South Korea blasting off
The paper says a proper investment by the government can help build local experts and nurture new technologies in a way that they can spill over into other sectors.
What stakeholders need to do to avert humanitarian disaster, ensure stability in Afghanistan
Abandoning Afghanistan could lead to a mass exodus of Afghans towards neighbouring countries, and create a security vacuum that in the past was filled by terrorist groups.
Hong Kong has yet to capitalize on ‘one country, two systems’
The writer says in order for “one country, two systems” to work, all stakeholders must have full respect for law and order, full respect for the constitutional authority of…
Indonesia needs servant leaders like Jokowi
The writer says Jokowi has shown his servant leader qualities since he was the mayor of Surakarta in Central Java and the governor of Jakarta.
Stateless refugees and the calculus of human worth
World Refugee Day is a good day to talk about how our world deals with statelessness. But maybe the conversation ought to start with the state.
Indonesia’s vaccine hub ambitions
If Indonesia is able to produce its own coronavirus vaccines, it will no longer need to compete with other countries to secure necessary vaccine supplies, and could even help…
Have we already started seeing the Rohingya refugee crisis differently?
The writer says the shift in the 2022 Joint Response Plan and its focus on environmental sustainability seems to highlight a strategic and philosophical shift in response to the…
The potential of Indonesia’s humanitarian leadership
Considering the size of its population, the strength of its democracy, its diversity and its human and values-based conduct, Indonesia has earned the respect of the international…
The expectation of privacy
Our private lives, once protected, are also now commodifiable. And here is where consent becomes an issue.
President Macron needs to overhaul electoral strategy
For the first time since the current Constitution was introduced during the 1950s, the sitting president’s party failed to come out at the top in parliamentary ballots held very…