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In search of a presidential electoral system
Free and fair elections have brought many good things for Indonesia – if you overlook the tangle of legislative and presidential elections....
Australia: Hedging its bets in Asia
Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have a change in attitude toward Australia, and there has been a return to its...
The connections are what count
India, China and the World: A Connected History Reviewed by Nayan Chanda
Year 70: The United States and Indonesia
The last several decades of bilateral cooperation have been tremendous for Indonesia’s development. With a few changes, imagine what...
Indonesia’s quiet success explained
Resurgent Indonesia: From Crisis to Confidence By Vasuki Shastry (Straits Times Press, 2018, 194 pp) Reviewed by Salil Tripathi
The Gulf’s scramble for Africa
Arab Gulf states are intervening more assertively in sub-Saharan Africa to capitalize on economic opportunities and protect their...
A new and uncomfortable global reality for 2019
While the United States will escalate its strategic offensive against China with tariffs, sanctions, regulatory buffers around emerging...
Wanted: Smart grads with dirty hands
Vocational education has been touted as a way to push Indonesia up the skills chain and provide jobs. But it’s not working out that...
Halal and the economy
This year should see Indonesia enact a dramatic new law on halal products, making it the world’s largest halal market. But what are...