Many workers kept coming into offices during the pandemic, enduring Jakarta's legendary traffic jam.

Fixing Jakarta's commuter pollution problem

The Indonesian capital’s air quality is already bad. Emissions from vehicles commuting from its fringes worsens the situation.

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Is Indonesia among the fastest-growing economies?

According to the theory, for Indonesia to prosper, we should specialize in what we are currently good at producing, such as palm oil and coal. ...

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Toward ASEAN digital community

The existence of digitally related subjects in the school curriculum would direct students from an early age to be digitally responsible. ...

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Indonesia has the world’s fifth-highest number of internet users. Indonesian internet users increased from 132.7 million to 150 million last year.

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Edge computing and 5G powering a greener Indonesian economy

The Indonesian IoT market is expected to reach US$30 billion by 2022, and the sector’s impact will be significant in enhancing industrial productivity.

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Business as usual: Workers assemble electric irons at a factory operated by PT Selaras Citra Nusantara Perkasa in Cileungsi, Bogor, West Java, on Aug. 19, 2020. Manufacturing sector growth fell to 4.01 percent in the second quarter of the year, down from 5.07 percent in the first quarter.

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Indonesia’s economy under global perfect challenge

From an international economic perspective, cooperation with close economic partners is essential to secure Indonesia's economic resiliency.

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The national flags of the various countries attending the 35th ASEAN Summit are displayed in Bangkok on Nov. 4, 2019.

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A future-proof and forward-looking ASEAN economic community

We should be mindful that ASEAN’s journey as a community continues to take shape amid an increasingly complex and uncertain strategic landscape, including non-traditional security challenges.

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Salute: Indonesian Military (TNI) Commander Gen. Andika Perkasa (left) and Commanding General of the US Army Pacific Gen. Charles Flynn open the Super Garuda Shield 2022 exercise in Baturaja, South Sumatra, on Aug. 3.

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Indonesia’s ‘polygamous’ game in dealing with China and the US

Indonesia, like many other ASEAN members, knows doing business with the world’s second-largest economy China is more profitable than with the US, but at the same time, it feels more comfortable with the presence of the US in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Hopes float: A girl releases floating lanterns to mourn atomic bomb victims on the Motoyasu River beside the atomic bomb dome during the 74th anniversary of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2019.

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My message from Hiroshima

A new arms race is picking up speed, with governments spending hundreds of billions of dollars to upgrade their stockpiles of nuclear arms.

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Chinese military helicopters fly past Pingtan island, one of mainland China's closest points from Taiwan, in Fujian province on Aug. 4, ahead of massive military drills off Taiwan following United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the self-ruled island.

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Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan a test of China's global aspirations

While we all expect a big scare following Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, pursuing unification through military might will not only be reckless but against the long-term interests of Beijing.

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Street fashion show: Girls walk on the crosswalk near Dukuh Atas MRT station in Central Jakarta as they take part in the hyped Citayam Fashion Week on July 23, 2022. The event was initiated by teens from the outskirts of Jakarta who claimed to be fighting boredom after two years of COVID-19 restrictions.

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The cultural entrepreneurship of Citayam Fashion Week

The Citayam Fashion Week shows how teens from Jakarta's periphery successfully constructed a new meaning, a trend, a new reality.

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Suspended internal affairs chief Insp. Gen. Ferdy Sambo arrives on Aug. 4 at the National Police's Criminal Investigation Department in Jakarta for questioning as a witness in the alleged shootout at his residence on July 8 that led to the death of Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat.

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When cops start shooting cops, who’s going to police the police?

Despite 20 years of reform efforts, the National Police continue to be one institution with a very strong esprit de corps, where the force regularly protects its own, especially in the top brass.

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(From left) Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhon, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi, Bruneian Minister of Foreign Affairs Erywan Yusof, Laotian Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith and ASEAN Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi shake hands as they pose for a family picture during the opening ceremony of the 55th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Phnom Penh on Aug. 3.

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PM Hun Sen surprisingly stands up to Myanmar generals

The Cambodian prime minister’s turnaround will pave the way for a more unified ASEAN stance on Myanmar.

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The event on Sunday began by a charity bike ride from the LRT station in Tebet.

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Indonesia should strengthen accountability and transparency in social sector

Indonesia is also one of just five economies we examined in Asia that limit tax deductions for donations to organizations working in certain sectors.

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The Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) in Central Sulawesi is shown in this undated photo.

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Why EU imposes countervailing duties on Indonesian steel from Morowali

Most of China’s investment projects are export-oriented with capital, operational financing, services related to production, marketing and even labor supplied directly by the parent companies.

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Going digital: A local designer and member of a small and medium enterprises (SME) community in Malang, East Java, takes a picture of his product to be uploaded on the community’s digital marketplace on July 29, 2022. Digitalization is expected to expand markets for SMEs.

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Accelerating digital transformation in MSMEs through education

Yet, our education system has been built on the mindset of fear of failing examinations.

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This handout photo taken and released on July 26 by the Indonesian Presidential Palace shows Indonesia’s President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo (left) and China’s President Xi Jinping posing for a photograph prior to a meeting in Beijing.

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Pineapples and high-speed rail: Mission of economy for Indonesia and China

Rather than submarines of war, the game is about fruits, toll roads and coding of car-hailing apps that weave the web of people’s steadily improving lives.

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Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn (left) speaks alongside Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi (center) and Brunei Second Minister of Foreign Affairs Erywan Yusof (right) at a meeting with representatives of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) during the 55th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Phnom Penh on Aug. 2.

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ASEAN community can no longer tolerate Myanmar junta

The recent executions are a full-blown rebuff of the five-point consensus, indicating that the ASEAN consensus has neither a normative nor a deterrent effect on the junta.

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G20 Youth: Give us a seat at G20 Bali Summit

Around 100 members of the Group of 20 youth delegation gathered last week in Jakarta and Bandung for the Y20 Summit 2022.

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Protesters show the three-finger salute during a demonstration against the Myanmar military junta's execution of four prisoners, outside the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok on July 26. Myanmar's junta executed four prisoners including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party, state media said on July 25, in the country's first use of capital punishment in decades.

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How Indonesia can lead ASEAN in ending the Myanmar crisis

Indonesia needs to indicate its readiness to lead ASEAN to revamp the five-point consensus, making it clearer with specific operationalization to work according to what ASEAN, not the Myanmar junta, wants.

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Muslims take part in a demonstration denouncing a ban on hijabs at certain educational institutes in Chennai, India, on Feb. 14.

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Muslim headcover conundrum: When covering up actually exposes

Now Wahhabism has become more mainstream in Indonesia, especially in politicized contexts and as the 2024 presidential elections approach.

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Soldiers of People's Liberation Army (PLA) march in formation past Tiananmen Square during the military parade marking the 70th founding anniversary of People's Republic of China in Beijing, Oct. 1, 2019.

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PLA in the new era: Firmly safeguard world peace and development

Humanitarian-relief cooperation has become a highlight of military cooperation between China and Indonesia.

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A cartoon depicts the process of revising the Criminal Code (KUHP).

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Equality before the law: Are some more equal than others?

The latest draft of the Criminal Code (KUHP) sounds a deep and visceral warning that passing it as is will lead to the return of an authoritarian regime in Indonesia.

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Outrage: An activist takes part in a rally outside the United Nations University in Tokyo on July 26 to protest against the Myanmar junta’s execution of four prisoners, including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party.

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Time for the world to react to the junta's brutal force

ASEAN lacks strategic pressure to convince the junta to undertake meaningful steps toward the proposed peace plan.

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AI helps make sense of abundant data from online health consultations. (/)

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AI shows its worth in making sense of online health

Natural language processing is an emerging, complex form of analysis. But a study from Indonesia showed computers can draw sense from doctors’ chats.

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Indonesia needs more sustainable electricity sources to provide health services across its vast archipelago. (,

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AI provides a jolt of energy for Indonesian medical research

Indonesia’s growth as a medical research hub will only go as far as its capacity to power its public health facilities. AI could speed up the process.

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AI could help the pharma industry improve drugs.

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AI in the pharmaceutical industry promises cheaper, faster, better drugs

Finding potential new drugs is becoming faster and cheaper, thanks to artificial intelligence, but challenges remain.

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Machine learning could be used to help support government programs.

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Machine learning to help predict future dengue fever outbreaks

Indonesia’s dengue fever outbreaks are increasingly frequent. Artificial Intelligence can help to predict where the next hotspot will be.

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Scientists are using artificial intelligence to improve our understanding of COVID-19 mutations.

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AI helps scientists keep up in COVID-19 mutation race

Artificial intelligence can help predict mutations in COVID-19. Some have achieved a perfect strike rate.

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Apples are stacked for display and sale as people shop at a grocery store in Monterey Park, California, on April 12, 2022. Americans paid more for gasoline, food and other essentials last month amid an ongoing wave of record inflation made worse by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Making the case against bad profits via shrinkflation

In much of Asia, inflation seems to be under control, largely due to steadier food prices.

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Field check: Newly installed Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan visits Klender traditional market in East Jakarta on June 22 to check the prices of basic commodities, especially cooking oil.

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Cooking oil debacle ends but price volatility still looms

But since cooking oil is a basic staple food, the government should intervene to shield low-income groups and micro and small enterprises from the inflationary impact during the boom cycle.

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