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Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr (left), Thailand’s Prayut Chan-O-Cha (third left), Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (fourth left), Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah (fifth left), Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni (fifth right), Prime Minister Hun Sen (fourth right), Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (third right), Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh (second right) and Malaysia's lower house speaker Azhar Azizan Harun (right) walk during a courtesy call to Cambodia's king before the ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh on Nov. 10, 2022.

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Maintaining credibility, relevance of the ‘Council’ in Asia Pacific

The ARF has for years now been criticized for being unable to move forward from talking about confidence-building measures to providing preventive diplomacy outlines, let alone conflict resolution in the region.

2 years ago

Opinion

Analysis: KCIC requests concession extension due to low demand, competition

The Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway (HSR) service is expected to see lower demand than initially projected. ...

2 years ago

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Foreign diplomacy not enough to solve the Papua issue

One of the main motives behind the Pacific approach is to “appease” the people in the region who have strong emotional and cultural bonds with the people of Papua. ...

2 years ago

The Latest

Sailors from the Indonesian Navy’s KRI Usman Harun 359 warship conduct on Jan. 22, 2021 a visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) procedure on Taiwanese fishing vessel Hai Chien Hsing 20, which was discovered carrying out illegal, unreported, unregulated (IUU) fishing activities in Indonesian waters.

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MASS: A challenge for Indonesia’s maritime fulcrum dream

Indonesia needs to review its legal framework to anticipate the advent of automous marine vessels in light of its aspirations to become the world's "maritime fulcrum".

2 years ago

Activists take part in a protest after the House of Representatives approved a new penal code that will ban sex outside marriage, cohabitation between unmarried couples, insulting the president and expressing views counter to the national ideology, outside the House buildings in Jakarta, Dec. 6, 2022.

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Sex, schizophrenia and the historical irony of Indonesia’s criminal code

Politicians, even in secular parties such as Golkar and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), use religion and “moral” issues to obtain political support.

2 years ago

Back to normal: People throng a shopping mall in Surabaya on Oct. 13 to watch a rock climbing competition for young people. As the government has loosened COVID-19 restrictions, shopping malls and other public facilities have resumed normal activities.

Academia

All Indonesian consumers want in their shopping carts this holiday season

With the easing of restrictions in the last months, consumers are inclined to engage in in-person experiences after a long hiatus.

2 years ago

Indonesia has yet to join the club of nations from Brazil to China and India that have issued stringent regulations on personal data protection, modeled on the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Indonesia's data privacy law avoids costly and misguided localization

If Indonesia enacted all proposed localization policies, after five years trade volumes would decline by an estimated 5.8 percent, imports decline 6.9 percent, and import prices increase 2 percent.

2 years ago

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati (center) and Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo (right) brief the press after the G 20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Washington DC, on Oct. 14, 2022.

Editorial

Geared up for crisis

We think the risks are not so adverse because the monetary and fiscal authority and the Financial System Stability Committee (KSSK) should anyway maintain policy synergy.

2 years ago

A Semai butterfly rancher at Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia. Many Semai communities turned to selling butterflies to collectors and butterfly farms to earn a living.

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What we can learn from the Semai people to protect against climate change

In Malaysia, the Indigenous concept of badi is not superstition or taboo, it’s about respecting the land, environment and wildlife to avoid negative impacts.

2 years ago

Fallow system sustains life for Karen villagers (“Farmers carry rice products to their barn“.

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Sustainability in action: the Karen peoples' farming system

By having a seven to ten-year farming system, the Karen people in Thailand show how to create a sustainable environment and help the climate.

2 years ago

The Irular people been farming around the Palamalai and Nilgiri hills for centuries.

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The key to future climate adaptation is to tap past knowledge

Climate-resilient agricultural knowledge has always been there among Indigenous groups, we just need to learn from them.

2 years ago

Environmentalists participating in the Asia Climate Rally march to the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry in Central Jakarta to urge the government and businesspeople not to fund fossil fuel exploitation to help stop climate change.

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How crowdfunding could raise $12 billion to boost renewable energy access in Indonesia

Our findings indicate that more than 7 percent of Gen X, millennials and Gen Z (equivalent to 14 million of Indonesians) are enthusiastic about investing in green projects.

2 years ago

Workers from the Depok General Elections Commission (KPU) stack ballot boxes on November 25, 2020 at a warehouse in Cimanggis district, Depok, West Java.

Opinion

Analysis: Fair elections at stake because of parties verification manipulation

Recent allegations of data manipulation during the factual verification of political parties aspiring to contest the 2024 legislative elections have clouded hopes of a free and fair practice of democracy.

2 years ago

Dancing on air: Dancers perform during the opening of the second day of the Business 20 (B20) Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali on Nov. 14, 2022. B20 preceded the Group of 20 Leaders’ Summit to be held on Nov. 15 and 16.

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Corporate sustainability in Indonesia: Where to go from here

there is still a gap in knowledge and application regarding ESG best practices from a global and industry standpoint.

2 years ago

Clean energy: Workers check the battery panel of the solar power plant on Kodingareng Island near Makassar, South Sulawesi on Dec. 15, 2022. Indonesia is pushing for renewable energy as part of its commitment to the fight against climate change.

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Designing a carbon tax road map for Indonesia’s green transition

The government needs to get going with its carbon tax and related mechanisms to change the general mindset toward green products, services and behaviors to achieve its unconditional NDC by 2030.

2 years ago

Anytime, anywhere: A man enjoys streaming movie services using his smartphone.

Editorial

Money streaming in

In Indonesia, main attractions that service providers continue to rely on are still revolving around sports, feature films, short films, series and Korean drama.

2 years ago

Students from SMK Negeri 1 Soe state vocational senior high school prepare a field on Oct. 11 in Soe, South Central Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, for planting corn using a sustainable crop production system introduced by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Indonesia.

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Indonesia's net zero target and sustainable agriculture: Are we on the right track?

A policy overhaul in the agriculture and related sectors is needed to eliminate programs that hinder the country from reaching its net zero goals and to encourage sustainable practices that ensure food security.

2 years ago

President Joko “Jokowi“ Widodo welcomes Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the welcoming dinner during the G20 Summit in Badung, Bali on November 15, 2022.

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UK must build new long-term partnerships with countries that will shape the future

Countries like Indonesia will play a far greater role in shaping the way the world looks over the century to come.

2 years ago

Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and United States President Joe Biden meet on Nov. 14, 2022 on the sidelines of the Group of 20 Leaders' Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali.

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Climate talks after the Xi-Biden meeting in Bali

That Xi and Biden agreed to resume bilateral climate talks is a positive outcome that could motivate other countries to pick up the slack in meeting their Paris climate commitments.

2 years ago

Regroup: European Union and ASEAN leaders pose for a family photo at a commemorative summit in Brussels on Dec. 14, 2022.

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EU has no choice but to accept a more powerful ASEAN

President Jokowi wants the European nations to let the Southeast Asian nations develop their economies in their own way.

2 years ago

The World Health Organization reports that more than 1.3 billion people across the globe, or 15 percent of the world’s population, “experience significant disability”, while UNESCAP estimates that over 700 million persons with disabilities live in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Disability rights and the climate crisis

Each step of the process related to climate change mitigation and adaptation must involve persons with disabilities, as they are disproportionately affected by climate change and their exclusion can be a matter of life and death.

2 years ago

A group of parents block access to SD Pondok Cina 1 state elementary school in Depok, West Java, as public order officers arrive to ensures the premises are vacated in preparation for its planned demolition on Dec. 11, 2022.

Editorial

An elementary lesson

The crux of the Depok controversy is that a school, and education in general, was set to be sacrificed just for the sake of bureaucratic convenience.

2 years ago

Online business: Men work at a distribution station in the 855,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City, on Feb. 5, 2019. Inside a huge warehouse on Staten Island, thousands of robots are busy distributing thousands of items sold by the giant of online sales, Amazon.

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Good companies survive slowdowns. Great companies innovate.

In the next decade, Southeast Asia will be a leading global hub for innovation; the hottest region where all ambitious businesses will want to be.

2 years ago

No entry: Police cordon off a shopping area in Bandung on Dec. 7 after a suicide bomber attacked the Astana Anyar police station nearby. A police officer was killed in the incident.

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High recidivism rate threatens counterterrorism strategy

Many terrorist ex-convicts in Indonesia are still exposed to dangerous jihadist ideologies after they are released from prison.

2 years ago

Done deal: Indonesian Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi (right) and his Singaporean counterpart S. Iswaran show the documents of Jakarta-Singapore Flight Information Region (FIR) Realignment Agreement as President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (second right) and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong look on Jan. 25, 2022, Bintan island, Riau Islands.

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What next after signing of Indonesia-Singapore Defense Cooperation Agreement?

Singapore claims that based on Article 51 of UNCLOS it has the right to conduct military exercises in some part of the Indonesian archipelagic waters.

2 years ago

Editorial

End of EU’s dictation

From the geopolitical perspective, the EU’s deep engagement with ASEAN is a must as the former has set its sight on more influence in the Asia-Pacific region.

2 years ago

Big boost for SMEs: GO-FOOD has grown to become the number one online food delivery service in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, with 400,000 merchant partners as of today in Southeast Asia, of which 96 percent are Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). The revenue of GO-FOOD’s MSME partners has increased by 3.5 times on average since they first joined the platform.

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Future readiness: Why smaller businesses’ success matters

Research has shown that SMEs and mid-sized companies tend to be less resilient than their larger counterparts, but they in turn display much higher levels of agility.

2 years ago

Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi (front center) and ministers, senior officials and representatives from Pacific countries and intergovernmental organizations pose for a group photo during the Indonesia-Pacific Forum for Development High Level Dialogue on Wednesday in Nusa Dua, Bali.

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Leveraging Indonesia’s economic prowess for the Pacific

Indonesia could start by considering giving unilateral trade preferences with specific requirements tied to Indonesia’s geopolitical goals, such as respect for Indonesia’s territorial integrity.

2 years ago

Health for all: A mother brings her child to a community health center (Puskesmas) in Dago, Bandung, West Java, on Nov. 21, 2022 for a polio vaccination. The government has declared an “extraordinary occurrence” of polio after the discovery of cases in Aceh.

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We need stronger universal health coverage after pandemic

Global health security is centered on preventing, detecting and responding to public health threats, particularly by protecting people from infectious disease threats.

2 years ago