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...
Rupiah in dire need of “plastic surgery”
IO - Dramatization is no longer a monopoly of theater and those who create it. For example, over the past several weeks we have been presented a drama created by our dear decision-makers, titled...
Managing Indonesia’s airspace
IO - Managing the territorial land and water of a sovereign nation for the interests of its people’s prosperity and national defense is no longer difficult. Territorial land and water management for transport and...
Going against the new silk road…
IO, Jakarta - What was once hailed as China’s Great Leap Outwards and embraced by over 100 countries because of its promise to help modernize the infrastructure of emerging and developed economies alike, Xi...
Is everything under control?
IO - Last Friday a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck in the neck of Minahasa Peninsula—not long thereafter, as tsunami warning systems failed and locals remained outside their residences without any sense of the danger...
Most potent tactic faulters
IO - On September 25, 2018, in a discussion concerning the state budget plan in the Republic of Indonesia’s House of Representatives’ (DPR-RI) Media Center, I predicted, in front of dozens of journalists from...
Warning: Rupiah will continue weakening well into 2019
IO - From the start of 2018 until the present, the exchange rate of the Rupiah to the US Dollar has continued in just one direction. I perceive the exchange rate continuing to shift...
Infrastructure, manufacturing and job opportunity paradox
IO - The infrastructure sector has clearly been the priority (primary) sector during the Joko Widodo Government. Since 2014, the infrastructure budget in the State Budget (Anggaran Pendapatan dan Belanja Negara – “APBN”) has...
Food Wars
IO - The official campaign season has barely started, and already the incumbent, Jokowi, has a major problem on his hands that, if it is left to spiral out control, could turn into a...
Don’t take crises lightly
IO - The weakening of our currency’s exchange rate has been going on for 4-5 years, while there have been practically no significant or serious measures taken to slow it down. Perhaps it would...
Beware of heading into a crisis
IO - On Wednesday, 5 September 2018, I sent data to nearly 150 journalists from various media, comparing economic and political conditions in 1997/1998, 2008, 2011, and 2018. This data also included a graph...
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