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Insight: Do ideas matter in an election?

Presidential debates are a favorite pastime of mine. Whether I am alone or with company, they never fail to awaken the teenage girl within me who delights in arguments and their deconstruction.

1 year ago

Insight: Village SDGs data provide ease of determining the direction of village development

There is no denying that Law No. 6, 2014 on villages has opened the door for development ...

3 years ago

Insight: Indonesia, the Palestinians and the new Middle East

While not modelled on the vision Peres sketched in his 1993 book The New Middle East, the Abraham Accords clearly refute widely-held assumptions about the centrality of resolving the Palestinian issue as a prerequisite for establishing a foundation of peace, prosperity and stability in the Middle East. ...

4 years ago

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National flags of various states in front of the Gedung Merdeka, Bandung, West Java. Bandung hosted the Asian African Conference in commemoration of its 60th anniversary.

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Insight: A breakthrough in the Indonesia-Africa partnership

Our trade to Africa last year only reached US$8.84 billion, merely 2.7 percent of Indonesia’s total trade with the world.

7 years ago

The Green Sukuk is a means of aligning government funding with its commitment to the low-carbon transition, channeling funding to projects in renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainable transport, waste management, conservation and other environmental priorities.

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Insight: Green sukuk for the future

The Green Sukuk is a means of aligning government funding with its commitment to the low-carbon transition, channeling funding to projects in renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainable transport, waste management, conservation and other environmental priorities.

7 years ago

For the Balinese, Nyepi is a day of reckoning and resolution. It is a time to recollect and make amends for past mistakes and a moment to make steadfast commitments for the future.

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Insight: Nyepi, listening to nature's sound of silence

For the Balinese, however, Nyepi is a day of reckoning and resolution. It is a time to recollect and make amends for past mistakes and a moment to make steadfast commitments for the future.

7 years ago

Lt. Gen. Edy Rahmayadi leads a ceremony to commemorate the 72th anniversary of the Indonesian Military (TNI) in Banten province on Oct. 5, 2017. At that time, he was the Army Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad) chief.

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Insight: Why do retired officers run for local office?

Party officials also see retirees as “short cuts” to boosting party profiles without spending resources on publicity campaigns.

7 years ago

Religions do speak in the name of God, and rightly so, but this God-speak loses all dignity if it goes together with intolerance, threats or violence.

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Insight: Criminalizing private morality?

Human rights are not vehicles of individualism but, in the opposite, provide protection against it.

7 years ago

Social media’s ideological “echo chambers” exacerbate people’s natural biases and diminish opportunities for healthy debate.

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Insight: How information technology threatens democracy

Social media’s ideological “echo chambers” exacerbate people’s natural biases and diminish opportunities for healthy debate.

7 years ago

Another important aspect of open government is that it enables the public to oversee the performance of the government.

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Insight: Fiscal reform, transparency and inclusive development

The public can monitor how their tax money is spent. In the long run, corruption will gradually be eradicated and society will further prosper.

7 years ago

Never forget: Maria Catarina Sumarsih, whose son was killed during the 1998 protests, holds a black umbrella during the commemoration for the 10th anniversary of the Kamisan rally. The Kamisan rally is a silent protest held every Thursday since it was launched by rights activists in 2007.

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Insight: UN human rights chief visit moment of truth for Indonesia

Since he took office in September 2014, United Nation High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has been outspoken on a range of issues, including the death penalty, “blasphemy,” the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender rights and intersex (LGBTI) issues, discriminatory laws in Aceh and impunity in Indonesia.

7 years ago

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo delivers his speech at the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) leaders' summit in Jakarta on March 2017.

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Insight: Promises and pitfalls of Indonesia's faith in multilateralism

Indonesia is a member of 198 international institutions. With stretched resources, it is little wonder that in late 2016, Jokowi ordered a review of Indonesia’s role in at least 75 of them.

7 years ago

Urban poor – A resident carries out her daily activities in a slum area in Kapuk Teko, Jakarta.

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Insight: Harnessing technology for inclusive growth

New technologies also have the potential to disrupt markets and change the jobs landscape.

7 years ago

Old lady is sleeping around her products at Giwangan Market, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The non-core part of inflation changes when food and energy prices move.

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Insight: The receding threat of inflation

Is inflation no longer a threat in Indonesia? The record of the last three years would suggest this is so. But is this temporary or permanent?

7 years ago

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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Insight: 2018 National Budget: Boosting confidence, promoting inclusive growth

According to the OECD-Gallup world poll, 80 percent of Indonesians have confidence in the national government — the highest among all countries surveyed.

7 years ago

New leader: Newly inaugurated Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto (left) strikes a pose with his predecessor, Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo (right), after their handover ceremony at TNI headquarters in Cilangkap, East Jakarta, on Nov.9.

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Insight: Can Hadi Tjahjanto juggle competing forces?

It’s not clear how an Army-dominated TNI would react under an air chief marshal that has a different organizational culture and outlook.

7 years ago

Wat Arun Temple at sunset in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Insight: Happy National Day Thailand, my second home

Now, Bangkok is a major tourist destination, popular with the Jakarta middle class.

7 years ago

Closer cooperation: The 73rd Meeting of the ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology (COST-73) is officially opened at Myanmar International Convention Center (MICC) 2 on Oct.17.

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Insight: Why ASEAN needs 'decentralize' regionalism

We could consider two broad directions as far as the meetings go

7 years ago

Marina Bay Sands, one of Singapore's most popular tourism spots.

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Insight: Fifty years of Indonesia-Singapore relations

Indonesia-Singapore bilateral relations were brittle and sometimes even fragile.

7 years ago

Timely discussion: PT Bina Media Tenggara president director Jusuf Wanandi speaks at a Jakarta Post seminar entitled “Accelerating Infrastructure Development” in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Insight: Refugees in their midst: Challenges for Australia and Indonesia

During the administration of prime minister Tony Abbot, the Australian government rejected the boat people who tried to reach the country. Indonesia was taken aback by this policy. Indonesia did not expect to see this action by Australia because at the end of the 1970s and in the early 1980s, it learned from what was then a magnanimous Australian government how to handle the Indochinese refugees who flocked to some places in Indonesia.

8 years ago

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