The administration of Prabowo Subianto is reforming the disbursement of fuel and electricity subsidies to improve state budget efficiency. These subsidies have long been criticized for disproportionately benefiting upper-middle-class households, who consume more energy, rather than the poor and vulnerable groups they are intended to support. As a result, the government now aims to better target subsidy distribution and reduce its long-standing fiscal burden. The urgency to optimize subsidy spending has also grown amid rising expenditures for several major government programs.

The migrant worker ecosystem needs to innovate from the current focus on remittance flows toward an integrated design that aims for empowerment toward financial inclusion and long-term financial health as the ultimate outcome.

The Bondi Beach attack is a warning that Jewish around the world are becoming vulnerable with the rise of antisemitism.

To realize its 100 GW solar power generation, Indonesia must utilize international financing, particularly from China, which is pivoting its overseas investments toward clean energy. 

Insurance in Southeast Asia is reaching a structural turning point, Indonesia is showing what the next decade will look like.  

If it enters the mining industry, Muhammadiyah risks being reduced to a mere “digger”, bearing severe ecological and social liabilities while others reap the value.

The use of such weapons undermines the nonproliferation regime that the UN and international forums have worked tirelessly to uphold. 

Grief has engulfed Sumatra. Flash floods and landslides have devastated the provinces of Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra, leaving behind not only the ruins of homes and infrastructure but also the deepening realities of hunger, displacement and profound uncertainty. Yet the government's decision to slash disaster funding to its lowest level in years is now testing its ability to help the affected rebuild their lives.

The internal dynamics within Thailand and Cambodia ensure that neither side wants to concede first: Every concession is viewed as a vulnerability; every pause is a political risk.

For more than a decade, the warnings have been mounting. Children have taken their own lives after enduring relentless cyberbullying. Teenagers report rising anxiety and body dysmorphia driven by idealized online imagery, with some reports noting that children as young as ten express interest in using anti-ageing beauty products.

Once hailed as a revolutionary solution to climate change, carbon market’s credibility began to erode to the point where late-night TV hosts joked about carbon offsets.

The TNI has transitioned into a "multifunction" role, potentially gaining even more power than it held during its historical "dual function" (dwifungsi) era.

For the US, grater engagement with Cambodia fits well within its Indo-Pacific strategy, at a time when the Southeast Asian mainland has quietly become ground zero of increasing Chinese influence. 

The emergence of quantum computing has many implications for national resilience, especially with regard to cybersecurity and data sovereignty as well as policies to encourage local development of the technology. This is the second of a two-part article.

After last month's controversial passage of the revised Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) bill, concerns have emerged regarding a significant legal loophole: wiretaps. Activists say that if left unchecked, law enforcement agencies like the National Police will have leeway to wiretap anyone at any time without formal mechanisms and restrictions once the KUHAP comes into force on Jan. 2.

While over 8 percent of the global population is still undernourished, helping children in poor countries in the first 1,000 days of their lives, in the womb and in their first years, can do phenomenal good for little money.

There are big problems with direct regional head elections, but we need to fix them instead of dropping the elections altogether.

It is a common assumption that mining activities are destroying biodiversity, leaving degraded land and polluting water bodies. That is true for unregulated mining activities, which are mostly conducted by illegal mining businesses.

NU is not simply a religious organization, but a moral force and a social movement with enormous political weight.

Social media has become the primary stage for hyper-nationalist rhetoric.

Building self-reliance in research and the application of quantum-safe cryptography is becoming increasingly urgent as global attention grows toward the potential security threats posed by quantum computing. 

Rapid industrial expansion in Java and Sulawesi, driven by the government’s downstreaming strategy, is being used to justify a surge in new coal capacity.

The South American country can take a page out of neighboring Brazil's playbook in deepening bilateral ties with Indonesia, particularly in joining the race in the beef and dairy markets.

Major economies like the US, China and the EU have been rewriting their rules on trade and investment based on strategic priorities rather than shared principles.

The flash floods and landslides that ravaged Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra should prompt far deeper scrutiny than they have so far received. While Cyclone Senyar intensified the rainfall, the scale of destruction reflects decades of unchecked ecological degradation that have left communities acutely exposed.

In 2023, diabetes was already the second-most common diagnosis referred from primary care facilities to higher-level referral hospitals. 

Prabowo was reportedly angry and unsettled not merely because of the protests themselves, but because they triggered a deeply personal political memory.