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Debtor countries finally have a group of their own
The aim is to create a venue for these countries to discuss technical issues, share information on addressing debt challenges, access technical assistance and capacity building in debt management, coordinate their approaches and influence the global debt architecture.
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How ASEAN misreads the prolonged Myanmar crisis
Indonesia must look past the junta’s tactical gestures and recognize that in Myanmar, a history of broken promises is the only reliable guide for future diplomacy. ...
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The new architecture of peace: Mediation in a multipolar world
As the old rules of diplomacy falter, a new "composite" era of mediation, led by middle powers and private experts, is rising to meet the most violent decade of the 21st century. ...
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Can honesty save ASEAN? Lessons from the Cebu Summit
While ASEAN is famous for diplomatic platitudes, the Cebu summit proved that admitting your flaws is the first step toward remaining relevant in a shifting geopolitical landscape.
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Takeaways from the ASEAN Summit: Tightening the bonds, building up resilience
Prabowo’s speech is direct and simple about the key elements that ASEAN must retain to keep the organization relevant now and in the future.
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Europe is losing the energy security battle to China
China is currently leading the energy transition in terms of competitive advantage as the Middle East crisis exposes the deep divide between petrostates and electrostates, and although Europe has begun to strategize its shift to clean power, sustained financing remains a crux.
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When democracy tires, movements fade and a generation holds back
When political systems neither collapse nor improve, they enter a state of fatigue that erodes the very possibility of reform. Indonesia has transitioned from the explosive ruptures of 1998 to a modern era of managed stagnation, leaving a generation to navigate a democracy that functions as a procedure but fails as a promise.
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Trapdoor creaks for dollar if Middle East war ends
Whether a trapdoor now opens beneath the dollar if the war ends and the Strait of Hormuz reopens is a central question for global markets.
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Families can't wait for better childcare system
As Indonesia chases its "Golden 2045" dreams, the tragic raid of a Yogyakarta childcare center reveals a haunting truth: our economic future is stalled by a systemic refusal to treat childcare as a public priority.
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Indonesia’s businesses face a new human rights era
We offer a paradigm shift: from managing conflict to preventing conflict through shared prosperity models.
2 days ago
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The consensus on China’s economy is strong, and wrong
When one looks at Chinese household consumption per capita alongside comparable countries in terms of their postwar growth “take-off time,” the picture changes.
2 days ago
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The K-pattern and governance asymmetry, an uneven distribution of state capacity
While Indonesia’s macroeconomic indicators signal stability, a deepening governance asymmetry risks turning a temporary K-shaped recovery into a permanent structural divide.
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Cities are getting hotter – and bigger
Today’s emissions choices will determine how many more may face dangerous heatwaves this century.
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Indonesia’s Latin American pivot strengthens South-South cooperation
Cooperation between Southeast Asia and Latin America matters, as both regions face similar pressures related to sustainable development, biodiversity protection and green industrialization.
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Why Indonesia’s emissions trading system needs revision
Indonesia has built a sophisticated carbon market on paper, but without a tighter cap and a real price floor, it remains a system for recording emissions rather than reducing them.
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Beyond ‘when will you marry?’: Indonesia’s new demographic challenge
As Indonesia approaches a demographic crossroads, the decision to delay marriage and parenthood is less a private preference and more a rational response to a society that has yet to build a support system for the modern family.
4 days ago
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Higher education dilemma: Between degrees and labor market
Entering university is not an act of choice, but a negotiation with the system since the very beginning
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Why Indonesia must write ASEAN’s green rules
Indonesia has spent a decade teaching the world that it controls the supply of nickel, palm oil, and now renewable electricity. The harder question is whether Jakarta can also set the rules by which those products are sold.
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Is nicotine the magic bullet to help end the smoking epidemic?
Policy debates around tobacco control objectives are framed increasingly in terms of nicotine elimination rather than eliminating harmful exposure to smoke.
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Restoring people's rights to natural resources
It's time to stop the false solutions and return the power of natural resource management to the hands of the people.
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When young doctors serve as 'shock absorbers' of a fragile health system
When we glorify the exhaustion of young doctors as heroism, we ignore the systemic cracks that turn healers into "shock absorbers" for a failing healthcare system.
5 days ago
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Weakening rupiah: No panic required, professional heads-up urged
As the rupiah grapples with a "perfect storm" of global dollar strength and domestic regulatory uncertainty, Indonesia faces a critical test of market confidence that may require a fresh infusion of professional leadership to resolve.
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High rankings, low reach in Indonesian journals
This is the hallmark of what the academic community recognizes as citation rings: coordinated, often tacit agreements among affiliated journals to cite one another's work, artificially inflating impact metrics.
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East Asia’s stability cannot be taken for granted
What lessons can our region, East Asia, learn to avoid falling into security predicaments and instability?
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Indonesia’s space ambitions: To sign the Artemis Accords or to wait?
As the Artemis Accords reshape global lunar norms, Jakarta must decide if diplomatic inclusion outweighs its current Earth-focused space priorities.
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C188 on paper, C188 at sea: Translating ratification into reality
Ratifying the ILO’s fishing convention is a diplomatic milestone for Indonesia, but translating paper promises into real protections for fishers requires dismantling deep-seated legal and bureaucratic barriers.
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How an 8% commission fee cap can cripple Indonesia’s tech giants
The government’s "new social contract" might offer immediate relief to gig drivers, but by slashing commissions to 8 percent, the state risks bankrupting the very digital giants that power the economy.
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Indonesia must ensure it never has to say yes to the IMF ... again
Sovereignty is not proven by rejecting help, but rather by never becoming desperate enough to need it.
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The fragile state of women’s rights: From the Bekasi tragedy to the denial of 1998 rapes
As we tout a new law to protect the vulnerable, the dismissal of historical atrocities and the stripping of political quotas reveal a nation still deeply invested in making its women disappear.
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Active neutrality in a dangerous era: Malaysia’s test from Hormuz to Malacca
Malaysia does not need to be a military actor in the US-Israeli war against Iran to be strategically affected by it.
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