Indonesia’s Spatial Planning Bill Signals a New Era of Land Governance
Bali does not sit still. The rice terraces shift by season. The coastline moves a little further each year, eaten by tide and concrete alike. And now, quietly, in the committee rooms of Jakarta, the very legal architecture that decides what can be built where – and by whom – is being rewritten too. I […]
Indonesia Broadcasting Law Amendment: Key Impacts on Foreign Digital Platforms
Jakarta is rewriting an old law for a medium it was never written for. Law No. 32 of 2002 on Broadcasting was built for a different world. A world of transmission towers and licensed frequencies. A world where “broadcasting” meant something you could point to – a station, a signal, a studio with a sign […]
Indonesia’s Citizenship Bill: What It Means for Families & Investors?
Thirty years in Bali teaches you to read Indonesian law the way you read tide charts—slowly, suspiciously, and never at face value. When the House of Representatives (DPR) began deliberations on the new draft revision to the Indonesian Citizenship Law (Law No. 12/2006), I read it twice: once for what it explicitly states, and once […]