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The blue berets: Female peacekeepers and personnel of the Indonesian Military's Garuda peacekeeping force pose with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi (center) prior to their mission to Congo and Lebanon in 2018.

Academia

Using gender sensitive data to inform climate security planning

Gender security issues have become essential to mainstream planning for governments and militaries.

3 years ago

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What if the capital of Indonesia is on Riau Islands?

The fact remains that the Riau Islands province is steeped with a history of trade and expansion of empires due to its strategic location. ...

3 years ago

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Make mental health and wellbeing for all a global and a local priority

Experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic showed how urgent it is to increase the quantity and quality of investment in mental health policies and programs. ...

3 years ago

The Latest

Indonesian Navy chief of staff Adm. Yudo Margono (center) and the Navy's Hydrography and Oceanography Center Rear Adm. Agung Prasetiawan shows journalists, during a press briefing in Jakarta on Jan. 4, 2021, an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) found in Selayar Island waters, South Sulawesi on Dec. 26, 2020.

Editorial

Give the Navy a chance

Jokowi should give Yudo the chance he deserves also because since he took office in 2014 Jokowi has never entrusted a Navy officer to lead TNI.

3 years ago

Golkar Party Chairperson Airlangga Hartarto (front center) together with the management of the Golkar Party after the Extraordinary National Conference (Munaslub) 2017 at the Golkar Party DPP Office, Jakarta, Monday (1/22/2018). The management structure of the Golkar Party for the 2018-2019 period resulting from restructuring and revitalization totaling 251 people was slimmer than before as many as 305 people.

Opinion

Analysis: Golkar faces pressure over presidential nominations

Since the NasDem Party recently declared outgoing Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan its presidential candidate, the Golkar Party might be buckling under the pressure to finalize its choice candidate too.

3 years ago

Face to face: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (right) and United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) attend the East Asia Summit foreign ministers’ meeting held during the 55th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Phnom Penh on Aug. 5, 2022.

Academia

How Indonesian chairmanship can revitalize ASEAN centrality

Admittedly, the great powers will not settle their differences through ASEAN mechanisms, nor will ASEAN now somehow magically be able to address contentious issues or reset its relations with China and the US.

3 years ago

Small fry: A fisher uses a bucket to transfer his catch onto another boat on Oct. 13, 2022 at a fish auction center in Rumbia district, Bombana regency, Southeast Sulawesi. The local price of fish has declined due to oversupply.

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Transforming 'blue foods' for food security

Small-scale fishers and fishery businesses must be an integral part of the effort to build global food security.

3 years ago

High- and middle-ranking police officers stand in line to enter the State Palace in Jakarta, on Oct. 14, 2022, when President Joko Widodo invited and reprimanded 559 top brass from the national to district levels.

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Jokowi's mass reprimand: Can we count on reform for police that protect and serve?

Public trust in the National Police has never been lower, and while it might be a stretch, we can still hope that “Friday the 14th” has scared some elements of the police force into taking baby steps toward real reform.

3 years ago

Toxic clouds: Tear gas rises over the stands at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, East Java, after the match between home team Arema FC and rival Persebaya Surabaya on Oct. 1, 2022.

Editorial

Institutional culpability

The tragedy, as in many other police scandals, is a result of their entrenched problem: the persistent culture of impunity.

3 years ago

Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno addresses the issue of local brands in the 2022 Paris Fashion Week during the weekly press briefing on March 14, 2022. (YouTube/Courtesy of Kemenparekraf)

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Bali roadmap: A strategic framework for international cooperation on creative economy

There is an urgent need to facilitate the creative economy, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to global markets and integrate them to global value chains.

3 years ago

On par: A US$100 bill lies on top of euro bills in Bogota on July 12, the day the euro struck parity with the dollar for the first time in nearly 20 years.

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Forthcoming world recession as global externality

It is safe to say that today’s US Inflation Targeting Framework (ITF) regime is the moral equivalent of US gold reserves in the past.

3 years ago

Struggle for life -- Two women carry pasture grass for cattle in Parangbatu village, Tuban, East Java, on Oct.3. Residents in the village still depend on forests for their livelihoods.

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Feminizing village development, enhancing the role of women

The interesting phenomenon of this development process is the fact that women have influenced the decision making on utilization of village budgets in a substantial manner.

3 years ago

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North Korea’s belligerence stirs up new fears

North Korea's recent spate of weapons testing has reignited fears of a major crisis on the Korean Peninsula, but it has also shone some light on the relatively limited options that both Washington and Beijing have in responding to Pyongyang.

3 years ago

Food for all: Low-income people line up for healthy food packages jointly provided by the local administration and the Indonesian Military (TNI) in the Central Java regency of Tegal on July 26, 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged millions of people in the country into poverty.

Academia

How to make sure we really leave no one behind

The shocking fact is that at least two out of every three people experiencing hunger extremes are themselves small-scale food producers from rural areas.

3 years ago

Kelompok Kampungan rock band performs in Yogyakarta in this undated file photo.

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Seeking God with Kelompok Kampungan

Kelompok Kampungan got into a lot of trouble for writing lyrics about Indonesia's first president Sukarno in the song titled “Bung Karno” in the midst of the Soeharto regime.

3 years ago

Editorial

Sayonara, Mr. Governor

As the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta is the seat of political and economic power and there is a unique complexity involved in managing business in the city.

3 years ago

Smog blankets Jakarta’s skyscrapers on Aug. 19, 2019. Air pollution in the city is among the worst in the world.

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While talking 2024, has Anies done enough on clean air for Jakartans?

According to the 2020 report by Air Quality Life Index (AQLI), the University of Chicago, the average life-expectancy loss of citizens in Greater Jakarta due to poor air quality amounted to 5.7 years, among the highest figures in Southeast Asia.

3 years ago

Malaysia's Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob (left) receives documents from King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah (right) before taking the oath as the country's new leader at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 21, 2021.

Academia

Najib and Mahathir can be main beneficiaries of Malaysia's election

UMNO hopes that the native Malays, who account for nearly 70 percent of the 32.7 million population, will grant an overwhelming victory to the party, using a fearmongering campaign of the rise of Chinese (22.8 percent) and Indian (6.6 percent) minority groups.

3 years ago

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Meeting the needs of capital and energy markets in Southeast Asia

In the context of uncertainty about the pace and shape of the energy transition, there’s value in showing investors the company has plans for growth in a lower-carbon world.

3 years ago

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Indonesia's stance on Uyghur is consistent, but questionable

While Indonesia claims to be a proponent of human rights, its policies on the international stage are tailored to each situation and can often appear to be contradictory.

3 years ago

This picture taken on September 15, 2021 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 16 shows a test firing drill of a railway-borne missile regiment.

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Pyongyang’s missile tests weaken ASEAN’s hand on Myanmar

The downward spiral of China and the US's relationship, in particular, will lead to an escalatory competition to pip one versus the other, either at the level of ASEAN or the Pacific Island Forum (PIF).

3 years ago

Sadikin Pard, one of the disabled artists in The Able Art.

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Making the right real for persons with disabilities

Persons with disabilities still are often left out of official data because the questions that allow for disaggregation are excluded from surveys.

3 years ago

Commodity boom: A plantation company worker loads a truck with newly harvested oil palm fruit bunches in Berkat village in Central Mamuju regency, West Sulawesi, on March 10. Indonesia scored its highest exports last month, thanks in part to crude palm oil.

Editorial

Investment follows trade

Yet more discouraging is that two implementing regulations of the Jobs Creation Law regarding export and import policies, instead of promoting open foreign trade, suggest a more restrictive trade regime.

3 years ago

Pickup drivers wait at the arrival area of I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali on 14 March.

Editorial

Tourism needs help, fast

Lackluster growth in China amid ongoing lockdowns, the outright recession feared in Europe and the United States as well as severe economic risks in Japan will all hit Indonesia.

3 years ago

Schoolchildren walk past a banner in Malang, East Java, on Oct. 6, calling for a thorough investigation of the Kanjuruhan Stadium stampede, which killed at least 131 people in one of the deadliest disasters in football history.

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Collective action, engagement needed to uphold law in stadium tragedy

Before an investigation was launched, the public promptly deemed the police the culprits. This indicates extreme distrust in the security apparatus.

3 years ago

Bali bombing survivor Andrew Csabi, from Australia, lays flowers during a ceremony on Oct. 12, 2022 at the Australian consulate in Denpasar, Bali, to mark the 20th anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people.

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We are stronger and safer, 20 years after Bali bombings

We have risen out of tragedy to build a safer world, together.

3 years ago

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Why the world has to look to Indonesia’s robust economic growth

It will be crucial to maintain fiscal discipline in the run-up to the 2024 presidential elections and to show a confident Indonesia in selecting a new leader who will continue prudent economic management.

3 years ago

Italy’s 'sister’: Giorgia Meloni, the leader of Italy’s far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy), delivers a speech on Oct. 1, 2022 during the three-day Villagio Coldiretti event in Milan, organized by the Italian Farmers' Association.

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Meloni’s election and the EU's future

Now that the election is over, the incoming premier would do well to shift gears and strike a more moderate tone before her voters realize they'd been duped by the power-hungry right.

3 years ago

People stand by a crater and the remains of a rocket in central Kyiv on Oct. 10 after Ukraine's capital was hit by multiple Russian strikes earlier in the day, the first since late June. The head of the Ukrainian military said that Russian forces launched at least 75 missiles at Ukraine, with fatal strikes targeting the capital Kyiv, and cities in the south and west.

Editorial

Is World War III coming?

The recent demolition of the bridge that connects Crimea and Russia, the consecutive defeats of Russia's military in its occupied territories of Ukraine and the rising opposition in Russia to the war can prompt a desperate Putin to hit the nuclear button to force Ukraine into capitulation.

3 years ago