Trade war and political turmoil in Indonesia
IO - “Indonesia has lost its ability to prepare for external trade wars, while nationally, the government has lost momentum for political consolidation, because of the divide in politics that has been taking place...
Worrisome condition of State finances and fiscal management
IO - Recently, there have been rumors that the State Treasury is near-empty, and tax refunds for taxpayers are being delayed. Is this true? What is the country’s actual financial condition?
Our State financial and...
State finances near collapse
IO - Today’s Indonesian economy is suffering a “double deficit” (or “twin deficit”). What is that? A twin deficit represents a deficit in the current transaction balance taking place simultaneously with a deficit in...
(Polemical) status of State-owned Enterprise subsidiary: Is it also a State-owned Enterprise?
IO - The polemical status of State-owned Enterprise (“SOE”) subsidiaries continues. Some believe that SOE subsidiaries are not in themselves SOEs, while others conclude otherwise, i.e. that SOE subsidiaries are also SOEs.
In terms of...
An Open Letter to the President
Dear President Widodo:Over the past few days, Indonesia has experienced a series of traumatic and saddening events. The police have responded to hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, expressing their right of assembly and to...
May 22 Action, Senior Generals are taking part, What’s Up?
IO - Senior generals – three from TNI and POLRI – will definitely take part in the demonstration at the General Election Commission (KPU), Tuesday and Wednesday (21-22/5)
“We had to
take part because our sovereignty...
The awakening of the soul must never waver
1883 – The titanic eruption of Krakatoa
1908 – Budi Utomo Organization established by the students of STOVIA (now FKUI). Commemorated as National Awakening Day. 2002 – East Timor became Timor Leste state after...
Bawaslu’s brave decree: Quick counts are a violation, KPU’s Situng is wrong
IO - The Elections Monitoring Agency (Badan Pengawas Pemilu – “Bawaslu”) has made an extremely brave and surprising
decision: to declare that the Election Commission’s Voting Count Information
System (Sistem Informasi Penghitungan
Suara Komisi Pemilihan Umum –...
The ball is in your court, Mr. President
IO - The evidence of dirty games being played to steal away the 2019 presidential election is overwhelming: millions of fictitious names on the voter registration roll; the use of state funds to sway...
Mr. Wiranto, don’t you want this to end well (husnul khotimah)?
IO - While we’re still in the spirit of the month of Ramadhan, we need to ask this question to the Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law, and Security, General (ret.) Wiranto.
In Islam, one’s whole...
Democracy is the loser, for now
IO - Electoral fraud is perhaps the greatest effrontery to a nation’s democracy. There are no winners. Once the facts are uncovered, a leader that takes power in a fraudulent election is deemed illegitimate...
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