By The Way

Editorial: Rising Voices of Reason and Conscience

It was the height of the South African Apartheid regime in September 1977, and young South African intellectual and leader Stephen...

Editorial Omong-Omong
Aug 19, 2026 4 min read

MBG For No One: Why Prabowo Should Listen to Revolver

If Steve Jobs of Apple could take a lesson or two from the Beatles in running a company, President Prabowo Subianto...

Abdul Khalik
Aug 13, 2026 9 min read

Willy Aditya and the Rarity of the Pragmatic Idealist in Senayan

Yogyakarta’s afternoon sun was still bright and golden as the discussion about the book bill, literacy, and how best to improve...

Abdul Khalik
Aug 8, 2026 3 min read

Editorial: Reading Nolan’s Odyssey through I La Galigo

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has reintroduced one of the world’s greatest epics to a global audience. Nearly three thousand years after...

Editorial Omong-Omong
Jul 27, 2026 5 min read

Editorial: Weak Presidency

If your president’s interest is only how to survive and get re-elected in the following election, he will avoid risk and...

Editorial Omong-Omong
Jul 13, 2026 3 min read

Editorial: Deadly Militarization of Indonesian People’s Economy

Five young Indonesians are already dead, and the state continues as if nothing fundamental has happened. They were not soldiers preparing...

Editorial Omong-Omong
Jun 27, 2026 3 min read

Editorial: Blackout Nation

The current alternating power blackout across the country shows how badly Indonesia is managed under President Prabowo Subianto’s government. A country...

Editorial Omong-Omong
Jun 21, 2026 2 min read

Why Okky Madasari’s Novels Matter More Than Ever Under Prabowo Subianto

Indonesia likes to describe itself as one of the world’s democratic success stories. Since the fall of Suharto in 1998, the...

Moch Aldy MA
Jun 6, 2026 3 min read

Editorial: Why MBG Feeds Prabowo’s Presidency More Than It Feeds the Nation

The arrest of Dadan Hindayana should have been a political earthquake. As the head of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN), Dadan...

Editorial Omong-Omong
Jun 4, 2026 4 min read

Editorial: If Everything Is Prabowo, What Happened to Indonesian Diplomacy?

When Indonesian Cabinet Secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya recently responded to criticism of President Prabowo Subianto’s extensive overseas travel, he intended to...

Editorial Omong-Omong
Jun 2, 2026 4 min read