EU is seducing Asean
For Indonesia, leveling up Asean-EU cooperation into a strategic partnership is geopolitically important because it will provide Asean with stronger bargaining power vis-a-vis…
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It’s too late to tame inflation with rate hikes
The writer says collateral damage to the global economy may be too severe for tightening to be sustained.
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.
Will Rohingya repatriation remain a myth?
In order to resolve the current stalemate, the paper says both Bangladesh and Myanmar should hold regular meetings through their Joint Working Group and Technical Working group.
For lasting peace, India and Pakistan need to choose engagement over perpetual confrontation
In the long term, engagement is the only way to achieve regional peace, with the alternative being perpetual confrontation.
Jokowi set to play an unexpected global role as peacebroker
President Jokowi may have never expected the UN to ask him to play a global role, especially in brokering peace between Russia and Ukraine.
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…
New assault on the freedom of the press and expression
It has been an age-old practice that the media stands together. But now some television channel owners are trying to debilitate newspapers.
Making sense of the sound and fury of strategic theatre at the Shangri-La Dialogue
The conjoining of two strategic theatres - Asia and Europe - stood out as a clear theme of this year's event.
It is politics that has put Pakistan’s economy in a perpetual state of crisis
Most economists consider the growth target of five per cent and keeping the inflation rate to slightly over 11pc implausible.