Gold ETFs offer a modern solution to the strucutural hurdles of accessibility and liquidity as regards traditional gold investment in Indonesia, ensuring securty for all investors as they turn to safe-haven assets amid ongoing economic fragility.

When the government tends to do something rather than do nothing, we must be more cautious about the dangers of doing too much.

As a nation born of anticolonial struggle, Indonesia cannot afford moral complacency or strategic naïveté.

The government is currently drafting the Bill on Prevention of Disinformation and Foreign Propaganda as part of President Prabowo Subianto’s efforts to contain potential threats to national political stability. However, the initiative risks undermining citizens’ right to access information, as such regulations are prone to elastic interpretations and potential abuse by law enforcement agencies.

The government and stakeholders must act now to protect archeological sites on Sulawesi from a growing list of threats, from climate change to mining. 

Indonesia’s future economic growth will not be determined solely by the size of government spending, but also by how effectively development financing is managed.

Peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait are extremely important for the stability of the region, including Indonesia, and the entire international community.

Increased power, perhaps counterintuitively, appears to breed increased fear of weaker competitors. This can trigger preventive action such as foreign interventions that, to outsiders, may look illogical.

ASEAN will now need to make decisions about its future purpose and whether it will seek to restore the established order or strike out in a new direction. 

The Greenland saga shows that the post-Cold War assumption that alliances and international norms would reliably restrain power politics is eroding.

The failure to settle the BLBI scandal beyond doubt shows that the state has opted for accommodation over confrontation, appearing more fearful of unsetting entrenched economic elites than of losing public funds.

The President's recent instruction to formulate a bill to combat disinformation and "foreign propaganda" walks a fine line between the constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of expression and ratified international agreements stipulating the standards that must be met before basic rights can be legislatively curtailed.

The House of Representatives decision to select Thomas “Tommy” Djiwandono as a deputy governor of Bank Indonesia (BI) has reignited long-standing concerns over the central bank’s independence. His background as nephew of President Prabowo Subianto and a senior Gerindra Party official has contributed to negative market sentiment. While Tommy ensured the market that he would maintain BI’s independence, the controversy surrounding his nomination and swift confirmation risks undermining the central bank’s credibility and could adversely affect macroeconomic stability.

The Indonesian Air Force has already demonstrated a unique capability to bridge these technological divides in real-world scenarios. 

The Indonesian labor market is characterized by the job hugging phenomenon, in which employees stay in their current positions for career stability, or job security, even if they may not be satisfied.

As history has shown with regard to past Olympic boycotts, a similar move against this year's World Cup will be an equally futile, symbolic maneuver that achieves nothing more than moral signaling and spectacle, in addition to harming sport’s potentials as a soft power.

The Washington Post article quoting a US diplomat in Dhaka invites closer scrutiny as a civic duty, not as regards the content of the reported statements but rather the timing and purposeo f the allegedly leaked recordings.

Trying to prepare people for a fixed set of challenges, when those challenges are constantly changing, is a losing strategy.

The long era of the liberal international order seems to be fading, replaced by a new and colder reality that could be best described as pragmatic transactional realism. 

As part of the wider national food security agenda, protein self-sufficiency requires a circular agriculture approach that integrates cereal production and pastureland planning and management for livestock feed, which is still highly dependent on imports.

An Indonesian political standup-comedy show currently streaming on Netflix has become one of the top trending topics on social media these past few weeks, some calling the content inappropriate while others welcoming it as a fresh take on current affairs. And now police are stepping in following formal reports for defamation, incitement and blasphemy.

In the Central Java regency of Pati, the target in the uprising, one who had incurred the wrath of so many in the impoverished region was Regent Sudewo, a politician from President Prabowo Subianto’s Gerindra Party. 

As non-bloc, nonaligned nations with a firm belief in multipolarity, the India-Indonesia partnership is more than a bilateral benefit; it is a balancing force for global good. 

Timor-Leste’s accession to ASEAN in October 2025 stands as a heartening example of the power of partnership in challenging times.

Without coherent multilateral standards, well-intentioned environmental rules risk becoming de facto trade barriers that favor those with the deepest pockets for administrative costs.

Today, Indonesia again occupies a position where its voice can shift the conversation, especially among states that feel trapped between great-power rivalry. 

Do we even talk about the same Indonesia? Do we live in the same universe as Prabowo?