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A shop attendant arranges a pullover on Oct. 24, 2025, at Senen Market in Central Jakarta.

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Analysis: Regulating thrift, reviving industry

Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa is turning his attention to Indonesia's booming illegal thrift trade, an enduring challenge that persists despite years of government crackdowns. Thrifting is deeply rooted in Indonesian culture, not only as a fashion statement but also as a way for many to make ends meet. Yet, Purbaya's latest move signals a renewed determination to protect the domestic textile and garment industry, which continues to struggle against a flood of cheap, second-hand clothing imports.

3 months ago

Obrigado, Senhor Lula

Our children will discover new cultures and new ways of thinking by taking the trouble to learn new languages. ...

3 months ago

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Development finance must shift away from aid

Better ways of financing development are becoming more available. ...

3 months ago

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A teacher uses an interactive smart screen to teach students on Oct. 3 at SDN Panunggulan 2 state elementary school in Serang regency, Banten.

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Beyond access: Toward true equity in education

True equity in education is about relevance: whether what students learn connects to the lives they will lead, the work they will do and the future they will shape.

3 months ago

Workers arrange melons at the Rau market in Serang, Banten, on Oct. 3, 2025. Statistics Indonesia (BPS) recorded inflation of 2.31 percent in Banten in September 2025, caused by price increases in nine expenditure groups, including food and beverages.

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Food irradiation: A game changer for food security, inflation stability

In Indonesia, a country where nearly a third of harvested food spoils before reaching consumers, keeping food fresh longer is not simply a safety matter, it is an economic necessity.

3 months ago

A teacher ('right') checks a student’s work in a classroom on Oct. 2, 2025 at SDN Sudirman II elementary school in Makassar, South Sulawesi.

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'Bahasa Indonesia': Identity, inspiration or illusory prestige?

Since Indonesia became globalised, academics, cultural observers and even members of the general public sense that the Indonesian language is in crisis

3 months ago

An anopheles mosquito is seen resting on a human hand.

Words matter in Papua’s malaria fight

We recommend more targeted and context-specific strategies to accelerate malaria elimination in Papua, with a focus on culturally responsive communication, active community engagement and integration into existing health services.

3 months ago

Protesters hold banners that read “Reject the national hero title for Soeharto” during a protest on May 15 in front of the Social Affairs Ministry's office in Jakarta.

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Analysis: Soeharto, national hero? Rehabilitating corruption, repression

Barring any last-minute political twists, President Prabowo Subianto's administration appears poised to crown Indonesia's second president and Prabowo's former father-in-law Soeharto as a national hero. The move would mark a dramatic turn in the country's reckoning with its authoritarian past, as no previous president had dared to officially honor the man whose 32-year rule was synonymous with repression, corruption, and nepotism.

3 months ago

Shoppers wade through ankle-deep floodwaters on Oct. 13, 2025, as a traditional market carries on with trade as usual in Medan Labuhan district, Medan, North Sumatra.

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$12b boost won’t fix all

The finance minister's massive liquidity boost, while well-intended, has ultimately failed to read the mood across all economic layers.

3 months ago

United States President Donald Trump gestures as he prepares to alight from Air Force One upon arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2025.

Trump’s gas gambit hurts allies and the planet

As China secures its role in clean tech exports, the US is doubling down on fossil fuels, and pushing allies to buy US gas

3 months ago

Port workers protest during a hunger strike in front of the Chittagong Press Club in Chattogram, Bangladesh, on Nov. 1, 2025. The port workers were protesting the interim Bangladesh government's decision to lease operating licenses at Chattogram (formerly known as Chittagong) Port to a foreign company.

Bangladesh’s grand politics, who is really directing the show?

The country's interim government shoulders a responsibility so heavy it is practically collapsing under it.

3 months ago

A vehicle rides past stacks of cargo containers on July 7 at the Jakarta International Container Terminal at the Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta.

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Trade must serve people, not just markets

Unless development sits at the center of trade policy, globalization will widen inequality instead of narrowing it.

3 months ago

United States President Donald Trump ('left') talks to China's President Xi Jinping as they shake hands after their talks on Oct. 30, 2025, at the Gimhae Air Base in Busan, South Korea. Trump and Xi had their first face-to-face meeting in six years, seeking a truce to end a trade war that has roiled the world economy.

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Donald Trump's pivot from Asia

Trump spent much of the last week of October in Asia but failed to create enduring structures in the economic sphere or put to rest increasing doubts about the United States’ strategic commitment to the region.

3 months ago

Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa salutes on Sept. 8, 2025, as President Prabowo Subianto (right, back turned) installs him as the new finance minister during a ceremony at the State Palace in Central Jakarta.

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Purbaya’s test and Prabowo’s enemies within

The new finance minister has become an inadvertent disrupter of a decade-long loyalty entrenched in the bureaucracy through his policies, grounded in economic rational, creating both hope among the public and a test for the President.

3 months ago

A general view at the nickel smelter of PT Vale Indonesia in Sorowako, South Sulawesi, on Aug. 2, 2024.

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Restoring technocratic rationality and rule-based governance

We have entered an era of rhetorical abundance but institutional scarcity.

3 months ago

President Prabowo Subianto (right) inaugurates Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa (center) as Finance Minister at the State Palace in Jakarta on Sept. 8, 2025.

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Analysis: Purbaya emerges as Prabowo's trusted hand in managing state finances

President Prabowo Subianto appears to have found in Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa a trusted figure capable of managing Indonesia's state finances with both discipline and political loyalty. In just a few months on the job, Purbaya has shown a willingness to take on elite power brokers, both within the government and from circles close to former president Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, without losing sight of President Prabowo's populist agenda.

3 months ago

President Prabowo Subianto (left) shakes hands with South Korea’s President Lee Jae-myung on Friday during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju, South Korea.

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Prabowo’s APEC charm

As the leader of a prominent middle power, President Prabowo showed that he was also a magnet for international leaders.

3 months ago

Members of the United Nations Security Council vote on a resolution by Russia and China to delay by six months the reimposition of sanctions on Iran on Sept. 26 during the 80th UN General Assembly in New York City.

UN is imperfect but indispensable

The question is not whether the UN has failed, but whether humanity can afford a world without it.

3 months ago

A hooded man with a laptop computer is silhouetted against a projection of binary code, in this illustration created on May 13, 2017.

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Safeguarding autonomy in AI systems

The rise of agentic AI, or automous artificial intelligence systems that can make decisions and act with little to no human prompts or supervision, signals a need to revisit and rethink the practical, legal and ethical aspects of cybersecurity frameworks.

3 months ago

Customers make payments using the QRIS (Quick Response Code Indonesia Standard) at a merchant in Tulungagung, East Java, on Aug. 21, 2025.

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Jakarta is betting on India’s digital playbook

Today, the currents shaping the relationship between the Indo-Pacific’s two largest democracies are not trade winds, but the terabits flowing through fiber-optic cables and the instant signals of digital payment systems.

3 months ago

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stands before a picture of the founder and first president of the Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, at Ankara Esenboga Airport on Dec. 12, 2024.

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How international crises help authoritarians

Changes to the international order have reinforced authoritarian regimes.

3 months ago

Activists carry umbrellas on Oct. 23, 2025, during the weekly Kamisan (Thursdays) peaceful demonstration in front of the State Palace in Central Jakarta.

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‘Revolusi’ versus Indonesia's attempt to rewrite history

Rewriting history is not inherently wrong, but when it is done opaquely with an aim to benefit the powers that be in today's regime, it not only negates facts but also the very journey our nation and people trod to get where we are.

3 months ago

Workers are pictured at a factory of fabric and garment producer PT Sari Warna Asli on July 17 in Surakarta, Central Java.

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Indonesian deindustrialization: Creative destruction or destructive creation?

Why do Indonesian firms not innovate?

3 months ago

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (center) holds hands with (from left to right) Myanmar's Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hau Khan Sum, Vietnam's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Dang Hoang Giang, Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, Timor Leste's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah, Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto, Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet and Laos' Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone during a group photo as they attend the plenary session of the 47th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Kuala Lumpur on October 26, 2025.

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Analysis: Timor-Leste joins the ASEAN club, with Prabowo's signature

Timor-Leste formally joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) during the group's summit in Kuala Lumpur, after a long wait, thanks in no small measure to the tireless support of Indonesia, which once brutally occupied the tiny territory.

3 months ago

Protesters hold banners that read “Reject the national hero title for Soeharto“ during a protest on May 15 in front of the Social Affairs Ministry's office in Jakarta.

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Soeharto is no hero

There are a lot of things that can disqualify former New Order strongman Soeharto from being eligible to receive the status of a national hero.

3 months ago

United States singer-songwriter Sombr poses with the Best Alternative award for “Back to Friends“ in the press room on Sept. 7 during the MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, the US.

The story of MTV: The downfall of a music disrupter

The demise of MTV and the new disruption of on-demand platforms reflects a major shift in the global cultural landscape.

3 months ago

A group of climate activists demonstrate on Dec. 2, 2024, in front of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, the Netherlands, for climate justice.

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Courts are shaping the future of climate action

In the absence of political will, the legal system has become a key driver of climate progress.

3 months ago

History in focus: Belgian historian David Van Reybrouck, author of Revolusi: Indonesia and the Making of the Modern World, poses for a post on his official social media account.

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‘Revolusi’ returns home: David Van Reybrouck on youth, memory and the spirit of Bandung

"If young people believe that their voices do not matter, they have not studied Indonesian history," says Belgian historian David Van Reybrouck

3 months ago

A man stands next to the chassis of an electric vehicle on July 18 at the Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show (GIIAS) 2024, which ran until July 28 at the Indonesia Convention Exhibition in Tangerang, Banten.

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Can ASEAN build trust in its electric future?

Indonesia’s EV ambitions could anchor the green transition in Southeast Asia, but transparency and steady alignment of policy and goals will decide who leads.

3 months ago

Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul (left) and Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet (center) shake hands next to United States President Donald Trump, on Oct. 26, 2025, the day of the signing of a ceasefire deal between Cambodia and Thailand, on the sidelines of the 47th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur.

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Trump’s return puts ASEAN back in spotlight

Trump’s presence, without doubt, has placed ASEAN once again on the global stage.

3 months ago

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