by Haryanto Suharman | Dec 23, 2015 | Business, News, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Vice President Jusuf Kalla has asked the people to not be suspicious over the recent meeting between his nephew Erwin Aksa Mahmud with Freeport McMorran’s CEO James R. Moffet aka Jim Bob. Kalla, in his defense, said that nothing’s wrong with the...
by Haryanto Suharman | Dec 14, 2015 | Business, News, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – A famous Indonesianist Benedict Anderson from Cornell University, US, died at the age of 79 on Saturday (Dec. 12) night in Batu, Malang, East Java. According to Ben’s adopted son Wahyu Yudistira, Ben’s remains will be...
by Haryanto Suharman | Sep 2, 2015 | Business, News, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law, and Security affairs Gen. (ret) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan promised to the leaders from several labor confederations a luncheon meeting with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to be set next month. Luhut...
by Haryanto Suharman | Apr 21, 2015 | Business, News, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Panel of judges at the Ketapang District Court in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, has sentenced Businessman Budiono Tan, owner of Benua Indah Group, two years in jail for forgery and fraud case. The verdict is similar with the demand from the...
by Yohanes Obor | Mar 19, 2015 | Business, News, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Shareholders of state bank PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) Tbk (BBRI) today (March 19) approved to appoint Asmawi Syam as new president director, replacing Sofyan Basir, now serves as president director of state electricity firm PT...
by Yohanes Obor | Feb 13, 2015 | Business, News, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Tjandra Kusuma (94), founder of Mulia Group, has on Tuesday (February 10) passed away in Singapore General Hospital. His corpse is now laid at funeral home of Gatot Subroto hospital in central Jakarta and is scheduled to be buried on Monday...