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Insight: Balancing progress and privacy: The PDP Law in the age of innovation

There is no better time to give individuals greater control over personal data protection. With the rise of data-heavy digital technologies, privacy intrusion, including personal data, is one of the risks that we unfortunately face today.

1 month ago
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Insight: A recipe for system change

When it comes to pushing for system change, the first myth to abandon is that a “chosen one” is going to save us all. Instead, it is a massive work of improving (and sometimes replacing) the different parts of the big machine to increase the likelihood of success. ...

1 month ago
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Insight: Evolving Indonesia’s healthcare delivery and data strategy

Indonesia generates petabytes of health data every day. This consists of thousands of medical records, medicine logistics data and patients’ medicine prescriptions. However, these petabytes of data have not been integrated and digitally recorded. ...

1 month ago

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Insight: Preparing a tech-savvy generation

Reinforcing soft skills such as critical thinking, analytical thinking, leadership and others remains crucial. This is essential to enable us to adopt and benefit from the development of AI.

1 month ago
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Insight: Fostering the role of peer-to-peer lending in the economy

Banking is still the main source of financial services for Indonesian consumers. The portion of banking credit in serving Indonesian consumers’ financial needs has reached 90 percent, while the remaining 10 percent comes from non-bank institutions such as finance companies, venture capital firms, pawnbroking companies, microfinance institutions and peer-to-peer lending (P2PL) financial technology (fintech) companies.

1 month ago
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Insight: Curing Indonesia’s collective amnesia

That exact hour when angry students took over the parliamentary building in Senayan, Jakarta, I was over 10,000 kilometers away. In 1998, the six-year-old me moved to Göttingen, Germany to accompany my mom who won a scholarship to do her master’s there.

2 months ago
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Insight: Do ideas matter in an election?

Presidential debates are a favorite pastime of mine. Whether I am alone or with company, they never fail to awaken the teenage girl within me who delights in arguments and their deconstruction.

2 months ago
Academia

Insight: Blended financing for carbon projects with greater social impact

Global collaborative endeavors to tackle climate change are once again in the limelight as COP28, which was held in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, has just wrapped up on Dec.12.  One of the most crucial items on the agenda is setting the standard for carbon credits and regulations related to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement on the Carbon Market.

2 months ago
Academia

Insight: Village SDGs data provide ease of determining the direction of village development

There is no denying that Law No. 6, 2014 on villages has opened the door for development

1 year ago
Opinion

Insight: Indonesia, the Palestinians and the new Middle East

While not modelled on the vision Peres sketched in his 1993 book The New Middle East, the Abraham Accords clearly refute widely-held assumptions about the centrality of resolving the Palestinian issue as a prerequisite for establishing a foundation of peace, prosperity and stability in the Middle East.

3 years ago
Opinion

Insight: National resilience key to Indonesia’s foreign policy

Since all states are inevitably in need of others and are interdependent with each other in many fields, some states may face vulnerability. The level, scope and intensity of the dependency matter and must be measured to determine the nature of the interdependence.

3 years ago
Opinion

Insight: In memoriam: Jakob Oetama, the national teacher

He was our “renaissance person,” as he had interests in so many diverse issues. He was first and foremost a publisher. He was a publisher in print media, through various newspapers and magazines in Jakarta and across the Indonesian archipelago.

3 years ago
Opinion

Insight: Hit hard by COVID-19, gig workers display grit, resilience

To help protect roughly 40 million Indonesian gig workers from financial shocks in the future, it’s time for a new generation of financial technology companies to step up and meet their needs.

3 years ago
Opinion

Insight: The wrong understanding of how liberal democracy works

It is wrong to claim that a political party or movement has won an election, because doing so polarizes participation into fixed ideas that suppress the free choice of citizens and slows the emergence of new solutions (to be verified) to problems of human cohabitation.

3 years ago
Opinion

Insight: Are democracies equipped to handle fast-moving economic crises?

Freedom House noted in March 2020 that we are entering the 14th year of consecutive decline in the health of democracy globally. Tracking the fate of the “third wave democracies”, Mainwaring and Bizzarro found that of the 91 democracies that emerged from 1974 to 2012, 34 experienced democratic breakdowns, while the quality of democratic practices stagnated in about 28 countries.

3 years ago
Opinion

Insight: The future of China-US relations

China-US relations are currently the most important issue, as global order can only be established through an orderly and productive relationship between China and the US. Neither country will be able to realize its true full potential if opposition by the other impedes progress.

3 years ago
Opinion

Insight: America’s unholy crusade against China

Many white Christian evangelicals in the United States have long believed that America has a God-given mission to save the world. Under the influence of this crusading mentality, US foreign policy has often swerved from diplomacy to war. It is in danger of doing so again.

3 years ago
Opinion

Insight: Pandemic policing lessons from India

India has been in nationwide lockdown since March 24 as a preventive measure against COVID-19. There are plenty of lessons Indonesia can draw from India, from the economics of lockdown to boosting an underwhelming healthcare system in an emergency.

3 years ago
Opinion

Insight: Don’t forget the middle class in social protection programs

In particular, Indonesia needs to further increase the number of people who can receive government assistance – and identify these people in new ways – as the COVID-19 economic shock affects members of the middle class.

3 years ago
Opinion

Insight: Work hand-in-hand for a new era of China-Indonesia friendship

A friend in need is a friend indeed. Our action once again testifies to our profound friendship of solidarity and mutual assistance in times of adversity.

3 years ago
Opinion

Insight: COVID-19 response ignores social context at our peril

People’s habits are accommodated to make isolation more livable and therefore easier to adhere to. However, initial attempts to keep open coffee shops for the morning ritual of espresso had to be reconsidered as distance could not be guaranteed. 

3 years ago
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Insight: High time for SMP/SMA Inpres to transform Indonesian education

The widening gulf between the rich and poor, partly due to unequal educational outcomes, is a genuine threat to Indonesia’s young democracy.

4 years ago
Opinion

Insight: Starting new chapter in EU-UK relations

Under this agreement, the EU and the UK agreed on a transition period, until the end of 2020 at least, during which the UK will continue to participate in the EU’s customs union and single market, and to apply EU law, even if it is no longer a member state.

4 years ago
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Insight: Indonesia needs new strategy to deal with China

The latest encroachment on Indonesian waters by Chinese fishing vessels and the Chinese coast guard several days ago highlights a fundamental reality: China could ignore Indonesia’s interests and concerns because it can.

4 years ago
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Insight: The year the KPK was destroyed — and realism for the anticorruption struggle

If we want the diversity of interests to be governed democratically as an order, politics — instead of tyranny — makes up our human condition. Diversity of interests makes the adversarial nature of politics inescapable. An irony torments our wish; in politics, nothing prevents us from setbacks or decay despite our best efforts. This is what happened in the KPK Law revision.

4 years ago
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Insight: Attacks on evidence, trust and truth wreak havoc on global health

Health systems in low and low middle-income countries (LMICs) struggle to deliver quality health care because of limited resources, poor infrastructure and a failure to use evidence wherever possible.

4 years ago
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Insight: RCEP is about ASEAN’s initiative, not China’s

Apart from increasing its security cooperation and bilateral economic relations, Japan seems to view India’s participation in the RCEP as a means to counter China’s regional dominance.

4 years ago
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Insight: How do we know a successful defense minister when we see one?

The defense minister has essentially four overlapping roles: chief defense bureaucrat, chief adviser to the President on national defense, chief civilian representative of the military and chief defense diplomat. For each role, we can further assess whether he spends more of his time, energy, and capital on processes or outcomes.

4 years ago
Opinion

Insight: Realizing partnership for peace, prosperity for people

ASEAN is the world’s youngest and most dynamic economic community. To transform its infinite potential into sustainable prosperity, it is crucial to increase connectivity in the region and cooperate in high-tech industries.

4 years ago

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