The planned US$7.3 billion acquisition by Singapore DBS Group Holding of publicly listed Bank Danamon should be one more confidence-building step in Indonesia’s long-term economic advance, but equally it could…

It’s time to be cautiously optimistic and give Myanmar a chance. While ASEAN may not have been right, perhaps it wasn’t mistaken in its much-maligned gambit of “constructive engagement” with…

Listening to our officials, the Indonesian economy is doing great. They are not exaggerating. The gross domestic product is growing at 6 to 7 percent, inflation is under control, Indonesia…

As president with twice an absolute majority, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono did not have to accept the political hand dealt to him.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is expected to announce his new Cabinet lineup very soon. His aides have been boasting that the President who once bowed to pressure from the major…

More advice or suggestions is the last thing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono needs now, as he ponders reshuffling his Cabinet. He must have received more suggestions than he needed since…

On May 1, 1986, during a meeting with ASEAN foreign ministers in Nusa Dua, Bali, the then US president Ronald Reagan cited a joke about two American hikers who saw…

The Indonesian government’s decision last week to stop sending maids to Saudi Arabia starting as early as next month should only be a temporary ad hoc measure that would be…

As Indonesians, we must empathize with the fate of 20 Indonesian sailors of the Sinar Kudus vessel who have been held hostage by pirates in Somali waters since March 16,…

If we ask about the whereabouts of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono today, it has nothing to do with April Fool’s Day, which falls every year on April 1, but is…