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A sign announces the temporary closure of the Garuda Wisnu Kencana (GWK) Cultural Park in Badung, Bali, on Nov. 3, 2022. Bali is hosting the Group of 20 Leaders’ Summit 2022 on Nov. 15-16.

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G20: Restoring cooperation amid global disconcert

Amid the myriad global pressures facing the world as the G20 Bali Summit gets underway, the forum presents an opportune occasion for countries to draw closer together in addressing their many challenges.

2 years ago

ASEAN paralysis over Myanmar

The Myanmar issue has been holding back ASEAN’s entire progress, including the group’s move to becoming a community and in addressing many pressing issues in the economy, public health and common security. ...

2 years ago

How Indonesia can overcome its own digitalization challenges

Out of 10 largest economies in Asia-Pacific, it was reported that Indonesia ranked last in 5G availability and 5G reach. ...

2 years ago

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Flags of the participating countries line a highway leading to the venue of the G20 Bali Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali on Nov. 12, 2022.

Silos holding back the energy transition

As climate, energy and digital sectors converge it’s up to policymakers to make sure they work well together.

2 years ago

Arab states in difficult dance toward decarbonization

Vulnerable to climate change but dependent on fossil fuels, countries in the Arabian Peninsula remain sandwiched should the G20 hasten their energy transitions.

2 years ago

Together, stronger

When President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo traveled to Rome in late October, it was only five months after the Delta variant wrought havoc in the country where daily infections topped 50,000.

2 years ago

Newly appointed Army Chief of Staff (KSAD) TNI General Andika Perkasa poses during inauguration at Merdeka Palace Jakarta, Thursday, November 22, 2018 . Andika will replace TNI General Mulyono that will be retiring in 2019.

Analysis: Army, Navy chiefs battle it out for TNI top job

As the current Indonesian Military (TNI) chief, Gen. Andika Perkasa, will reach his retirement age on Dec. 21, the public is anticipating who will be President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s choice of Andika’s replacement.

2 years ago

Climate strike: International climate activists take part in the Fridays for Future strike during the COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 11, 2022.

Climate summit and the hypocrisy of Western leaders

The world’s major development organizations—at the behest of wealthy countries—refuse to fund fossil fuel exploitation that poor countries could use to lift themselves out of poverty.

2 years ago

All ears: People listen as they attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) conference at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 8, 2022.

Helping Asia-Pacific women to overcome climate disasters

Environmental and social safeguards need to be in place within the just energy transition to ensure respect for human rights, especially indigenous rights and those of local communities and environmental human rights defenders.

2 years ago

Banner ads for the 2022 Group of 20 Bali Summit, to be held on Nov. 15-16, are displayed on the immigration counters at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

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G20: From crisis response to crisis prevention

This year’s G20 Summit presents an opportunity for the international forum to realign its existential purpose from responding to global crises to preventing future crises.

2 years ago

Flags of the participating countries line a highway leading to the venue of the Group of 20 Bali Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Nov. 12.

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Jokowi eyes Saudi Arabia, EU, China and US at G20 Summit

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s background as a medium-scale entrepreneur – more concerned with cash flow and quick results than grandiose long-term goals – has had a strong influence on his foreign policy.

2 years ago

Shinta Kamdani, chairwoman of B20 Indonesia 2022, speaks at the inception meeting of the G20 subforum on Jan. 27, 2022.

Business must make sure no one is left behind as we fight climate change

Businesses should ensure they are a lifeline to local communities. This means procuring services from local businesses, creating, and maintaining new local infrastructure.

2 years ago

A health officer from the Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU) administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a local resident at the Sultan Iskandar Muda Airport in Blang Bintang, Aceh on Oct. 15.

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From lifespan to healthspan: A paradigm shift to achieve health for all

Critically, the health system of the future must invest in digital health technologies and infrastructure for more efficient data and information sharing among key stakeholders.

2 years ago

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi takes part in a press conference on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit foreign ministers' meeting in Phnom Penh on Aug. 5. The EAS ministerial descended into heated debate and several ministers staged walkouts, according to regional sources with knowledge on the matter.

ASEAN-China comprehensive strategic partnership: A political perspective

It is important that ASEAN and China continue to work together to overcome challenges of mutual concern, if they are to make sure the newly elevated comprehensive strategic partnership goes beyond polite diplomatic statements.

2 years ago

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr (left), Thai leader Prayut Chan-O-Cha (third left), Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (fourth left), Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah (fifth left), Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni (fifth right), Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (fourth right), Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (third right), Laos' 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.

A more progressive ASEAN under Jokowi’s leadership

The regional leaders have barred the junta from attending official functions of ASEAN, but this punitive measure is almost meaningless in the goal of compelling the junta to implement the five-point consensus.

2 years ago

The price of war: A man walks past the ruins of a building destroyed in the course of the Russia-Ukraine war in Mariupol, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on Nov. 9, 2022. The war has lasted over eight months now, with no end in sight.

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How Indonesia can pave the way for peace in Ukraine

Ending the war in Ukraine will not only provide space and time for the world to resolve other socioeconomic problems, but also to prevent bigger crises from occurring.

2 years ago

A lone visitor walks past piles of books at the Blok M Square shopping center in South Jakarta, on Sept. 8, 2022. Many kiosks selling books have closed their doors permanently due to COVID-19, leaving behind piles of dusty old books covered in tarp in front of the stores.

Reversing COVID-19 impact, rebuilding economies in Asia

The pandemic has exposed significant weaknesses in existing healthcare systems in many countries of Asia-Pacific due to many years of underinvestment in public health.

2 years ago

Fishermen unload a tuna fish from a boat at Ulee Lheu Port in Banda Aceh, Aceh, on Wednesday. FAO State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture data shows that in 2018 Indonesia had the largest commercial catch of tuna in the world, contributing 16 percent to the global tuna market.

Ocean 20: Powering sustainable ocean for buoyant global economy

Prioritizing a sustainable ocean economy will bring multiple benefits for people, businesses, nature and the climate and the G20 can play a pivotal role in leading this agenda.

2 years ago

Over capacity: A large crowd is pictured during the second day of Berdendang Bergoyang Festival on Oct. 29 at Istora Senayan, Jakarta. (Kompas.com/Baharudin Al Farisi)

When crowds are back

As industry players have pointed out, there has yet to be written rules for event organizers nationwide to comply with.

2 years ago

All eyes, all ears: Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech via video at the opening ceremony of the 17th China-ASEAN Expo in Nanning, in southern China's Guangxi province on Nov. 27, 2020.

Filling in the ASEAN-China comprehensive strategic partnership

The comprehensive strategic partnership will open a wider door for economic cooperation between ASEAN and China, either through bilateral or multilateral approach.

2 years ago

Making the point: Chairman of National Population and Family Planning Board Hasto Wardoyo reads out the country’s statement as head of Indonesia’s delegation to the ICPD25 summit in Nairobi in November last year.

Rights-based family planning central to sustainable development

An estimated 140 million women in the Asia and the Pacific region still do not use a modern method of contraception, despite wanting to avoid or delay a pregnancy.

2 years ago

An election worker holds an American flag at a polling place at Galleria at Sunset on Nov. 8, 2022 in Henderson, Nevada, the United States. After months of campaigning, Americans voted in the midterm elections to decide close races across the nation.

A good day for democracy

Biden can fly to Bali to attend the Group of 20 summit on Nov. 15-16 in a much more confident mood.

2 years ago

Indonesian police stand in front of banners of the Group of 20 Summit near a venue for the G20 Finance Ministers Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, on July 14.

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Indonesia leads the G20 during the tumultuous year

As the G20 president, Indonesia could not remain silent when fellow developing countries in Africa and the Middle East struggled to provide staple foods for their people.

2 years ago

A Pertamina truck carrying BioAvtur J2.4 parks beside a CN 235-220 test plane during a ground running test in Bandung, West Java, on Sept. 6, 2021.

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Mandatory B40 risky after cooking oil policy mishap

The government’s antimarket domestic market obligation (DMO) and low ceiling prices of cooking oil in time of skyrocketing international prices sent the wrong signals to the market, which resulted in producers holding their stock to avoid losses, causing scarcity and prices rising far beyond the ceiling prices.

2 years ago

Security personnel walk in front of flags of the G20 member countries outside the group’s meeting venue in Jimbaran, Bali, on Sep. 15.

The foreign policy fallout of COVID-19

The pandemic gave health diplomacy its stiffest test. While there were successes, geopolitical power games resulted in failures.

3 years ago

Illustration of medicine.

A united front in fight against the 'silent pandemic'

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest public health challenges of our time and we’re at a crossroads on how to combat it.

3 years ago

In this file photo taken on Dec. 9, 2020, a health worker prepares a syringe to inoculate a volunteer with a COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinopharm during its trial at the Clinical Studies Center of the Cayetano Heredia University in Lima.

China’s vaccine vision turns crisis to opportunity

The COVID-19 outbreak could have decimated China’s reputation. Here's why it didn’t.

3 years ago

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin opening the the G20's Health Working Group meeting in Yogayakarta, March 28.

Bringing the skills of a diplomat to global health challenges

COVID-19 highlighted the importance of strong global networks to address big issues. What’s needed are the people to drive them.

3 years ago

Vice President Ma’ruf Amin delivers a speech at the leaders’ summit of the COP27 climate conference at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Center, in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of the same name, on Nov. 7.

Cautious COP27

Under the shadow of the global inflation crisis and the Ukraine war, governments and companies have refrained from making big promises during the first week of United Nations climate conference (COP27) negotiations.

3 years ago

Indonesian way: Hostesses greet participants and delegates at the Indonesia pavilion inside the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Center, on the first day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 6, 2022.

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COP27: Indonesia can lead the global ‘just’ climate transition

Indonesia still needs to catch up in meeting its governmental target of a 23-percent renewable energy-share mix by 2025, with renewables now accounting for 11 percent of the total.

3 years ago

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