OPINION

IO - Recent revelations from WikiLeaks documents, stating that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his family were involved in corruption are, frankly, not a big surprise. After all, Indonesian politics is notoriously dirty. Yudhoyono and his...

IO - When we discuss the Indonesian Defense industry, certain aspects are fundamental in nature, the first being that any defense industry requires a massive investment in capital expen­diture, one that must be in...

IO - The tit-for-tat trade row between the United States and China is causing panic in equity markets and boardrooms around the world. The Trump administration’s most recent protectionist move, which was announced on...

IO - Debts run up over the past three years under the Jokowi government have spiralled by around Rp1,200 trillion, far higher than revenues from taxes, which have stagnated as a measure of the...

IO - Citizens were recently shocked by a statement issued by the Head of the National Cyber Agency concern­ing “constructive hoaxes”. The public places a huge importance on hoaxes: if you write “hoax” in...

IO - As I discussed in a previous col­umn, democracies around the world are under serious threat. Backslid­ing in numerous countries is occur­ring at an increasingly alarming rate. Civil rights are being removed, the...

IO - The dogmatic conviction that our national debt is still at a safe level, as it is below 60% of GDP, is today being seriously contested. The Government has repeatedly explained to the public...

IO - As we get closer to the 2019 presidential elections, it is almost a foregone conclusion how it will be covered in the international media. The narrative you will be reading is something like...

IO - Donald Trump’s decision to meet North Korea’s dicta­tor, Kim Jung Un, has been widely viewed as abrupt and a huge gamble. Abrupt because it is a common wisdom a presi­dential summit is...

IO - In recent years BPS reported that the inequality of income of the population in Indonesia successfully reduced. In 2014, the inequality, measured by the Gini Ratio is 0.414 and lowered to 0.391...

IO - The ‘Era of Information Transparency’ is upon us. Tax cheats are discovering there is nowhere to hide from the taxman any longer, as more than 100 countries, including Indonesia, have come together...