Reformasi Dispatch

Our exclusive interview with the renowned anti-corruption investigator examines conditions within the independent commission and considers what might lie in store.  Jeff and Kevin discuss President Widodo’s positioning on the dismantling of the KPK and how it affects operating conditions for investors.  Also: a welcome Tax Amnesty clarification from the finance minister; energy planners embrace renewables, and surging trade trends bode well for growth.Get a free trial of Reformasi Weekly Newsletter at:https://bit.ly/reformasifreeSupport us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasiIt takes a lot of money to run a podcast. You need subscription fees for hosting, audio recording services, editor's salary and music licensing. Luckily, you, estemeed listeners of Reformasi Dispatch podcast can help us.You can donate to us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasi and help us grow!

Robert Blake, the former US ambassador, enumerates factors that are slowing deforestation and examines prospects for US-Indonesia engagement on climate change.  Also: Jeff and Kevin assess a portentous Ganjar-Puan rift, a bold tax initiative and an exceedingly complex gas-to-chemicals project.Get a free trial of Reformasi Weekly Newsletter at:https://bit.ly/reformasifreeSupport us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasiIt takes a lot of money to run a podcast. You need subscription fees for hosting, audio recording services, editor's salary and music licensing. Luckily, you, estemeed listeners of Reformasi Dispatch podcast can help us.You can donate to us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasi and help us grow!

Heroic investigators handed non-jobs in personnel winnowing.  Also: With nominating decisions just two years away, top provincial heads are clearly striving to elevate their nationwide profiles and boost their poll rankings.  At stake is the fundamental direction of Indonesia's democratization.  Also: healthcare preparations for anticipated post-holiday transmissions.Get a free trial of Reformasi Weekly Newsletter at:https://bit.ly/reformasifreeSupport us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasiIt takes a lot of money to run a podcast. You need subscription fees for hosting, audio recording services, editor's salary and music licensing. Luckily, you, estemeed listeners of Reformasi Dispatch podcast can help us.You can donate to us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasi and help us grow!

A conversation with Michal Zrust, co-founder of Lestari Capital, about the Rimba Collective, which uses markets to drive verified ecological outcomes.  Also: Kevin and Jeff on investment inflows, the GoTo merger, the unshuffled cabinet, and revitalizing Jakarta's Kota old town.Get a free trial of Reformasi Weekly Newsletter at:https://bit.ly/reformasifreeSupport us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasiIt takes a lot of money to run a podcast. You need subscription fees for hosting, audio recording services, editor's salary and music licensing. Luckily, you, estemeed listeners of Reformasi Dispatch podcast can help us.You can donate to us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasi and help us grow!

Cross Asean's Angus Mackintosh examines the digitization of consumption and what capital markets trends portend for recovery.  Also: a lost submarine, another Golkar scandal, bracing for a surge and a momentous summit on Myanmar.Get a free trial of Reformasi Weekly Newsletter at:https://bit.ly/reformasifreeSupport us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasiIt takes a lot of money to run a podcast. You need subscription fees for hosting, audio recording services, editor's salary and music licensing. Luckily, you, estemeed listeners of Reformasi Dispatch podcast can help us.You can donate to us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasi and help us grow!

Tiza Mafira of the Climate Policy Initiative discusses her upcoming documentary and dedicated work on single-use packaging waste.  Also: the mudik ban, an American vaccine-maker defies Indonesia's top regulator, the beleaguered Soehartos, a Wahid family comeback(?), and an overtly political new gun club.Watch the trailer of Pulau Plastik documentary here:https://youtu.be/PBhakv9DQFQGet a free trial of Reformasi Weekly Newsletter at:https://bit.ly/reformasifreeSupport us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasiIt takes a lot of money to run a podcast. You need subscription fees for hosting, audio recording services, editor's salary and music licensing. Luckily, you, estemeed listeners of Reformasi Dispatch podcast can help us.You can donate to us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasi and help us grow!

We interview Eurasia Group’s Peter Mumford to examine the web of linkages that might – or might not – affect outcomes in Myanmar.  Also discussed: a look at The Quad from Indonesia’s standpoint.  And Jeff and Kevin discuss Moeldoko’s failed gambit to take over Yudhoyono’s Partai Demokrat, another tragic church bombing, and Pertamina’s safety record.Get a free trial of Reformasi Weekly Newsletter at:https://bit.ly/reformasifreeSupport us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasiIt takes a lot of money to run a podcast. You need subscription fees for hosting, audio recording services, editor's salary and music licensing. Luckily, you, estemeed listeners of Reformasi Dispatch podcast can help us.You can donate to us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasi and help us grow!

Author Ben Bland discusses paradoxical leadership and we examine the latest in politics.  Also: China's signature project may face delay.Get a free trial of Reformasi Weekly Newsletter at:https://bit.ly/reformasifreeSupport us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasiIt takes a lot of money to run a podcast. You need subscription fees for hosting, audio recording services, editor's salary and music licensing. Luckily, you, estemeed listeners of Reformasi Dispatch podcast can help us.You can donate to us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasi and help us grow!

Former Presidential Advisory Council Chair Sri Adiningsih of Gadjah Mada University joins the pod to examine trends and prospects for the economy in the wake of the pandemic and the Omnibus Job Creation Law.   Also discussed: a forthcoming industry-minister decree would expand security-force protection services for industrial parks, many of which accommodate major investments funded by companies from China; this would appear to run counter to decades of best-practice lessons learned in Indonesia's resources sector.   And, yet again, a political kerfuffle arises from a plan to augment rice stocks through imports.  Get a free trial of Reformasi Weekly Newsletter at:https://bit.ly/reformasifreeSupport us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasiIt takes a lot of money to run a podcast. You need subscription fees for hosting, audio recording services, editor's salary and music licensing. Luckily, you, estemeed listeners of Reformasi Dispatch podcast can help us.You can donate to us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasi and help us grow!

A move toward privatizations and a target date for one-stop permitting are the latest in a series of reforms that have come forth rapidly from the Widodo administration amid the pandemic – just as past reforms also occurred as responses to downturns.  Also discussed: Moeldoko’s brazen move may be turning sour; and the Supreme Court’s administrator receives a six-year corruption sentence.Get a free trial of Reformasi Weekly Newsletter at:https://bit.ly/reformasifreeSupport us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasiIt takes a lot of money to run a podcast. You need subscription fees for hosting, audio recording services, editor's salary and music licensing. Luckily, you, estemeed listeners of Reformasi Dispatch podcast can help us.You can donate to us on buymeacoffee.com/reformasi and help us grow!