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Why we keep building innovation that never innovates
Academia 2 weeks ago

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Why we keep building innovation that never innovates

It is time to restructure the current system, which is set up to keep building one technology facility after another that produces everything but actual innovation, by addressing the incentives that make repetition more attractive than real change.
Expendable lives, lack of leadership in the Sumatra disaster
Academia 2 months ago

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Expendable lives, lack of leadership in the Sumatra disaster

Prabowo seems to live inside a political bubble, dependent on information filtered by ministers and advisers whose main job is protecting his pride rather than telling him the truth.
Can artificial intelligence end the political blame game?
Academia 3 months ago

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Can artificial intelligence end the political blame game?

Under President Soeharto's administration, the blame game seemed to evolve into a tool for active control. 
The Mamdani effect: How government failure sways voters
Academia 4 months ago

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The Mamdani effect: How government failure sways voters

Rising prices of daily needs have created opportunities for “challenger” politicians and parties to brand themselves with “extreme” policy platforms in the next Indonesian election in 2029.
MBG: When children are reduced to numbers, dehumanization follows
Academia 5 months ago

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MBG: When children are reduced to numbers, dehumanization follows

When thousands of sick children are dismissed as a “small number”, we are not just misrepresenting data, we are negating the very value of life itself.
Indonesian students abroad, riots at home, and the real meaning of merit
Academia 6 months ago

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Indonesian students abroad, riots at home, and the real meaning of merit

Wasteful perks for officials, riot police suppressing citizens, and education budget cuts are not only failures of policy, they are failures of privilege, of leadership and of moral clarity.
To rescue or abandon Java?
Editorial 8 months ago

To rescue or abandon Java?

The lessons of the previous administration's IKN megaproject do not bode well for the revived "Giant Sea Wall" project, which could find itself and the coastal communities it is supposed to protect at sea, even before it breaks ground.
Toward safer roads
Editorial 1 year ago

Toward safer roads

Monday's multi-vehicle pileup on the Cipularang Toll Road that killed a teenage girl and left dozens injured, some with serious injuries, should be a wake-up call for the government to clamp down on overloaded trucks and the companies that operate them while striving for stricter enforcement of the country's rigorous road safety rules.
Carbon capture and storage needs a serious reality check
Academia 1 year ago

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Carbon capture and storage needs a serious reality check

There have been numerous CCS projects initiated worldwide, yet after more than five decades, studies suggest that these ventures are more prone to failure than success.
Why Blinken’s shuttle diplomacy is failing
Academia 2 years ago

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Why Blinken’s shuttle diplomacy is failing

When six missiles were dispatched by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attack Aurori, the modus operandi was both thuggish and roguish. Israel did not inform the US of its original intention.
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