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Editorial: Dividing then Sucking Papua Dry

When Megawati Soekarnoputri, chairwoman of the country’s ruling party, Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), made fun of and laughing at...
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Successful Intelligence, Soft Diplomacy and Global Role Under SBY

That morning at the end of February 2010, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa came to the presidential palace to report to President...
Dipo Alam Dipo Alam
4 min read

Editorial: Jokowi’s Most Defining Moments

Call it a stroke of genius, a coincidence or a mere luck, but Indonesia’s heavily criticized initial hesitance to condemn Russia’s...
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2 min read

Changing Indonesia One Regency at A Time

With hundreds of mayors, regents and governors across the archipelago having been arrested for corruption, public has a very low trust...
Okky Madasari Okky Madasari
4 min read

Friedrich Nietzsche and So On and So On

“I’m not a man, I’m dynamite.” —Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Throughout the history of western philosophy, no philosopher has been as crazy,...
Moch Aldy MA Moch Aldy MA
10 min read

Editorial: No Expectation from Down Under

What does an average Indonesian know about Australia? Two things: its schools with its scholarships, and its friendly tourists – when...
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3 min read

A Dying Breed

As they were passing through a room where the pictures of his predecessors were being hung inside the State Secretary office...
Okky Madasari Okky Madasari
3 min read

Editorial: Pettiness

In a move only a drifter and one with petty character can do, Indonesian Foreign Ministry has summoned British Ambassador to...
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4 min read

Editorial: Anything, Elon

After eight years of “much ado about nothing” and “all barks, no bite”, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo could finally end his...
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3 min read

Editorial: False Narratives of ‘Good Old Days’

The imminent victory of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of the country’s late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, in the Philippine presidential election...
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3 min read