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National scene: Dems

blast
Jokowi-SBY comparison
The Jakarta Post | National | Tue, October 01 2013, 9:23 AM
National News

JAKARTA: The leader of Democratic Party (PD) lawmakers in the House of

Representatives, Nurhayati Ali Assegaf, expressed anger over the comparison drawn
between President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyonos stance on religious freedom and that
of Jakarta Governor Joko Jokowi Widodo.
Nurhayati said it was unfair to compare a new governor like Jokowi to the President,
especially as the latter was politically committed to upholding religious freedom in
Indonesia.
Pak Jokowi doesnt deserve the comparison. He is only a governor. Its all political. I
dont know why people would even do that because Pak SBY has proven his
commitment to religious freedom, Nurhayati told reporters on Monday, referring to
Yudhoyonos initials.
Nurhayati was responding to critics, including Rev. Palti Panjaitan from the beleaguered
HKBP Filadelfia church, who had called on Yudhoyono to follow Jokowi and defend
Lenteng Agung subdistrict head Susan Jasmine Zulkifli against the religiously driven
opposition she faced.
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RI, Chinese companies

sign
agreement on monorail
project
Sita W Dewi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Jakarta | Thu, October 03 2013, 7:37 PM
Jakarta News

Witnessed by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Chinese President Xi Jinping,

Jakarta-based PT Jakarta Monorail (JM) and China Communications Construction
Company Ltd. (CCCC) on Thursday signed an agreement for the funding, design and
construction of the monorail project.
The CCCC agreed to invest US$1.5 billion in the monorail project as well as funding the
construction of a monorail assembly plant in Indonesia.
The joint venture will involve CCCC in designing and building the monorail as well as
developing an integrated transit system. Furthermore, JM and CCCC will build a plant for
the maintenance and
assembly of the monorail cars, some of which will be imported from China.
We believe we have made the right choice in investing in our partner PT Jakarta
Monorail and we hope to share our experience in the engineeringand construction of
large infrastructure projects, CCCC International executive president Mo Wenhe said
during the press conference.
In the agreement, JM reserves the right to involve state-owned train maker PT Inka as a
strategic partner in assembling and potentially manufacturing the monorail trains.
JM president director Sukmawati Syukur said that only 50 trains would be directly
imported from China.
The remaining trains will be assembled in Indonesia, she said, adding that the
assembly plant would provide job opportunities for thousands of local workers.
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RI tries to spare
Wilfridas life
Margareth S. Aritonang, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Headlines | Mon, September 30 2013, 9:07 AM
Headlines News

The government and NGOs have stepped up efforts to persuade the Malaysian
authorities to spare the life of 20-year-old Indonesian migrant worker Wilfrida Soik as a
Malaysian court is due to announce its verdict on her on Monday.
Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhamimin Iskandar flew to Malaysia on Friday
on a mission to save Wilfrida, who has been charged with killing her Malaysian
employer, Yeap Seok Pen, 60, who had Parkinsons disease, in 2010.
Kota Baru High Court in Johor is expected to hand down its verdict on Wilfrida in a
hearing on Monday. She is accused of murdering Yeap, in what activists and rights
campaigners say was an act of self defense after being tortured by her employer.
Muhaimin said that the government would take any means necessary to persuade the
Kota Baru High Court to grant leniency to Wilfrida.
We asked Malaysia to pay attention to Indonesian migrant workers who are facing the
death penalty, including Wilfrida, in a meeting last Friday. But, we must understand that
the Malaysian government cant directly intervene in any ongoing trial process, he said
in a statement.
On Saturday, Wilfridas parents, Rikhardus Mau and Mario Kolo, also departed for
Malaysia to attend the verdict hearing, in the company of Belu Legislative Council deputy
speaker Magdalena Tiwu and Rev. Goris from the Atambua Diocese.
It really hurts me. The only thing I knew was she was staying with her uncle. I only
learned that she was in Malaysia after it was reported that she might face a death
sentence. I hope she will be released and returned to her family, said Rikhardus.

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The case has taken on a political aspect as chief patron of the Great Indonesian
Movement (Gerindra) Party, Prabowo Subianto, is expected to attend the hearing, after
earlier announcing that he had hired prominent Malaysian lawyer Muhammad Shafee
Abdullah, to defend Wilfrida.
Wilfridas case is fixed for hearing at the Kota Baru High Court tomorrow. I will be taking
over the case at the submissions stage of the prosecutions case, Shafee said as
quoted by The Malaysian Insider on Sunday.
Executive director of Migrant Care, an NGO focusing on workers rights, Anis Hidayah,
said the organization had uncovered more evidence in Wilfridas defense.
She said that Wilfrida was a victim of human trafficking. An investigation by Migrant Care
earlier revealed that Wilfridas credentials had been falsified by a scalper her birth
year was changed from 1993 to 1989 in order for her to work.
Anis said that Wilfrida was only 17-years-old when she entered Malaysia on falsified
documents, a condition that would make her eligible for protection under the
International Convention on the Rights of the Child, which forbids capital punishment for
minors.
Both Indonesia and Malaysia have ratified the convention. The convention is applicable
in Wilfridas case. I will also bring up the issue during the ongoing UN High Level
Dialogue on Migration and Development, she said from New York, where she was
scheduled to speak at the UN headquarters.
Anis said that there was a precedent in which an Indonesian migrant worker in
Singapore, Siti Aminah, was spared the death penalty using the convention.
So, there is hope for Wilfrida. I believe that the Malaysian authorities will spare her from
the death penalty if they really consider these facts, Anis said.
Tragic fate of Indonesian workers in Malaysia
Nirmala Bonat (2004)
Nirmala has been scorched with a hot iron, scalded and beaten with a metal cup and a
plastic coat hanger. On Oct. 1 2012, Nirmalas former employer, 44-year-old housewife
Yim Pek Ha, is sentenced to 12 years in prison after a prolonged trial.

Ceriyati binti Dapin (2007)

Ceriyati attempts to escape from her employers 15th floor apartment in 2007 by tying
together sheets to make a rope after she is physically abused for three-and-a-half

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months by her male employer. She is rescued by the fire department after reaching the
eighth floor.
Siti Fathonah (2008)
Fathonah, from Cilacap, Central Java is murdered by her employer in Puchong,
Selangor.
Sumasri (2009)
Sumasri is admitted to the hospital upon her arrival home, with severe burns to her body,
on May 14, 2009. Migrant Care say Sumasri suffers from extensive scarring on her back,
shoulders, hands and thighs, as a result of her employer allegedly pouring boiling water
over her.
Modesta Rengga Kaka (2009)
Modesta suffers severe injuries and hearing loss after being physically abused by her
employer
Siti Hajar (2009)
Siti flees her employers home in June 2009. She had worked for Hau Yuan Tyng, a
single mother of two, for three years in a luxury condominium. In May 2010, a Malaysian
court sentences her employer to eight years in prison.
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SBY instructs ministers

to monitor US shutdown
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Headlines | Wed, October 02 2013, 10:26 AM
Headlines News

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has instructed his Cabinet ministers to monitor
the global situation following the United States government shutdown.
What happened in the US a few hours ago, the government shutdown, will have an
impact on the global economy because [the US] is the worlds biggest economy, the
President said on Tuesday.
We must monitor the domestic and global economy so that the policy decisions we
make will be most effective, he added.
Yudhoyono made the call after getting the latest reports from the US as the federal
government began to shut down for the first time in 17 years. The shutdown will put
nearly 1 million workers on unpaid leave and lead to a suspension of many government
programs.
News of the shutdown led to falls in regional stock markets.
The Jakarta Composite Index (JCI) the main benchmark of the Indonesian Stock
Exchange (IDX) was among those affected, closing at 4,316.17 on Monday, down 2.4
percent from the previous day.
It rose to 4,345.89 at the end of trading on Tuesday, supported by the Central Statistics
Agencys (BPS) reports of deflation and a trade surplus in September.
Finance Minister M. Chatib Basri said on Tuesday the shutdown had caused anxiety
around the world. Chatib said he believed the US government would soon resolve the
situation. Its not possible for a country to be stuck in such a situation for too long. I am
sure there will be a political compromise between the involved parties, he said.

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Bloomberg reported that the US government began its partial shutdown after Congress
failed to break a partisan deadlock by the deadline of midnight over whether to tie any
changes to its 2010 health care bill to an extension of government funding.
As no further negotiations on spending legislation had been scheduled by congressional
leaders, the situation raised concerns that the shutdown would result in a more
consequential fight over how to raise the US debt limit to avoid a first-ever default after
Oct. 17.
Even if the budget fight is resolved, lawmakers would immediately move to the next
fiscal dispute over raising the US$16.7 trillion debt ceiling, it said.
Meanwhile, University of Gadjah Mada economist A. Tony Prasetiantono said that the
shutdown would reduce investor confidence in the US economy and could lead to a
weakening dollar. On the other hand, the rupiah may strengthen against the US dollar
which would be beneficial, he said.
Separately, Bank Mandiri economist Destry Damayanti said that the issue would not
immediately affect Indonesia in the short term. In the medium term, US economic
growth might stall with a reduction in imports, but it might not necessarily mean that our
exports to the US will fall because our products are mainly basic commodities, she said.
According to data from the BPS, the US is currently one of Indonesias biggest non-oil
and gas export markets. Exports to the US made up 10.2 percent, or $10 billion, of the
total non-oil and gas exports between January and August 2013.
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