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Fwd: Your Paper Makes SSRN Top Ten List

Mova
December 28, 2010 12:17

Note: this is a working paper. Your comments are highly appreciated----- Your paper, "The Potential Role of the Human Right to Water in the Management of Indonesia's Water Resources", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for Environment & Natural Resources...

Indonesia - Investment Policy Review – OECD

Mova
December 23, 2010 07:16

The 2010 OECD Investment Policy Review contains a quite comprehensive assessment of Indonesia’s regulatory and investment policy. For those of you who areinvestment lawyers, Chapter 2 discusses in depth, Indonesia’s  implementation of international investment principles. Other aspects such...

Transparency fighters and the rejection of authority

Mova
December 21, 2010 02:17

  What do whistleblowers, transparency fighters, file sharing activists and defectors have in common? They may all possess the same personality trait: a rejection of authority. According to Esther Dyson in project syndicate:     But you probably need to be a bit weird and...

Transparency leads to blackmail?

Mova
December 15, 2010 12:24

The Jakarta Post reported several months ago, that the State Audit agency (BPK) cease the publication of companies financial audit report due to blackmailing concerns. According to the article:     The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has stopped publishing online reports, to the dismay...

Human Right to Water and the Management of Indonesia’s Water Resources

Mova
December 14, 2010 00:06

I recently uploaded my World Water Week presentation’s background paper to the SSRN. The title of the paper is “The Potential Role of the Human Right to Water in the Management of Indonesia’s Water Resources”. In the paper, I argued that: “…there are gaps in the Indonesian legal framework in...

The Insider’s Threat to Business (Australian Government)

Mova
December 13, 2010 00:08

  In the wake of wikileaks, the Australian government recently issued a booklet titled “The Insider’s Threat to Business: A Personnel Security Handbook”. The booklet elaborate precautionary approaches that a business organization may employ in order to prevent the leak of confidential...

Foreign Direct Investment in Indonesia [Guest Post]

Mova
November 08, 2010 15:01

  Ed note: this is a guest post by Suria Nataadmadja (suria[at]surialaw.com) and Selviyani from SURIA NATAADMADJA & ASSOCIATES. If you have further inquiry on this topic, please contact the authors directly. As a matter of clarity, the term foreign direct investment is used here to...

House to further regulate accounting services

Mova
October 29, 2010 10:42

Legislative Update 01/2010   Earlier this year, the House of Representative presented the academic draft on the Law on Public Accountants (download the academic draft here, in Bahasa). The current version of the draft law in its preamble does not seem to provide enough justification on...

Enjoy ILR in your Kindle

Mova
October 28, 2010 08:15

The ILR entered into agreement with Amazon yesterday to deliver the blog to Kindle devices through its Kindle Publishing program. If you subscribe to ILR through Amazon, the content will be delivered directly to your Kindle device through Whispernet. Note that Amazon impose a $ 1,99 monthly charge...

Indonesia’s Attorney General Lost its Power to Ban Books

Mova
October 14, 2010 21:06

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