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  • 1 day ago
    • Indonesia
    • Climate change

    Sumatra floods: Indonesia stuck in a cycle of crisis management

    Hilman Palaon
    President Prabowo must address years of institutional neglect to tackle the structural failures fuelling disasters.
  • 1 Dec 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Technology

    Foreign interference and Indonesia's buzzer networks

    Jennifer Williams , Nava Nuraniyah , Julian Droogan
    New X data reveals the networks amplifying false narratives, yet attribution remains frustratingly elusive.
  • 1 Dec 2025
    • China
    • Indonesia

    How China views its economic relations with Indonesia

    Alexander R. Arifianto , Virdika Rizky Utama
    Economic dependence, not alliance, suits Beijing’s interests.
  • 25 Nov 2025
    • Asia
    • Asean
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • United States

    Southeast Asian manufacturing: No longer immune from geopolitics

    Apoorba Banerjee
    The region’s industrial sector must adapt in a new climate of supply-chain weaponisation.
  • 17 Nov 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Agency preservation drives the Indonesia–Australia security treaty

    Emirza Adi Syailendra
    The echoes of history are evident – only this time, trust may not be as important as the context.
  • 14 Nov 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    The Australia-Indonesia pact won’t shift the regional balance

    Susannah Patton
    But this diplomatic win for Australia does reflect warm neighbourly ties.
  • 13 Nov 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    “Anchored in the region” – What the new Australia–Indonesia security treaty really means

    Natalie Sambhi
    The pact strengthens trust between neighbours who don’t always agree, without abandoning Indonesia’s non-alignment.
  • 4 Nov 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Timor-Leste

    Timor-Leste: to join the ASEAN neighbourhood, start with the house next door

    Iona Main
    Indonesia could make ASEAN membership meaningful for Timor-Leste by opening up ferries and flights from Kupang.
  • 4 Nov 2025
    • Indonesia
    • International law

    Repairing warships, maintaining neutrality: Indonesia’s legal balancing act

    Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga , Aloysius Selwas Taborat , Gulardi Nurbintoro
    A deal to repair US warships has sparked debate over Jakarta’s foreign policy tradition – but international law offers clear guidance.
  • 3 Nov 2025
    • Indonesia

    Indonesia's diplomacy: Changing with confidence

    Febrian Alphyanto Ruddyard
    A stagnant foreign policy approach will not serve the nation at a time when adaptability is a necessity.
  • 28 Oct 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability

    Indonesia values the forests, but can it fund the trees?

    Mohd. Yunus
    Jakarta is buying influence in the new climate order.
  • 24 Oct 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia

    Malaysia and Indonesia can turn a border dispute into an opportunity

    Muhammad Farhan Yaumil Ramadhan
    After decades of tension, pragmatic cooperation on energy resources offers a path forward in contested waters.
  • 23 Oct 2025
    • Indonesia

    Prabowo’s first year: Visibility without vision in Indonesian foreign policy

    Virdika Rizky Utama
    The Indonesian President seeks advantage wherever it can be found – but deal-making may cost his country’s influence.
  • 21 Oct 2025
    • Asean
    • Cambodia
    • Indonesia
    • Laos
    • Malaysia
    • Thailand
    • Energy
    • Trade
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability
    • United States

    The sun is setting on Southeast Asia’s solar exporters

    Robert Walker
    US tariffs are testing whether ASEAN is all talk on regional integration for renewable energy generation.
  • 17 Oct 2025
    • Aid & Development
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Laos
    • Malaysia
    • Myanmar
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam

    Signal failure for China’s railway diplomacy in Southeast Asia

    Grace Stanhope
    As Indonesia renegotiates railway debt with China, other Southeast Asian nations face a cautionary tale about mega-projects.
  • 14 Oct 2025
    • Indonesia
    • North Korea

    Indonesia makes a quiet return to Pyongyang

    Akhmad Hanan
    Jakarta wants to take its bridge-building diplomacy from ASEAN to North Korea.
  • 9 Oct 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Japan
    • Defence & Security

    Takaichi and Prabowo can redefine the Japan-Indonesia relationship

    Ayu Rachman
    Tokyo’s conservative turn meets Jakarta’s military modernisation, transforming a development partnership into dual-track ties.
  • 8 Oct 2025
    • Asia
    • Indonesia
    • Europe
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • WTO

    Europe notches an early win in Indonesian free trade deal

    Henry Storey
    EU trade with Southeast Asia has been undercooked, but a recent agreement augurs well for others in the pipeline.
  • 6 Oct 2025
    • Indonesia

    Prabowo’s policies won’t fix Indonesia’s problems

    Hilman Palaon
    Heavy spending and top-down control are unlikely to rescue Indonesia from corruption, inequality and investor doubt.
  • 3 Oct 2025
    • Asia
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Taiwan
    • Trade
    • United States

    America’s EV plan needs Southeast Asia more than it admits

    Apoorba Banerjee
    Unless the US wants to pay more and wait longer, it should secure trusted capacity from non-Chinese supply chains.
  • 3 Oct 2025
    • Indonesia

    Indonesia’s free meal ambition: When policy becomes a recipe for risk

    Ronny P Sasmita
    Grand promises about feeding children have fallen foul of rushed implementation and ignoring lessons from abroad.
  • 3 Oct 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Climate change
    • United Nations

    Indonesia’s green industrial policy ahead of COP30

    Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara , Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat
    Jakarta is playing a balancing act between business wins and climate objectives. Can it work?
  • 30 Sep 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Global Economy
    • Technology

    Indonesia’s SupTech experiment offers lessons for emerging markets

    Hanif Santoso
    With consumer credit booming, AI-driven oversight could help safeguard the economy.
  • 29 Sep 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Sustainability

    The good oil? Helping palm plantations contribute to global biodiversity targets

    Mohd. Yunus
    Indonesia and Malaysia control 80% of global palm oil supply – their conservation choices will determine if the industry can rehabilitate itself.
  • 26 Sep 2025
    • Asean
    • Bangladesh
    • Hong Kong
    • Indonesia
    • Myanmar
    • Nepal
    • Thailand

    The youth are revolting as Asia's gerontocracy is showing its age

    Erika Isabel Bulan Yague , Lukas Nagel , Helen Berents
    Across the region, leaders twice the median age of their populations face sustained resistance from a new generation.
  • 25 Sep 2025
    • Asean
    • Brunei
    • Cambodia
    • Indonesia
    • Laos
    • Malaysia
    • Myanmar
    • Philippines
    • Singapore
    • Thailand
    • Timor-Leste
    • Vietnam

    Is the US really losing to China in Southeast Asia?

    Susannah Patton
    A major new research project published by the Lowy Institute says yes – but there’s more to the story.
  • 22 Sep 2025
    • Asia
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Japan
    • Australia

    Complacent nation: Australia and the Asian Century

    Tim Watts
    Decades of ambition have left us with a nation still unable to speak the language of our neighbours.
  • 22 Sep 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Sustainability

    Indonesia’s biodiesel push

    Akhmad Hanan
    With an economic reliance on palm oil fuels, Jakarta must balance energy security and global trade.
  • 16 Sep 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Nepal
    • Philippines

    Chronicles of corruption

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    The public outcry against systemic corruption in Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines exposes government greed and elite excess amid widespread poverty.
  • 10 Sep 2025
    • Brunei
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Philippines
    • Vietnam
    • Maritime Security
    • South China Sea
    • Technology

    The South China Sea’s next legal frontier: Ships without sailors

    Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga
    Unmanned warships blur legal boundaries as technology outpaces international law in contested maritime zones.
  • 2 Sep 2025
    • Asean
    • Indonesia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    Indonesia’s move to welcome PNG into ASEAN is a win-win

    Akhmad Hanan
    Expanding the Southeast Asian bloc is good for the region, and will ensure Jakarta’s leadership position.
  • 1 Sep 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Defence & Security

    Indonesia’s KHAN missiles aren’t targeting China

    Rahman Yaacob
    Jakarta is looking closer to home.
  • 18 Aug 2025
    • Asean
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Maritime Security

    The Ambalat dispute is a chance for Indonesia and Malaysia to lead by example in Asia-Pacific diplomacy

    Akhmad Hanan
    Against a backdrop of wider regional tensions, finding a solution to this longstanding dispute would be model behaviour.
  • 7 Aug 2025
    • Asia
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Russia
    • Technology
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Africa

    How Burkina Faso’s strongman became the Indo-Pacific’s unlikely hero – and other tales of disinformation

    Jennifer Williams , Nava Nuraniyah , Jordon Borg , Julian Droogan
    Digital disciples are spreading false narratives in an effort to exploit anti-Western sentiment across the region.
  • 5 Aug 2025
    • Indonesia

    Prabowo’s Indonesia draws opposition via cartoon pirates

    Erin Cook
    Pop culture resistance can become a powerful form of resistance – especially when authorities overreact.
  • 4 Aug 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Energy
    • Trade
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    The copper gambit: How Indonesia turned a trade war into strategic leverage

    Akhmad Hanan
    Indonesia’s mineral transformation from raw exports to refined power shows the benefit of resource nationalism.
  • 1 Aug 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Defence & Security
    • Russia

    Belarus’s military charm offensive in Asia

    Elise Thomas
    While all eyes are on Moscow and Jakarta, Minsk is quietly stealing a march across Asia.
  • 31 Jul 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Philippines
    • Singapore
    • Thailand
    • Defence & Security

    Air force modernisation in Southeast Asia: Deterrence or danger?

    Rahman Yaacob
    Fighter aircraft purchases reflect a broader push for military autonomy at a time of rising great power rivalry and supply chain concerns.
  • 28 Jul 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Global Economy
    • Trade

    Indonesia at a discount

    Virdika Rizky Utama
    In a world portrayed as multipolar, Southeast Asia’s largest economy remains bound to the same unipolar logic of coercive economics.
  • 22 Jul 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Review

    The financial crisis Asia failed to see

    Sean Turnell
    The late 1990s was a time of soaring expectations built on hidden rot.
  • 21 Jul 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Singapore
    • Australia
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Trade

    How a golf resort near Singapore can grow Australian investment in Indonesia

    Robert Law , Antonia Robson
    The timing is right for Australia to back a new economic zone in the region.
  • 18 Jul 2025
    • Indonesia
    • BRICS

    ASEAN risks becoming window dressing in a BRICS expansion

    Aniello Iannone
    Indonesia’s entry to the grouping highlights how smaller nations risk being sidelined by existing power hierarchies.
  • 11 Jul 2025
    • India
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Can Australia, India and Indonesia really sail together?

    Rahman Yaacob
    Mismatched strategic culture is the main obstacle to joint maritime security ambitions.
  • 9 Jul 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Defence & Security
    • Technology

    Indonesia targeted in Rafale fighter jet disinformation

    Nava Nuraniyah , Jennifer Williams , Julian Droogan
    Viral videos can become weapons.
  • 8 Jul 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Trade

    Indonesia: Prabowo’s populism clashes with economic realities

    Robert Walker , Hilman Palaon
    Mounting headwinds leave limited space for President Prabowo’s spending and centralising tendencies.
  • 4 Jul 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Defence & Security

    From Gallipoli to the Strait of Malacca: Why maritime choke points still decide the fate of nations

    Adam Leong Kok Wey
    How a crucial regional waterway may be affected in the event of conflict.
  • 4 Jul 2025
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Human rights
    • Sustainability

    China isn’t the main culprit in Indonesia’s dirty nickel boom

    Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat
    While Chinese firms capitalise on the country’s resources, the social and environmental damage lies squarely with Jakarta.
  • 1 Jul 2025
    • India
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Indonesia, Australia, and India: Overcoming barriers to trilateral partnership

    Emirza Adi Syailendra
    Three Indo-Pacific powers search for common ground amid US-China rivalry.
  • 20 Jun 2025
    • Asean
    • Cambodia
    • Indonesia
    • Laos
    • Malaysia
    • Myanmar
    • Philippines
    • Singapore
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam

    Myanmar and ASEAN’s parallel diplomacy trap

    Vu Lam
    In Southeast Asia, national imperatives are increasingly outweighing regional cohesion.
  • 16 Jun 2025
    • India
    • Indonesia
    • Maldives
    • Sri Lanka
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Putting the “Indo” in Indo-Pacific, Australia’s westward pivot

    Rushali Saha
    Embassy openings and patrol boat gifts signal Canberra's recognition that Indian Ocean influence requires active engagement.
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