The primary motive behind the regulation is to ensure the financial sustainability of health insurers, who are struggling with rising claims amid soaring medical cost.

The US does not have the power to inflict significant economic damage on China.

It may be less turbulent than this past spring's drama, but no less worrying for investors.

The President's public pledge last month to prioritize passage of the bill on protection for domestic workers presents an unheralded opportunity to break the cycle of invisibility and injustice and recognize domestic workers as an essential force in the economy. 

The country's social security system, now over 20 years old, might need reforms for an across-the-board upgrade to reflect contemporary conditions and trends, such as an aging population and a shift from traditional, family-based elderly care, as well as inclusion of a growing informal sector.

The pattern is simple: find land, exploit it, suppress resistance, reward the cronies.

The deployment of carriers serves as a stark reminder of how easily tensions could escalate into armed conflict. Yet amid these challenges, diplomacy must remain the priority.

A Rp 9.9 trillion (US$610 million) corruption scandal involving the procurement of school laptops by the Education, Culture, Research and Technology Ministry from 2019 to 2022, under the leadership of Nadiem Makarim, has captured national attention.

Our bureaucrats should learn to be less xenophobic in dealing with expatriates.

As it stands, the government's housing policy is essentially displacement masquerading as development, and needs a complete overhaul by shifting the focus to low-income residents and their communities as agents, equal partners and coproducers of housing solutions, not mere beneficiaries.

Sharing posts about Raja Ampat becomes a way to show that one is environmentally conscious, politically aware or simply follows the current controversy. 

Prabowo's free meals program comes packaged in the state rhetoric of love for the nation and if this is truly so, perhaps accountability should also be a key ingredient.

The Prabowo Subianto administration on May 23, 2025, launched a stimulus package aimed at sustaining household consumption and maintaining economic growth momentum amid rising global uncertainties. The package consists of five short-term measures set to be implemented from June to July 2025—one fewer than initially planned after the government scrapped a proposed electricity price discount. While the consumer-focused stimulus was introduced amid ongoing fiscal tightening, it was deemed necessary following a slowdown in household consumption and overall economic growth in the first quarter of 2025.

With the right support, community health workers can help Indonesia turn the tide on stunting and set an example for the world.

Several studies in developed countries such as Singapore and England have shown that delaying school start times actually improves students’ well-being and academic performance.

Insurance firms have a wide role to play in bringing climate and economic imperatives into closer alignment, adapting the tools at their disposal to safeguard both ocean health and the blue economy as a sustainable, interdependent ecosystem.

Australia haa its very own form of gotong royong, a social value characterized by mutual cooperation and collective effort.

With all the suffering Palestinians continue to endure, it seems contradictory at the current moment, even treacherous, to even think about establishing formal ties with Israel.

Through blue economy diplomacy, the ministry should lead Indonesia’s global efforts in sustainable fisheries management and marine conservation.

The growing toll of haj pilgrims as temperatures rise has exposed another dimension in the issue of environmental injustice, where climate change is disproportionately affecting the vulnerable among the millions of Muslims who travel to Mecca each year to fulfill their religious obligation.

While this package is indeed justified to support short-term economic resilience, its design, heavily focused on demand-side relief with minimal impact on supply-side capacity or productivity, raises questions about whether this is the kind of policy we truly need.

There are deep structural cracks in Indonesia’s labor market that we can no longer afford to ignore.

Indonesia’s new sovereign wealth fund (SWF) Danantara has announced plans to invest up to US$5 billion from the $7.5 billion in dividends it collects from state-owned enterprises (SOEs) this year to fund projects that promise both high financial returns and significant economic impact. However, observers remain skeptical that the fund’s planned corporate actions will deliver the promised performance.

In a world where education holds the key to national transformation, Indonesia has made great strides in recent years. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology’s Merdeka Belajar (Emancipated Learning) initiative reflects a powerful vision: to empower educators, promote critical thinking and prepare learners for an ever-evolving global landscape. However, real change requires educators who themselves evolve by stepping out of their comfort zones to lead by example.

Someone issued licenses for mining in a prime tourism region. What were they thinking?

There can be no reckoning of social order without the deconstruction of systematically imposed constructs and the awakening of society at large. 

Trump is a weak strongman, and America’s adversaries may understand that better than most Americans.