TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - THE social forestry scheme becomes a national priority program to alleviate poverty of people living around forests in 2016. However, from the target of 12.7 million hectares, today, the distribution of access to social forests has not reached half of it. There are many obstacles. In Java, volunteers supporting President Joko Widodo exploit the program by charging levies on farmers. In Sumatra, timber companies use the program to expand concessions and raise wood production.
NATIONAL
Power Addiction
THERE is an idea to make Joko Widodo a candidate of vice president in the 2024 presidential election. How serious is this idea?
ECONOMY
Changes of PLN’s Business
THE government forms a holding company of state electricity firm PLN. This new structure is reportedly part of PLN’s strategy to seek new funding for coal-fired power plants whose operation will be discontinued.
INTERLUDE
The Trace of Indonesian Gulags
LOCATIONS of former political detention camps of the 1965 incident are scattered throughout Indonesia. Tempo tracks several of them that are now almost unrecognizable. It is suspected that there is an attempt to erase their traces.
