Indonesia needs to take a leap and get ahead of the game in regulating AI technology, or at least take small steps.

Answering the question is challenging as the problems in education in Indonesia, or even around the world, run deeper than the use of an AI chatbot in the classroom. 

Japan will remain one of the most important economic and sociocultural powers in the region. ASEAN has strong faith in Japan’s commitment to delivering its promises.

India is expected to overtake Japan and Germany to become the world's third largest economy by 2030. 

Despite the efforts in Indonesia and other countries to reduce their emissions, the world is not on track to achieve its objectives of limiting warming. 

The government's policy mandating exporters to repatriate their foreign exchange earnings needs to provide more attractive incentives and a more adequate time limit, so businesses find complying with it to be in their best interests.

It is crucial that the implementation of smart contracts in Indonesia be thoroughly planned and executed to align with the current regulations and ensure consumer protection.

Revealing and recording all of Indonesia’s mega biodiversity thoroughly is of course a very complicated task.

What are the most promising social trends that businesses should be aware of and could leverage in 2023?

In the region, no other trade facilitation tool is arguably as important as the trade-related regulatory transparency provided by the ASEAN Trade Repository (ATR).

AI technology can now be used to replace humans across a wider range of tasks. This could be a disaster not only for workers, but also for consumers and even investors.

Unfortunately, the current policy toward foreign journalists intending to work here, whether on a short visit or to reside, is not supportive of Indonesia’s quest to play a bigger and more active role on the global stage.

Palm oil producing countries, notably Indonesia and Malaysia, which together account for almost 90 percent of the global output, should step up their cooperation to block the European Union legislation against deforestation, scheduled to be adopted by the Council and the European Parliament within the next few months.

Founders of start-ups need to strike a balance in establishing good corporate governance but still allowing for agility and swift responses in a challenging environment.

Measuring microplastics in humans is challenging, but researchers already have preliminary figures.

Stepping into a "minefield" about how to slow global warming, scientists in developing nations have won new funds to study whether dimming sunshine by mimicking volcanic eruptions can be a sufficiently safe way to temporarily cool a hotter planet.

In an interview with Reuters on Wednesday, the President revealed his military diplomacy plan to convince junta leader, Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, to learn from Indonesia’s experience after then-president Soeharto ended his 32-year military-backed rule in May 1998 and Indonesia became a fully fledged democracy. Myanmar’s military at the time reportedly learned a lot from Soeharto, including the dual function of the military and the tight restrictions for political parties.

We remember him as the ‘’friend’’ from Australia who tried very hard to be a ‘’friend’’ to not only Indonesia, but also all our regional neighbors as well as Southeast Asia as a whole, through his indelible influence on Australia's foreign policy.

If Jakarta and its satellite cities continue on the current path of haphazard, uncoordinated and reckless urbanization, this highly populated megapolis will become progressively more unsustainable. 

The release of software that can generate virtually text and images, exemplified by ChatGPT, a chatbot from the startup OpenAI, has set off a race to integrate AI into more products and for investors to bet on which company will emerge on top.

The country's largest Muslim organization prepares to mark its centenary with a Civilization Congress, seeking to legitimize and incorporate human rights within its ideological fold.

From Papua’s Land of Peace declaration we can learn about ways to make the idea of Papua as a land of peace and harmony a reality.

As we enter the fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic some quarters are of the view that the pandemic is over. In a recent report, the Indonesian government indicated that it would declare the end of the pandemic after consultation with the World Health Organization (WHO).

Indeed, for the last several years Russia became an indispensable actor in the Asia-Pacific. Our ASEAN friends understand and appreciate a constructive stabilizing role of Russia with no hidden agenda in the region. Our philosophies of international relations, based on the principle of sovereign equality of nations, are similar. We have never lectured our ASEAN partners or tried to impose on them our values while respecting each other’s culture, history, traditions and aspirations.

Both social media usage and disinformation tactics show rising trends. The 2022 Young Voters survey report from the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) expounded that social media progressively becomes the most-preferred medium for political expression and the primary source of information for the youth, who will also be the majority in next year’s election (54 percent).

Amid the fog of war engulfing Myanmar, two facts have become increasingly clear: the military has failed to take over the country amid widespread popular resistance; and the global community has failed to provide the help that the Myanmar people so badly need in their struggle for democracy.

Happier employees tend to be more productive.