At a time when global leaders are shifting their priorities toward securing national interests amid the ongoing war in the Middle East, our President is fluttering from country to country drumming up cooperation deals instead of heeding his people's calls to come home and attend to domestic matters first.

While often viewed as a public cost, Transjakarta is actually a massive economic driver generating three times its weight in national output. By shifting focus from fuel subsidies to transit integration, Indonesia can clear its skies and its balance sheets simultaneously.

Limited growth potential and informal structures often disqualify Indonesia’s small enterprises from external financing, as lenders perceive them as high-risk or unattractive clients.

From "free and active" to a silent subordinate: Prabowo’s recent concessions to Washington signal a dangerous erosion of Indonesian sovereignty.

As a "Godzilla-like" El Niño looms, Indonesia must move beyond complacency and apply the lessons of history to protect its food security and its future.

For the sake of both national integrity and humanity, the Attorney General’s Office should proceed with the necessary investigations to bring the act of genocide case involving the Myanmar junta leader before an Indonesian court. 

While there is no direct attempt at censorship or closure of a media institution, press harassment can be regarded as a threat to undermine journalists, press organizations and press freedom.

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives […] every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every corrupt politician, every ‘supreme leader’.”

As the rupiah breaches the 17,000 mark, Indonesia’s stability now hinges on whether the government can match the central bank’s discipline with a credible fiscal plan.

Indonesia’s decade of conservation progress is under threat as ambitious state projects drive a staggering 66 percent surge in deforestation.

As the country's trash mountains reach a tragic breaking point, local grassroots successes offer a sustainable roadmap out of a looming national waste emergency.

As brutal violence replaces petty theft in Bali’s headlines, the island faces a reckoning over public safety. With international travel advisories mounting, provincial leaders must decide if they will protect their guests or continue to deflect responsibility.

Is the Jakarta government truly prepared to manage the consequences?

This year's Easter brings a different kind of anxiety: the US-Israeli war on Iran is weaponized, especially through social media, as a religious conflict to stir fanaticism and radicalize the public.

Let us not deceive ourselves. We are paying the price of expensive energy one way or another, just like everybody else.

The recent deaths of Indonesian Blue Helmets in Lebanon expose the lethal risks of the UNIFIL mission and demand a urgent reevaluation of Indonesia’s strategic role in a region increasingly shaped by Zionist aggression and shifting global alliances.

If the President is serious about “the highest actors”, he should immediately mandate a clear, time-bound investigative architecture that prevents the case from being diluted by institutional turf wars.

In its second year, Danantara must prove that it can operate like a true global sovereign fund, by actively identifying high-upside commercial opportunities.

Even in countries with extensive and reliable transportation networks, holiday travel brings headaches for travelers and authorities alike, with traffic congestion on major highways and, or, long queues at airports. 

Indonesia’s membership in the pro-Israel Board of Peace is by no means a masterstroke of diplomacy; it is a billion-dollar betrayal of the Palestinian cause.

To significantly save national fuel consumption, the idea of a short workweek could be an attractive proposition both for employers and employees alike.

The KPK's holiday move to transfer a high-profile graft suspect to temporary house arrest could set a dangerous precedent for preferential treatment and risk backsliding in the country's fight against graft.

Indonesia has the capacity and potential to achieve resilience across the economic board, especially at this tough time; all it need do is stand up and take the bull by the horns.

While Bali’s quiet compromise proves that faiths can flourish together, a rising tide of state-backed intolerance threatens to unravel Indonesia’s fragile tapestry of unity in diversity..

The ban can shield young people from being exposed to pornography, cyberbullying, online fraud and most of all, addictions, but at the expense of their freedom of expression.

The brutality with which the attack was executed and the apparent objective to inflict maximum bodily harm can send chills down the spine of anyone who watches the CCTV recording of the incident. 

As Sumatra’s forests vanish, Papua stands as the final frontier in a recurring cycle of state-sponsored environmental and humanitarian tragedy.