OPINION

IO - The People pay the General Elections Commission (KPU) as organizers of anti-fraud elections. The People pay for the Indonesian National Police (POLRI) to maintain justice. However, the KPU reports the people because...

IO - After last week’s elections, The Australian daily newspaper ran the astonishing headline “Loser Prabowo claims victory on Indonesia.”  Local media outlets with close ties to the ruling elite were even less evenhanded...

IO - “Jokowi’s Sakti Card” which represents failure is still being cited as a new promise. Grandiose but false. In this campaign time, based on my observation, the incumbent’s campaign material about welfare: the...

IO - Heading towards the seventh day of the open campaign on Saturday (30/3), we can already guess who will win the 2019 Presidential Elections. If things continue like this for the next two...

IO - Minister Coordinator for Maritime Luhut Panjaitan recently announced that the Government of Indonesia is planning to look for investment in 28 new infrastructure projects, estimated at USD 91.1 billion, when the upcoming...

IO - The instruction delivered by incumbent Joko Widodo to his supporters in various campaigns to wear white garments on elections day (17/04/19) causes new problems. It will set a bad precedent for our democracy,...

IO - The latest e-commerce regulation issued by the Government does not support local startups. This is because it only imposes taxes on local e-commerce, while foreign e-commerce companies that sell goods in Indonesia are...

IO - Who will win the Presidential Election? Is it true that Jokowi is losing and Prabowo is getting stronger? We can see such indications these days. If you don’t want to miss out,...

IO - In a recent rally held in Yogyakarta, Jokowi told his audience that, until now, he has been tolerant of what he has labeled as slander, hoaxes and fake news.  No longer, he...

IO - COULD Prabowo Subianto, who is running against incumbent Joko Widodo in next month’s presidential election, emerge as Indonesia’s next leader? In the past, pundits and pollsters dismissed the retired general’s chances. National surveys...

IO - Wiranto, our Coordinating Minister of Politics, Justice, and Security, has delivered a narrative that may arouse some brouhaha. If it were to be actually implemented, Wiranto might have to fight against Jokowi....