The raid did not signal the beginning of the end for the online scam industry along the Thai-Myanmar border. It was the result of a battlefield gain, repackaged as an anti-crime success. 

Integration of climate objectives into social-protection systems can go a long way toward delivering limited finance where it is needed most.

Education does not automatically guarantee economic success. Its real power lies in expanding one’s capacity to choose.

Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa is turning his attention to Indonesia's booming illegal thrift trade, an enduring challenge that persists despite years of government crackdowns. Thrifting is deeply rooted in Indonesian culture, not only as a fashion statement but also as a way for many to make ends meet. Yet, Purbaya's latest move signals a renewed determination to protect the domestic textile and garment industry, which continues to struggle against a flood of cheap, second-hand clothing imports.

Our children will discover new cultures and new ways of thinking by taking the trouble to learn new languages. 

Better ways of financing development are becoming more available.

True equity in education is about relevance: whether what students learn connects to the lives they will lead, the work they will do and the future they will shape.

In Indonesia, a country where nearly a third of harvested food spoils before reaching consumers, keeping food fresh longer is not simply a safety matter, it is an economic necessity.

Since Indonesia became globalised, academics, cultural observers and even members of the general public sense that the Indonesian language is in crisis

We recommend more targeted and context-specific strategies to accelerate malaria elimination in Papua, with a focus on culturally responsive communication, active community engagement and integration into existing health services.

Barring any last-minute political twists, President Prabowo Subianto's administration appears poised to crown Indonesia's second president and Prabowo's former father-in-law Soeharto as a national hero. The move would mark a dramatic turn in the country's reckoning with its authoritarian past, as no previous president had dared to officially honor the man whose 32-year rule was synonymous with repression, corruption, and nepotism.

The finance minister's massive liquidity boost, while well-intended, has ultimately failed to read the mood across all economic layers.

As China secures its role in clean tech exports, the US is doubling down on fossil fuels, and pushing allies to buy US gas

The country's interim government shoulders a responsibility so heavy it is practically collapsing under it.

Unless development sits at the center of trade policy, globalization will widen inequality instead of narrowing it.

Trump spent much of the last week of October in Asia but failed to create enduring structures in the economic sphere or put to rest increasing doubts about the United States’ strategic commitment to the region.

The new finance minister has become an inadvertent disrupter of a decade-long loyalty entrenched in the bureaucracy through his policies, grounded in economic rational, creating both hope among the public and a test for the President.

We have entered an era of rhetorical abundance but institutional scarcity.

President Prabowo Subianto appears to have found in Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa a trusted figure capable of managing Indonesia's state finances with both discipline and political loyalty. In just a few months on the job, Purbaya has shown a willingness to take on elite power brokers, both within the government and from circles close to former president Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, without losing sight of President Prabowo's populist agenda.

As the leader of a prominent middle power, President Prabowo showed that he was also a magnet for international leaders. 

The question is not whether the UN has failed, but whether humanity can afford a world without it.

The rise of agentic AI, or automous artificial intelligence systems that can make decisions and act with little to no human prompts or supervision, signals a need to revisit and rethink the practical, legal and ethical aspects of cybersecurity frameworks.

Today, the currents shaping the relationship between the Indo-Pacific’s two largest democracies are not trade winds, but the terabits flowing through fiber-optic cables and the instant signals of digital payment systems.

Changes to the international order have reinforced authoritarian regimes. 

Rewriting history is not inherently wrong, but when it is done opaquely with an aim to benefit the powers that be in today's regime, it not only negates facts but also the very journey our nation and people trod to get where we are.

Why do Indonesian firms not innovate?

Timor-Leste formally joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) during the group's summit in Kuala Lumpur, after a long wait, thanks in no small measure to the tireless support of Indonesia, which once brutally occupied the tiny territory.