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Opinion
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Analysis: House latest to join race to "reform" Polri
Moving the bill to amend the 2001 Law on the National Police (Polri) into its priority list for legislation in 2025-2026, the House of Representatives is joining the presidential office and the police itself in an unofficial race to "reform" the country's main law enforcement agency.
3 months ago
Academia
Has gold been Tethered?
For investors buying gold as a bastion of stability, it should give pause that one of bullion's biggest buyers in recent months is a lynchpin of the hyper-speculative world of crypto. ...
3 months ago
Academia
Why China is hesitant on global green leadership
Though the world sees it as an emerging superpower, China sees itself as a developing country, and so is reluctant to take on climate responsibilities on a par with major powers like the EU or the US. ...
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Academia
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Morowali and the politics of air sovereignty
State presence in airspace governance has come to the forefront with the controversy over Morowali, sounding a warning bell for Indonesia's air sovereignty.
3 months ago
Academia
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How the G20 can lead the fight against global inequality
Inequality has become an emergency that must be treated with the same urgency as climate change.
3 months ago
Academia
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Foreign policy tightens up top, but not below
As the president centralizes foreign policy in his own hands, guided by instinct and private diplomacy, a generation of young Indonesians are determined to break it open.
3 months ago
Editorial
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Unpolitical NU? Dream on
Too much politicking by NU top leaders is undermining its larger mission of looking after the spiritual needs of followers.
3 months ago
Opinion
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Analysis: Power play shakes NU leadership
Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), is facing another severe rift among its leadership after chairman Yahya Cholil Staquf was dismissed by the organization's supreme council, the Syuriah. Although his close associations with pro-Israel figures have been publicly cited as the cause, the underlying motive behind the firing appears to stem from intense political rivalry among NU elites.
3 months ago
Academia
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ASEAN and East Asia’s response to a fragmenting global economy (1 of 2)
Trade and investment are no longer about exchange of goods and services, but also about strategic tools being used for geopolitical and geo-economic purposes.
3 months ago
Academia
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How many more mothers must Indonesia lose?
In a country with Indonesia’s level of development, a maternal death reflects deep cracks in the health system.
3 months ago
Academia
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Teachers and the shifting realities of classrooms
In the wake of technological advancement, teachers are no longer solely transmitters of knowledge, they are facilitators, guides and interpreters.
3 months ago
Academia
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Technology and spirituality: Friends or foes?
Scientific and spiritual values should work in harmony, not in opposition.
3 months ago
Academia
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The one condition nuclear power cannot ignore
When corruption is massive, pervasive and prevailing, the safety assumptions behind nuclear technology collapse.
3 months ago
Academia
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An equal burden of infertility amid unequal access to treatment
The WHO’s first guideline on infertility takes a broad approach to addressing this global issue, focusing on ways to provide more equitable, sustainable access to fertility services.
3 months ago
Opinion
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Analysis: Nickel giants under pressure
Indonesia's nickel smelter boom, long promoted as the centerpiece of its downstream industrialization agenda, is entering a new phase. Through Government Regulation No. 28/2025, the government has moved to restrict new smelter permits, prompting questions over whether this signals a response to overcapacity, a recalibration of its downstream strategy or the start of a more measured and deliberate industrial policy.
3 months ago
Academia
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ASEAN needs to closely watch, Central Asia is rising
Central Asia rarely dominates the narrative of Southeast Asia’s foreign policy, indeed, no leader from a major ASEAN player has visited the region in the past decade.
3 months ago![The flower of a *****['Rafflesia hasseltii' (ITALICS)]***** is seen blossoming on Nov. 19 in Sumpur Kudus district, Sijunjung regency, West Sumatra. The flower was spotted during a field observation jointly conducted by local conservationists as well as researchers from the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) and Oxford University in the United Kingdom.](https://img.jakpost.net/c/2025/11/25/2025_11_25_169414_1764070717._thumbnail.jpg)
Editorial
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Protect our rafflesia and forests
The recent hasseltii sighting underlines the urgent need for forest conservation and reforestation to protect the at least 16 rafflesia species discovered in Indonesia
3 months ago
Academia
Don’t expect Ukraine peace deal to alter Europe’s gas game plan
Whether the US-brokered peace deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war comes through, Europe is unlikely to shift back from LNG, mostly from the US, to its preinvasion overreliance on Russian pipeline gas.
3 months ago
Academia
Strategic priorities for ASEAN’s newest member
Membership of ASEAN brings Timor-Leste political visibility and economic opportunity, but also new exposure to disputes in a grouping where several members are wrestling with democratic backsliding.
3 months ago
Academia
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COP30 divides the world between forests and fossil fuels
The net-zero goal still seems to be on a distant horizon after COP30, where a line between forest advocates and fossil fuel lobbyists was visible.
3 months ago
Academia
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The missing ingredients for peace in Palestine
Let us not be naive: the ceasefire is just a beginning. The events in Palestine cannot be seen in a vacuum, independent from their past and current context.
3 months ago
Academia
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What the Rafflesia controversy reveals about scientific collaboration
The Rafflesia flower case shows Western researchers always become protagonists by default, while local collaborators become scenery, regardless of their actual contributions.
3 months ago
Academia
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The governance gap in Morowali is a bigger threat than the IMIP airstrip
The IMIP has grown into an almost semiautonomous zone, showing how the state must stay on top of such unchecked developments to fulfill its mandates in ensuring the well-being of both the nation and its people, which necessarily involves securing the environment.
3 months ago
Opinion
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Analysis: Jakarta, Canberra move forward on stronger security treaty
Indonesia and Australia are moving toward clinching a new, stronger defense treaty that could potentially affect the Indo-Pacific security landscape, particularly in the South China Sea, where tension has been building in recent years due to overlapping territorial claims between China and several Southeast Asian countries.
3 months ago
Editorial
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Prabowo’s G20 absence
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.
3 months ago
Academia
Palestinian statehood remains a distant prospect
The UN resolution references a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.
3 months ago
Academia
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Madness or common sense: The two futures of the Asia-Pacific
The ASEAN+3 mechanism, where ASEAN nations sit with Japan, South Korea and China, would become one of the most relevant political forums in the region for discussing the Taiwan issue.
3 months ago
Academia
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COP30 and the future of Southeast Asia’s tropical forests
Southeast Asia’s forests are not untouched wilderness, but social-ecological systems shaped over millennia of indigenous and local stewardship.
3 months ago
Academia
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A new opening for a fossil-fuel phaseout?
Many governments with legitimate social-justice concerns are reluctant to support the phaseout, fearing it would impede efforts to reduce inequality and fund essential services.
3 months ago
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Justice granted for online plaudits is not proper justice
Law enforcement agencies seem to operate not according to the rhythm of law, but according to the rhythm of politics and online sentiment.
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