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Analysis: Indonesia's fiscal strains deepen as deficit rises, revenue underperforms
Indonesia's budget deficit widened Rp 479.7 trillion (US$29.98 billion) or 2.02 percent of GDP in October 2025, heightening concerns about the country's fiscal health. This marks a sharp increase from the Rp 309.2 trillion deficit, or 1.37 percent of GDP, recorded during the same period last year. The shortfall has been further pressured by sluggish state revenues as the government had collected only Rp 2.1 quadrillion by Oct. 31, equivalent to 73.7 percent of this year's revenue outlook.
6 hours ago
Academia
Sham elections, shifting power inside Myanmar
The elections are a clear attempt by the regime to gain legitimacy and sideline the government in exile. But they open the possibility of some diffusion of power. ...
7 hours ago
Academia
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Indonesia’s OECD bid: A historic step for both sides
In becoming a full OECD member, Indonesia will join other countries at the table that are helping to shape global standards by investing in and committing to long-term reform. ...
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India-Russia: A time-tested partnership building trust
Russia has moved significantly closer to China, sometimes uncomfortably so, while the United States has tried to consolidate Europe under a NATO-centered response to Moscow.
10 hours ago
Academia
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Trump's United States of the Americas
The national security strategies document speaks of reducing America’s trade imbalances, increasing commerce, securing supply chains and reindustrializing the country.
11 hours ago
Academia
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Why Indonesia needs mandatory disaster insurance
Countries with high disaster risk do not leave disaster protection to voluntary market behavior
12 hours ago
Academia
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The ‘mantab’ trap: The middle class ends up running on debt, fumes
Many people today are burning the furniture to keep the house warm, and when the wood runs out, they are buying firewood on high-interest credit.
13 hours ago
Editorial
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Jakarta’s heavy burden
Building more infrastructure and opening real economic opportunities in the outer cities and beyond will help relieve Jakarta’s heavy burden.
14 hours ago
Academia
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Why the US will never abandon Taiwan
Abandoning Taiwan would undermine US interests, alienate allies, embolden China and unravel the Indo-Pacific balance.
1 day ago
Academia
Asia's stocks ride a reform wave, but rough seas lie ahead
The region's flagship index has jumped more than 25 percent this year as a wave of governance reforms and fresh domestic money has started to chip away at a decade-long valuation gap with the United States.
1 day ago
Academia
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AI is not the risk. Our habits are
A nation’s relationship with technology is forged in childhood, where habits of curiosity, perseverance and independent reasoning are either nurtured or suppressed.
1 day ago
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Warm oceans seem to be turning even ‘weak’ cyclones deadly
Cyclones Ditwah and Senyar show we must prepare for storms that are weak in wind but extreme in rain.
1 day ago
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Have we not learned our lessons?
In places where communities had been trained to respond to early warnings, the difference is striking: lives and properties were spared because people knew what to do.
1 day ago
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China’s one trillion trade surplus: Turning tariffs into gain
Europe now relies heavily on Chinese components to support its energy transition, while Southeast Asia depends on Chinese machinery and intermediate goods to fuel rapid industrial upgrading.
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Opinion
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Analysis: IMIP airport raises questions on transparency and oversight
The presence of the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) Private Airport in Morowali Regency, Central Sulawesi, has sparked controversy after Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin asserted that the facility operates without proper state oversight. The issue appears to reflect a broader debate among state institutions, revealing friction between figures from the previous administration and the current government.
1 day ago
Editorial
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Rights on borrowed time
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.
1 day ago
Academia
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.
2 days ago
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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.
2 days ago
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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.
2 days ago
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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.
2 days ago
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The Sumatra disaster will increase our fiscal risk
The Sumatra flooding and landslides necessitate a review of the risk factors noted in next year's state budget, as natural disasters pose massive economic losses both locally and nationally.
2 days ago
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Beyond the code: The geopolitical triad of AI
AI has become the center of a new world order, and we have entered the AI Triad, which consists of the politicization, securitization and weaponization of technology.
2 days ago
Opinion
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Analysis: Skipping G20, a costly foreign policy blunder for Prabowo
Last month, President Prabowo Subianto skipped the G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, undermining his claim to be a champion of multilateralism as well as his chances of assuming the vacant leadership of the Global South.
2 days ago
Editorial
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Save our forest, save our soul
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.
2 days ago
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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.
3 days ago
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Biosecurity efforts boost Indonesia’s food resilience
ASF may not infect humans, yet its impact runs deep.
3 days ago
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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.
3 days ago
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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.
3 days ago
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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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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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- Indonesia welcomes first panda born in the country
- ‘Light’ sentencing stunts Indonesia’s corruption fight
- Death strikes stranded evacuees in isolated Sumatra shelters
- US trade deal with Indonesia at risk of collapse, US official says
- Building fire kills 20 in Jakarta: Police
- Why rules of corporate reputation are still ignored in Indonesia
- HSBC’s The Redefining Treasury Asia Pacific reveals shift toward real-time treasury
- Prabowo signals support for Golkar’s push to end direct regional elections
- Challenges of home learning during a pandemic through the eyes of a student
- Calls grow for Indonesia to accept foreign disaster aid
