In today’s economy, a good policy can still fail if it isn’t explained well. And often, clear communication is what decides whether a policy succeeds or flops.

Mobility rests on two conditions, both necessary and neither sufficient alone. Individuals must possess the capability to climb, and the cost of climbing must be low enough for that capability to be exercised. 

While some people remain to preserve cultural traditions and livelihoods despite mounting risks, others feel that they have no choice but to leave their homes.

By shifting the focus from rigid gross export receipts to true, economically retainable value, this analysis challenges the structural assumptions underlying Indonesia's aggressive 100 percent natural resource repatriation policy.

Rising living costs, increasing healthcare expenses and the absence of regular income can quickly push vulnerable elderly individuals into poverty.

Beyond formal military alliances, the evolving Japan-Malaysia partnership proves that decades of accumulated trust can be just as strategically valuable as a defense pact in an uncertain Indo-Pacific.

As geopolitical crises bring the global economy to its knees, tinkering with interest rates won't save failing currencies—only a structural overhaul of a nation’s foundational "5Es," starting with energy self-sufficiency, can weather the storm.

Across Southeast Asia, human rights defenders face a tightening noose of physical violence and high-tech digital repression, threatening the very future of the rule of law and civic space in the region.

Energy and foreign exchange are intrinsically linked, and Indonesia risks falling into a dangerous energy-dollar trap where currency volatility and import dependence directly threaten its long-term economic sovereignty.

Whether Rp 18,000 per dollar is the crisis line is not the question. The real danger is the deficit, Danantara, oil and the Fed sitting off the visible balance sheet.

Under such tense conditions, neutral and trusted actors can play a vital role in facilitating dialogue, rebuilding confidence, reducing tensions and helping both countries move toward lasting peace.

Much will depend on the view taken by both consumers and governments, especially in energy-hungry Asia, the fastest-growing region.

Indonesia is sitting on a trillion-dollar opportunity to turn its global diaspora into a powerhouse for the domestic sharia economy. By strategically leveraging knowledge, networks and Islamic financial instruments, the nation can transform this untapped potential into a definitive engine for long-term growth.

When a peaceful student protest over fuel prices is met with 500 soldiers and hidden legal maneuvers, it signals a quiet, dangerous shift from democratic policing to increasing militarization.

Replacing officials to save a falling rupiah is empty political theater; Indonesia’s true economic safety depends on fixing deep-seated structural issues like oil deficits, agricultural productivity and policy execution.

Stabilizing the rupiah at Rp 18,000 requires Indonesia to look past trailing GDP growth and actively rebuild market confidence by enforcing strict resource export repatriation, maintaining clean fiscal governance and speaking to global capital with a single, clear technocratic voice.

Saudi Arabia and neighboring Gulf producers will cheer the eventual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, but the ensuing flood of oil risks eroding OPEC’s already fragile grip on the market.

Southeast Asia risks becoming the global epicenter of cyber-fraud, but a powerful new partnership between Indonesia and South Korea could finally dismantle the region’s most predatory digital syndicates.

Today’s world is too multipolar, too digitally interconnected and too politically heterogeneous for broad consensus alone to serve as the primary mechanism for managing global affairs.

From mass food poisoning to institutionalized plunder, Indonesia’s multibillion-dollar feeding program has triggered a fierce market backlash and an impending student-led "Reform Part 2."

When schools are bulldozed for glossy programs, education starts looking like collateral damage.

Indonesia too often loses its recurring war on stunting despite ambitious policy documents, primarily due to a lack of integrated coordination across sectors and stakeholders.

To halt Indonesia’s skyrocketing diabetes crisis, we must stop treating communities as passive targets of health interventions and start engaging them as the ultimate cocreators of their own health solutions.

Political economy explains why some economies thrive in a hostile world while others are punished by it.

Today in Indonesia, graphic, violent images and videos often function as political evidence.

When a state's police force expands its institutional power faster than the civilian mechanisms designed to oversee it, what grows stronger is not the rule of law, it is simply the apparatus itself.

A growing mountain of surplus metal accumulating in warehouses is a reminder that this could be a slow-fuse process.