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Market-friendly income boost, refocused spending: The keys to stable Rupiah
Stabilizing the rupiah at Rp 18,000 requires Indonesia to look past trailing GDP growth and actively rebuild market confidence by enforcing strict resource export repatriation, maintaining clean fiscal governance and speaking to global capital with a single, clear technocratic voice.
14 hours ago
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Hormuz reopening could be OPEC’s undoing
Saudi Arabia and neighboring Gulf producers will cheer the eventual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, but the ensuing flood of oil risks eroding OPEC’s already fragile grip on the market. ...
10 hours ago
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Why Southeast Asia must unite against online scams
Southeast Asia risks becoming the global epicenter of cyber-fraud, but a powerful new partnership between Indonesia and South Korea could finally dismantle the region’s most predatory digital syndicates. ...
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Learning to govern a fragmented world
Today’s world is too multipolar, too digitally interconnected and too politically heterogeneous for broad consensus alone to serve as the primary mechanism for managing global affairs.
12 hours ago
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'Sell Indonesia' is the market's verdict on the ‘ompreng’ project
From mass food poisoning to institutionalized plunder, Indonesia’s multibillion-dollar feeding program has triggered a fierce market backlash and an impending student-led "Reform Part 2."
2 days ago
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When schools become secondary to political agendas
When schools are bulldozed for glossy programs, education starts looking like collateral damage.
2 days ago
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Better coordination is key to solving the stunting crisis
Indonesia too often loses its recurring war on stunting despite ambitious policy documents, primarily due to a lack of integrated coordination across sectors and stakeholders.
2 days ago
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Revisiting Indonesia’s fight against diabetes
To halt Indonesia’s skyrocketing diabetes crisis, we must stop treating communities as passive targets of health interventions and start engaging them as the ultimate cocreators of their own health solutions.
2 days ago
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How (not) to fight the globalization trilemma
Political economy explains why some economies thrive in a hostile world while others are punished by it.
3 days ago
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Why visual evidence matters in Indonesian activism
Today in Indonesia, graphic, violent images and videos often function as political evidence.
3 days ago
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Long-sought police reform stalled at the institutional gate
When a state's police force expands its institutional power faster than the civilian mechanisms designed to oversee it, what grows stronger is not the rule of law, it is simply the apparatus itself.
3 days ago
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Nickel's recovery hopes tempered by growing stock overhang
A growing mountain of surplus metal accumulating in warehouses is a reminder that this could be a slow-fuse process.
3 days ago
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Russia Day: Celebrating unity at home and abroad
On Russia Day, Moscow celebrates its rich heritage and strengthens its strategic bonds with Indonesia and ASEAN to build a fairer, multipolar world.
3 days ago
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PSN in Papua needs more indigenous entrepreneurs
True economic acceleration in Papua won’t come from pouring trillions into mega-projects—it requires building an army of local indigenous entrepreneurs to own them.
3 days ago
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Three fault lines in Indonesia’s financial governance
The amendments reveal a broader shift toward a more coordinated and state-directed model of financial governance.
4 days ago
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Reforming the police without reforming police power
By prioritizing organizational strength over independent oversight, the new Police Law delivers mere administrative updates instead of genuine democratic reform.
4 days ago
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The theater of democracy: Indonesia's unresolved Reformasi
As Indonesia drifts toward oligarchy and political decay, a new generation of students is ditching street protests for the courtroom, using the Constitution to finish the reform movement started in 1998.
4 days ago
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The future of development finance is not primarily about money
For middle-income countries like India, accessing knowledge and technology is now a bigger challenge than raising capital, which suggests that MDBs must rethink their operating model.
4 days ago
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Indonesia’s coral reefs are heat‑tolerant, but only up to a point
While Indonesia’s reefs demonstrate a remarkable natural tolerance to heat stress, a long-term national strategy is needed to track the various impacts of warming oceans to safeguard not just coral cover but also to their capacity to heal.
4 days ago
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No ASEAN energy security without climate leadership
From the EU's stumbles to ASEAN’s gridlock, the current energy crisis proves that green targets are useless without bold political courage.
4 days ago
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Reforming the free meals program: A hard choice between purpose and political specter
The crisis surrounding the government's flagship free meals program urges a fundamental rethink: restore the program's original focus as an anti-stunting intervention for vulnerable groups or maintain the current, unsustainable model of a universal feeding program that leaves it open to rent seeking.
5 days ago
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What’s next after ‘Pesta Babi’ breaks the silence
By holding up an uncomfortable mirror to state-led exploitation and violence in Papua, Pesta Babi has shattered decades of enforced silence, forcing Jakarta to choose between repressive censorship and genuine, rights-respecting reform.
5 days ago
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The AI rally may have finally met its match in the Fed
Signs have been multiplying that the AI mania is getting out of hand.
5 days ago
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The world is full of food, yet children go hungry
This is a crisis of systems and of choices.
5 days ago
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What happened to Indonesia’s entrepreneurial class?
Indonesia’s missing entrepreneurs didn’t vanish by choice—they were systematically crowded out by a centuries-old governing instinct that still prefers centralized control over local economic freedom.
5 days ago
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Indonesia's confidence crisis is bigger than the rupiah
Once trust begins to weaken simultaneously across multiple sectors, economic stress can accelerate much faster than many policymakers expect.
6 days ago
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A test of legal certainty: Prabowo's impasse over the Andrie case
As President Prabowo finds himself in an international spotlight over a brutal chemical attack on a human rights defender, a landmark pretrial ruling has exposed a deep systemic clash between civilian accountability and entrenched military impunity.
6 days ago
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8 percent for drivers, zero transparency for Danantara
A state asset fund that will not account for itself is not managing public assets.
6 days ago
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Lithium bust is over but will battery metal boom again?
Underlying demand growth remains strong but disappointing global EV sales in the first quarter have tempered expectations for this year.
6 days ago
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Rice role in fueling climate change is growing
The same flooded soils that help rice thrive also create ideal conditions for microbes that release climate-warming gases.
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- Students to rally against Prabowo amid economic pressures
- Long-sought police reform stalled at the institutional gate
- State budget injection into Danantara could raise fiscal risks
- The death of police reform
- Under pouring rain, Idgitaf masters the art of love
- Military deployment against student protest draws flak
- Indosat partners with Nokia and NVIDIA to strengthen Indonesia's readiness for the AI era
- Risky reawakening of state-controlled commodity exports
- Indonesian economy comes up for air but struggles to win back investors
- 'Sell Indonesia' is the market's verdict on the ‘ompreng’ project
