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Deforestation turns cyclonic storms into likely recurring tragedies
Extreme rain wasn’t the only cause of Sumatra’s deadly floods. Years of forest loss, eroded soils and weakened watersheds turned a storm into a tragedy, one that could repeat.
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How Asia’s semiconductor powerhouse fits into ASEAN’s strategic future
As tensions rise between Tokyo and Beijing, ASEAN and Taiwan must balance economic integration with the political realities imposed by China’s growing assertiveness across Asia. ...
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Indonesia and Norway: Cementing middle power cooperation in a turbulent time
A constructive collaboration between Indonesia and Norway on many issues in the global arena could serve as a distinctive model of cooperation among middle powers. ...
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Indonesia’s missing maritime holding: Turning seafaring identity into industrial power
For a nation that calls itself the world’s largest archipelago, Indonesia has never built the industrial architecture needed to transform its maritime identity into maritime power.
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Every hour counts: Mobilizing national capacity for disaster response
The President must declare the Sumatra floods and landslides a national disaster so the state can mobilize its vast emergency response apparatus and afterward, learn crucial lessons from this incident for future policies and actions.
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The critical-minerals race is putting the planet at risk
Reducing material consumption, especially in developed countries, remains the most effective way to protect vital ecosystems and prevent the long-term harms that extraction inevitably causes.
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When Indonesia's development leads to destruction
The country still has time to choose between pursuing the current extractive course to benefit the few or changing course toward equitable development to benefit the many, but the clock is ticking.
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Biosecurity efforts boost Indonesia’s food resilience
ASF may not infect humans, yet its impact runs deep.
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Why Malaysia must reform its Islamic home financing
Islamic home financing in Malaysia needs urgent form, as in its current iteration, it is failing too many buyers when projects stall or collapse.
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Building a financially healthy Indonesia
Setting up a national council for financial health, as the President has announced, is the first step in improving financial well-being for all Indonesians, whose experiences will also inform efforts toward ensuring financial health as a global challenge.
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Disasters, women and the people we choose not to see
Indonesia needs to reform its disaster management system so it is designed with vulnerable groups at the center, or we will continue to see the same established cycle of response with each disaster that strikes.
3 days ago
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The fifth amendment: A path back to the people?
In the previous four constitutional amendments, many articles were written in haste, compromises were born of fear and decisions were made in backrooms shielded from public scrutiny.
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Why global environmental coordination matters now
Planetary threats require planetary governance.
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Indonesia needs a stronger legal backbone for its subsea cables
Indonesia is crisscrossed by global data routes yet lacks a unified mechanism to govern what happens beneath its own seas.
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Why rules of corporate reputation are still ignored in Indonesia
Reputation now sits at the heart of how the public understands corporate power and responsibility.
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Self-inflicted wound: When ignorance sells the forest
The floods are the bill we are paying for decades of cultivated ignorance.
4 days ago
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Seeing global change without the Western lens
Simultaneous disruptions offer a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the deep transformation of global institutions and ideas.
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Sumatra’s floods are not just nature’s fury, Indonesia must act together
To prevent similar disasters in the future, regular audits of plantation, mining, and logging permits, especially in upstream watersheds, are needed to ensure that land-use decisions support ecological protection.
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Beyond the theories: What Indonesian classrooms need
Indonesia possesses the capacity not merely to catch up with the West, but to forge its own distinctive path forward.
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Governments need to prepare for more frequent large floods
Governments and experts need to consider both the frequency and size of floods to better prepare for future ones.
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When sovereignty turns into a service
How much control can a state truly exercise over its digital space when the core architecture of the internet is owned and operated by foreign private corporations?
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Sumatra disasters reveal our climate policy failures
These disasters underscore that Indonesia’s ecological, political and institutional systems are no longer adequate for the climate realities of today.
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Why a just land transition needs real funding
Up to 40 percent of our planet’s lands are degraded and deteriorating, jeopardizing the health and livelihoods of more than 3 billion people.
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ASEAN floods 2025: Governance at a crossroads
The flooding that peaked last month across the region illustrates a fundamental truth: disaster risk reduction is inextricably tied to governance, including economic policies, and ASEAN must tackle climate issues as a collective agenda.
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New OPEC+ quotas ignite spending surge
The new MSC mechanism for setting output baselines from 2027 looks set to spur investment via a more equitable and transparent capacity measurement system, leading to a more sustainable market.
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Philanthropies shift focus to scale, transparency, measurable outcomes
Philanthropies can begin by designing learning systems that move beyond counting outputs to understanding outcomes.
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How presidential clemency fuels impunity
Prabowo’s increasingly reckless use of pardons reflects a troubling pattern of presidential overreach.
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Sumatra floods: A test of national coordination, not just status
Indonesia has real-time disaster maps using crowdsourced reports and a national portal for disaster risk reduction, but they lack integration
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The triple-return ocean economy
Advancing regenerative ocean solutions provides a hedge against systemic instability by protecting one of Earth’s most powerful stabilizing forces.
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The early warning that Sumatra never received
In the event of disasters, what protects people is not a perfect environment, but a reliable flow of information and a clear structure of action.
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- HSBC’s The Redefining Treasury Asia Pacific reveals shift toward real-time treasury
- Why rules of corporate reputation are still ignored in Indonesia
- Indonesia aims for top three at SEA Games as govt promises bigger cash prize
- Why cacao-rich Indonesia is not (yet) a global chocolate producer
- Avatar 3 aims to become end-of-year blockbuster
- Analysis: Patrick Walujo exits as GoTo CEO, speeding up long-awaited Grab–GoTo merger
- Give investors clarity, not confusion
- Fear of rising death toll grows as flood-hit Aceh regions remain isolated
- Chinese businessman named suspect in Cikande radioactive case
- Building a financially healthy Indonesia
