OPINION

IO - Revision to the Corruption Eradication Commission (Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi – “KPK”) Law has become a wild shot. It has heated up and caused a lot of people to protest, including college students....

IO - The decline of liberal society started more than a decade ago. In places such as Russia and Venezuela, where citizens once enjoyed the liberties of electoral democracy, it was as if they...

 IO - I write this article based on the reality faced by the people of Papua for 57 years. I was born in a remote place in the interior of Papua, a center of...

IO - The digital realm accelerates its encroachment into nearly every aspect of our lives. While Bitcoin, a decentralized digital (DP) or crypto currency (CC) was first introduced in 2009, it wasn’t until Facebook...

IO - Make no doubt about it.  There are tipping points in politics, a moment when the impossible suddenly seems possible. For Jokowi, when he was declared the winner of the presidential election, it...

IO - Communications data in Indonesia assert that the most-frequently used electronic devices are television (95%) and cellular phone (91%). This is because Indonesia has such a large geographical area, so that digital infrastructure – and consequently,...

IO - Whenever we discuss Papua, we tend to associate this region with violence, stupidity, nakedness and poverty. Papua seems to be synonymous with a world of darkness, problems and troubles that threaten our national integrity. Every...

IO - Articles 64-66 of Law No. 13 of 2003 (the Labor Law) regulate outsourcing, or the re-assignment of part of a work assigned to one company by the appointed to another company. The re-assignment for part...

IO - In an extraordinary turn of events, with less than six months after being re-elected and only weeks away from being sworn into office for a second term, President Jokowi now finds himself under fire and...

IO - It was two years ago. I forgot the exact day and date. What I remember was that a close friend called me in full anxiety and sadness: he said to me that he had...

IO - Indonesia’s actual economic growth within the first two quarters of 2019 is far below the annual economic growth target at 5.3%, i.e. at 5.07% (Q1-2019) and 5.05% (Q2-2019). This is a concern for many, because...