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Editorial: You Don’t Know Us, Uncle

“Today’s youth: Watching K-Pop, drinking bobba, hanging out in TikTok, but always having themselves updated on current social issues and being...
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Editorial: Violent, Corrupt & Politicized, Is There Any Hope for Indonesian Police?

Every Indonesia’s president has tried and failed to clean and reform the police after the force was separated from the Indonesian...
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Editorial: Rotten Bureaucrats Rule over Indonesia’s Sports, Sacrificing Athletes and Nation

Having joyously watched their beloved Thomas Cup team dominating and defeating archrival China and winning back the championship after waiting for...
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Rebuffing Professor Mahbubani’s Praises for Jokowi Point by Point

In the midst of massive criticism from inside and outside the country against how President Joko Widodo administration is trending towards...
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No Use of Filing Police Report? How Indonesian Police Keep Siding with Sexual Predators

Police in Luwu, South Sulawesi, have thrown out a report by a mother who accused her ex-husband of raping their three...
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Papua, Denial and Lessons from East Timor and Aceh

President Joko Widodo just opened the National Sports Week (PON) in Papua over the weekend as the nation is trying to...
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Why Papua Won’t Separate from Indonesia and Why It Will

As the world’s economy and politics are changing rapidly since 1969 when a self-determination vote administered by the United Nations decided...
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Five Reasons Why Assigning Young Diplomats in Papua Issue Bad for Indonesia

In almost every major event or meeting at the United Nations, there is always a chance that questions about Papua will...
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Behind Indonesian Minister Suing Activist: $15 Billion and Military Scandal in Papua

Indonesian and international public could get a clearer picture of how Papua’s gold reserves have been divided among elites the whole...
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The Real King of Lip Service Really Stands Up Now

Just days after a poultry farmer in Blitar, East Java, was arrested for carrying a banner on which he asked President...
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