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Murky ride: A motorcyclist braves thick smog from forest fires on Oct. 7, 2023 as he rides along Jl. Pendidikan in Jakabaring, a district in South Sumatra’s provincial capital Palembang.
Murky ride: A motorcyclist braves thick smog from forest fires on Oct. 7, 2023 as he rides along Jl. Pendidikan in Jakabaring, a district in South Sumatra’s provincial capital Palembang. `
Academia

Questioning ADB’s approach to resource conservation and pollution prevention

The safeguard policy revision is a chance for the ADB to demonstrate a genuine interest in listening and responding to issues raised by communities and groups. 

18 hours ago
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The cries of labor should be heeded amid the digital economy thrills

Governments, companies, and civil societies, must work together to build a fair and sustainable digital economy where everyone, including workers, enjoys the rights and well-being they deserve. 

19 hours ago
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Indonesia’s foreign policy in ‘the multiverse of madness‘

The world is now seeing three major regulatory preferences that may or may not be easy to be fused into a global legal order, alongside Big Tech, whose powers are difficult to regulate under state sovereignty, in democracies or otherwise.

19 hours ago

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Editorial

On letting go

Before Prabowo can start making good on his own promise of continuity, his unofficial political sponsor, Jokowi, has to let him rise out from his own shadow.

19 hours ago
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Protecting Southeast Asia's land and environmental defenders

ASEAN urgently needs to adopt its Environmental Rights Framework to break the pattern of blatant impunity for perpetrators fueling an endless cycle of violence and threats against land and environmental defenders amid weak and ineffective law enforcement in the region.

20 hours ago
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Imagining a ‘true’ Southeast Asian parliament

A Southeast Asian parliament may sound like an improbably idealistic vision, but in this era of unprecendented advancements and challenges, thinking out of the box is the way for the region to finally take a global lead by representing its citizens, especially its youth, at the regional level.

21 hours ago
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Gaza war tests Indonesia’s free and active foreign policy

Even with the absence of a mediating role, Indonesia should be seen championing an independent Palestinian state and full membership of the United Nations.

1 day ago
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What the next ‘MEF’ for 2025-2045 needs to focus on

However, most of the financial resources allocated for the MEF programs in the last 15 years have been directed toward procuring off-the-shelf weapon systems. 

1 day ago
analysis

Analysis: Court upholds election results, as expected

Unsurprisingly, the Constitutional Court put an end to all election result disputes by rejecting the legal challenges put forward by losing presidential candidates Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo. In two separate five-to-three majority rulings on Monday, the justices upheld the landslide victory of president-elect Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, Gibran Rakabuming Raka.

1 day ago
analysis

Analysis: Indonesia denies normalization with Israel to enter OECD

The Indonesian government has refuted Israeli reports that it is actively seeking to normalize diplomatic ties with the State of Israel. Said reports suggested that Indonesia's alleged pursuit of such a normalization is tied to the Southeast Asian country’s ongoing efforts to join the multilateral Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), of which Israel is already a member. Indonesia sees entry to the economic forum of developed nations as a pivotal phase in its journey to become a developed country.

6 days ago
analysis

Analysis: For or against a Prabowo presidency without opposition?

Politicians capitalized on Idul Fitri holiday last week to embark on silaturahmi (kinship) visits in the name of coalition building. This year, Prabowo Subianto paid visits to key allies while talks of an imminent meeting between the president-elect and Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) matriarch Megawati Soekarnoputri have spread.

1 week ago
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Analysis: Questions raised about BSD, PIK following inclusion as PSNs

The government recently approved 14 new national strategic projects (PSN), including Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK) 2 and Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD) in Banten, both of which are developments by publicly listed property companies. However, with these projects set to be funded by private investors, questions have been raised regarding the reasoning behind their inclusion as PSNs.

3 weeks ago
analysis

Analysis: Losing presidential candidates go for the jugular. But for what?

Both losing presidential candidates, Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo, are demanding nothing less than a revote in their appeal to the Constitutional Court, claiming that the Feb. 14 election should be invalidated and the results annulled because of problems with the nomination of the running mate of the winning candidate.

4 weeks ago
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Analysis: Troubled Indonesia Eximbank hit by another round of Rp 2.5 trillion fraud

The financially troubled Indonesian Export Financing Agency (LPEI), known as Indonesia Eximbank, has suffered from another round of bad debts, resulting from fraud. Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati recently submitted a report of fraud at the bank involving four borrowers, amounting to Rp 2.5 trillion, to the Attorney General’s Office (AGO). More problems are expected to be revealed as more borrowers also fall under the AGO’s investigation.

1 month ago
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Analysis: Consolation prize for PDI-P: House speakership

It is by far the least powerful job among the country's highest state political institutions, but for the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the position of House speaker may be a consolation prize after emerging as the party with the most votes in the February general elections. But even this is not automatic, depending upon the dictates of other parties.

1 month ago
editorial

Surcharging air passengers?

Adding a surcharge without revising the ceiling price would only strangle the already tight airline industry margin. 

1 day ago
editorial

Golden generation

The team and the country will need Shin’s touch more than ever after the Asian Cup, whether or not the squad wins the coveted trip to the Paris Olympics.

3 days ago
editorial

Thai's Myanmar initiative

Myanmar is in the throes of an emergency on multiple fronts, with allied anti-junta groups backed by a pro-democracy parallel government seizing control of several military posts and towns.

4 days ago
editorial

Human-centered journalism

While the internet, and later social media, have created seismic changes in the media industry by disrupting how news and content are distributed and monetized, if we are to believe proponents of AI, the change that is coming will be even more fundamental.

5 days ago
editorial

Dawn of a worse dengue era

The Health Ministry estimated in 2017 that a dengue outbreak, which sickened around 200,000 people, cost the economy nearly Rp 1 trillion (US$61 million).

6 days ago
editorial

No surprises

We couldn't have expected the Constitutional Court to rule any differently on the multiple election disputes it was handling and while it averted political havoc in doing so, it leaves us with the bigger question: Who are the real losers?

1 week ago
editorial

Militarizing Papua

The military's recognition of the OPM by its self-declared name is more than mere semantics, and we can expect an escalation in its operations to quell the separatist group fighting for an independent Papua.

1 week ago
opinion

Analysis: Court upholds election results, as expected

Unsurprisingly, the Constitutional Court put an end to all election result disputes by rejecting the legal challenges put forward by losing presidential candidates Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo. In two separate five-to-three majority rulings on Monday, the justices upheld the landslide victory of president-elect Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, Gibran Rakabuming Raka.

1 day ago

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Tue, April 30, 2024

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