Indonesia had almost 10,000 floods last decade, and flood incidents keep rising. To turn the tide, new cultural and infrastructural solutions may be needed.

State-owned electricity company PT PLN recently formed four sub-holding companies, two that consolidate all its power generation assets, one that integrates primary energy management and one that develops services beyond electricity.

As the generally one-sided negative campaign against palm oil and palm oil products rages on, it may be wise to take a step back and consider that ethical trade is founded on the principle of equitable sustainability, and that this is also inclusive of palm oil producers.

When the dialogue partners do not know how to call for an audit of how their money is spent, then the ASEAN Secretariat is immediately a free rider.

Russia could learn from Indonesia's grievous error in invading East Timor and claiming it as part of Indonesian territory until 1999, which the international community never recognized.

Defense offsets and transfers of technology from arms deal can benefit all stakeholders in the domestic defense industry, so long as the government ensures inclusivity and a level playing field.

The mass killings in Indonesia in 1960s did not fully “fit” with the definition of genocide as stated in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Rather than communism, the real threats facing the nation today are the rampant and systematic corruption and abuses of power by the executive, legislative and judiciary branches. 

Indonesia needs to review its safety and security regulations for sports stadiums, including revisiting the soccer bill proposed in 2009, while forming an independent team to investigate the Kanjuruhan Stadium disaster. 

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has reportedly moved to select the new Indonesian Military (TNI) chief as the current commander, Gen. Andika Perkasa, will reach his retirement age of 58 on Dec. 21 and Jokowi does not seem to consider an extension of Andika’s military service.

The government cannot simply take over the INCO mine and its smelting industry if its CoW is not extended because the investors have the right to take back or sell all the mining equipment and all other fixed assets, except the mineral resources underground.

Various competing interpretations of the 1965 events have emerged, not as an academic presentation but as a provocative and baseless accusation.

The failure to provide an effective control mechanism for AUKUS will also mean there is the alarming possibility that other NNWS may gain access to nuclear material without being subject to IAEA safeguards.

The fact that Arema FC fans stormed the pitch to vent their frustration with their team’s 2-3 defeat to archrival Persebaya Surabaya does nothing to justify the police’s disproportionate and inflammatory response.

Indonesia’s constitution separated the military from civilian politics after the fall of Suharto in 1998. But the police didn’t get the memo.

Reforming the Indonesian police needs to be driven from the bottom up by civil society groups.

The 1965 killings in Indonesia not only resulted in the death and imprisonment of more than half-a-million people, but also forced its survivors to grapple with knowledge of this bloody past throughout a lifetime of silence, acceptance – and ultimately, resilience.

As the OECD has emphasized in a 2019 report, legislating litigation funding can positively a country’s impact socioeconomic development, particularly in ensuring the delivery of equitable access to justice for all citizens, not just the rich.

Until recently, the agricultural sector was at the center of Indonesian poverty, with farmers and agricultural laborers making up more than half of the country’s poor population.

Being the world’s largest archipelagic country, Indonesia really needs to invest heavily in the Air Force and Navy to secure its vast airspace and exclusive economic zone, especially in the wake of heated geopolitical dynamics.

Thanks to the Belt and Road Initiative, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and other practical measures, Indonesia is seeing a rapid increase in China-invested projects.

There is currently no international legally binding instrument governing the regulation of orbital slots for LEO satellite launches. 

Indonesia is committed to the collective fate of the world, even though it came at the expense of self-reflection on its own domestic woes.

As stipulated in Article 86 of the draft law, assessments now serve as tools for evaluating the effectiveness of the education system and they are not defining students’ achievement at the individual level.

Currently, Indonesia is facing the growing P. vivax malaria burden, which accounts 33 percent of total cases, according to Health Ministry data.

Malaysia’s digital transformation efforts look good on paper but an access to information act is still nowhere in sight.

Controlling core inflation is the short-term target of the BI money tightening because headline and core inflations are expected to increase due to the second-round effect of the recent fuel price hikes.