Indonesia’s Forest Fires: Limited Resources Hamper Fight
Forest fires sweeping across Sumatra and Kalimantan in recent months prompted six Indonesian provinces to…
Indonesia’s most corrupt city: Medan, but Bandung top for tea money
Business owners looking to set up shop in Indonesia are probably best advised to give…
Indonesia’s Liberal Democratic Reforms’ Slide to a ‘Neo-New Order’
On 16 September, police broke up an academic discussion at the offices of renowned activist…
‘Teacher beating a student video’ goes viral in Thailand – but it’s fake news
A video posted to a Thai Facebook page purporting to show a teacher in a…
Children’s Education: Singaporeans Biggest Spenders, But More Indonesians Paying
When it comes to spending on their children’s education Singaporeans are the biggest spenders in…
Indonesia’s Digital Economy: Bridging The Digital Divide
Digital technology is fast becoming the core of life, work, culture and identity in Indonesia.…
Indonesia Still Haunted by Asian Financial Crisis Ghosts
In 1996 Southeast Asia was celebrating its ‘economic miracle’ as the World Bank (WB) lauded…
A matter of Indonesia roads, flying squirrels, and physics (video)
Anyone who has ever visited Asia for even a short time knows that law enforcement…
Swadaya: crowdfunded series aims to empower Indonesians (video)
Indonesian photographer Rio Helmi and American filmmaker Joe Yaggi have joined forces and are currently…
Preferring to neither sink or swim Jokowi pulls the plug on Jakarta: Asean’s sinking cities (video)
Last week the head of Indonesia’s National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), Bambang Brodjonegoro, announced that the government is…
Dopper: Indonesia special forces extreme live fire training (video)
You don’t get to be ranked Asia-Pacific’s number one military might by sitting back and watching the…
Jokowi’s ‘Developmentalism’ to See IA-CEPA FTA Fall Short
Despite the warmth between Indonesian President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull…
Freeport’s Fallout For Indonesia Foreign Investors
Freeport-McMoRan (Freeport), the largest mining company operating in Indonesia, may soon be exiting after fifty…
Indonesia ‘death zoo’: president Widodo petitioned to save starving sun bears at Bandung zoo (videos)
A petition imploring Indonesia President Joko Widodo and Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya…
Growth of IS see’s female terrorist numbers rise in Indonesia
Women’s roles in terrorist networks in Indonesia have until now been dictated by kinship ties…
Challenges Ahead For Indonesia’s youth
Indonesia’s youth (pemuda) have always been valued as the vanguard of political change, taking a…