While Southeast Asian nations promote green growth, their legal systems are being weaponized against the very people fighting to protect the region's climate-vulnerable landscapes.

TKA 2026 proves Indonesia can measure learning at a massive scale, but if the government cannot fix the stark literacy and numeracy deficits revealed by the data, the promise of "Golden Indonesia 2045" will give way to a staggering demographic burden.

In a world fractured by polarization and driven by rapid technological acceleration, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical delivers a timely, powerful reminder: no advancement must ever overshadow the intrinsic value of human dignity.

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.

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

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.