On 16 September, police broke up an academic discussion at the offices of renowned activist NGO the Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH). The topic was the killings of alleged leftists in 1965 and 1966 in […]
Fifty years ago Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). This association of primarily non-communist and relatively free-market countries was formed at a time when the Cold […]
Last week the head of Indonesia’s National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), Bambang Brodjonegoro, announced that the government is committed to moving the nation’s capital from Jakarta in Java. While Mr Brodjonegoro did not specify where the new capital […]
Freeport-McMoRan (Freeport), the largest mining company operating in Indonesia, may soon be exiting after fifty years of doing business in the country. Hanging in the balance is the fate of Grasberg, a copper and gold […]
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A petition imploring Indonesia President Joko Widodo and Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, to shut down the Bandung Zoo on Change.com has so far garnered more than 704,900 signatures. The petition was started after video […]
After moving up 15 places in the World Bank’s annual ease of doing business report for 2017, Indonesian authorities are determined to maintain the momentum, introducing additional reforms to ease the business process in Indonesia. […]
When it comes to a country’s ability to attract, nurture, and retain people with the necessary skills and talent to meet increasing technological changes and challenges it is hard to overlook the city-state of Singapore. […]
Despite major domestic and external challenges Indonesia’s economy is expected to grow at around 5 per cent again this year — much like last year — and only slightly below the official estimate of 5.3 […]
Malaysia’s trade with the United States has been in decline. But with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement dead in the water, what’s next for Malaysia’s trade agenda? If there is a flicker of hope for […]
Indonesia President Joko Widodo is well on his way to finding the funds necessary for his ambitious infrastructure development plans with the Indonesia tax amnesty programme delivering results far better than expected. Just three months […]
Uncertainty is beginning to descend on the global nickel industry with the world’s largest nickel mining country, the Philippines, suspending 20 mines for failing an environmental audit. At the same time former world’s leading nickel […]
What cannot be measured, cannot be managed – so the saying goes.  This motto for management also applies, and is even more critical, to a country’s finances. Eager to strengthen its public sector infrastructure, in […]