Agnes Maria E. Wardhana
Agnes became a member of Assegaf Hamzah & Partners in 2007, having commenced her legal career with another top-tier Jakarta law firm where she was principally involved in commercial litigation. Prior to that, she spent brief stints as a paralegal with the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation and as an intern at the United Nations Information Centre in Jakarta.
Since joining AHP, Agnes has amassed a wealth of expertise in the general corporate, mergers and acquisitions, litigation and dispute resolution areas. A practicing advocate, she now focuses primarily on commercial dispute resolution, land law, and competition / antitrust law. Among the high-profile competition cases she has worked on are the PT Garuda Indonesia vs. the Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) case, where the District Court overturned the KPPU’s decision that Garuda had been part of an airline cartel established to maintain fuel surcharges, and held that uncorroborated circumstantial evidence could not be used to prove such allegations, and the PT Holcim Indonesia vs. the KPPU case, where Agnes was a member of the team that successfully defended cement producer PT Holcim Indonesia, a subsidiary of the largest cement producer in the world, against charges of participating in a price-fixing conspiracy with other cement producers. She is currently working on another important antitrust case, PT Gita Persada vs. the KPPU, where she is defending Gita Persada against charges of collusion in a tender process.
Other major cases that Agnes is presently engaged on include a tort claim by telecommunications operator PT Indosat Tbk against state-owned gas company PT Perusahaan Gas Negara arising out of damage to Indosat’s fiber optic cables, and an appeal against an award of USD 1.5 million made against national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia in relation to comments about a well-known Indonesian businessman that appeared in the Garuda in-flight magazine.
Agnes holds a bachelor of law degree from the University of Indonesia, where she majored in international law, and an advocate’s professional training certificate from the Indonesian Bar Association (PERADI). Keen on the academic side of the law since her student days, she was one of the researchers and contributors to the chapter on Indonesia in the seminal reference work ASEAN Competition Law, published by Rajah & Tann LLP, Singapore, and LexisNexis in 2011.
Agnes is an active member of PERADI, and is passionately concerned about human rights and social issues. In a similar vein, she devotes a considerable amount of her spare time to pro bono work.