Admittedly, there are winners and losers in every nation. 

Between 2005 and 2015, tobacco was the third most important risk factor to health. 

For critics, the controversial new law further marginalizes the state’s Arab minority.

The pressure is more on the incumbent party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

Without Southeast Asia’s or ASEAN’s participation, it will be very difficult to establish a regional security organization that is open and neutral to everybody in the region. 

To ensure cohesion within the EU, overcoming disparities between countries and improving trade, transport, and communications infrastructure throughout the bloc have long been seen as critical.

Two decades ago, Indonesia was on the cusp of becoming a failed state. Indonesia was buckling under a triple tsunami — the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, a devastating El Nino drought and social unrest, which toppled president Soeharto. 

The World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Gender Gap Report found that gender parity is still more than 200 years away.

For producing countries, palm oil is more than just a product. The palm oil sector provides a livelihood for 16 million Indonesians through direct and indirect employment. 

Islamic assets have tripled in the post-global financial crisis period, representing an estimated US$2 trillion in banking assets and approximately $400 billion in capital market assets.

Our trade to Africa last year only reached US$8.84 billion, merely 2.7 percent of Indonesia’s total trade with the world. 

The Green Sukuk is a means of aligning government funding with its commitment to the low-carbon transition, channeling funding to projects in renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainable transport, waste management, conservation and other environmental priorities. 

For the Balinese, however, Nyepi is a day of reckoning and resolution. It is a time to recollect and make amends for past mistakes and a moment to make steadfast commitments for the future.   

Party officials also see retirees as “short cuts” to boosting party profiles without spending resources on publicity campaigns. 

Human rights are not vehicles of individualism but, in the opposite, provide protection against it. 

Social media’s ideological “echo chambers” exacerbate people’s natural biases and diminish opportunities for healthy debate. 

The public can monitor how their tax money is spent. In the long run, corruption will gradually be eradicated and society will further prosper.

Since he took office in September 2014, United Nation High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has been outspoken on a range of issues, including the death penalty, “blasphemy,” the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender rights and intersex (LGBTI) issues, discriminatory laws in Aceh and impunity in Indonesia.

Indonesia is a member of 198 international institutions. With stretched resources, it is little wonder that in late 2016, Jokowi ordered a review of Indonesia’s role in at least 75 of them.

New technologies also have the potential to disrupt markets and change the jobs landscape.

Is inflation no longer a threat in Indonesia? The record of the last three years would suggest this is so. But is this temporary or permanent? 

According to the OECD-Gallup world poll, 80 percent of Indonesians have confidence in the national government — the highest among all countries surveyed.

It’s not clear how an Army-dominated TNI would react under an air chief marshal that has a different organizational culture and outlook. 

Now, Bangkok is a major tourist destination, popular with the Jakarta middle class. 

We could consider two broad directions as far as the meetings go

Indonesia-Singapore bilateral relations were brittle and sometimes even fragile.

During the administration of prime minister Tony Abbot, the Australian government rejected the boat people who tried to reach the country. Indonesia was taken aback by this policy. Indonesia did not expect to see this action by Australia because at the end of the 1970s and in the early 1980s, it learned from what was then a magnanimous Australian government how to handle the Indochinese refugees who flocked to some places in Indonesia.