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Academia

Sinarmas World Academy students win 1st place in 2024 WRO International Final

Sinarmas World Academy’s (SWA) Ocean Voyager team has placed 1st in the Future Innovator, junior category at the 2024 World Robot Olympiad (WRO) International Final in Izmir, Türkey.

7 hours ago
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Indonesia's demographic dividend: A future at risk

The government seems uncertain about how to optimize the country's demographic potential to help Indonesia escape the middle-income trap.

15 hours ago
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20 years of the Aceh tsunami: From ‘megathrust’ threat to disaster mitigation

Accurately predicting earthquakes and tsunamis remains impossible. Therefore, mitigation and risk reduction are crucial.

15 hours ago

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America's tech blind spot

US policymakers need to strike a regulatory balance that implements safeguards for consumers while fostering innovation and facilitating research, objectives that are hindered by their current nationalist bent toward regulating both foreign and homegrown tech.

16 hours ago
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It’s time for a progressive wealth tax in Indonesia

Despite government efforts to improve the tax ratio, recent policies appear to favor the wealthy.

16 hours ago
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Last chance for the SDGs?

Decisions made in the coming days will have a significant bearing on the future of funding for poor countries.

17 hours ago
Opinion premium

Analysis: Legislative agenda excludes much-awaited asset forfeiture bill

The House of Representatives has approved the National Legislation Program (Prolegnas) for 2025, during which the lawmakers will deliberate 41 priority bills. The list clearly represents a compromise between the political elites, rather than public aspirations, such as the mounting demand for an asset-forfeiture law.

17 hours ago
Editorial

Women’s protection crisis

Often, when victims of gender-based violence seek help from the police, they are faced with resistance, convoluted procedures or, even worse, accusations that they brought the crimes upon themselves because of the way they dressed or behaved.

18 hours ago
editorial

Women’s protection crisis

Often, when victims of gender-based violence seek help from the police, they are faced with resistance, convoluted procedures or, even worse, accusations that they brought the crimes upon themselves because of the way they dressed or behaved.

18 hours ago
editorial

Give the new FM time

The public should allow Sugiono to prove that the President made the right decision in appointing him despite his lack of experience in foreign affairs.

1 day ago
editorial

Policing the police

Recent acts of brutality have hardened disturbing doubts about the accountability of the police and their ability to resolve their own problems, including their excessive use of lethal force.

2 days ago
editorial

VAT, the equitable tax

The brouhaha is overblown.

3 days ago
editorial

The $300b climate joke

Rich countries, with a few individual exceptions, never intended to make good on their past promises.

4 days ago
editorial

Make farming profitable again

The Indonesian agriculture sector will need massive reforms to make President Prabowo Subianto’s dream of food self-sufficiency a reality. 

1 week ago
editorial

Prabowo's deliverables

President Prabowo Subianto's recent 16-day overseas trip has convincingly marked his presidency as an active global player in a bid to boost global collaboration amid increasingly complex geopolitical dynamics.

5 days ago

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Fri, December 6, 2024

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