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PwC Indonesia advisor Ravi Ivaturi (upper left), OVO vice president of lending services Natasha Ardiani, 'The Jakarta Post' journalist Eisya A. Eloksari, interpreter Hikmat Gumilar, Bank BTPN deputy president director Darmadi Sutanto and the 'Post' journalist Apriza Pinandita (lower right) pose for a picture after Jakpost Fintech Fest online discussion on Sept. 23, 2020, with the theme of Fintech's role in Indonesia's economic future.

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OJK crashes the fintech party, but it may be for the better

New fintech companies are given a year to pilot their innovation and receive assessments before they are permitted to fully operate on a larger scale.

3 years ago

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Curbing fuel subsidies is only the first step out of energy crisis

The government needs to establish a clear road map to gradually phase out fossil fuel subsidies and should communicate the benefits clearly. ...

3 years ago

Editorial

Jakarta needs a super-sub

Knowledge of urban solutions will be an advantage, especially because the challenges facing Jakarta are mounting, rather than subsiding. ...

3 years ago

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Foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states hold a meeting in Tashkent on July 29.

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The SCO Summit: Dialogue and cooperation in an interconnected world

The SCO is called upon to become a pole of attraction without dividing lines, in the name of peace, cooperation and progress.

3 years ago

An orangutan named Boncel is pictured after being translocated to the main forest from a palm oil plantation, in Ketapang, West Kalimantan on Aug. 18, 2020.

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Orangutan conservation needs agreement on data and trends

A wide range of scientific studies show that three orangutan species have declined in the past few decades and that nowhere are populations growing.

3 years ago

Home schooling: Elementary school teacher Fransiscus Xaverius Fri Harna (right) teaches his student on May 20, 2020 at the student's home in Magelang, Central Java, after schools were closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Teachers’ resilience key to transformation of education

Regardless of the level of severity of learning loss their students experienced during the emergency remote teaching, almost all the surveyed teachers reported willingness and readiness to provide extra tutorial and remedial sessions to those students who suffered from learning loss.

3 years ago

President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo gives a speech at the launch of the first public electric-vehicle charging station, which will be used for electric vehicles transporting world leaders during the Group of Twenty (G20) upcoming October conference, in Nusa Dua, Bali, on March 25.

Editorial

Regretting Jokowi’s UN absence

There are no other acceptable reasons, including the domestic political situation, for the President to not go to New York, the United States, to address the world audience.

3 years ago

Side by side: President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin head for a joint press conference at Kremlin in Moscow on June 30, 2022.

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Indonesia needs to focus first on ensuring G20 run smoothly amid great power rivalry

The Indonesian government is under the impression that, to ensure the meeting of countries representing 85 percent of the global’s GDP runs well, it has to somehow become a peacemaker between the warring countries.

3 years ago

Educational opportunities are not distributed equally in Indonesia.

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The literacy myth

Literacy is not only about rankings. In Indonesia, misconceptions about literacy create a wider gap.

3 years ago

A sorghum field in Likotuden, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara.

Opinion

Analysis: Govt to develop sorghum amid global wheat scarcity

The global wheat supply chain disruption induced by the Russia-Ukraine conflict has highlighted Indonesia’s dependence on wheat imports.

3 years ago

Remembrance: People wave Polish flags during an event on Aug. 1 to mark the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.

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Crimes that go unjudged can be a harbinger of more to come

Poland is still reeling from the effects of the war today and it will continue to struggle with them long after the last eyewitnesses of that inhumane time are gone.

3 years ago

Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Mahfud MD and Home Minister Tito Karnavian visit the North Natuna Sea aboard the KRI Semarang-594 naval hospital ship on Nov. 23. The visit intends to communicate the government's commitment to strengthening Indonesia's outermost islands and border areas.

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Is Indonesia getting ‘grey-zoned’ by China?

Indonesia’s foreign policy knows no silence or inaction, including on matters that relate to its sovereign right in the North Natuna Sea.

3 years ago

Russian oil producer Gazprom Neft's oil refinery on the southeastern outskirts of Moscow is seen in this photograph taken on April 28, 2022.

Editorial

No rush for Russian oil

The G7-led alliance seeking to put a cap on Russian oil should heed the age-old saying about "good intentions".

3 years ago

Australian historian David Reeve of the University of New South Wales (left) and British historian Peter Carey of Oxford University (right) on Nov. 21, 2018 attend a discussion of a book by the late Indonesian historian Ong Hok Ham, which tells the history of Madiun, a city once torn by the rebellion of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) in 1948.

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Onghokham: An individualistic reflection of his times

Some people's lives reflect the times they live in and the late scholar Onghoknam was one such individual, who also epitomized Indonesia's unique, pluralistic and diverse legacy through his own.

3 years ago

This handout picture taken and released by Presidential Palace on June 29, 2022, shows President Joko Widodo (second right) and Indonesia's first lady Iriana (second left) stand near damaged residential buildings during their visit in Irpin.
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First lady diplomacy complements Jokowi’s effort as G20 president

Iriana became the second First Lady to visit Ukraine after Jill Biden, United States President Joe Biden’s wife, in May.

3 years ago

Hear our voice: Speaking in front of G20 leaders, the representatives of Y20 voice the pressing matters related to youth employment. (Courtesy of Angelo Wijaya)

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Hear the calls of young people on climate change

Investing in the resilience of young people, particularly young women and girls, not only saves lives but also protects girls from facing detrimental consequences that last a lifetime.

3 years ago

Industry in trouble: Models showcasing Muslim attires by IFC designers at the press conference of Muffest 2020.

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‘Collective religious narcissism’: how young Indonesian Muslims flex their faith on social

In Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, “showing off” can also take the form of religious expression

3 years ago

Calvin 02 fishing boat, which was shot by Papua New Guinean Defense Force for alleged illegal fishing, arrives in Merauke on Aug. 23. The incident on Aug. 22 killed the boat’s skipper, Sugeng.

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Is Indonesian fisherman a victim of unlawful use of force?

As the shooting incident claimed the life of an Indonesian citizen, the government should be more assertive by filing a protest against Papua New Guinea and demanding a thorough investigation into the incident.

3 years ago

Family business: House of Representatives Speaker Puan Maharani (right), who also chairs the central board of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), speaks to her mother, PDI-P matriarch Megawati Soekarnoputri, during the party’s national working meeting on Jun. 21 in Jakarta.

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Sukarno’s clan is soon losing its grip on PDI-P

Megawati realizes it is nearly impossible for her to maintain the party as a family business after the 2024 elections

3 years ago

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What do fintechs have to do with social justice anyway?

Studies have demonstrated unchanged gender dynamics after two and a half decades of microfinance, with some even pointing to increased domestic violence correlated to women’s access to credit.

3 years ago

Editorial

Very late for 5G

The technology disparity may put Indonesia at risk of lagging further behind, in terms of the competitiveness of the telecommunications industry and the maturity of the country’s digital economy, which many have projected to grow exponentially.

3 years ago

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo greets his supporters after speaking to the press at the Djakarta Theater in Central Jakarta on April 17th 2019. Early counts showed the incumbent had won his reelection bid.

Opinion

Analysis: Supporters keep hope alive for Jokowi to stay beyond 2024

Die-hard supporters of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo held a congress in Bandung on Aug. 28 to keep their hopes alive for him to continue to serve the nation beyond 2024 when his current term in office ends, in defiance of the constitutional two-term limit.

3 years ago

Caught in the act: Jakarta Police raid an illegal online lending provider office in Pantai Indah Kapuk in North Jakarta on Jan. 26. The Financial Services Authority (OJK) has blacklisted nearly 170 illegal online lenders.

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Responsible consumer finance an answer to economic questions

In the age of online access to everything, governments need to make sure that this credit gap isn’t filled by unscrupulous lenders.

3 years ago

Ground check: Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan visits a traditional market in Koja, North Jakarta on June 17 to check the availability and price of cooking oil.

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Calling for a fair media: Put fear where it belongs

The mass media needs to reflect on the wide influence it has on skewing public perception toward the negative when it doesn't deliver balanced news.

3 years ago

Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah (left) and the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Myanmar Noeleen Heyzer attend a press conference at Parliament House in Kuala Lumpur, as seen in handout photo taken and released on July 26, 2022 by Malaysia's Department of Information.

Editorial

Malaysia's Myanmar initiative

The time to call for compliance is long past, and ASEAN must follow up on Malaysia's Myanmar initiative by taking action for the safety and wellbeing of the Myanmarese people.

3 years ago

Another chapter: Standing outside 10 Downing Street, the United Kingdom's newly appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss poses for photographers with her husband Hugh O'Leary after delivering her first speech as prime minister in central London, on Sept. 6.

Editorial

A note for PM Truss

True, Truss assumed power not through an election like her predecessor Boris Johnson, but she still has a good chance to stay at least until the 2025 election.

3 years ago

Elbow bump: Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi (right) and United Kingdom foreign secretary Liz Truss pose for photographers as they met in Jakarta on Nov. 11, 2021. Truss has been appointed prime minister of the UK, replacing Boris Johnson.

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Truss is on center-stage, at least for now

Johnson has handed over to Truss the reins of a country tightly enveloped in an acute economic crisis, amid skyrocketing energy costs

3 years ago

Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar (center) greets Special United States Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry (left) and US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan (right) during the Group of 20 Environment and Climate Ministerial Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Aug. 31.

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Kerry and climate fantasy: All politics is local

PLN would be the main conduit to actually change Indonesia into a renewable energy consumer, be it using wind, solar or geothermal.

3 years ago

Indonesia's Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto arrives for the US-ASEAN bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore on June 10.

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Prabowo’s mission to have key defense and extradition pacts ratified

Many forget the fact that a strong Singapore, and its close military cooperation with the United States and other western forces, is a significant benefit to Indonesia.

3 years ago

Tribute to Queen Elizabeth II: People lay flowers by the gates of Buckingham Palace in central London after it was announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died, in central London on Thursday. Public figures around the world have paid their respects to the late queen on social media.

Editorial

The queen has gone

The visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Jakarta in March 1974 testifies to the joint commitment to long-lasting cooperation and a good relationship between the two countries.

3 years ago

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