Indonesia Still Haunted by Asian Financial Crisis Ghosts

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Indonesia Still Haunted by Asian Financial Crisis Ghosts

In 1996 Southeast Asia was celebrating its ‘economic miracle’ as the World Bank (WB) lauded the region’s spectacular growth. Tackling middle income challenges was the focus of an IMF–Asean conference in Jakarta. The mood was […]

Challenges Ahead For Indonesia’s youth

Challenges Ahead For Indonesia’s youth

Indonesia’s youth (pemuda) have always been valued as the vanguard of political change, taking a leading role in the independence revolution of the 1940s and in more recent regime changes in 1966 and 1998. With […]

Asia’s Growth Leads The World

Asia’s Growth Leads The World

A gloomy outlook is enveloping the world’s economies. There are concerns that countries are failing to sufficiently focus on long-term policy responses to reverse the decline in global growth. Some are even arguing that the […]