By The Way

Editorial: The Sound of Silence

As Indonesia is embarking on its own version of diplomacy on Myanmar, a quiet diplomacy or non-megaphone diplomacy as its foreign...
Editorial Omong-Omong Editorial Omong-Omong
3 min read

Editorial: Ganjar an Upgrade from Jokowi, Giving Anies a Run for His Money

Forget the premature pre-election polling, it will be a contest between former Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and Central Java Governor Ganjar...
Editorial Omong-Omong Editorial Omong-Omong
7 min read

One Trash Less from Each of Us, Earth Will Be 8 Billion Trashes Cleaner

If we preserve nature, nature preserves us. That is a principle from people who believe human and nature are mutually supporting...
Amy Djafar Amy Djafar
2 min read

Indonesia Shutting Down Different Voices on Kalimantan Orangutan

The revocation of Eric Meijaard’s permit to do research in Kalimantan forests shows that the Indonesia government is silencing research whose...
Kukuh Basuki Kukuh Basuki
3 min read

Can Roads Be Safer for People in Indonesia?

Road safety is often neglected in Indonesia. But traffic crashes are usually blamed on human error instead of this poor road...
Sukma Larastiti Sukma Larastiti
4 min read

Beauty and Its Waste

Many women nowadays are competing to be ‘the prettiest lady’ on earth. This ambition has been supported by the massive beauty...
Sumti Chusna Sumti Chusna
2 min read

Editorial: Government’s Monkey Business

From President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s pettiness, exaggeratedly reacting on otherwise small matters such as illegal importation of second-hand clothing rather than...
Editorial Omong-Omong Editorial Omong-Omong
5 min read

Weapon of Mass Confusion

On February 12, a retweet containing a video passed my timeline. The content is a video that looks like a Joe...
A Geofany A Geofany
4 min read

How to Get Your Kids into Global Universities: Parent-to-Parent Insight

To many parents in Indonesia, having their children pursued study abroad is a dream come true. Study overseas is considered as...
Nany Tjan Nany Tjankilisan
4 min read

Money Often Costs Too Much

Either greed, human nature of seeking easy money and a broken system that fails its members, or a combination of either...
Boiman Manik Boiman Manik
2 min read