By The Way

Education as Freedom

With keen eyes which are seemingly gazing without blinking, 11-year old Sita confidently retold her version of my most recent children...
Okky Madasari Okky Madasari
5 min read

Editorial: Indonesia Recovers from Foreign Policy Non-Sense

If this year’s theme of G20 “Recover stronger, Recover Together” perfectly embodies one thing, it is Indonesia’s recovery from mistake of...
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3 min read

End Aquariums!

Aquariums serve as one of the most popular attractions and entertainment destinations for people of all ages. Children (us back then,...
Kaira Wullur Kaira Wullur
2 min read

Editorial: The Price of 133 Indonesian Lives

What Gianni Infantino, president of football’s world governing body FIFA, has been demonstrating in regard to Indonesia’s mishandling of a football...
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3 min read

Editorial: Foreign Policy for Sale?

While money can’t buy everything, it surely could buy Indonesia. Well, at least it could buy a few elites in Indonesia...
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7 min read

Editorial: How Many Deaths Will It Take?

Then the big bang that claimed the lives of 125 football supporters (by official count, and counting as there are nearly...
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4 min read

Editorial: Indonesia’s Art Leadership

It was a bright late Wednesday afternoon (September 21) in Singapore, leading to a wonderful evening, as people, mostly Indonesians but...
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5 min read

Editorial: Science Over Dogma

When Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Laureate and former chief economist at the World Bank, concludes in his book “Great Divide” that...
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5 min read

Editorial: A Case For Anies Baswedan

As Indonesians are being strangled by the spike in living costs to a point where most of them will slowly be...
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10 min read

Editorial: Southeast Asia’s Religious Secularism

It’s a tale of two different nations which share borders but both are like poles apart. While Singapore can finally get...
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5 min read