Impact of US Shutdown towards Indonesian Economy
IO, - Shutdown of US government operations is predicted to take place from the fourth week of January to the second week of February 2018. It is a consequence of disagreements between the President...
A Devastating Risk of Miscalculation
IO, - Of all the questions Asia faces today, the preeminent one is how to avert conflict on the Korean Peninsula. Certainly the risk seems high: After a turbulent 2017 with North Korea’s Kim Jong...
Saving the Rohingya
IO - In the northeastern corner of Myanmar, in front of the Bay of Bengal, there is the State of Rakhine. A crescent-shaped sliver of land, it is home to the Muslim-minority Rohingya who,...
Sri Mulyani Started It – Now Can She Finish It?
IO - Following her appointment by President SBY in 2005 as Minister of Finance, Sri Mulyani Indrawati formed a Directorate General to maintain the nation’s debts. Previously, national debts had only been managed by an...
Compilation between 2018 regional election and 2019 general election
IO - As we know, the 2018 election is only a few months away; however, the busyness in the areas have started to be active. In fact, the situation has begun to heat and...
The new silk road and the Indonesian archipelago
IO - In his seminal work, Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and The Future of American Power, award-winning author and geopolitical analyst Robert Kaplan explains how future superpower relations will be played out in what he...
State debt and crisis threats
IO - Respected economists have recently been holding urgent discussions on the actual credibility of the state budget and rising state debt, and the potential crisis that comes along with it.
State Debt reported from...
A new regional order?
IO - Early into his tenure at the White House, President Donald Trump’s decision to remove the U.S.A. from the regional trade pact known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership—one of the centerpieces of the Obama...