A low unemployment rate does not prove policy success when the burden of survival has simply been outsourced to struggling families.

As modern cyber defense expands, the enduring lesson of Watergate is clear: powerful state surveillance is only as strong as the legal guardrails and ethical oversight that govern it.

What is taking place in the capital is a calculated, elite power struggle, a high-stakes game of political chess played entirely out of earshot of the tens of million Indonesians.

National pride cannot replace scrutiny: Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin’s domestic track record on judicial overreach, data governance and fractured medical trust makes him the wrong choice to lead the WHO.

Challenging Western narratives on global food security, the Russian Embassy exposes the real bottlenecks in the Black Sea and outlines why Indonesia’s supply chain resilience lies in diversification, not geopolitical rhetoric.

Seen from the ground up, careful households, busy factories and confident investors explain Indonesia’s 5.47 percent growth, while the next gains will depend on jobs and exports.

The world must not succumb to euphoria following Donald Trump’s latest defeat. If anything, his lame-duck status deprives Americans and everyone else of an excuse for avoiding hard conversations about the truly radical changes that will be needed to avert future catastrophes.

Indonesia has ramped up its biodiesel blend to B50 from B30 just in four years, but feedstock, engines, forests and infrastructure have not kept pace. Brazil and Malaysia remind us why sequencing matters.

Behind Manila’s polished communiqués and ribbon-cutting ceremonies lies an institutional facade that can no longer mask ASEAN's failure to govern a region in crisis.

Turning emissions into valuable industrial goods sounds like a climate game-changer, but for Indonesia, carbon recycling is neither an outright silver bullet nor an affordable fix, unless policymakers learn to separate viable solutions from costly distractions.

The true moral failing lies with the orchestrators, the political elites who exploit this poverty, handing out costumes to the disenfranchised to ensure the "play" goes on flawlessly under the sacred banner of the Youth Pledge.

A massive wiretapping scandal targeting over 6,000 people, ranging from politicians to activists, reveals that Indonesia’s surveillance apparatus isn't just guarding the state. It's systematically dismantling democracy from the shadows.

Adopting aggressive state capitalism without a strong state monitoring capacity leaves the strategy vulnerable to capture by politically connected rent-seekers.

Indonesia's falling unemployment rate looks like an economic triumph, until you realize the country’s poorest villages have the lowest joblessness, masking a hollowed-out manufacturing sector and millions driven into survival farming.

The 2026 midterms weren’t just a brutal defeat for Donald Trump, they may have locked the Republican Party out of power until 2032.

Poverty in Asia and the Pacific concentrates among large rural households and in remote areas, among people with little or no education, among children, among informal workers and among women.. 

Greater international cooperation is essential to mobilize financial resources, technical expertise and institutional support to ensure that burned landscapes are restored effectively.

Nobody was murdered, but Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka finds himself trapped on a speeding political train where shifting allies, bitter family legacies, and unsettled rivalries make everyone a suspect.

When the state's surveillance machine is turned against the ruling elite, state power is mobilized overnight, whereas the crises choking ordinary citizens are left to burn for months.

As the rupiah touches record lows and the IDX alters its core index to stem market turbulence, Currency Day is more than an anniversary. Eighty years in, the real test is whether the institutions backing the rupiah can still command market trust.

Though the Mecca Pact’s visit to Tehran last week was neither a symbolic gesture nor a fundamental move, observers, media and others are keeping an eye on related developments that may herald a regional security restructuring.

Indonesia built an untouchable police monster that now spies on the President himself—and the only way to save democracy is to break it up.

Facing a hostile Congress, the US president is likely to focus on foreign policy to secure his legacy.

A new police chief may wield power differently, but Indonesia’s true test of reform is deciding how much unchecked authority any one official should ever inherit.

The real AI challenge isn’t surviving machine replacement, it’s redesigning work to unlock human potential, and Indonesia’s agile market is primed to lead the shift.

Hacking supermarket refrigerators may sound trivial. It's not. It's a warning of the economic disruption AI could wreak in an increasingly vulnerable world.

From joint naval patrols to subsea cables and digital payments, the Manila summits offer India and ASEAN a crucial opportunity to turn regional rhetoric into lasting strategic and economic muscle.