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Will Prabowo be more ‘daring’ or more realistic in his fiscal policy in 2026?
The decision to push through a massive budget for the free nutritious meal program reflects misplaced priorities, as the program has yet to show clear benefits in its first year while other critical policies remain underfunded.
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How the global water cycle amplifies climate disasters
While weather extremes such as flooding and wildfires are frequently identified as visible consequences of climate change, global warming is also affecting a deeper factor: our planet’s water cycle. ...
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Prabowo’s historic visit to Pakistan: A new chapter in the relations
The visit underscores the shared commitment of both countries to reinvigorate their longstanding partnership and elevate it to new heights. ...
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Why Indonesia is descending into legal darkness
The everyday legal landscape of the country is rife with violence, torture, extrajudicial killings and criminalization through investigations intended to perpetuate wrongdoing.
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The Malari incident after 52 years: The silent cry for equality
The current situation of democratic decline amid increasingly centralized control reminds that Indonesia has been here before in 1974.
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The unapologetic American empire strikes back
Washington's attack and continuing discourse on Venezuela has stripped the neocolonial rhetoric of its pretenses, openly signaling the revival of unapologetic empire to the US under Trump.
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Energy will decide the AI race
Soon, if not already, reliable, affordable electricity will confer the decisive advantage in the sector.
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Why hazards continue to turn into disasters in Indonesia
Like many other regions in the Global South, Aceh’s vulnerability can be traced back to colonialism. Post-colonial development continues to reinforce it.
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Be vigilant against any resurgence of militarism
Today, the Japanese government openly attempts to forcibly link the China Taiwan question with Japan’s so-called “security concerns” seeking to manufacture a pretext for military intervention in the Taiwan Strait.
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Hedging Indonesia’s clean mobility risk
Indonesia faces exposure to global battery minerals it does not control and a domestic strategy that is increasingly centered on a single mineral at a time of rapid technological change.
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KUHP and the limits of legal decolonization in corporate liability
By personalizing liability for organizational failure, the new KUHP assigns risk to corporate managers even when they do not control the full set of variables that produce harm.
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America's new age of empire
Trumps' actions against Venezuela has turned hegemony into bullyism, and other countries should be asking whether the world really needs the US.
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The soft coup against local democracy in Indonesia
The quasi-corporate approach to direct local elections is fundamentally flawed, as a price cannot be put on the democratic principle of popular sovereignty.
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Why the G20 is failing on climate, debt and inequality
The G20 has done exactly what it was set up to do; the problem is that the capitalist financial system is no longer sufficient to address the challenges of today's world.
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Bulgaria welcomes the eurozone: How Indonesia can benefit
Bulgaria has finally completed its full integration into the euro area, a journey that began with its membership of the European Union in 2007. What does the full integration mean for this nature-rich, beautiful country in the Balkans, which borders the Black Sea, and how can this benefit Indonesia?
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The irony of Indonesia’s UN human rights presidency
If Indonesia’s diplomacy remains entrenched in selective silence, the privilege of presiding over the council will devolve into symbolic prestige devoid of impact.
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Has Indonesia forsaken the Bandung Spirit?
The way the government responded to the recent kidnapping of Venezuela’s president by the United States and its claim to now run that country, may have put the final nail in the Bandung coffin, as far as Indonesia is concerned.
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What now for the 'rules-based order'?
Maduro’s forceful extraction represents something new, partly because US institutions have become much weaker and less democratic, but also because the veneer of legitimacy has been stripped off
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Maduro shows Prabowo why repression at home weaken sovereignty abroad
The erosion of domestic legitimacy created the very opening through which external power could intervene, moralize and ultimately dominate the narrative.
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Why Pari Island’s climate lawsuit matters
The decision of the Cantonal Court of Zug, Switzerland, in the case brought by Pari residents against Holcim marks a significant milestone in the development of global climate litigation.
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Year-end consumption surge: A sign of recovery or a seasonal mirage?
Focusing solely on credit expansion risks overlooking the fundamental issues of inequality and structural weakness in domestic demand.
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Indonesia can surpass Vietnam’s 8% growth
Indonesia's energy, critical minerals, agriculture and biodiversity-linked industries offer multiple growth vectors if managed with policy coherence.
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Taming unruly tourists with code of conduct
Social media addiction and the hyperconsumptive lifestyles of the 21st century often mean tourists forget the real purpose of their visit.
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Turning online conversations into child protection
In a country as diverse as Indonesia, decisions about immunization are shaped within families and communities and influenced by local social norms, religious guidance and lived experience.
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The grandeur and misery of international law
Too often, international law fails to prevent stronger states from acting as they please, as in the case of the US attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro.
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Transforming IT without turbulence: How AI and service discipline can build trust
The benefits of combining IT service management and AI are often visible in measurable outcomes, such as faster incident resolution, reduced downtime and more efficient use of resources.
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Amid disasters, worsening geopolitics, Indonesia’s ‘theater state’ could reach its limit
There are democratic there are practices that are deployed to bind a nation together, whereas in an authoritarian society, rituals and theater are imposed upon the masses, to instill fear and submission.
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Caught upstream: Saving Indonesia’s dying textile industry
For Indonesia, protectionism does not generate the jobs the country needs, while damaging the competitiveness of its exports.
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The ocean has finally entered the global climate debate
The ocean increasingly suffers the effects of absorbing over 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse-gases and about one-quarter of annual carbon dioxide emissions.
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Venezuela and the dangerous return of might makes right
Learning from the Venezuela invasion, Indonesia should continue to position itself as pro-law, pro-stability, pro-development and firmly opposed to military interventions, or worse, a new form of colonialism.
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- KUHP must be challenged
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- Radioactive zinc shipment in Philippines onshore in 'safe' location
- The unapologetic American empire strikes back
- Prabowo turns lush Hambalang sanctuary into command outpost
- Indonesian ride-hailing industry set for shake-up under draft presidential decree
- Heavy rain, coastal erosion compound flooding threats in Java
- Flooding disrupts traffic, public transit in Greater Jakarta
- Indonesia ‘not worried’ about US threat over trade with Iran
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- Start-up scandals in 2025 force investors to raise the bar, change playbooks
- KUHP must be challenged
- Indonesia may face rising instability in 2026: CSIS
- Radioactive zinc shipment in Philippines onshore in 'safe' location
- The unapologetic American empire strikes back
- Prabowo turns lush Hambalang sanctuary into command outpost
- Indonesian ride-hailing industry set for shake-up under draft presidential decree
- Heavy rain, coastal erosion compound flooding threats in Java
- Flooding disrupts traffic, public transit in Greater Jakarta
- Indonesia ‘not worried’ about US threat over trade with Iran
