Every turn of the year brings about expectation, hope and a degree of uncertainty. For entrepreneurs and decision-makers, such uncertainty brings about challenges and opportunities.

A new strategic development in East Asia will bring about many changes to the region. A relevant and timely question is what should ASEAN do? Since Indonesia will be the…

Indonesia’s forest-based industries remain on the edge of survival after more than a decade of government decentralization that was accompanied by a series of failed policies and mismanagement.

Every Indonesian child has been told the story of their beloved country being the emerald of the equator, with its breathtaking scenery and vast cultural diversity, and how others, from…

What do Robert Tantular and Amir Mahmud have in common? Both of them are convicts. Both of them were sentenced to four years in prison because judges found them guilty.

As many as 560 legislators at the House of Representatives took their oath on Oct. 1 and pledged to wholeheartedly serve their constituents.

There was a different ambiance on Wednesday, the last day of trading at the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2009, from a year earlier, which summed up the contrasting moods arising…

After passing through an extraordinary year, 2009, as well as the first decade of the 21st century, Indonesia finds itself at a crossroads just ahead of both the new year…

It seems clear that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s popularity is in decline.

Cases where hospitals reject patients living in poverty because they cannot pay the advance was a common occurrence in Indonesia several years ago.