The reputational damage to the Middle East due to the Iran war may spur oil majors and the industry as a whole to realign their investment focus, though a shift to potentially higher-risk regions will lead to an inevitable rise in energy prices.

The reckless use of religion by state actors across all three Abrahamic faiths as a means of justifying the war in Iran has not been criticized as pointedly as its breach of international law.

As the Middle East undergoes a violent restructuring, the failures of Western-led regime changes offer a grim warning. For India, navigating this "region in churn" requires a masterclass in strategic autonomy and the pursuit of a new regional compact.

What truly determines the future of a nation is a fundamental question every nation must answer.

In the relentless rhythm of the infinite scroll, a humanitarian crisis carries no more weight than a trending meme. We aren't suffering from a lack of information, we are drowning in a digital flattening that turns empathy into an optional setting.

It is as if Trump failed to pay for fire insurance and then filed a claim for a blaze he set, without warning the neighborhood. Now the neighbors are applying his own logic.

Though the 2006 Citizenship Law was hailed as a landmark in its day, it needs amending to reflect the modern-day realities of 2026 so Indonesians of diaspora communities and mixed marriages can contribute to and serve their homeland, if they choose.

While conflict is designed to weaken adversaries, the current crisis has inadvertently turned Iran into a primary beneficiary of a broken energy order. As global prices soar and supply chains fracture, the resulting economic shock waves are no longer just a Middle Eastern concern: They are hitting every household and industry across ASEAN.

As Indonesia backslides on democratic indices, the nation faces a crisis that is as much philosophical as it is political. Examining the struggle related to the Publisher Rights through the lens of Camus reveals a systemic absurdity that threatens the very survival of our free press.

The US-Israeli war against Iran is the first conflict in which the entire operational architecture ran at machine speed, with human commanders at the authorization margins rather than in the processing chain.

The concept of truth is increasingly fraught in our post-truth era. In a world defined by unilateral power and hegemonic influence, we must learn to scrutinize public information with a discerning eye rather than accepting it at face value.

Recent crackdown on fintech lending ignores a critical reality: these "price-fixing" measures were actually regulatory mandates designed to protect consumers. By applying a rigid competition framework to a co-regulated market, the KPPU risks stifling financial inclusion and deterring the very investors the nation needs.

In the 2026 Indonesia–US Agreement on Reciprocal Trade, the phrase “Indonesia shall” appears more than 200 times. “United States shall” appears only nine times. The agreement may not hold up under international law.

What ASEAN must confront is not the tariffs themselves, but the “structure of unfairness determination.”

As we navigate a volatile global order, the military’s role is evolving from post-authoritarian survival to strategic maturation. To secure its democratic future by 2045, the country must bridge the gap between necessary military adaptation and the urgent need for a comprehensive national security framework.

As an ongoing exhibition seems to imply, approaching an artwork or an exhibition doesn't necessarily require referring to their titles to fully appreciate the significance of either.

As the President pushes to deploy a TNI peacekeeping mission to Gaza under the US-led Board of Peace, he risks walking into a neocolonial trap designed for profit instead of Palestinian welfare. Unless it is accompanied by a robust combat force to deter Israeli aggression, this humanitarian mission may quickly turn into a tragic delivery of body bags.

Digital labor platforms in Indonesia are moving beyond simple coordination to a model of "digital Taylorism" that monetizes driver dependence. To protect workers, regulation must shift its focus from surface-level pricing transparency to the underlying algorithmic power structures that govern their daily lives.

In Indonesia, the "respectable" child is too often imagined as the one who moves toward the desk, the title, the clean office, or the bureaucratically legible role.

New dating of cave art in southern Sulawesi places Indonesia at the very center of one of the most profound developments in human history: the emergence of symbolic and narrative thought. 

The EUDR holds immense potential to benefit global sustainability, but only if it evolves beyond rigid rules and overly simple measurements.

RCEP is widely identified as an instrument for regional resilience: a platform for market expansion, supply chain diversification and rules-based certainty.

The international community needs to step up its commitment to the Responsibility to Protect, which was deliberately designed to ensure protection for populations against mass atrocity crimes within the purview of international law.

Iran’s model of smart air defense, combining geographic fragmentation, asymmetric resource management and layered deterrence, warrants a close study by developing countries such as Indonesia toward restructuring the national security doctrine for an integrated, hybrid approach.

As the US pivots toward aggressive trade probes over concerns of forced labor, Indonesia’s nickel industry finds itself at a critical crossroads where only radical transparency can secure its place in the global EV supply chain.

Key gas infrastructure, liquefaction plants in particular, are more complex and expensive to build and repair than the oil equivalent.

Once viewed as a bulwark of neutrality, ASEAN has shown it can be divided when external economic pressure is applied.