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23 hours agoThe latest incident of police brutality, which led to the death of an ojol driver last week, shows that comprehensive reform of the National Police can no longer be postponed amid the persistence of brutality and their increasing authority as an apparatus that shields privilege and power. ...
22 hours agoCentral bankers are the high priests of high finance. That is because they control high-powered money, commonly known as the monetary base, or the sum of currency in circulation plus commercial bank deposits with them. ...
19 hours agoThe Tianjin summit suggests that Modi and Xi did not seek reconciliation, but stabilization, learning from the US-Soviet detente during the Cold War.
20 hours agoIndonesians have long tolerated hardship with patience. But there is a limit when public trust erodes.
21 hours agoGovernments must understand that TikTok, Instagram reels, memes and livestreams are not distractions, they are the pulse of modern civic life.
2 days agoPrabowo’s government and its loyalists seek to redefine the protests not as genuine expressions of public frustration, but as politically orchestrated chaos.
1 day agoIf mass protests intensify beyond control, the President can declare a state of emergency, if not martial law.
1 day agoWashington's recent move to take a 10 percent share in chipmaker Intel signals the Trump administration could be experimenting with recalibrating US capitalism, possibly by incorporating elements of state-directed capitalism.
1 day agoAmid a collective movement of debtors reusing to repay illegal online lenders is emerging a new model called ecosystem lending that blends digital flexibility with banking discipline, offering a way to get back on track toward realizing the aspirational goal of financial inclusion.
1 day agoMarkets can only function fairly and effectively if strong institutions, impartial regulation and a capable state underpin them
3 days agoA phenomenon known as "replacement migration" that moves upward across the economic hierarchy is growing in transnational migrant recruitment against the backdrop of Trump's tariff war, leading to the rise of global human supply chains and creating more complex labor issues in terms of hiring practices as well as workers' welfare.
2 days agoEvery mass upheaval is the result of an accumulation of long-held dissatisfaction.
2 days agoThe tragic death of gig driver Affan Kurniawan on Aug. 28 is more than a procedural failure, but a wake-up call that should be wielded as a lightning rod for reforms that embrace moral integrity in the pursuit of ethical leadership, citizen engagement and public dialogue toward a just democracy.
2 days agoRather than cutting vaccine funding, governments should be looking at increasing funds to provide vaccines to the world's most vulnerable children, saving half a million lives and delivering millions in additional social benefits each year.
2 days agoInstead of standing as an economic fortress for the nation, Danantara increasingly resembles a sovereign weak fund: fragile, unfocused and potentially a fiscal burden in the years ahead.
2 days agoThe global race for critical minerals like rare earth elements has descended into a geopolitical struggle, where these once-obscure resources now loom as existential threats to national survival.
4 days agoWithout the legislative body, the executive branch would lack a crucial check on its power, which would jeopardize the democratic framework.
4 days agoThe Johor–Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ), launched in 2024, offers a preview of what deeper cooperation could look like.
5 days agoGreen and sustainable sukuk can drive significant capital into large-scale carbon reduction projects and other crucial sustainability efforts.
5 days agoUntil thorium shows it can produce reliable electricity at scale, Indonesia’s sovereignty requires us to treat it as research, not as our energy backbone.
5 days agoPatriot bonds are not conventional securities. They are designed less to maximize investor return than to rally support for the national agenda
6 days agoAmerican firms could cause global harm before European regulators catch up
5 days agoThe Dutch army had not just incidentally, but structurally applied extreme violence against Indonesians during the Indonesian war of independence between 1945 and 1950.
5 days agoChina remains inextricably embedded in Indian supply chains despite the years-long stand-off between the two militaries.
5 days agoDespite the country’s rapid digital adoption in recent years, a significant percentage of the banking system continues to operate on legacy infrastructure developed decades ago.
5 days agoAs drone warfare expands, Indonesia must decide whether its archipelagic sea lanes are open corridors or off-limits to weapons.
5 days agoIsrael's ongoing campaign in the Gaza Strip stems from decades of history dating back to the 1948 uprising, and is essentially a continuation of the Zionist regime's aim to eliminate the Palestinian presence between the sea and the river.
6 days agoThe Dutch government-sponsored Indonesia investigation independence, decolonization, violence, and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950.
5 days agoIn the digital and AI age, news outlets in Indonesia, as elsewhere, may never regain their glory days of wealth and resources but, by focusing on quality, they can still be a source of reliable information essential to the good functioning of democracy.
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