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Turkish visitors at a BNI MSME partner booth at the Pasar Senggol Festival in Istanbul on June 5. BNI encourages the performance of global MSMEs as a response to the potential Indonesia-Turkey market, with a trading value of US$2.01 billion.

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An opportunity to integrate SMEs into GVCs through MNCs

Most SMEs produce intermediate products, which are important in the GVC spectrum.

3 years ago

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Reimagining the future of pandemic PPR financing

The money must be spent in the right places and the right time -- that is to say, peacetime investment is no less important than wartime investment. ...

3 years ago

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After decades of loss, the world’s largest mangrove forests are set for a comeback

Indonesia’s government is, rising to the challenge of conserving its mangroves – and restoring lost forests. ...

3 years ago

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Growing: Ayra also provides prenatal yoga classes for couples, working together with venues. (Courtesy of Ayra Homecare)

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Yoga for health and humanity

Notably, yoga has been shown to have immediate psychological benefits, decreasing anxiety and stress, and increasing feelings of emotional and social well-being.

3 years ago

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo rides on a custom motorbike when inspecting the new international circuit in Mandalika, Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara on Jan. 13, 2022.

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Indonesia needs servant leaders like Jokowi

Only through sincere regular meetings with the people will local leaders know precisely the real conundrums faced, and then be able to orchestrate all stakeholders in overcoming the issues.

3 years ago

Shades of diversity: A child participates in a coloring contest held to commemorate the birth of Pancasila in Teras Pancasila subdistrict in Tangerang, Banten on June 1, 2022.

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The ‘stupid-goddess’-izing of women and Pancasila

Even in the Reform era, the Islamization of Indonesian society has been a covert effort to set up a caliphate state, with a kind of Islamic "ibuism".

3 years ago

A girl collects water from a shallow well in Cibuluh village in Lebak regency, Banten, on Sept. 12, 2020.

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Building resilience in Indonesia’s drought-ridden island of Java

Community engagement can ease the pressures of urban drought, but government interventions are the key to sustained change.

3 years ago

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo talks with founder and CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk during their meeting at the SpaceX launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, the US, on May 14.

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Learning from Tesla’s removal from S&P 500 ESG Index

Companies must seek to reduce their GHG footprint and set GHG-reduction goals to align with the objectives outlined in the Paris Agreement.

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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The potential of Indonesia’s humanitarian leadership

International human rights instruments are important because they reflect the world’s common values of humanity, compassion and solidarity.

3 years ago

Workers of state-owned weapons manufacturer PT Pindad prepare a medium-sized Tiger tank for displaying at the 2018 Indo Defense Expo & Forum, held from Nov. 7 to 10, 2018 at the Jakarta International Expo in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta.

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Establishing Indonesia's defense posture amid global race

Modernizing Indonesia's defense industry toward self-sufficiency is necessary to determine the country's defense posture.

3 years ago

At the peak: Workers are seen installing a 5G connection on a tower at Shougang Park, one of the sites for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, in Beijing on Dec. 1, 2021. China claims to have established 1.4 million 5G base stations – more than 60 percent of the world’s total.

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How to build a sustainable and digital Asia-Pacific

Cloud penetration in Southeast Asian enterprises is less than 20 percent, which indicates huge space for data monetization and industry digitalization.

3 years ago

Motorists line up on May 11, 2022 at a gas station in Malang, East Java. The government has decided to maintain fuel subsidies despite the skyrocketing global price of crude oil.

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Jokowi’s subsidy reform: One step backward to buffer consumers

While it might be a step back in subsidy reform, the government has decided to maintain fuel subsidies to creating economic and political turmoil.

3 years ago

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo (left) talks as Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier listens during their meeting at the Bogor Palace in West Java on June 16.

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Jokowi set to play an unexpected global role as peacebroker

Having little interest in complicated diplomacies, Jokowi originally wanted to ensure that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would not be damaging to the Group of 20 Summit and his G20 presidency.

3 years ago

Prior to the inauguration of new Cabinet members.

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Will 2024 be the final nail in the coffin of ‘reformasi’?

The high presidential threshold of 20 percent for parties to nominate a presidential candidate is already a major hurdle that limits our options (no more than four pairs of candidates) in the polls.

3 years ago

The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is seen on its first day of operation in Pingtang, in southwestern China's Guizhou province on September 25, 2016. The world's largest radio telescope began operating in southwestern China on September 25, a project which Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life.

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Did a giant radio telescope in China just discover aliens? Not so FAST…

This phrase is the standard that astronomers will be applying to a curious signal captured with China’s “Sky Eye” telescope that might be a transmission from alien technology.

3 years ago

The video-sharing platform YouTube is striving to block those who would use it to promote racism, hate speech, violence and disinformation, as the Google-owned company comes under increasing scrutiny.

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Why we should join the fight against hate

Ethnically and religiously charged hate speech was also a factor during recent presidential and regional elections in Indonesia.

3 years ago

Open wide: Dela, a dentist (right) fixes a crown on a patient’s tooth in a dental clinic in Cipete, South Jakarta. During the procedure, Dela and her assistant have to wear personal protective equipment (PPE).

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The show must go on for dentists in ‘new normal’

In Jakarta, a patient pays Rp 600,000 ($40.50) for a tooth removal, but in Cirebon regency a dental clinic can only charge a patient half the amount for the service.

3 years ago

Green machine: President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (third left) and his entourage visit a Hyundai factory that produces the Ionic 5 electric car in Bekasi, West Java, on March 16, 2022.

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How to become Asia’s EV ‘Detroit’, while living longer and healthier lives

Electric vehicles (EVs) will be a game changer if everybody has access to them, whether as personal vehicles, public transportation or mobility as a service.

3 years ago

Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto (left) receives Singaporean Finance Minister Lawrence Wong in Jakarta on May 17, 2022.

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Comparing the visit of Wong to Indonesia with Prabowo’s to Singapore

In the conversations with his Indonesian hosts, Wong confidently restated the need to ratify three politically sensitive agreements, which the two countries signed in January of this year.

3 years ago

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike inspects a Pepper humanoid robot, manufactured by SoftBank Group Corp. during a press preview of a hotel of APA Group that has been designated to accommodate asymptomatic people and those with light symptoms of COVID-19 to free up hospital beds and alleviate work by nurses and staff members, in Tokyo, Japan, on May 1, 2020.

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Depreciating yen and its consequences for Indonesia’s economy

Japan’s consistent trade deficits and weakened yen may mean Japan can no longer finance large investments in portfolio, development assistance and foreign direct investment (FDI) in other countries, including Indonesia.

3 years ago

Fruitful business: Trucks line up to unload oil palm fresh fruit bunches at a palm oil-processing facility belonging to PT Karya Tanah Subur in Padang Sikabu village in West Aceh on May 17, 2022.

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Food protectionism and triple taxation in palm oil

Restricting the market of basic necessities at the government-fixed low prices usually causes long lines of consumers who tend to buy more than what they actually need.

3 years ago

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Singaporean Embassy responds

The Singapore Embassy in Jakarta clarifies two factual inaccuracies in The Jakarta Post's June 8, 2022 article on the attempt of conservative Muslim preacher Abdul Somad Batubara, an Indonesian national, to enter the neighboring country.

3 years ago

Flock together: Quad leaders (from left to right) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, United States President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announce the Quad Fellowship scholarship program during their summit at Kantei in Tokyo on May 24, 2022.

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The Quad summit move agenda forward

Biden views the Quad partnership of four major democracies in the Indo-Pacific as vital to challenge China's growing influence in the region.

3 years ago

Leader in waiting: A local resident walks past a mural on the 2024 presidential election in Kedung Halang, Bogor, West Java, on June 13, 2022. Indonesia will hold its simultaneous legislative and presidential elections on Feb. 14, 2024.

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Will Albanese’s unlikely victory be likely in Indonesia?

Looking ahead to the 2024 presidential election, the status quo looks to remain unchanged, as all the potential leading candidates are Javanese or of Javanese descent.

3 years ago

A man with a fishing rod walks past a mural of health workers with the national flag on Jl. Raya Setu in Cipayung, East Jakarta, on Sept. 7, 2020.

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Will IDI split lead to reforms in the medical sector?

The newly established PDSI indicates a need to reform the country's medical system.

3 years ago

President Joko Widodo (second right) visits a Hyundai factory that produces the Ionic 5 electric car model on March 16, 2022 in Bekasi, West Java, in this handout photo from the State Palace released on March 17.

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Tackling barriers to green mobility uptake in ASEAN

ASEAN can become an EV hub to ensure environmental sustainability across the region as long as it tackles the existing barriers to EV absorption as well as anticipates solutions to the environmental impacts of higher EV demand, including manufacturing, battery life and energy use.

3 years ago

Men collect lotus roots from the waters of Anchar Lake on a cold winter day on the outskirts of Srinagar in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Time for EU to talk more about human rights in India

There is one region the EU has been shamefully silent about for so long and it is not only a geopolitical issue regarding the two biggest powers in South Asia but it is also a human rights catastrophe: Jammu and Kashmir.

3 years ago

Counting losses: Maksym Katerin stands in the yard of his damaged house after his mother and step father were killed during shelling in the city of Lysychansk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on Monday, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Behind Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and how to restore peace

Perhaps the best solution would be if President Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to a neutral Ukraine that would act as buffer for both Russia and the West.

3 years ago

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

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To leave no one behind, G20 must commit to pandemic fund

The G20 leaders in their Rome Declaration 2021 noted that financing for pandemic PPR has to become more adequate, more sustainable and better coordinated.

3 years ago