Not only does Indonesia have the experience and the diplomatic skills to serve as peace mediators, we also understand the region and the people much better.

Jakartans must take the lead in controlling the city's air quality instead of waiting for an official response, especially after alarming reports showing that pollution is seeping into our homes at higher, more dangerous levels than in the air outside.

The government's response to the Sumatra flooding and landslides is turning into a case study of what not to do after a major disaster.

Building more infrastructure and opening real economic opportunities in the outer cities and beyond will help relieve Jakarta’s heavy burden.

The state's disaster response in Sumatra only shows that victims of the floods and landslides have had their the rights to life, health and protection denied during emergencies.

We need not only tougher laws and regulations on the use and conversion of forest land by plantation and mining companies, but also tighter supervision and credible enforcement of these rules.

Foreign investors need assurances that their long-term investments will be protected from arbitrary decisions or bad-faith actors.

It is high time we throw out the misleading narrative that Indonesians lack reading interest; rather, the issue is more about whether the country has the systems and facilities in place to nurture reading.

While EU authorities would deny that protectionism is the main motive and would point instead to what they deem to be unfair trade practices on Indonesia’s part, the duties in effect protect EU-based steelmakers and rapeseed biodiesel producers.

A national emergency declaration enables the deployment of all necessary state equipment and resources to the affected areas. 

To avoid the perception that it is being used for political witch hunts, the KPK must build watertight cases backed by compelling evidence.

Too much politicking by NU top leaders is undermining its larger mission of looking after the spiritual needs of followers. 

The recent hasseltii sighting underlines the urgent need for forest conservation and reforestation to protect the at least 16 rafflesia species discovered in Indonesia 

Prabowo skipped the G20 summit, even though the gathering of the world’s 20 largest economies would have marked the culmination of his global diplomacy this year.

Curaçao's qualifying for the 2026 World Cup finals presents a dichonomy of what the tiny island nation has done right and what our sprawling archipelagic country has yet to get right in developing the national soccer ecosystem.

The recent series of child bullying cases reveals a systemic failure of our education system to protect children.

The true reasons behind the announcement of a new security treaty between Indonesia and Australia are not clear, especially when the neighbors have yet to exploit the many economic potentials of their strategic partnership as well as other nondefense collaborations.

We need to create better schemes to allow for premiums to increase, which will eventually help improve service, while keeping the poor still insured.

Media institutions in the country face increasing intimidation, not only from state actors but also from powerful business figures, as in the case of Tempo.

The amended Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) should be challenged at the Constitutional Court as it expands the police’s authority regarding preliminary investigations, detention, search and seizure, and wiretapping, which is prone to abuse.

The mission to Gaza has a much wider scope that involves maintaining the precarious peace and ceasefire agreement, and includes the disarming Palestinian resistance groups.

Indonesia has demonstrated an inadequate commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in its latest nationally determined contribution (NDC), which shows it will remain dependent on fossil fuels.

Now that the Constitutional Court has issued its final and binding ruling to bar active-duty officers from also holding a public post, neither the force nor the government have an excuse to delay police reform.

When state signals tilt toward influencing the outcome of a private merger, it raises red flags for investors and competitors alike.

The explosive incident last Friday at a North Jakarta school is a tragic, glaring reminder that we are failing in our duty as parents, educators, communities, as a nation, to ensure online safety for underage users.

ASEAN needs to solve the border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia and transboundary crimes for the sake of regional security and stability.

If we cannot commit the resources required to finish Nusantara, we should not push ahead merely to save face.

The public has reason to demand that law revisions address the underlying problems in candidate recruitment, most notably the absence of transparency standards that regulate this process and party fund management.

Soeharto cannot be a true hero, only a false one, not until we clarify his role in the military-led mass killing campaigns in the mid-1960s that led to his seizure of power.

There is only so much the government can do to prop up economic activity, no matter how dear the gross domestic product growth figure is to President Prabowo Subianto.