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Art & Culture 1 day ago

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Between Multatuli’s legacy and modern politics

Three decades after documenting life in Lebak, Dutch writer and visual storyteller Arjan Onderdenwijngaard returned to explore how the district has changed, and whether the power structures Multatuli criticized ever truly disappeared.

Academia 2 days ago

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The Indonesian hex: When political rhetoric rewrites reality

The administration has erected a political hologram over Indonesia’s economic landscape.

Academia 1 week ago

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From rivals to allies: Prabowo’s othello strategy

Prabowo’s political architecture strategy is to embrace former political adversaries within a single, inclusive framework, a “big tent” coalition.

Europe 1 week ago

Tests loom for popular UK PM Burnham as parliament returns

Andy Burnham has enjoyed a honeymoon first month as UK leader, but the hard trade-offs involved in governing are about to get real for the prime minister as parliament returns from its summer break in the coming days.

Sports 1 week ago

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Why Indonesia is betting on Infantino

The PSSI's support comes as FIFA's leadership faces growing dissent, but Indonesia sees value in staying close to the center of global soccer power.

FEATURES 1 week ago

A year after Affan: The anger that stayed

A year after Affan Kurniawan’s death, the fury that spilled into Jakarta’s streets has not disappeared. It has settled into other forms: exhaustion, distrust and a lingering sense that nothing has really changed.

Academia 1 week ago

Gen Z‑led uprisings across Asia: Strengths and limitations of youth protest

Youth-led protest movements across Asia have exposed underlying anger at corruption and blocked opportunity. But so far, only Nepal has managed to convert that anger into a transfer of governing power.

Academia 2 weeks ago

Malaysia’s Nasi Lemak index

Much like The Economist’s Big Mac Index, tracking the price of a standard packet of nasi lemak reveals the true story of Malaysia’s domestic purchasing power far better than quarterly GDP figures.

Politics 3 weeks ago

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Prabowo invokes PDI-P’s Marhaenism ideology to court support for new mineral exchange

President Prabowo Subianto has invoked the economic philosophy of Marhaenism, associated with the quasi-opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), as he seeks broad political support for his new plan to establish a mineral exchange.

Editorial 3 weeks ago

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Red card for politicians

Recent failures can be attributed to years of mismanagement of the national team by the Soccer Association of Indonesia (PSSI), whose officials are apparently more focused on politics off the pitch rather than the advancement of the sport itself.

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