America 2020: Why Asean matters
The Southeast Asia regional grouping is vital to America’s trade and security. It’s time to take further steps to ensure this partnership...
Juggling different balls
Indonesia and Europe need to reach an understanding on palm oil and the environment. Can they do it?
China’s overlords of secrecy
When problems emerge, the instinct of Chinese leaders is to shut down reporting. Millions of Chinese have since denounced the Beijing...
Indonesia: Democratic hopes, institutional woes
The recent presidential election sadly turned violent, but Indonesia has a myriad of other problems, showing that its democratic reforms...
Counting the voices
The recent presidential election sadly turned violent, but Indonesia has a myriad of other problems, showing that its democratic reforms...
Revving up the e-commerce engine
As it picks up speed, regulatory changes and improvements are vital to help online commerce do a better job in helping Indonesia’s...
The SemBaKo of Indonesian village commerce
Patterns in endogenous development are changing in commercial clusters near Klaten, in Central Java Province, with fundamental retail...
An American library in 1965 Indonesia: From enlightenment...
An explosive clash of ideologies sent the country spinning out of control, leading to unprecedented horror and bloodshed. How can...
Rematch: Joko, Prabowo and the democracy experiment
The Indonesian president and opposition leader will again vie for the presidency. But five years on, they face a vastly different...
Hacking and the darker side of social media
The United States’ 2016 presidential election was hacked. So what makes Indonesia think that it’s ready for April?
Cyberthreats: Facing the faceless
Better safe than sorry? Understanding the risk management and governance guidelines to maintain data and network security is more...
Maneuvering within Islam’s narrative space
Life is lived in the narrative space. What we hear, read or see is sorted and evaluated based on our narrative space terrain. Influence...
Maneuver in the narrative space: Lessons from Islam Nusantara
There has been a centuries-long struggle between competing forces, maneuvering in both the physical and narrative space, producing...
Indonesia and the future of Islam
The world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation is facing its own “clash of civilizations” – not with other faiths but among its...
Indonesia: The great ascent?
Since the 1960s, Indonesia has emerged from a poor developing country to one of the world’s most attractive emerging markets for global...
The trillion-dollar gamble on Borneo
The mythical island is slowly dying. It’s going to take more than a village to save it.