OPINION

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Where’s the mental revolution? “Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.” Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright “The presidency is not merely an administrative office.   That is the least part of it.  It is preeminently a...

“Goebbels was in favor of free speech he liked.  So was Stalin.   If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. ...