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A new aviation plan key to fixing Indonesia’s skies
To fix high ticket prices and bridge an archipelagic nation, Indonesia must move past reactive policies and treat its aviation industry as a strategic tool for national unity.
12 hours ago
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Finally, a truth commission on the Philippines' drug killings
The new truth commission, which has been created independently of government, may finally deliver restitution to the nameless dead and in doing so, restore moral weight to the living. ...
8 hours ago
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The broken promise of coal transition finance
The $20 billion climate flop: a flagship plan to phase out coal in Indonesia hasn’t shut a single power plant. ...
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Indonesia has to seize the moment to shape global carbon economy
As a climate crisis and geopolitical instability collide, Indonesia must stop acting like a passive observer and leverage its massive green potential to rewrite the rules of the global carbon economy.
10 hours ago
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After the state and the owner, who protects fishers?
Behind the record-breaking profits of Indonesia’s industrial fishing fleet lies a predatory system of legal fictions and debt bondage that leaves the very workers fueling the industry with less than the price of a pack of cigarettes.
1 day ago
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The academic fraud in Copenhagen was years in the making
When a university system prioritizes metric-driven visibility over scientific veracity, AI stops being a tool for discovery and becomes a frictionless shortcut for institutionalized fraud.
1 day ago
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Building alliances of among US allies
In a world in which the US cannot be counted on as it once was, the objective is not stability at any price, but rather stability on terms consistent with national and Western interests.
1 day ago
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Small caps are AI's big winners, but for how long?
Many of the biggest winners from the current wave of AI mania lifting Wall Street to new highs aren't the multi-trillion-dollar hyperscalers, but small caps. The question now is whether that can last.
1 day ago
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Quad FMs set tone of continuity in New Delhi
The Quad is evolving from a politically symbolic coalition into a functional strategic mechanism.
1 day ago
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Pedagogy, the classroom and the banality of violence
When education is weaponized to manufacture hate, classrooms become the breeding grounds for state violence, a sobering reality that demands a radical shift toward a humanizing, critical way of learning.
1 day ago
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Human rights reform must preserve independence
How can an institution tasked with monitoring state power be required to obtain approval from the very executive branch it is meant to oversee?
2 days ago
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Reading between China's red lines
Multiple red lines send mixed signals. Is the country drawing them determined to assert its global power, or is it in the grip of a national paranoia?
2 days ago
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The market as an unlikely ally against democratic backsliding
When democratic institutions are dismantled in plenary chambers, the language of capital translates political overreach into economic ruin and in doing so, creates a powerful new battlefield for change.
2 days ago
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Beyond trade platforms: The sovereignty question behind e-commerce
E-commerce increasingly shapes the conditions under which market participants compete.
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When faith meets heat: Rethinking haj and climate risk
Sound haj governance should no longer be measured solely by how many pilgrims can be dispatched abroad each year, but also by how responsibly societies adapt to worsening environmental conditions.
2 days ago
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Blackout in Sumatra and the threat to Indonesia's energy transition
Indonesia’s power system is still built on a decades-old paradigm, a handful of large power plants strung together by long transmission lines, with limited flexibility and little redundancy.
3 days ago
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The Strait of Hormuz shock is reshaping East Asia’s economic future
In the wake of the crisis stemming from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, ASEAN should consider a regional strategic reserve mechanism, coordinated procurement arrangements and emergency energy-sharing frameworks.
4 days ago
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The Pope should have gone further on AI
Pontiff has not gone far enough on the most consequential question: What should AI be designed to do?
3 days 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.
3 days ago
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What if the AI boom goes into reverse?
Investors should be asking not whether the AI boom will end, but what will happen to markets when it does and where safety may be found.
3 days ago
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The Ibrahim verdict and the troubled justice system
When a flawed anti-corruption verdict relies on silence as guilt, it doesn't just threaten the innocent—it risks turning Indonesia's brightest young professionals into the scapegoats of a broken judicial system.
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Beyond realpolitik: Why the world needs meta-diplomacy
Pancasila is a philosophical framework that offers an alternative to the excesses of realpolitik.
3 days ago
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How the US-China reset recasts the Quad
With the shift in US-China relations, India is emerging as the strategic cog in the American wheel, Pakistan as a tactical partner, NATO as the anchor of the Atlantic alliance and Quad countries as a tool to serve the Indo‑Pacific.
4 days ago
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Insight: Understanding sovereign wealth funds and their application in Indonesia
Toward the end of 2020, amid a world grappling with unprecedented challenges, Indonesia took a bold step in securing its economic future: establishing its first sovereign wealth fund (SWF), the Indonesia Investment Authority (INA).
1 year ago
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Indonesia plans for where people sleep, not where they live their day
As the administrative boundaries of Indonesia's urban areas blur, millions of people are having to pay a silent "metropolitan tax" that is measured not in currency but in hours of their lives surrendered to daily commutes.
6 days ago
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When Indonesian citizenship is hard to prove
The risks of statelessness in Indonesia are best understood not as a single condition affecting one clearly defined group, but as a pattern produced through ordinary administrative processes.
6 days ago
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Entrepreneurial formation does not start in university
Indonesia is funding an illusion by giving startup loans to university graduates when the real engine of entrepreneurship is engineered in early childhood.
6 days ago
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Andong's alliance: When Tokyo and Seoul defy Beijing
As Washington wavers, a historic and pragmatic rapprochement between South Korea and Japan is quietly redefining the balance of power across the Indo-Pacific.
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Companies winning ASEAN know something others don’t
To win in ASEAN's complex, relationship-driven markets, global playbooks must be replaced with local cultural fluency and the ground-up humility required to turn brand awareness into emotional belonging.
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Rewriting police law, hijacking reform, reversing social contract
The proposed amendments of the Police Law bypass systemic upstream reforms in favor of executive discretion, transforming a narrow safety valve into a tool for political capture.
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