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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.

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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. ...

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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. ...

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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.

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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). 

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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Meloni’s election and the EU's future

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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.

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President Joko Widodo (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk together on June 30, 2022 as they head to a joint press conference at the Kremlin in Moscow.
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Foreign policy was a nonissue in past elections. This could change in 2024

Early signs indicate that Indonesia's foreign policy stance will carry unprecedented weight among those vying for the presidency in 2024.

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Nobel Peace Prize, Belo, Xanana and sex abuse

In 2019, when the Vatican heard of these allegations committed by Belo in the 1990s (!), they imposed sanctions a year later.

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Childhood vaccination: Let’s pull together to reverse the decline

The success of a campaign like this is built around parents and caregivers feeling confident and convinced about the benefits of immunization. 

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Reach for the moon: Buddhist devotees visit Shwedagon pagoda to mark the full moon of the Thadingyut festival in Yangon, Myanmar on Oct. 9, 2022. Some of the attendees offered prayers for their country that has plunged into turmoil following last year's coup.
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All eyes on Indonesia’s Constitutional Court which could be on verge of making history

There are well documented cases of massacres, people being burned alive, executions of women who’d been raped and the killing of people who’d been used as human shields.

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University of Indonesia's Faculty of Economics and Business is named as the best business school in Indonesia by Eduniversal Business Schools Ranking agency.
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SDGs in business school curricula to address ‘colossal global dysfunction’

There is about a $4.3 trillion yearly gap in SDG financing, which means the investment ecosystems are failing to enable SDG-related investments at scale and/or corporate boards are not making investment decisions at sync with SDG ambitions.

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Mutual trust key in ASEAN-China comprehensive strategic partnership

A plethora of studies exist to explain the causes of the lack of trust in ASEAN-China relations, attributing it to China’s political influence and military might.

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Driving clean and green development to the last mile in Indonesia

Among the root causes of this inequality is the lack of access to reliable electricity ─ a key factor that, in turn, determines access to quality health and education. 

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Two girls sit in a pushcart as they ask for alms from passersby along a street in Jakarta on Sept. 23, 2021.
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One step forward, two steps back toward gender equality?

The world and the context of development have changed quite drastically, but challenges, especially in education, gender-based violence and political participation persist, especially for the most marginalized.

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Making improvement: President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo stands at Gate 12 at the Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang, East Java, following a stampede that killed at least 131 people in one of the deadliest disasters in the history of soccer, in this handout photo taken and released by the Presidential Palace on Oct. 5.
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Preventing stadium tragedy through policy improvement

The tragedy only mirrors the lack of seriousness of the Soccer Association of Indonesia (PSSI) and the Indonesian Soccer League administrator in effectuating competition management under FIFA regulations regarding stadium’s safety and security. 

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Batak tradition blocks a loving couple's path to God’s altar

Some have even chosen to be more flexible about the tradition so far as tolerating marriage between men and women from the same marga.

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Indonesia’s choice to stand on the right side of history in Myanmar

Indonesia’s long-standing commitment to non-interference and ASEAN centrality can be strong assets and effective tools in resolving the Myanmar crisis. 

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Data protection officer: Challenges for new profession

If a policy or a product of the company is in violation of the PDPL, the company cannot force the DPO to approve.

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Kidfluencers vs children’s well-being

Critics mainly suspect that kidfluencers are projections of their parent’s ambition, or worse, the cash cows of their respective families.

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Illegal investment alerts Indonesia’s antimoney laundering enforcement

Uncertainty in Indonesia's current financial service regime and enforcement makes it fertile ground for fraudsters. 

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Fairness and equality for all in forest management certification

The General Assembly of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), to be held in Bali on Oct. 9-14, is an opportunity for the FSC to ensure fairness and equality for stakeholders around the world, especially in encouraging improvements in forest governance, as well as the expansion of forest rehabilitation and restoration.

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PM Ismail internationalizes Myanmar crisis at UNGA

ASEAN has made it very clear it wants the international community, especially the UNSC, to do more to end the rampant crimes against humanity in Myanmar. 

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‘Indonesia no longer my home’: Confession of a political exile

In Indonesia, past human rights violations are still covered up and even hailed as heroic deeds by some. 

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New start for Indonesia's development aid sector?

In the most extreme case, the donor's pledged funds could flow back to the donor's home country to cover the overhead costs of the donor's own implementing agency and technical experts. 

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Soccer as the opium of the masses: The case of stadium tragedy

In a country where the gap between the rich and the poor is widening, you can expect that most of those fans in the bleachers are from the working class. 

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