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Energy transition: Workers check on packages of battery cells at the Hyundai LG Indonesia (HLI) Green Power plant in Karawang, West Java, following its inauguration on July 3, 2024. The plant is Indonesia's first electric vehicle battery factory.

Cooperate, not compete: ASEAN's critical mineral strategy for energy transition

Each ASEAN country has its own critical mineral and downstreaming strategies, but these have intensified competition rather than fostering cooperation.

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Palm oil dilemma: Why soil health must lead Indonesia’s ambition

From a business perspective, without a sustained focus on soil health, expansion of oil palm plantations may become more liability than opportunity. ...

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Development, free and active foreign policy will be FM Sugiono’s priorities

While reiterating Indonesia’s basic principle of free and active foreign policy, the foreign minister delivered subtle messages indicating that Indonesia would actively pursue domestic goals through foreign policy. ...

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The Latest

All together now: Members of the European council pose for a family picture following a meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels on Dec. 19, 2024.

Europe needs a defense production act

The war in Ukraine has underscored the urgent need to establish processes for fast-tracking infrastructure and, when relevant, defense spending.

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A logged area in Lhoong, Aceh, on March 21, 2024.

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Energy plantations are driving social and environmental inequality

Energy transition policies risk enabling environmental destruction and deepening social inequities, particularly within the forestry sector.

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Critical assistance: Rescue workers are seen at the site of a collapsed building after an earthquake struck Port Vila, the capital city of Vanuatu, on Dec. 18, 2024.

Earthquake aftershocks expose high cost of Vanuatu’s democracy

Vanuatu’s self-sabotaging political class has left the country struggling to deal with social and economic shocks of recent natural disasters.

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Sitting pretty: Leaders of ASEAN and China pose for a group photo after the ASEAN-China Summit as part of the 45th ASEAN Summit in Vientiane, on Oct. 10, 2024.

Preparing the ASEAN Economic Community for increased securitization

ASEAN member countries with overlapping claims with China in the South China Sea might face greater vulnerability to China’s potential use of economic statecraft.

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Rain water pools around the tents housing displaced Palestinians at a makeshift camp housing displaced Palestinians in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on January 1, 2025, amid the continuing war between Israel and the militant Hamas group.

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A New Year’s resolution for peace

The prospects for peace agreements remained elusive in 2024.

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Pearly whites: A dentist (left) provides free dental services at the Gadjah Mada University dentistry school in Yogyakarta on Dec. 12, 2024, during National Dental Health Month.

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Recruiting more doctors: A solution, or creating new problems?

Before rushing to create policies based on the "doctor emergency" narrative, the government should verify and streamline data on physician numbers and other relevant factors as well as involve medical organizations to identify the actual issues for effective solutions.

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Support from afar: Members of the Muslim community protest in front of the Arjuna Wijaya Statue in Central Jakarta on Sept. 20, 2023, against a government plan to develop Rempang Island near Batam into a Chinese-funded economic zone that would displace around 7,500 people.

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Intelligentsia alienation under Prabowo’s presidency (part 2)

Ordinary people are more acquainted with news spread by the “influencers” than by professional journalists.

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Devastated heritage: Kedonganan Beach in Badung, Bali, is covered with trash on March 20, 2024. Comprised of mostly plastic materials, the waste has disrupted the activities of tourists and fishermen alike.

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Sustainable tourism: Between revenues and national heritage preservation

Countries are counting the costs of overtourism, such as environmental degradation, garbage crises, water shortages and irresponsible behaviors of tourists whose numbers have overwhelmed authorities and infrastructure.

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Constitutional Court Chief Justice Suhartoyo (center) sits between justices Daniel Yusmic Foekh (left) and Guntur Hamzah (right) during a hearing of an election dispute in the 2024 regional polls at the court's building in Jakarta on Jan. 8, 2025. The court will hear 310 petitions challenging the results of last year's regional head elections and is slated to deliver all rulings by March 11, 2024.

Threshold removal: A game-changer for Indonesian democracy?

The removal of the threshold should enable political parties to nominate qualified, capable and integrity-driven members as presidential and vice presidential candidates.

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Prabowo Subianto (left) and Gibran Rakabuming Raka walk past a portrait of President Joko “Jokowi“ Widodo, Gibran's father, on April 24, 2024, during the plenary meeting of the General Elections Commission (KPU) to announce the 2024 presidential election winner in Jakarta.

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Alienation of the intelligentsia under Prabowo’s presidency (part 1)

In the past three years, the intelligentsia has been the most alienated group on Indonesia’s public stage.

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United States president-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Dec. 16, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida.

A retrospective on Trump's first year back

No one can know what US president-elect Donald Trump will do, but one can speculate.

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Women activists from various organizations stage a long march in the Thamrin area, Jakarta, on March 8, 2020.

Gender board diversity across Europe through four decades

A newly released unique data source sheds light on the prevalent absence of women in corporate boardrooms across Europe.

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Professors and students of Yogyakarta Muhammadiyah University (UMY) deliver a speech at the university's campus in Bantul, Yogyakarta, on Feb. 3, 2024.

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Advancing Muhammadiyah's global diplomacy agenda

Given Muhammadiyah's substantial contribution to the religious, educational and healthcare development of Indonesia, it has real potential to make a contribution to global welfare.

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An illustration of Indonesian and European Union flags on a table

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EU and Indonesia need to listen to each other first

The EU and Indonesia must unite to uphold the rules-based order amid Russian aggression and looming US-China tensions while providing an alternative.

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A tractor operates on March 5, 2021, on a tract of land cleared for a government project in a forested area in Gunung Mas regency, Central Kalimantan.

Papua land is never empty, it is a source of livelihood for many

The food estate in Merauke seems set to join the long list of such projects that have failed since the concept was first proposed in 2010, only to leave behind broad damage to the rights of indigenous peoples and the environment, including customary land, in South Papua.

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Foreign Minister Sugiono (rear, second left) poses for a group photo with (front, from left to right) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other participants in the outreach/BRICS Plus format meeting during the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on Oct. 24, 2024.

Indonesia’s entry into BRICS: Reshaping the global legal order

BRICS promotes adherence to international rule of law and contests the strategic use of international law to serve particular political preferences and power interests.

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Maritime nation: Shipping activities are pictured at Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok seaport on May 20, 2024.

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Superholding for maritime SOEs: Risks and opportunities

Financial, operational, regulatory and reputational challenges will inevitably emerge as major risks in the merger.

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Activists hold up posters bearing a photo of Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam during a candlelight vigil outside the Singaporean embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 8, 2021, to protest the death sentence handed down to the Malaysian national over a decade earlier for trafficking heroin into Singapore. Dharmalingam was executed at Changi Prison on April 27, 2022, aged 33.

Ending capital punishment is not a false hope

Hope could very well be the defining force behind the drive to abolish capital punishment: hope for redemption, hope for personal improvement, hope for national betterment, and above all, hope for humanity.

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Misguided solutions?: People walk near the venue of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), in Baku, on Nov. 14, 2024.

Finance no panacea for world’s climate woes

The ‘failure’ of the biggest climate event of 2024, the COP29, may be a blessing in disguise as nature cannot simply be replaced by throwing money at it.

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Students eat meals from the free nutritious meals program at a school in Jakarta on Jan. 6, 2025.

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Food waste dilemma behind free meals program

Without proper planning and management, the free meals program risks exacerbating Indonesia’s mounting food waste problems, undermining its lofty goals and creating unintended socioeconomic and environmental consequences.

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United States President-elect Donald Trump speaks on Dec 22, 2024, during Turning Point's annual AmericaFest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, the US.

Trump is on a collision course with the US budget

Trump cannot repeal the laws of arithmetic when the government hits the federal debt limit, as much as he may try in the weeks ahead.

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Making their pledge: New civil servants take their oath during an induction ceremony at Bogor City Hall in Bogor, West Java, on March 22, 2024.

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Prabowo needs bureaucratic reforms to deliver his economic agenda

The President needs an effective and strong bureaucracy to deliver his campaign pledges.

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Republican presidential nominee and former United States president Donald Trump gestures to the crowd as sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. look on near the exit, during a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, US, on Nov. 4, 2024.

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Populism and democracy: Lessons from the US and Indonesia

The narrative of victimhood and rebellion against elites mirrors trends in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, where populist rhetoric has significantly shaped political campaigns.

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People lay flowers during a demonstration in Bangkok on Oct, 15, 2024, to remember the victims of the Tak Bai massacre on Oct. 25, 2004. At least 78 unarmed Muslim protesters died of suffocation and other health conditions after they were detained with around 1,300 others and forced to lie down atop each other in military trucks, while seven protesters were fatally shot.

A package of anti-torture measures at Thailand’s doorsteps

While Thailand has progressed much by passing its law against torture and enforced disappearances, the country still has a lot to do with regard to a raft of recommendations from the UN's Committee Against Torture before it takes a seat at the Human Rights Council this year.

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Visitors walk past an Amazon booth on July 5 during the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China.

Higher education and the AI revolution in business

AI’s greatest potential for value creation lies in its integration into business processes, and the key to innovation is putting academic theory and practical application in the hands of students to solve real-world challenges.

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A truck passes through the middle of an oil palm plantation in Muaro Jambi, Jambi, on Nov. 20, 2024.

Palm plantations cannot replace forests, Mr. President

Prabowo’s claim that oil palm plantations can replace forests is fundamentally flawed when viewed through ecological, climatic and societal lenses.

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Democracy in action: An inmate has his finger inked after casting his ballot for the 2024 presidential and legislative elections at a polling station in a prison in Banda Aceh, Aceh, on Feb. 14, 2024.

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Too early to call presidential threshold removal a victory for democracy

Indonesia still needs protection against oligarchic capture while promoting fair competition, allowing a variety of candidates to compete equally.

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