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Academia 3 years ago
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Indonesia needs to be more open, not less, to foreign media
Unfortunately, the current policy toward foreign journalists intending to work here, whether on a short visit or to reside, is not supportive of Indonesia’s quest to play a bigger and more active role on the global stage.
Perspectives 3 years ago
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As political tension heats up ahead of 2024, Indonesia needs to dismantle disinformation
Both social media usage and disinformation tactics show rising trends. The 2022 Young Voters survey report from the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) expounded that social media progressively becomes the most-preferred medium for political expression and the primary source of information for the youth, who will also be the majority in next year’s election (54 percent).
Academia 4 years ago
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Banality of arrogance: how even politicians like Arteria Dahlan lose the insult war
One of Arteria’s greatest hits was when he appeared on a popular talk show during which he traded barbs with senior economist Emil Salim, arguably one of the most respected figures in the country’s political establishment and ended up with the politician pointing his finger in his face and calling him a “misguided professor".
Academia 4 years ago
It’s 30 years since Freddie Mercury died. His music is still the soundtrack of our lives
Artistically, he challenged many of the prevailing pop and rock parameters, willing to take musical risks and happy not to be part of the mainstream. He fearlessly pushed artistic boundaries, believing in the spontaneity of live performance: every show was different.
Opinion 4 years ago
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Will Jokowi play Gen. Andika as his wild card in 2024?
Based on several similarities in his political strategy with Indonesia’s second president Soeharto --in 2016, I wrote about his hidden side as a “little Soeharto”—I can surmise Jokowi has a far-reaching game plan for outgoing Army chief Andika. The President has cooked up for quite some time a deliberate scenario for the future of the general, and more importantly for Jokowi himself after he finishes his second term in 2024.
Opinion 4 years ago
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Jokowi, ASEAN’s first chief negotiator on Myanmar
It took President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo almost seven years since he came to power in October 2014 to get directly involved in a major diplomatic endeavor as the leader of Indonesia, the largest member country and the de-facto leader of ASEAN.
