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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

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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

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Pelosi's Taiwan junket was nothing but poison

Speaker Pelosi has been struggling in a quagmire of political difficulties in recent months. Her party is having trouble securing a House majority in the upcoming midterm election. ...

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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.

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Literacy forum: Millennials participate in a talk show organized by state-owned company PT. Danareksa at Gandaria City Mall in South Jakarta on Jan. 15. The event aims to promote public literacy in finance and investment amid hyped online trading.

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Wooing millennials to invest in sustainable projects

A larger contribution by domestic investors will ensure that development financing is accessible and financial stability is easier to maintain in the face of global uncertainties.

3 years ago

‘Feminist’ touch: Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi delivers a statement to the press after the Group of 20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting wrapped up on July 8 in Nusa Dua, Bali.

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Indonesia's quiet feminist foreign policy: What next?

While Indonesia has been quietly pushing feminist diplomacy on the international stage, it has yet to come out and embrace the concept as its foreign policy approach.

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Poor access to contraceptives has been partly blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted contraceptive supplies and services.(Unsplash/Courtesy of Anastasiia Chepinska)

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Unintended pregnancies put women’s health and lives at risk

In the developing world, unsafe abortions cost an estimated US$553 million per year in treatment costs alone, the UNFPA says.

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Right to life: People display placards and lights during a vigil for Malaysian drug convict Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam at Speakers corner in Singapore, April 25, 2022.

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Abolishing death penalty is a long game to play

It is essential to create a critical mass, a larger audience of new generation Singaporeans who are ready and equipped to question the death penalty.

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Aerial view of Tanjung priok industrial port with container ships.

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Smart ways to decarbonize supply chain and logistics with AI

Intelligent logistics solutions allow delivery managers to configure and prioritize eco-friendly modes of transportation for short-distance deliveries.

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High-school graduates take computer-based exams (UTBK) for university enrollment at the Jakarta State University campus in East Jakarta on July 5. The exam is being conducted in two phases with a total of 42,463 participants. JP/Wendra Ajistyatama

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How political, economic interests fail our universities

University officials are likely to build a close relationship with government officials, members of the political elite and people with strong social, cultural, political and economic resources to pursue their personal gains.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu poses for a photo with a delegation of senior Indonesian journalists in a meeting in Jerusalem on March 28, 2016.

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Diplomatic ties with Israel unimaginable for Indonesian Muslims

Kalla may have government backing, although I am almost sure that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo will never accept the idea because it would be political suicide to say anything good about Israel.

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Freedom fighter or terrorist is subjective, but the Arms Trade Treaty aims to prevent human rights abuses.

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Arms Trade Treaty at risk of irrelevance

If the Arms Trade Treaty’s many signatories reaffirm their commitment to the agreement’s aims, they could start to see real change.

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro demonstrating his 'military strong man' credentials by riding a motorbike.

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What jetskis, horses and gun-toting leaders have to do with international peace

Global leaders who style themselves as military strong men may weaken United Nations negotiations over the trade in arms.

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People in need: Residents of the Cibeunying Kidul area of Bandung bring home social assistance packages from the President on May 4. The assistance was part of the social protection program to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Sustaining social protection during fiscal consolidation

The social protection budget has been credited with reducing poverty and protecting the poor from economic shocks.

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Subsidy addicts: Motorists line up for subsidized RON-90 Pertalite fuel at a gas station in Bogor city, West Java on Aug. 9. The government has begun discussions on whether to increase the price of Pertalite soon.

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Unraveling the untamed tangle of fuel issues

Fuel subsidies and management pose a two-pronged challenge for the government to solve in light of ever-increasing domestic demand, declining supplies and ongoing global uncertainty.

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President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo (left) shakes hands with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during the welcome ceremony for the Belt and Road Forum, at the International Conference Center in Yanqi Lake, north of Beijing, on May 15, 2017.

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Lessons learned from the 1997 Asian financial crisis

The disappearance of the “iron curtain” or the harsh borders between socialist and capitalist economies raises the number participants in and the of fierceness of global competition.

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Studying can’t wait: Rohingya refugees study together at a refugee camp in the village of Munasah Mee in Lhokseumawe, Aceh on Jan. 18.

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Who will champion the Rohingya? Draconian refugee policies must end now

Across the region, Rohingya are treated as illegals and exploited by those who seek to benefit from their precarious status.

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Motorists fill up on May 11, 2022 at a gas station in Malang, East Java. The government has continued to maintain its fuel subsidy despite skyrocketing global oil prices.

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'Jokowinomics' buys political stability for $33.5 billion

The government's penchant for maintaining the fuel subsidy in spite of high global prices and sage economic advice is linked to its ingrained fear of political instability, but the opportunity cost may be much higher in the long term.

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Pandemic boom: A phone screen displays the popular word game 'Wordle'. Indonesians have recently been playing the web-based game and sharing their results on social media.

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Charting pathways for Indonesia’s personal data protection ecosystem

The wait-and-see approach of some of the private ESPs to registering with the Online Single Submission (OSS) was understandable as they would have to comply with some problematic provisions in the regulation related to data governance, content moderation and access to their systems.

3 years ago

The poverty data of Statistics Indonesia (BPS) might provide us with information on the main determinants of consumption-based poverty in the provinces. Yet, when it comes to the non-monetary dimensions of poverty, we remain clueless.

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Lessons learned from the 1997 Asian financial crisis

In terms of Human Development Index (HDI) China ranks 85th in the world, Indonesia and the Philippines at 107th place and Vietnam at 117th, though these countries have done well in terms of improvement throughout the period of 2010 and 2019.

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Communications and Information Minister Johnny G. Plate (center) during a press conference on Wednesday, 29 September 2021 in Jakarta.

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Indonesia’s ‘Super Apps’: Will they be another waste of state budget?

The Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information’s (Kominfo) plan to merge around 24,000 government apps into just eight apps, which they call ‘Super Apps’, is worth closer scrutiny.

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A police car is parked near a row of shop houses in Pamulang, South Tangerang, in this file photograph dated March 10, 2010.

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Policing monopoly: Serving and protecting whom?

Most good drivers yield to a police car speeding its way along the country's roads, lights blazing and siren blaring, and even to nonofficial vehicles with a police escort. But are they really serving and protecting the public?

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President Joko Widodo breaks ground on a pilot coal gasification plant in Muara Enim, South Sumatra, on Jan. 24, 2022.

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Small firms, big impacts: Green transition must embrace SMEs

SMEs must be an integral part of the green transition and related policies, as they play an immense role in fostering innovation and building economic resilience.

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The police's General Supervision Inspectorate chief Comr. Gen. Agung Budi Maryoto (center) makes an announcement about the alleged premeditated murder of former internal affairs chief Insp. Gen. Ferdy Sambo’s aide-de-camp Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat on Aug. 19.

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Police need urgent organizational overhaul, like the military did

A senior minister said the police’s concealment lasted almost one month because Ferdy was “very powerful” even to higher-ups in the police.

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Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin opening the the G20's Health Working Group meeting in Yogayakarta, March 28.

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Build up equitable vaccination practices before the next pandemic

We cannot afford a repeat of trade barriers stopping the lion’s share of vaccines produced in India from reaching Africans.

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The coal-fired Suralaya power station in Banten.

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Indonesia's COVID-19 recovery plan relies on dirty energy

Policies supporting fossil fuels are an instant way to ramp up the economy. However, this could come back to hit Indonesia’s economy in the medium to long-term.

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Workers harvesting crops in a Dutch East Indies’ plantation.

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Mapping inequality in Dutch colonial-era Indonesia

Studying inequality in the Dutch East Indies gives an idea of how economic development is negatively affected by high levels of inequality when economic freedom is lacking, such as under colonialism.

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Indonesian players Kenny “Xepher” Deo (second left) and Matthew “Whitemon” Filemon (second right) compete in the prestigious esports championship The International 10 (TI10) with the South Korean team T1. (Twitter/Courtesy of The International)

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Why play-to-own is the next space to watch in Indonesia’s crypto gaming ecosystem

Record internet penetration rates and a burgeoning mobile-first, middle class that is gravitating toward digital assets will drive Asia to surpass Western markets in its appetite for NFTs.

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Preparing secure cloud environment in the digital new norm

From the bottom up, the architecture should include security modules of different layers, so that companies can build trustworthy data security solutions on the cloud layer by layer.

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