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Editorial
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State-sanctioned intolerance
By classifying "the spread of LGBTQ culture" as a threat to national security, Perpres No. 111/2025 has codified informal hostility into state-sanctioned persecution, declaring a minority group as a public enemy.
5 hours ago
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Dumpster fire no more
The country's recurring landfill disasters demand that we stop fighting fire with fire downstream and finally extinguish the waste crisis at its household source. ...
1 day ago
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Selective justice
The Prabowo administration’s aggressive corporate crackdowns risk looking less like impartial justice and more like selective enforcement: a dangerous signal that could spook the very investors the country needs to sustain growth. ...
2 days agoThe Latest
Editorial
No to illiberal cyberlaw
For more than a decade, the ITE Law has been a major threat to our civil liberties; it is the digital incarnation of the colonial defamation law.
2 years ago
Editorial
COP28: Surely, we can do better
On climate change, looking at what can only be described as modest targets, Indonesia is a follower, not a leader.
2 years ago
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Staying on top of AI
Like security, climate change and public health, AI requires international cooperation and global rules.
2 years ago
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Wolbachia misinformation
The government’s persistence is certainly key to progress toward achieving its zero dengue death target by 2030
2 years ago
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Reviving the KPK
Firli’s arrest serves as yet another grim reminder that the system we have been relying on to combat corruption may itself be corrupt.
2 years ago
Editorial
Wilders among us
As we prepare for next year’s presidential and legislative elections, there are real concerns that the nation is turning its back on its democratic and pluralistic achievements over the past two and a half decades.
2 years ago
Perspectives
Safeguarding the elections
We can no longer take for granted that we will have another successful election that is free, open and, more importantly, peaceful.
2 years ago
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SOE misery up for renewal
Our presidential candidates candidates must think very carefully before backing any future infrastructure projects.
2 years ago
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Coal exit will have to wait
A phase-out of coal power through early plant retirement or project cancellation is not going to happen without global financial support.
2 years ago
Editorial
The right to clean air
The air quality has barely improved since the government beefed up measures to curb Jakarta’s chronic air pollution following incessant media reports of the city’s poor state of air a few months ago.
2 years ago
Perspectives
Salvaging the 2024 election
Given the low trust in the court, candidates or their supporters could use any appearance of impropriety as a pretext to reject the election results altogether.
2 years ago
Editorial
RI’s last Myanmar initiative
Under Indonesia’s chairmanship, ASEAN has not achieved any meaningful progress in pushing Myanmar’s military to comply with the Five-Point Consensus.
2 years ago
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Time to sign refugee treaty
Despite not being a party to the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, Indonesia has always been welcoming refugees and asylum seekers.
2 years ago
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The devil is in the detail
The most sensitive aspect of the PT Vale divestment is related to the interests of the provincial and regency governments in the three provinces in Sulawesi.
2 years ago
Editorial
IPEF: Are we on the same page?
Not only is the RCEP the largest trade block in the world, but unlike the IPEF, it comes with liberalization, not political gamesmanship, at its core.
2 years ago
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Protecting groundwater
Enforcement of the regulation that restricts groundwater extraction in Jakarta has been lax, allowing people who extract groundwater for daily consumption to go unpunished.
2 years ago
Editorial
Jokowi's peace message
It’s not an exaggeration to suggest that Jokowi was speaking on behalf of the world community who long for peace in Middle East.
2 years ago
Perspectives
May the best win fairly
For the first time since the fall of the authoritarian New Order in 1998, legitimate concerns have loomed over the integrity of the election.
2 years ago
Perspectives
Foreign policy matters in 2024
Voters, and the public will continue to be alienated from our foreign and defense policies, which are supposed to represent or protect the interests of the nation.
2 years ago
Editorial
Combating money laundering
Evidence from the trials of corrupt officials and other criminals show how many banks and money changers still engage in transactions with customers even though their profiles do not conform with the value and size of the transactions.
2 years ago
Perspectives
New patrimonialism
After all, we already have three candidate pairs registered with the General Elections Commission (KPU), which is expected to officially announce later this week that the three are eligible to run.
2 years ago
Editorial
Let the games begin
It is thus important that the youth squad is given its moment to shine at the World Cup, especially because there is no youth class at the club level in Indonesia.
2 years ago
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GDP: Let’s keep our guard up
All three presidential candidates have promised GDP growth of 6 to 7 percent, as Jokowi did in the past.
2 years ago
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The Indonesia Hospital in Gaza
Indonesian people should be proud of the humanitarian work of the hospital, and the sacrifice of its medical workers and volunteers.
2 years ago
Perspectives
A judicial disgrace
Anwar has been removed from his position as the court’s chief justice and barred from handling election-related cases.
2 years ago
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Jokowi goes to the White House
It is almost certain that President Jokowi will table the ongoing war in Gaza in his conversation with his host, who is likely to persuade Jokowi to soften Indonesia’s stance on Israel’s genocidal acts in Gaza.
2 years ago
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The rupiah dodges a bullet
With the Fed having held rates steady for second time in a row, analysts say the central bank might leave them unchanged in December as well, creating calm for emerging market currencies such as our own until the end of the year.
2 years ago
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A public disservice
Self-suffiency is a noble goal, but let's not force the issue if the expertise isn't available domestically, lest we end up creating another snarl with what was supposed to be a public transit solution.
2 years ago
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The world is failing Gaza
More importantly, these attacks kill helpless and innocent children – more than 3,000 in the span of three weeks, according to the latest figures.
2 years ago
Presidential Race
Can Jokowi be neutral?
The President is said to have mobilized his apparatchiks to pave the way for his eldest son, who now leads Surakarta, to contest the election.
2 years agoPopular
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- Eyes on AGO after takeover of probe into ex-top prosecutor
- Why EV makers choose Vietnam, not nickel-rich Indonesia
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- Indonesian officials cancel participation at SCS tribunal commemorative conference
