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South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa (left) talks with an advisor next to  President Prabowo Subianto during a plenary session of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 7, 2025.
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa (left) talks with an advisor next to President Prabowo Subianto during a plenary session of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 7, 2025.`
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A new trade agenda for climate-resilient development

While today's uncertain geopolitical landscape poses many constraints on the green ambitions of developing countries, it also offers space for climate-conscious solutions, until such time as self-interests and protectionist policies can give way to global realignment in renewed cooperation.

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Japan needs a true vision of peace for the next 80 years

Japan has overcome much in the 80 years since World War II, but in the contemporary landscape of geopolitical tensions, climate change and demographic challenges, it needs to significantly speed up its transformation toward the next eight decades.

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Bridge-building where it matters: Indonesia’s moment in UNESCO’s new era

As the world's fourth-largest country and one of the largest Muslim-majority democracies, Indonesia’s pluralist traditions, rich cultural heritage and educational challenges all contribute to the themes at the heart of UNESCO’s mandate.

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China's rebound has a distinct 'cool factor'

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Payment ID and the future of banking trust

Payment ID is set to become a truly groundbreaking trailblazer in Indonesia's financial digital transformation, so long as its transparency and accountability is adequately and comprehensively supported via governance as well as the necessary technical and social infrastructure.

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Insight: Innovations in managing and developing human capital

Over the past few years, the role of human resources (HR) has expanded far beyond administrative tasks. HR professionals today are expected to drive innovation, enhance the employee experience and align people strategies with business goals. With the help of technology, these responsibilities have become more manageable, and in many ways, more impactful.

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Insight: Securing a healthier future: The importance of Indonesia's plasma fractionation facility

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Insight: Understanding sovereign wealth funds and their application in Indonesia

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Protect our diplomats

Details shared by police investigators could point to homicide. 

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ASEAN diplomacy delivers

What ASEAN needs is a lasting political commitment, supported by trusted civilian institutions, to make peace not just possible, but permanent.

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Rule by the law

Over the last few weeks, the nation has witnessed how the weaponization of law operates in a country that claims to champion rule of law as a foundational element of democracy.

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Sumatra is burning

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The age of unfair trade

After all, given that exorbitant new US import tariffs formed the basis for negotiations, the best-case scenario was to maintain the status quo of normal trade.

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Give cooperatives a chance

The newly launched KDMP initiative must have a strategy as equally grand as its scale to not just revive co-ops, but to lift them so they become an active economic pillar.

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Casualties of power

Events like the Garut wedding become a political theater, where popularity is mistaken for legitimacy, and where large crowds are not managed but invited for optics. 

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