Graft scandal rocks Indonesias establishment on March 20, 2017It is such an open secret that parliamentary commissions take pay-offs and other incentives to grease the path of legislation and influence key appointments that global graft watchdog Transparency International once again labelled the House of Representatives as Indonesia’s most corrupt institution. But seemingly on cue, nothing matches the latest scandal in which House Speaker […]
Indonesian insurer faces actuarial moment on February 20, 2017Still hanging in the balance, the restructuring of Indonesia’s troubled AJB Bumiputera 1912 mutual insurance company has raised hard questions about why successive governments allowed it to continue to hemorrhage cash for nearly two decades. President Joko Widodo’s government has yet to call in the Anti-Corruption Commission (KPK) to investigate the management of a firm […]