Environment and Forestry Ministry climate change control general director Laksmi Dhewanthi speaks at the G20 Second Environment Deputies Meeting and Climate Sustainability Working Group on June 21, 2022, in Jakarta

Integrating science, law and diplomacy: 50 years after the Stockholm Declaration

Cross-disciplinary integration, such as in the "Merdeka Belajar" initiative, is vital for Indonesia to present a solid position on the environment at the international negotiating table.

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The policy mix turn: From disciplining prices to resolving stagflation

Domestically, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) recorded an inflation rate of 4.35 percent year-on-year (yoy) in June, higher than in May and becoming the highest since June 2017. ...

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Importance of designing an end-to-end energy transition policy

The energy transition road map should take a comprehensive, holistic approach by including the whole of the green technology value chain. ...

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Hang around: Teenagers gather in a park near Dukuh Atas MRT station in Central Jakarta on July 14, 2022. The city administration has warned the public that anyone found loitering in the park after 10 p.m. would be removed, in accordance with public activity restrictions (PKKM) to curb the spread of COVID-19.

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Citayam in Sudirman: Blurring the lines of sociospatial divide in Jakarta

A well-planned and appropriately priced mode of public transportation is also a meeting place, a melting pot and usually a good representation of the city’s diversity.

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A large-scale banner, a figurative representation of "People's Justice" by Taring Padi, a collective of underground artists from Indonesia, is pictured as staff members cover it during the documenta 15 contemporary art exhibition in Kassel on June 20, 2022.

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Documenta 15: Exposed anti-Semitism or misjudged anticommunism critique?

As the ruler of the largest and most populous country in Southeast Asia, Soeharto was the pronounced darling of the "Western community of values".

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Ready to go: Indonesia’s 18th batch of vaccines, comprising 14 million Sinovac doses, arrives at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on June 30, 2021. The vaccines, which were stored in special containers called envirotainers, were then transported to PT Bio Farma facilities in Bandung for further processing.

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China’s soft power success story in Indonesia: Vaccines and Uyghur Muslims

As of October 2021, Indonesia has imported 278.5 million doses of vaccines from China, including in bulk, which were later processed by state-owned pharma PT Bio Farma in Bandung, West Java.

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Home comforts: Recently, many employees have resigned after being told to return to Jakarta and resume work from offices. For those accustomed to working from home, this is unacceptable (JP/Seto Wardha)

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Why is it so hard to get hybrid work right in Indonesia?

Indonesia has a high cybercrime rate, with more than 490 million cases in 2020; a 41 percent increase from the previous year, according to National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN).

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Smokescreen: A volunteer talks to a minimarket cashier about the dangers of cigarettes during a campaign against child smokers in Cengkareng, West Jakarta on March 7, 2021. The campaign aims to accelerate the government’s target to reduce child smokers to 8.7 percent of the smoking population in 2024.

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Media key in challenging tobacco industry's narratives

Indonesia’s tobacco-control policy is toothless when facing the powerful influence of a giant tobacco industry.

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Angelo Wijaya Head of Project Management and Research, Y20 Indonesia 2022.

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Y20 Indonesia: Promoting the Youth Agenda at the G20

On July 17 to 24, about 100 youth, comprising 80 delegates representing all 20 Group of 20 members as well as 20 observers from international and regional organizations such as the World Bank, WTO, ADB, IsDB and ASEAN, will gather in Jakarta and Bandung to attend the Youth 20 Summit 2022 Indonesia.

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Abortion-rights demonstrators hold signs as they gather near the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, the United States, on June 25. Abortion-rights defenders fanned out across the US for a second day of protest against the Supreme Court's thunderbolt ruling, as state after conservative state moved swiftly to ban the procedure.

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Is the US too troubled to be mindful of Indonesia?

The United States has not been this divided politically since the Great Depression of the 1930s -- or possibly even since the 1860s Civil War.

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Endangered species: A young Komodo dragon is seen at the Komodo National Park on Komodo Island, near Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara, on Nov. 22, 2019. The government has decided to limit visitors to the island starting Aug. 1 in a bid to protect the species and its habitat.

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Adopting sustainable tourism in Labuan Bajo

Implementing sustainable tourism, especially a strict policy on tourism carrying capacity, at super priority tourist destinations will protect and preserve their cultural and natural attractions for generations to come.

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson (center), Health Secretary Sajid Javid (left) and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak attend a press conference inside the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London on Sept. 7, 2021.

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Are the UK’s shifting sands a sign of Indonesia’s political future?

An electoral majority does not give free rein for a government to do as it wishes without expecting public backlash.

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International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva makes remarks at an opening press conference during the IMF and World Bank's 2019 Annual Fall Meetings of finance ministers and bank governors, in Washington, DC on Oct. 17, 2019.

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Facing a darkening economic outlook: How the G20 can respond

It is going to be a tough 2022 – and possibly an even tougher 2023, with increased risk of recession.

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Families receive flour rations and other basic food supplies from charities in the province of Lahj, Yemen, on March 29.

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Safeguarding people’s right to food in times of crisis

The primary responsibility of states is to promote and protect the right to food, and the international community should help provide for this.

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Police fire water cannon to disperse protesters in front of the House of Representative compound on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 24, 2019. Students from various universities gathered in front of the MPR/DPR compound to protest against the revision of Criminal Code (KUHP), which they claimed threatens democracy.

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Why the penal code bill is no better than its colonial original

As if retaining the colonial provisions on defaming politicians were not bad enough, the bill also criminalizes any extra-marital sexual relationship, raising concerns of a potentially brutal encroachment on privacy by the state or non-state “moral” apparatus.

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The Russian-flagged cargo ship 'Zhibek Zholy' is anchored at the Black Sea coast in Karasu district, Sakarya, Turkey, on July 5. The ship, at the center of a diplomatic battle between Kyiv and Moscow, remained anchored off Turkey's Black Sea coast four days after its arrival. Ukraine asked Turkey on July 1 to detain a Russian-flagged cargo ship that Kyiv alleged had set off from a Kremlin-occupied port.

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Let Russia withdraw from Ukraine

Between 9 million and 22 million Ukrainains died in the 20th century from famines and the violent persecutions of the regime in Moscow.

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Under arrest: Prison guards and East Java police take Siddiqiyyah pesantren (Islamic boarding school) leader Moch Subchi Azal Tsani (second left) into detention in Medaeng prison in Sidoarjo, East Java, on July 8. Subchi is accused of committing sexual violence against a number of his students.

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How a 'pesantren' can institutionalize sexual violence

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) and United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken appear at a joint press conference on July 9, 2022 during the Group of Twenty Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (G20 FMM) in Nusa Dua, Bali.

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Looking at the long game, G20 FMM signals change of direction

It would be naive to expect a single meeting or summit to resolve the geopolitical tensions in the world today, but last weekend's G20 meeting has teased some cause for optimism over the long term.

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Both ASEAN and Pacific Island states could learn from each other in bringing much-needed development through external engagements while keeping at bay the negatives.

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Asia and the Pacific stronger together

Better opportunities will arise from ASEAN and Pacific island nations banding together.

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Ahead of the next Pacific Islands Forum, internal regionalism is going strong — contrary to the opinion of some external commentators.

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Reports of a Pacific fracture fail to understand the region

Pacific Island nations are keenly aware that disunity is unhelpful for the region.

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People of Chinese heritage have been a presence across the Pacific Islands for over 200 years.

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How China’s presence has grown in the Pacific in the past decade

China’s presence in the Pacific has taken new forms. What was once purely economic, is now much deeper.

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China’s presence in the Pacific has changed in the last decade.

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Measuring China’s diplomatic reach in the Pacific

China’s investments in the Pacific can be ad hoc and fragmented, but its diplomatic presence has consistently grown.

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A new study has found that many teens using e-cigarettes appear to be inhaling significant quantities of nicotine without realizing.

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The rise of e-cigarettes exposes young people to harm

In some countries, marketing for tobacco products has been found to be rampant on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, despite community guidelines that regulate or ban their sale or promotion

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (right) attends the Group of 20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, on July 8.

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Foreign ministers define challenge for Indonesia in hosting G20 Summit

The challenge for Indonesia now is to prevent the G20 Summit from turning into a disaster. It’s a tall order, but it should not stop the host nation from trying — not only to save the G20 presidency but to save the G20 itself from losing its relevance.

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Code red: Students from various universities protest against the Criminal Code's revision outside the House of Representatives on June 28. The protesters said the new code would stifle freedom of expression.

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Between criticizing and insulting the President's dignity

The Criminal Code's revision has been influenced by legal policy designed to deconstruct the law’s characteristics and institutions inherited from the colonial era.

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Making the point: Chairman of National Population and Family Planning Board Hasto Wardoyo reads out the country’s statement as head of Indonesia’s delegation to the ICPD25 summit in Nairobi in November 2019.

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Policies must focus on people, not populations

Asia-Pacific is experiencing global mega-trends including population ageing, increased humanitarian crises, impacts of climate change, urbanization, migration, and rapid advancements in digital technologies.

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Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong speaks to the media as she arrives at Ngurah Rai International Airport on July 7, 2022 to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Bali.

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How central is ASEAN centrality for Australia?

ASEAN needs creativity and vision to develop genuine centrality that comes from its own strategic geopolitical core, and to be more than just a euphemism for Southeast Asia.

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Bound 100 yuan (US$15) banknotes are arranged on Jan. 7, 2016 at a bank in Lianyungang, in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu.

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Potential benefits of Renminbi Liquidity Arrangement for Indonesia

While the RMBLA marks another milestone for China's effort to internationalize its currency, Indonesia would do well to be aware of the pitfalls and moral hazards that such currency arrangements might carry.

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Then-Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe (right) greets President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.

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Abe displayed statesmanship, friendship when Jokowi ‘betrayed’ him

Abe’s sweetest 'revenge' against Jokowi came in March 2019, when Jokowi inaugurated the Jakarta MRT.

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Blue economy: Coastal ecosystems sequester as much as five times the amount of carbon as terrestrial forests.

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Beyond celebration, we urgently need to understand our oceans better

Living on a planet where the ocean dominates its surface, it is fair to say that ocean affairs should provide important content and context in our education.

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