The wRap Indonesia: Feb. 4, 2015

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Jokowi says he'll resolve police chief dilemma 'next week', index shows Jakarta has the worst traffic in the world, Surabaya mayor named one of the best in the world, and more

JAKARTA, Indonesia – President Joko Widodo’s statement on when the National Police chief saga might end and global rankings that cast Indonesia both in good and bad lights lead our wrap of stories today. 

1. Jokowi says he’ll resolve police chief dilemma ‘next week’

DECISION SOON. Jokowi says he's resolve everthing next week. File photo by AFP

If President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo keeps his word, we can expect a resolution to the police chief drama next week. “I’ll resolve everything next week,” he said on Wednesday, February 4, when reporters asked him about whether he would replace Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan as the police chief appointee.

Jokowi will fly to Kuala Lumpur on Thursday for the first leg of 4-day trip that will also take him to Brunei and the Philippines. He will be back in Jakarta on Monday, and when he does people are expecting him to announce a replacement for Budi, who was controversially named a corruption suspect on January 13. This triggered one of the worst conflicts between the National Police and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). An independent team Jokowi created to advise him on the conflict recommended he drop Budi, and there have been indications throughout the past week that the president will heed this. Read the full story in Bahasa Indonesia on Rappler

2. Jakarta has the worst traffic in the world? 

JAMMED JAKARTA. Is this the worst traffic in the world? Photo by EPA.

Maybe not in the entire world but among the 78 cities included in the recently released 2014 Stop-Start Index by Castrol Magnatec, Jakarta indeed has the worst traffic. Using data shared anonymously by millions of TomTom navigation users around the world, the report stated that motorists in the Indonesian capital stop and start 33,240 times in a year  – that’s more than 90 times a day! A close second is Istanbul with 32,520 start-stops a year, but a second Indonesian city – Surabaya – comes in at 4th place with 29,880. This should come as no surprise to residents of Jakarta, where Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama has all sorts of plans ranging from banning motorycles on certain roads to installing an electronic road pricing system to prevent the capital from becoming completely gridlocked. Read the full story in Bahasa Indonesia on Rappler

3. The 3rd best mayor in the world? Surabaya’s Mayor Risma

Good news this time: Surabaya may have one of the worst traffic situations in the world but its mayor is apparently one of the best. Surabaya Mayor Tri Rismaharini the second runner-up for the 2014 World Mayor Prize announced Tuesday, February 3, and the winner of the World Mayor Commendation for services to the city. The first female mayor of Indonesia’s second largest city “has attracted national and international attention for energetically promoting her social, economic and environmental policies,” according to the World Mayor citation. Jokowi was also the second runner-up in the 2012 World Mayor Prize for his work in Solo. 

4. Jakarta mayors could earn more than $70,000 a year

Jakarta Governor Ahok wants to incentivize civil servants, and he’s doing this by giving performance-based allowances that can see a mayor (Jakarta has 5 appointed municipal mayors) earn more than IDR75 million a month, or about $71,500 a year. This would be more than the average $62,000 a year mayors ear, according to salary calculators at job websites. Not just mayors, district heads can earn up to IDR48.8 million ($3,870) a month, higher by IDR20 million from before, and subdistrict heads IDR33.7 million ($2,680), up IDR13 million. Read the full story in Bahasa Indonesia on Rappler

5. Indonesia protests ‘Fire Your Indonesian Maid’ ad in Malaysia

The advertisement above by the RoboVac vacuum cleaner in Malaysia is foul, according to the Indonesian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. It’s “insensitive and demeaning to the people of Indonesia,” the embassy said, according to a release on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and asked the Malaysian government to ban its use. The company website where the ad also appears was not accessible on Wednesday morning. The embassy also hired a lawyer to study legal options. This latest tiff between the neighboring countries comes just before Jokowi’s first state visit to Malaysia on Thursday. Read the full story in Bahasa Indonesia on Rappler. – Rappler.com

  

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