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When science is rewriting Global South diplomacy

By leveraging data-driven frameworks like the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, Brazil and Indonesia are proving that the Global South can ditch traditional geopolitical competition and use science diplomacy to protect the world's most vulnerable ecosystems.

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Japan and Asia’s new balance

Tokyo is not wringing its hands; it is acting to defend itself and help others secure themselves against Chinese expansionism and the US volatility.     ...

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Why normalizing Myanmar’s junta is a strategic capitulation

Thailand and other ASEAN members may be tempted to treat the junta’s staged transition as a way out of the impasse. But normalization would reward the main driver of Myanmar’s regional crisis.   ...

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'Pesta Babi' and the fear of a thinking Papua

By dismantling the state's engineered conflict narrative, the Pesta Babi documentary has terrified elites who realize that a critical, thinking Papua is an existential threat to the extraction of its wealth.

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Digital sovereignty is in the fine print

Most countries rely on cloud infrastructure and software platforms owned by a handful of powerful tech firms, leaving governments at the mercy of foreign corporate behemoths.

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A new aviation plan key to fixing Indonesia’s skies

To fix high ticket prices and bridge an archipelagic nation, Indonesia must move past reactive policies and treat its aviation industry as a strategic tool for national unity.

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Finally, a truth commission on the Philippines' drug killings

The new truth commission, which has been created independently of government, may finally deliver restitution to the nameless dead and in doing so, restore moral weight to the living.

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The broken promise of coal transition finance

The $20 billion climate flop: a flagship plan to phase out coal in Indonesia hasn’t shut a single power plant.

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Indonesia has to seize the moment to shape global carbon economy

As a climate crisis and geopolitical instability collide, Indonesia must stop acting like a passive observer and leverage its massive green potential to rewrite the rules of the global carbon economy.

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After the state and the owner, who protects fishers?

Behind the record-breaking profits of Indonesia’s industrial fishing fleet lies a predatory system of legal fictions and debt bondage that leaves the very workers fueling the industry with less than the price of a pack of cigarettes.

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The academic fraud in Copenhagen was years in the making

When a university system prioritizes metric-driven visibility over scientific veracity, AI stops being a tool for discovery and becomes a frictionless shortcut for institutionalized fraud.

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Building alliances of among US allies

In a world in which the US cannot be counted on as it once was, the objective is not stability at any price, but rather stability on terms consistent with national and Western interests.

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Small caps are AI's big winners, but for how long?

Many of the biggest winners from the current wave of AI mania lifting Wall Street to new highs aren't the multi-trillion-dollar hyperscalers, but small caps. The question now is whether that can last.

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Quad FMs set tone of continuity in New Delhi

The Quad is evolving from a politically symbolic coalition into a functional strategic mechanism.

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Pedagogy, the classroom and the banality of violence

When education is weaponized to manufacture hate, classrooms become the breeding grounds for state violence, a sobering reality that demands a radical shift toward a humanizing, critical way of learning.

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Human rights reform must preserve independence

How can an institution tasked with monitoring state power be required to obtain approval from the very executive branch it is meant to oversee?

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Reading between China's red lines

Multiple red lines send mixed signals. Is the country drawing them determined to assert its global power, or is it in the grip of a national paranoia?

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The market as an unlikely ally against democratic backsliding

When democratic institutions are dismantled in plenary chambers, the language of capital translates political overreach into economic ruin and in doing so, creates a powerful new battlefield for change.

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Beyond trade platforms: The sovereignty question behind e-commerce

E-commerce increasingly shapes the conditions under which market participants compete. 

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When faith meets heat: Rethinking haj and climate risk

Sound haj governance should no longer be measured solely by how many pilgrims can be dispatched abroad each year, but also by how responsibly societies adapt to worsening environmental conditions.

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Blackout in Sumatra and the threat to Indonesia's energy transition

Indonesia’s power system is still built on a decades-old paradigm,  a handful of large power plants strung together by long transmission lines, with limited flexibility and little redundancy.

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The Strait of Hormuz shock is reshaping East Asia’s economic future

In the wake of the crisis stemming from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, ASEAN should consider a regional strategic reserve mechanism, coordinated procurement arrangements and emergency energy-sharing frameworks.

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The Pope should have gone further on AI

Pontiff has not gone far enough on the most consequential question: What should AI be designed to do?

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Developmental state ambition: Reading Prabowo’s economic direction

President Prabowo’s visionary fiscal address signals a bold shift toward a state-driven, developmental state model aimed at unleashing Indonesia’s economic potential—but its ultimate success hinges entirely on dismantling the entrenched governance and bureaucratic failures of the past.

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What if the AI boom goes into reverse?

Investors should be asking not whether the AI boom will end, but what will happen to markets when it does and where safety may be found.

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The Ibrahim verdict and the troubled justice system

When a flawed anti-corruption verdict relies on silence as guilt, it doesn't just threaten the innocent—it risks turning Indonesia's brightest young professionals into the scapegoats of a broken judicial system.

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Beyond realpolitik: Why the world needs meta-diplomacy

Pancasila is a philosophical framework that offers an alternative to the excesses of realpolitik.

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How the US-China reset recasts the Quad

With the shift in US-China relations, India is emerging as the strategic cog in the American wheel, Pakistan as a tactical partner, NATO as the anchor of the Atlantic alliance and Quad countries as a tool to serve the Indo‑Pacific.

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Insight: Understanding sovereign wealth funds and their application in Indonesia

Toward the end of 2020, amid a world grappling with unprecedented challenges, Indonesia took a bold step in securing its economic future: establishing its first sovereign wealth fund (SWF), the Indonesia Investment Authority (INA).

1 year ago
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Indonesia plans for where people sleep, not where they live their day

As the administrative boundaries of Indonesia's urban areas blur, millions of people are having to pay a silent "metropolitan tax" that is measured not in currency but in hours of their lives surrendered to daily commutes.

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