The most plausible path to optimal solutions may require trial and error, and such experimentation is obviously best pursued at the national, rather than the European, level.

To restore broken public trust and shield children from institutional abuse, we must replace outdated taboos with mandatory classroom body literacy by embedding adolescent reproductive health education in school curricula.

Global index provider MSCI has delayed its annual market classification review of Indonesia's equity market, giving the country until November to demonstrate meaningful progress following its warning on market transparency and investability issued in January. While Indonesia retains its emerging market status for now, MSCI stressed that a downgrade to frontier market status remains a possibility as it continues to assess the effectiveness and implementation of recent market reforms.

The conviction of a prominent tech reformer exposes a deeper, more systemic crisis: it casts a doubt over whether Indonesia can truly court global investors and elite talent.

Prabowo’s foreign policy begins to look less like a collection of diplomatic initiatives, which is lacking, and more like the external dimension of an ambitious industrial strategy.

The opening of the Embassy of the Republic of Albania in Jakarta marks the beginning of a new chapter in our diplomatic journey that began over 60 years ago, reflecting not only the profound transformations that our countries have undergone but also our deeply shared values as we continue to strengthen bilateral cooperation.

By weaponizing cherry-picked data and ignoring the far deadlier reality of cold temperatures, the WHO is once again sacrificing evidence-based public health to manufacture a costly, counterproductive climate emergency.

Behind the superficial stability of the latest United States-China summit blitz lies an enduring systemic rivalry, leaving an isolated Tokyo to step into the vacuum and anchor a fracturing international order.

As water supplies across the globe come under growing strain, water-related considerations will shape economic policy and political decision-making as well as firms' investment decisions, risk assessments and corporate strategies.

The shocking graft scandal within the National Nutrition Agency is a stark warning that good intentions cannot survive without robust oversight. If the president’s flagship welfare program can be so easily compromised, Indonesia’s heavily funded, opaque National Police force cannot afford to wait any longer for deep financial and structural reform.

By carving a permanent, legally protected blind spot into its financial system, Indonesia’s new bond shield risks turning the nation into a premier conduit for global money laundering. In a single legislative session, Jakarta may have traded a decade of hard-won international trust for short-term sovereign capital.

The passage of Law No. 4/2026 has sparked controversy over its expansion of Bank Indonesia's mandate and its introduction of special bonds such as Patriot Bonds and Red and White Bonds, among 17 amendments to Law No. 4/2023 on Financial Sector Development and Strengthening (P2SK). While both provisions have attracted public scrutiny, particular concern has centered on the legal protections granted to funds used to purchase these special bonds. Critics argue that these protections create a regulatory loophole that could be exploited for illicit purposes.

The government should focus on helping journalists and media organizations rebuild sustainable business models that enable Indonesian journalism to remain financially viable while continuing to serve democracy and the public interest.

The last El Niño in 2023–2024 threatened rice supplies. This one may be worse for farming, because climate change is adding extra heat on top of disrupted rainfall.

As geopolitical and technological shifts rock the region, Japan and ASEAN are evolving their 50-year "heart-to-heart" partnership into an indispensable anchor for Indo-Pacific stability and economic resilience.

As ASEAN deepens its energy ties with Moscow, the bloc faces a volatile new reality defined by long-range drone strikes deep inside Russian territory. To safeguard its economic future, Southeast Asia must balance the allure of vast Siberian reserves against the growing vulnerability of the infrastructure that delivers them.

Whatever order emerges from the current crisis, its durability will depend not only on deterrence but also on economic incentives that make conflict costly.

Indonesia’s chronic educational underperformance will never be solved by a top-down curriculum updates. Until policymakers focus on rebuilding foundational cognitive habits, like attention spans and reading stamina, long before students reach university, each new ministerial launch will simply deliver a fresh document to the same broken classroom.

As great powers trample democratic ideals in a ruthless scramble for strategic alignment, caught-in-the-middle nations face the constant threat of becoming mere collateral damage. Yet, a fierce countercurrent is rising: a fearless, unbought generation of youth refusing to let their freedom be bartered away by autocrats and foreign patrons.

The peace treaty between the United States and Iran, no matter how fragile, offers a measure of relief to President Prabowo Subianto, who is grappling with mounting economic and political pressures at home.

Behind the National Police’s glowing 82 percent public approval rating lies a much darker reality of corruption, violence and a desperate need for real reform.

The Hormuz crisis has pushed nations to rethink their energy strategies. Does that mean we should expect a dramatic reduction in fossil fuel use?

Recognizing that uncertainty will persist, countries have begun incorporating provisions akin to “supply chain security clauses” into their FTAs to avoid disruptions in the supply of critical goods.

The linguistic and social evolution of bahasa binan, particularly its entry into Indonesian popular culture, ironically highlights the continuing stigmatization and discrimination of the queer community from where it originated.

In a world of intertwined global value chains, the US and China have undeniably developed a relationship of “mutually assured economic pain.”

To fund its ambitious development goals without crashing the economy, Indonesia must shift its focus from raising tax rates to fixing the fragmented institutional machinery required to collect them.

The Patriot Bond promises to fund national development, but its exceptionally low yield tells a different story. By offering sweeping legal immunity to wealthy investors, the vehicle risks morphing from an innovative financial tool into a toxic, de facto amnesty.