JAKARTA - INDONESIA needs a new state commission to oversee sweeping reform of the judicial system, a process which could take 10-20 years to complete, a top legal expert told Reuters in an interview on Friday. Mr Adnan Buyung Nasution, who heads a team of legal and human rights experts appointed by the president to investigate a scandal involving the country's law enforcement agencies, is due to present the team's final recommendations next week.

The public works ministry will lead an inter departmental team to audit spatial proposals to streamline overlapping policies and plans, tackling the bottlenecks now hampering infrastructure projects. The result of the audit will serve as a basis for the formulation of a presidential decree that would give the central government authority to intervene in solving policy conflicts on spatial planning amongst regional governments.

PLN Electricity Company bosses are blamed. They pledge compensation. Many in East Java and South Sulawesi have to endure hardships. In the last few weeks, power cuts last 10 to 12 hours a day. About 32,000 small- and medium-sized firms experience “monumental” losses.