A crisis of democracy during four years of Jokowi’s rule
IO - Since the early days of his power, President Jokowi revealed himself to be unfriendly towards democracy. Soon after his inauguration, President Jokowi took various steps and policies that were inconsistent with the...
Endless series of flight accident
IO - Lion Air flight JT-610, a Boeing–737 Max 8, left Jakarta for Pangkal Pinang, but ended tragically in the Java sea, just north of Karawang. This event occurred on Monday morning, 29 October...
The polemic behind the freeing of Suramadu toll road
IO - The Government has made a decision relating to the Suramadu toll bridge: the bridge is now toll-free. As we know, President Joko Widodo, together with several ministers, governors, and other officials directly...
Four years under Jokowi: Indonesia lags behind in human development
IO - The latest global Human Development Report (HDR) released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) was the 2016 HDR, providing selected themes, analyses and policy recommendations. The Report also presented the 2015...
Making sense of the rupiah depreciation
IO - Public discussions have recently been dominated by issues associated with the weakening of the Indonesian Rupiah against the US Dollar (USD). In this newspaper alone, Dr. Fuad Bawazir, Prof. Didik Rachbini and...
What Muslims are thinking…
IO - Donald Trump, a master practitioner of fearmongering, likes to tell Americans that Muslim immigrants, even Muslim tourists, pose a threat to national security. For many, memories of 9/11 lent some credibility to...
Biodiesel fuel B20 for energy security
IO - The obligation of the petroleum fuel business entities to sell a mixture of 20% biodiesel fuel with 80% petroleum diesel fuel (B20), both for subsidized and non-subsidized petroleum diesel fuel users, has...
Are We Entering Cold War II?
IO - In a recent speech given at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank based in Washington D.C., U.S. Vice President Michael Pence accused China of multiple sins. For those listening to his...
The “Empire” of social media
IO - In 1909, a French banker of Jewish descendant called Albert Kahn documented photos of people from 50 countries all over the world, the final work in an album that records the colorful...
Praise and reproach: Indonesia before the 2018 IMF-WB Meeting
IO - From mass media reporting and existing references, I managed to understand the situation in the IMF and World Bank Annual Meeting in Bali, 8-14 October 2018, themed “The Uncertainty and Recovery of...
Dollar exchange rate steadily spirals towards Rp 16,000.00
IO - In January 2018, the Rupiah exchange rate against the United States dollar (USD) remained around a Rp 13,200 range. In May, the rate exceeded Rp 14,000.00, and now (October) it is at...
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