by Yohanes Obor | Aug 1, 2016 | Finance, Markets, News
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Bank Muamat, the largest Islamic bank in Indonesia, reported a 71.6% drop in net profit, to Rp30 billion in first half of 2016, compared to Rp106 billion in the corresponding period of 2015. Revenue fell 22.8% to Rp866 billion from previous...
by Yohanes Obor | Aug 1, 2016 | Finance, Markets, News
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Composite index of the Indonesia Stock Exchange opened higher 1.9% at 5315 this morning. Profit taking afternoon session on Friday last week (July 29) dragged down IDX by 1.57% to close at 5216. Investors (mainly local) sold off shares of...
by Haryanto Suharman | May 10, 2016 | News, Newsmakers, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The government has still continues their effort of bring back the fugitive businessman Djoko Tjandra from the Papua New Guinea (PNG) to Indonesia. The Director General of the Immigration Ronny F. Sompie, however, said that the extradition of...
by Haryanto Suharman | May 10, 2016 | Corruption, Law, News
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The Supreme Court (MA) accepted the petition of reconsideration (PK) filed by Kwee Cahyadi Kumala aka Swie Teng and so, the court reduced the prison term of the owner of PT Sentul City (BKSL) Tbk and President Commissioner of PT Bukit Jonggol...
by Haryanto Suharman | May 2, 2016 | News, Newsmakers, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court (MK) Arief Hidayat only got a light sanction in a form of verbal warning from the MK’s Ethical Council for committing an ethical violation. The MK’s Ethical Council concluded that Arief has been...
by Haryanto Suharman | May 2, 2016 | News, Newsmakers, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest Muslim organization in the country, has asked President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to determine June 1, 1945, as the day of the birth of the State’s ideology Pancasila. The proposal of making June 1 as the day of...