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An attendant walks across the forecourt of a gas station belonging to state-owned energy holding company Pertamina in Kuningan, South Jakarta, on Dec. 4, 2018.

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The government should bite the bullet to prevent fiscal time bomb

We have lived too long with artificially low inflation and our businesses have become too complacent with energy subsidies, which are not sustainable in the long term.

3 years ago

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The roots of Gaza’s ongoing tragedy

In each conflict, the terrorists have hidden their rockets, launchers and other military infrastructure, including the attack tunnels, among the civilian population. ...

3 years ago

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Indonesian leadership in challenging times

Action on climate change is an international environmental imperative but it is also an economic opportunity. ...

3 years ago

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Dirty energy: Smoke rises from chimneys at the Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon, Banten, on Sept. 21, 2021. The government has delayed implementing a carbon tax on the energy sector despite its pledge to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Indonesia’s energy subsidy dilemma: how can the government better protect the poor?

The government should implement long-term assistance programs and subsidy reallocation, instead of relying on energy subsidies.

3 years ago

Demonstrators attend a Black Lives Matter protest to express solidarity with US protestors in Sydney on June 6, 2020 and demand an end to frequent Aboriginal deaths in custody in Australia.

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Pandemic racism and sexism in Australia: responses from Asian migrant women

Studies that address the intersection of pandemic-related racism and sexism are lacking and the experiences of Asian women have been neglected.

3 years ago

Visitors browsing exhibition pavilions at the 53rd Jakarta Fair in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, in June, 2022.

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Health or economy? Making the best impossible decision in the face of COVID-19

The Indonesian government can still grow the economy without risking too many lives.

3 years ago

Despite severe laws and punishment on drugs in Indonesia, cases continue to rise.

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Indonesia’s zero tolerance drug laws leave hundreds on death row

Indonesia’s war on drugs hasn’t worked. Hundreds are on death row, executions are regular and the drug trade carries on.

3 years ago

Self-sufficiency goals: A lecturer of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)'s School of Life Sciences and Technology program reportedly has conducted research on anti-HIV drugs using Indonesia's own biological resources.

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Drug self-sufficiency goals: How can policymakers plan better for the long-term

The new public procurement policies that are currently in effect impose import substitution and will gradually squeeze international research-based companies out of the Indonesian market.

3 years ago

Leaders of ASEAN and the regional grouping's strategic partners attend the fourth Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Summit on Nov. 15, 2020 during the 37th ASEAN Summit, held online from Hanoi.

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Seizing RCEP momentum

The RCEP offers Indonesia many inroads to greater trade with broader markets as part of the global value chain, and in turn, contributing more to global peace and prosperity.

3 years ago

Looking for safety: Scores of Rohingya refugees, including women and children, were stranded in the waters off Aceh on Dec. 27, 2021.

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Aung San Suu Kyi shares responsibility for Rohingya’s misery

To a certain degree Aung San Suu Kyi played a part in the gross crimes against the Rohingya, especially with her refusal to defend the basic rights of the Muslim minority.

3 years ago

More than a thousand people are on death row in Indonesia.

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Finding certainty in an uncertain Indonesian death penalty

Indonesia is changing its approach to the death penalty, but half-measures won’t be enough to stop capital punishment outright.

3 years ago

Indonesia is reforming its criminal justice system but still faces many challenges.

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Indonesia’s death penalty ‘moderation’ a misnomer

As Indonesia moves to shed its colonial, undemocratic past, its so-called ‘moderate’ death penalty laws — riddled with ambiguity — undermines any move forward.

3 years ago

President Joko Widodo opens the National Development Planning Conference (Musrenbangnas) National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) 2020-2024 at the State Palace, Jakarta, Monday (16/12/2019). The President conveyed the things that the government will do in the next five years, namely the development of human resources, infrastructure development, simplification of regulations, simplification of bureaucracy and economic transformation.

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Analysis: Jokowi seeks to circumvent courts in resolving human rights violations

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has set up a team to resolve past serious human rights violations without going through courts of law, prompting some civil society organizations to accuse the government of trying to absolve the perpetrators of any guilt.

3 years ago

Justice for Rodrigo: Demonstrators hold up signs during a protest outside Peru's Foreign Ministry building in Lima, Peru on Aug. 26 to demand justice for Rodrigo Ventosilla, a Peruvian graduate student at Harvard and activist for transgender rights, who died on the island of Bali days after being detained along with his husband for alleged cannabis possession.

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Peruvian envoy responds

The Embassy of Peru in Indonesia and the consular section have been in contact with Indonesian authorities.

3 years ago

Police display evidence following a terrorist raid at Astina village, Torue sub district, in Central Sulawesi on September 19, 2021.

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Countering online radicalization among overseas diaspora

Radical groups like Jamaah Islamiyah, Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, and Islamic State have launched systematic propaganda, fundraising, recruitment and terror attacks with support from their global network, including in Indonesia.

3 years ago

Central role: Bank Indonesia (BI) employees walk through the lobby of the central bank’s office building in Central Jakarta on Feb. 28, 2020. Pressure is mounting for BI to tighten monetary policy after the United States Federal Reserve raised rates by 75 basis points recently.

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Is the increase in policy rate harmful to economic growth?

The increase in BI's policy interest rates will continue to have an impact on controlling inflation if it is accompanied by exchange-rate stability.

3 years ago

A dutiful wife: Putri Candrawathi (right) talks to the press as she visits her husband, Insp. Gen. Ferdy Sambo, who has been named a murder suspect, at his detention in Mobile Brigade Corps headquarters in Depok, West Java on Aug. 7.

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Putri Candrawathi: Look for the woman!

Putri morphed from being a victim of sexual assault, allegedly by Yosua, to becoming one of the suspects for his murder.

3 years ago

Water vendors fill 20-liter jerry cans with tap water from a city-owned water system on Aug. 6,, 2022 in a neighborhood just outside the Muara Angke passenger port in North Jakarta. Each jerry can of water sells at an average Rp 5,000 (34 US cents).

Editorial

Handle water with care

Saving Jakarta from sinking requires more than policy: Every person who lives and works in the capital needs to roll up their sleeves and start using water more wisely and sustainably.

3 years ago

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A youth perspective to revive the G20: double down on climate

In a year of heightened uncertainties, where ecosystem collapse, breaches of international peace, and rising inequalities highlight the frailty of global governance infrastructures, the “fit for purpose” of multilateral forums like the G20 is increasingly brought in to scrutiny.

3 years ago

Evacuated Rohingya people from Myanmar sit on the shorelines of Lancok village, in Indonesia's North Aceh Regency on June 25, 2020. Nearly 100 Rohingya from Myanmar, including 30 children, have been rescued from a rickety wooden boat off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, a maritime official said.

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Rohingya refugee crisis needs prompt, thorough solution

And in these five years, it has become abundantly evident that Myanmar is far from committed to returning the displaced Rohingya from Bangladesh.

3 years ago

Leaders of ASEAN and its dialogue partners link hands during a photo session on Nov. 4, 2019 during the 14th East Asia Summit, held on the sidelines of the 35th ASEAN Summit in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Why ASEAN should remain center stage

Coming straight off its Group of 20 presidency, Indonesia has a unique opportunity to strengthen ASEAN's unity and relevance when it takes over the regional grouping's chairmanship next year.

3 years ago

A TV screen displays footage of former police internal affairs chief Insp. Gen. Ferdy Sambo attending a closed-door questioning by ethics commissioners at the National Police headquarters in Jakarta on Aug. 25, 2022. Ferdy has been accused of the premeditated murder of his aide-de-camp Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat in July.

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After more than 20 years, police need another reform

The reform is pressing to restore public trust in the police and increase accountability of the country’s law enforcement and public services.

3 years ago

Aiming high: Health community center (Puskesmas) volunteers measure the height of a child in Kutilang, Ampenan subdistrict, West Nusa Tenggara, on April 8, 2021. Indonesia has reduced the nationwide rate of child stunting from 31 percent in 2018 to 24 percent in 2021, with the aim of further dropping the figure to below 14 percent by 2024.

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Long fight against stunting

The Health Ministry’s Indonesian Nutrition Status Study (SSGI) in 2021 found that with a 24.4 percent stunting prevalence, one in four Indonesian children under five was stunted.

3 years ago

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 June 21, 2022 in Jakarta.

Editorial

More women in politics, please

Female lawmakers currently account for 20.8 percent of the 575 House seats, slightly up from 17 percent in 2014. But the 30-percent benchmark has remained elusive.

3 years ago

Weaving resilience: Local women weave handbags during an exhibition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) products at Cenderawasih Sports Hall in Papua on Aug. 23, 2022. To support the Love Indonesian Products movement, Bank Indonesia invited 60 MSME players to the event, which lasted until Aug. 27.

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Stepping out of the long shadow of the economy

As women tend to work with limited capacity, skills or funding, they stand a little chance of advancing in their careers or business.

3 years ago

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak arrives at Kuala Lumpur High Court in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 28, 2020.

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Najib Razak’s kleptocracy and Malaysia’s credible judiciary

For many Indonesians who are suspicious of the integrity of the judiciary system in the country, especially when the court dropped the mega-corruption case involving former president Soeharto in 2000, the system in Malaysia is a model to look up to.

3 years ago

Spilt water: Officers of region-owned tapwater company PDAM observe leakage of a pipe in Cibubur, East Jakarta on Aug. 3. A bridge-construction project was said to cause the leakage.

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How Asian governments can reduce physical and commercial water losses

Prolonged substandard water infrastructure can cause intermittent to no water supply or cause contaminated groundwater to enter distribution pipes during supply interruptions and high-pressure periods.

3 years ago

National Police chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo (center), flanked by his deputy chief Comr. Gen. Gatot Eddy Pramono (right) and General Supervision Inspectorate chief Comr. Gen. Agung Budi Maryoto (left), briefs members of the press on July 12 at the National Police headquarters in South Jakarta.

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Cover-up at the core, police accountability must begin now

The murder case has revealed a deeply disturbing instance of an abuse and excessive use of force, including an illegal use of firearms by a high-ranking officer.

3 years ago

A stock illustration shows a whiteboard with spaces for a person to fill in their preferred gender pronouns. (Unsplash/Sharon McCutcheon)

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Claiming nonbinary space

Genderlessness has always been a part of Indonesia’s diverse cultures.

3 years ago

Group wedding: A number of couples join a procession before taking their wedding vows on July 4 at the mayoral residence in Madiun, East Java. The Madiun mayor arranged the wedding for free.

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Let’s talk about marriage and all its consequences

Like millions, if not billions, of people worldwide, Indonesian parents do not know the critical strategies of raising their children and teenagers in the digital age.

3 years ago

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