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Academia 1 month ago
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Learning from the Chilean paradox: Protecting Indonesia’s middle class
While Indonesia's macroeconomic growth may appear reassuring on paper, it would do well to take a close look at the country's current trajectory in parallel with Chile's experience since 2019 to avoid creating an increasingly fragile middle class.
Society 2 months ago
Indonesia can offer experience in growth, environment: Senior UN official
Indonesia’s experience offers important lessons on the value of partnership, innovation and long-term investment, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific at the UN Development Program (UNDP) Kanni Wignaraja said.
Academia 2 months ago
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The 'missing middle': Jakarta’s challenge ahead of its quincentenary
As Jakarta approaches its 500th anniversary, glowing infrastructure and plummeting poverty rates mask a fragile socioeconomic reality. The city's future will not be defined by its skyscrapers but by whether it can rescue its massive yet vulnerable aspiring middle class from permanent economic insecurity.
Academia 3 months ago
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Developmental state ambition: Reading Prabowo’s economic direction
President Prabowo’s visionary fiscal address signals a bold shift toward a state-driven, developmental state model aimed at unleashing Indonesia’s economic potential—but its ultimate success hinges entirely on dismantling the entrenched governance and bureaucratic failures of the past.
Opinion 3 months ago
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Analysis: Bank Indonesia faces a growing policy paradox
Bank Indonesia’s decision to raise its benchmark BI Rate by 50 basis points to 5.25 percent marks a clear shift from supporting growth to defending macroeconomic stability as the rupiah comes under pressure. But the move also exposes a deeper dilemma: The central bank must stabilize the currency while sustaining growth, even as expansive fiscal intervention weakens monetary policy effectiveness and raises questions over its independence.
Academia 3 months ago
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Indonesia’s start-up boom and what we refuse to measure
As prosecution of digital pioneers has become commonplace, a deeper crisis emerges: a nation that enthusiastically celebrates start-up hypergrowth but lacks the analytical tools to distinguish strategic risk from structural failure.
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