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This handout image provided by Nournews agency shows the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran Ali Shamkhani (right) shaking hands with the Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party Wang Yi (center) during a meeting with Saudi Arabia's National Security adviser and Minister of State Musaad bin Mohammed al-Aiban (left) in Beijing on March 10, 2023. Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to restore ties and to reopen respective diplomatic missions after talks in China, state media in both countries reported on March 10, 2023, seven years after relations were severed.

China the peacemaker?

In the same week that the US financial authorities had again to fend off a potential crisis from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and reports that tension has risen between President Biden and Ukraine's President Volodymir Zelensky, especially over the sabotage of the Nord Stream II pipeline, China scored a massive political victory in the Middle East.

3 years ago

Combatting money laundering

The Finance Ministry’s inspectorate general and tax intelligence division hardly played a part in the disclosure of corruption cases involving ministry officials so far. ...

3 years ago

Welcoming Israeli soccer team

The upcoming arrival of Israel has ignited a furor in the country, but as a good host Indonesia should not mix sports with politics. ...

3 years ago

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Workers are finishing the construction of a peer at Patimban seaport in Subang, West Java.

EDITORIAL: Japan's Patimban certainty

The project is not only strategic in terms of the economy, but also crucial for the continuation of bilateral relations between the two long-time friends.

8 years ago

77.7 percent of millennials viewed negatively the impact of foreign workers on the economy, believing that foreigners take away jobs from the local population.

EDITORIAL: Xenophobic millennials

77.7 percent of millennials viewed negatively the impact of foreign workers on the economy, believing that foreigners take away jobs from the local population.

8 years ago

All set: President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (left) observes the first stone laid to mark the start of the Yogyakarta new airport’s construction process on Jan.27.

EDITORIAL: Reforms boost confidence

The progress that raised Indonesia’s ranking in the World Bank annual index of the ease of doing business, to 72nd among 190 countries this year from 91st last year.

8 years ago

Secret love: Nikah siri, which literally means “secret wedding”, is used in Indonesia for unregistered marriages. Siri derives from the Arabic term meaning “clandestine”, and while such weddings are often conducted in secrecy, they are acknowledged under Islam.

EDITORIAL: 'Nikah siri' and denied rights

One in four villagers was in an unregistered marriage.

8 years ago

Fetty Kwartati, MAP's Head of Corporation said the millennial generation's shopping trends have shifted from department stores to specialty store outlets. The change was apparently followed by consumers in Indonesia.

EDITORIAL: Shifting to digital

Indonesia’s major department store chains have begun to feel the pinch of the rapidly growing trend of online shopping.

8 years ago

Under investigation: Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators shows money confiscated during the recent arrest of Nganjuk regent Taufiqurrahman in a press conference attended by KPK deputy chairwoman Basaria Panjaitan in Jakarta on Oct.26.

EDITORIAL: The never-say-die KPK

The KPK seems to never say die when hunting people who it believes are guilty of corruption, due to evidence collected and confessions extracted from witnesses.

8 years ago

Illegal dispatch -- Illegal migrant workers recruited from several areas across Indonesia spent time waiting for their departure in their tiny room in a shelter in Karanganyar, Central Java.

EDITORIAL: For migrants' peace of mind

Their vulnerability begins at the point of departure from their home villages and towns.

8 years ago

Joko "Jokowi" Widodo inspects Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta in a September, 2014 file photo.

EDITORIAL: Coopting local governments

Undisbursed budget funds affect development not merely because of the deferred injection of funds into the economy.

8 years ago

China's President Xi Jinping gives a speech at the opening session of the Chinese Communist Party's five-yearly Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 18, 2017.

EDITORIAL: Lessons from the CPC congress

Another concern for Indonesia vis-à-vis a more affluent and powerful China is the unresolved territorial dispute over parts of the South China Sea near the Natuna Islands in Riau Islands province.

8 years ago

Public demonstration: Protesters stage a rally outside the House of Representatives building in Jakarta on Friday. They rejected the presidential regulation in-lieu of the law (Perppu) on mass organizations, which they claimed would pave the way for authoritarian rule. The protesters also rejected the revival of communism in the country.

EDITORIAL: The state's Perppu blank check

We share the concerns of most rights groups that have condemned the Perppu that the new law could lead the country back to a previous time, when the state monopolized right and wrong and stifled freedom of speech and to organize.

8 years ago

Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo speaks at a discussion in the House of Representatives.

EDITORIAL: Blundering US diplomacy

The incident is an insult not only to Gatot and the TNI, but also to the commander-in-chief, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.

8 years ago

Sunrise: A tobacco plantation in Senden village, Selo district, Boyolali, Central Java. Local villagers have relied on tobacco as a major source of their livelihoods for generations.

EDITORIAL: Curbing growth in cigarette sales

Too steep a rise in the tax could adversely hurt the industry, which directly and indirectly employs an estimated 3.5 million workers, including tobacco farmers.

8 years ago

The administration of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo will enter its third year today.

EDITORIAL: A work in progress

The administration of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, which will enter its third year today, has also declared bureaucratic reform its number one priority.

8 years ago

Pious and joyous: President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo talks to Islamic school students during the opening of the 10th Indonesian Anak Shaleh (Pious Children) Festival at Sabilal Muhtadin Grand Mosque in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, on Sept. 15.

EDITORIAL: Jokowi grows on the job

Within just three years, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has risen from being virtually a nobody in national politics to become a strong, popular and hard-working president of Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

8 years ago

Tragic end: Persela Lamongan goalkeeper Choirul Huda is rushed to the hospital on Sunday following a collision with teammate Ramon Rodrigues during a Gojek Traveloka Liga 1 soccer match against Semen Padang at Surajaya Stadium in Lamongan, East Java. Choirul was later pronounced dead due to head and neck trauma. Persela won the match 2-0.

EDITORIAL: Saving soccer and its players

To put it simply, soccer, like other dangerous sports, is highly regulated just to keep players safe so that viewers around the world can enjoy the matches.

8 years ago

Admittedly, when it comes to reporting religion, the media and journalists generally fall short of the standard of good journalism that they apply in reporting other issues.

EDITORIAL: Faith in journalism

Admittedly, when it comes to reporting religion, the media and journalists generally fall short of the standard of good journalism that they apply in reporting other issues.

8 years ago

Anies and Sandiaga are up against serious challenges, simply because Ahok and his successor Djarot Sjaiful Hidayat had set the bar pretty high.

EDITORIAL: Over to you, governor Anies

Anies and Sandiaga are up against serious challenges, simply because Ahok and his successor Djarot Sjaiful Hidayat had set the bar pretty high.

8 years ago

Argentina's Lionel Messi celebrates after defeating Ecuador and qualifying to the 2018 World Cup football tournament, in Quito, on Oct. 10, 2017.

EDITORIAL: Long, winding road to Russia

How could a World Cup without Argentina, home to the world’s best soccer talents, be? More specifically, what would a World Cup look like if five-time FIFA best player Lionel Messi gave the soccer fiesta a miss?

8 years ago

Indonesian nationals kept about $250 billion worth of funds and other assets abroad.

EDITORIAL: Nowhere to hide money

Indonesian nationals kept about $250 billion worth of funds and other assets abroad.

8 years ago

Indonesian citizens must go through twice the number of procedures as their Southeast Asian counterparts, according to a new report on migration by the World Bank.

EDITORIAL: Red tape for migrants

Our citizens must go through twice the number of procedures as their Southeast Asian counterparts, according to a new report on migration by the World Bank.

8 years ago

Against corruption: Supreme Court (MA) monitoring division head Sunarto (left) and Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Agus Rahardjo (right) give a press statement on Sept.7 on the arrests of Dewi Suryana, a judge with the Bengkulu Corruption Court, and clerk Hendra Kurniawan, over alleged graft.

EDITORIAL: Unfinished judicial reform

The Supreme Court should have revisited its internal reform, which it claimed had been in place, as soon as the KPK arrested a judge for the first time several years ago.

8 years ago

State-Owned Enterprises Minister Rini Soemarno

EDITORIAL: State versus private companies

The impression of SOE dominance especially in infrastructure development is inevitable, because this sector requires huge and long-term investment, and the biggest barriers to investors are the complexity of land clearance and acquisition and overlapping regulations.

8 years ago

Enthusiastic audience raise hands to ask questions to National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) commissioners candidates during a public debate in Jakarta on Wednesday.

EDITORIAL: Independent rights body

Selection of members of state institutions should no longer be under the authority of the House.

8 years ago

TNI’s 72nd anniversary is indeed the perfect moment to remind its leadership to remain as professional soldiers and refrain from engaging in politics despite having a possible interest in building a future political career.

EDITORIAL: Professionalism in essence

TNI’s 72nd anniversary is indeed the perfect moment to remind its leadership to remain as professional soldiers and refrain from engaging in politics despite having a possible interest in building a future political career.

8 years ago

With daily pollution usually in the range of 51 to 100 on the air quality index (AQI), Jakarta’s air is below the standard of 0 to 50.

EDITORIAL: Breathe, Jakarta, breathe!

With daily pollution usually in the range of 51 to 100 on the air quality index (AQI), Jakarta’s air is below the standard of 0 to 50.

8 years ago

The raw sugar import quota for domestic refining to be used by food and beverage companies has always been much larger than the users’ actual needs.

EDITORIAL: Fighting for sugar imports

The raw sugar import quota for domestic refining to be used by food and beverage companies has always been much larger than the users’ actual needs.

8 years ago

EDITORIAL: Travesty of justice

After swindling billions from government projects, jailed corrupt officials can expect to walk out of prison and live the rest of their lives spending the ill-gotten riches.

8 years ago

Heavy congestion: Vehicles pass on the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road in Bekasi, West Java, on Aug.31.

EDITORIAL: Hurdles to the free highway

Imposing fees on e-Toll top-ups could hinder the development of a cashless society, which has been adopted by many other countries.

8 years ago

A man sweeps the floor of the Potent Pancasila Monument in East Jakarta on Sept 26.

EDITORIAL: Uniting generals

As the TNI supreme commander, President Jokowi summoned Wiranto and Gatot on Wednesday. Jokowi’s intervention, if any, will not work if his generals put their personal ambitions ahead of national interests.

8 years ago

Komnas Perempuan states that much of the violence against women is found to be in unregistered marriages.

EDITORIAL: Say no to 'nikah siri'

Komnas Perempuan states that much of the violence against women is found to be in unregistered marriages.

8 years ago

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