutors seek seven years for Thomas Lembong in sugar graft case
Attorney General’s Office (AGO) prosecutors demanded that the bench declare former trade minister Thomas Lembong guilty in a corruption case pertaining to sugar imports and sentence him to seven years behind bars.
Politics 1 year ago
PREMIUM
AGO hints second questioning of ex-education minister Nadiem
An AGO spokesman says that investigators might have follow-up questions for Nadiem as a witness in the Chromebook graft case, opening the possibility of a second round of questioning after the first round on Monday, when the ex-minister was grilled for 12 hours.
Politics 1 year ago
PREMIUM
Alleged laptop procurement graft puts ex-minister Nadiem in spotlight
Attorney General’s Office (AGO) investigators are probing alleged corruption pertaining to the procurement of Google Chromebook laptops by the then-education, culture, research and technology ministry between 2019 and 2022.
Politics 1 year ago
PREMIUM
Minister Budi Arie in hot water over online gambling indictment
An indictment from Attorney General’s Office (AGO) prosecutors alleged Budi Arie Setiadi, who once served as the communications and information minister, of accepting half of total kickbacks received from online gambling operators.
Archipelago 1 year ago
PREMIUM
Press associations express concern over AGO’s arrest of JakTV chief editor
Journalists' associations have spoken out against the AGO's move to detain JakTV chief editor Tian Bahtiar for obstruction of justice in a bribery case, cautioning against setting a precedent that could threaten the constitutional right to freedom of speech and of the press.
Politics 1 year ago
PREMIUM
House prioritizes KUHAP revision over other bills
The House of Representatives Commission III overseeing legal affairs are focusing on finishing the deliberation of Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) by the end of this year, before moving on to other law revisions, including those governing the Attorney General’s Office and the National Police.
Archipelago 1 year ago
PREMIUM
AGO arrests JakTV editor in chief for obstruction of justice
The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) accused Tian of receiving Rp 478 million (US$28,337) from two lawyers, Marcella Santoso and Junaedi Saibih, in exchange for orchestrating negative news reports aimed at undermining the AGO’s investigations into corruption at state-owned tin mining giant PT Timah and a sugar import graft case involving former trade minister Thomas Lembong.
Editor's Picks
Popular
- Much ado about asset forfeiture
- Mass poisonings cast doubt on free meals reforms
- New data rules could unlock cross-border data flows
- Osama the gamer: A list of Bin Laden’s video games from his hard drive
- Free meals face seven-day ultimatum, possible lawsuit
- Prabowo’s approval slide fuels warm-up to 2029 elections
- Local, foreign firms own largest burned concessions in Kalimantan
- The war on terror and its unintended consequences
- From trust to Kizuna: 20 years of Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund
- Suicides rise as Indonesia struggles to meet demand for help
