Tag: Indonesia

Can Indonesia sustain its COVID-19 recovery targets? (Gerardus Yosari, East Asia Forum)

Questions remain over how Indonesia can sustain its COVID-19 economic recovery targets due to the possible difficulties its policymakers face in curbing inflation. The...

Indonesia’s new tax law targets its growing middle class (Arifin Rosid, East Asia Forum)

Indonesia has the lowest percentage of individual income tax revenue to GDP compared to neighbouring countries — 1.3 per cent, compared to 1.9 per cent in...

Lessons from the Indonesia–Norway REDD+ break-up (Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, East Asia Forum)

Indonesia announced the termination of the long-standing Indonesia–Norway Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) partnership. While promising, it was anticipated from the...

Hot air: Scepticism over Indonesia’s COP26 deforestation pledges (Aisyah Llewellyn, Al Jazeera)

As the COP26 climate change conference continues into its second and final week in Glasgow, a pledge signed by more than 100 countries to...

Indonesian democracy needs a moderate Nahdlatul Ulama (Alexander R. Arifianto, East Asia Forum)

Indonesia’s largest Islamic organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), recently announced that its long-postponed national congress (Muktamar) will finally be held from 23 to 25 December 2021 in...

Why Indonesia should embrace AUKUS (Arrizal Jaknanihan, East Asia Forum)

The announcement of AUKUS — a trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States — sparked concern over escalating rivalry...

The fault lines in Australian and Indonesian views of their strategic future (Editorial Board, ANU – East Asia Forum)

The irate French reaction to the AUKUS defence deal provided plenty of fodder for the international media. Much has been made of Australia’s duplicitous...

Bolstering Indonesia–Australia economic dialogue (Eko NM Saputro, East Asia Forum)

The 2018 Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) between Indonesia and Australia expressed a shared commitment to improving bilateral relations. Indonesia and Australia have attempted to...

Toward Better Cooperation with Indonesia under the New Southern Policy Plus (Sungil Kwak, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)

Last year the Republic of Korea (ROK) announced the “NSP Plus” – an upgrade version of the New Southern Policy (NSP) – to better...

AUKUS and Australia–Indonesia relations: 2+2 clever by half (David Engel, The Strategist)

Amid the commentary on Australia’s handling of France over the decision to switch to nuclear-powered submarines, Canberra’s treatment of another close partner and the...

Indonesia: painted politics (Stania Puspawardhani, The Interpreter)

Street art has been much discussed across Indonesia’s airwaves in the last couple of months. Three spray-painted murals expressing a critical perspective on the...

Can tropical rainforests benefit from surging voluntary carbon markets? The case of Indonesia (Tiza Mafira and Brurce Muhammad Mecca,Climate Policy Initiative)

The market size for voluntary carbon offset has been experiencing a sharp growth over the past five years, with the highest valuation currently going...

Australia’s nuclear submarines and AUKUS: The view from Jakarta (Natalie Sambhi, Brookings)

Last Thursday’s announcement of Australia’s plans to pursue nuclear-powered submarines and the launch of AUKUS — a new security grouping between Australia, the United Kingdom, and...

Indonesian VAT reform should level the playing field for women (Citra Handayani Nasruddin, East Asia Forum)

The Indonesian government and the House of Representatives have been discussing a multi-tariff value-added tax (VAT) scheme as part of a proposed overhaul of...

Indonesia police kill ISIL-linked leader in Sulawesi shoot-out (Al Jazeera)

A police officer shows a poster displaying the photos of Ali Kalora, top left, and Jaka Ramadan, bottom left, who were killed during a...

Indonesia adds patrols after detecting ships in South China Sea (Al Jazeera)

An Indonesian Airforce's F-16 Jet Fighter flies over Indonesian navy warship during an operation in Natuna islands, in the South China Sea in January...