Indonesia foreign worker reform unlikely prior to election

• Editorial

Indonesia foreign worker reform unlikely prior to election

Controversy has surrounded revision of Indonesia’s foreign worker regulations ever since a presidential regulation (PP20) on the subject was issued on March 26. This is hardly surprising considering 2019 is an election year. Parties and […]

Asean’s Navies The Poor Cousins At Budget Time

Editorial

Asean’s Navies The Poor Cousins At Budget Time

With Southeast Asian nations facing a deteriorating external security environment and increasing Chinese maritime assertiveness, many commentators have predicted a widespread naval expansion in the region. To date these predictions have failed to materialise. Rather, […]

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 […]