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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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A Dying Breed

As they were passing through a room where the pictures of his predecessors were being hung inside the State Secretary office...
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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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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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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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Peduli Lindungi Does Not Violate Rights, but Might Be Abused

The US accusation that Indonesia’s COVID-19 tracing application “Peduli Lindungi” (Care Protect) has “arbitrarily and unlawfully interfered the privacy” of the...
Angga Priancha Angga Priancha
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Editorial: Worst Leaders Unite Students

Today once again Indonesia’s students prove they are the most important pillar of the nation – not the president, not the...
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Editorial: Welcome to Indonesia Mr. Putin, But…

Falling into a trap of the delicacy of presiding a huge global platform such as G20, Indonesia could destroy its proud...
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Editorial: Timor-Leste’s Critical Juncture

Whoever wins the April 19 run-off — Jose Ramos-Horta or Francisco “Lu Olo” Guterres — he must unite the politically-fractured Timor-Leste,...
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Editorial: Mafia Nation

When a minister of a nation is giving up and admitted to have been defeated by criminal organizations he called a...
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