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What might government overlook in the DHE regulation?
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.
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Homelessness: A growing challenge in an aging Malaysia
Rising living costs, increasing healthcare expenses and the absence of regular income can quickly push vulnerable elderly individuals into poverty. ...
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Beyond 'look East': Japan, Malaysia build partnership for uncertain age
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. ...
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The 5Es of economic growth and its impact on exchange rates
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.
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Silencing human rights defenders: Southeast Asia’s accountability crisis
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.
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When the dollar tests Indonesia’s energy security
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.
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Indonesia’s weakening currency and possible hidden fiscal bill
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.
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Why third parties matter in the Cambodia–Thailand border conflict
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.
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Is the Iran war just an energy shock, or a turning point?
Much will depend on the view taken by both consumers and governments, especially in energy-hungry Asia, the fastest-growing region.
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Harnessing diaspora potential for sharia economy advancement
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.
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Student protests and the quiet militarization of the civilian sphere
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.
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Is Indonesia safe if the rupiah reaches Rp 20,000?
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.
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Market-friendly income boost, refocused spending: The keys to stable Rupiah
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.
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Hormuz reopening could be OPEC’s undoing
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.
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Why Southeast Asia must unite against online scams
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.
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Learning to govern a fragmented world
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.
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'Sell Indonesia' is the market's verdict on the ‘ompreng’ project
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."
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When schools become secondary to political agendas
When schools are bulldozed for glossy programs, education starts looking like collateral damage.
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Better coordination is key to solving the stunting crisis
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.
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Revisiting Indonesia’s fight against diabetes
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.
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How (not) to fight the globalization trilemma
Political economy explains why some economies thrive in a hostile world while others are punished by it.
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Why visual evidence matters in Indonesian activism
Today in Indonesia, graphic, violent images and videos often function as political evidence.
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Long-sought police reform stalled at the institutional gate
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.
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Nickel's recovery hopes tempered by growing stock overhang
A growing mountain of surplus metal accumulating in warehouses is a reminder that this could be a slow-fuse process.
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Russia Day: Celebrating unity at home and abroad
On Russia Day, Moscow celebrates its rich heritage and strengthens its strategic bonds with Indonesia and ASEAN to build a fairer, multipolar world.
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PSN in Papua needs more indigenous entrepreneurs
True economic acceleration in Papua won’t come from pouring trillions into mega-projects—it requires building an army of local indigenous entrepreneurs to own them.
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Three fault lines in Indonesia’s financial governance
The amendments reveal a broader shift toward a more coordinated and state-directed model of financial governance.
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Reforming the police without reforming police power
By prioritizing organizational strength over independent oversight, the new Police Law delivers mere administrative updates instead of genuine democratic reform.
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The theater of democracy: Indonesia's unresolved Reformasi
As Indonesia drifts toward oligarchy and political decay, a new generation of students is ditching street protests for the courtroom, using the Constitution to finish the reform movement started in 1998.
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The future of development finance is not primarily about money
For middle-income countries like India, accessing knowledge and technology is now a bigger challenge than raising capital, which suggests that MDBs must rethink their operating model.
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- Indonesia’s weakening currency and possible hidden fiscal bill
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