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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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