Academics should become intellectual defenders of public interest and role models for civic engagement, scholars say.
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Academics should become intellectual defenders of public interest and role models for civic engagement, scholars say.
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Can developing countries get rich from data?
Students protesting in Jakarta facing troops from the Indonesian National Police.
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A reflection from a former student activist in 1998 on lessons her generation can learn from the 2019 student protests.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo wants the country to be a global maritime power.
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There are limitations on the ground that may hinder the realisation of Jokowi’s grand vision of making Indonesia a global maritime power.
The new law aims to deregulate existing tax requirements to create a more open business climate.
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If the draft tax law is approved by the Indonesian parliament, individuals and businesses will be affected by at least six important changes.
Many children in Indonesia do not know that having sexual relations may lead to them being pregnant and forced to marry their partners.
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Raising the minimum age for Indonesian women to marry to 19 years is important, but on its own is not enough to reduce rates of child marriage.
Indonesian women participate in a rally for equal rights outside the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, in March 2017.
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Indonesia’s populist morality movement considers talking about eliminating sexual violence against women is the same as supporting women’s right to have sex outside of marriage.
Jakarta is among the ‘megacities’ with a population of more than 10 million people.
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Shifting the capital of Indonesia and other countries may actually send the wrong message that cities too can be discarded.
Members of Free West Papua Campaign Netherlands protest over the situation in Indonesia’s Papua and West Papua provinces, on September 6 2019.
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Indonesia’s strategic position in today’s geopolitical configuration explains the lack of response internationally.
B.J Habibie as Indonesia’s Minister of Research and Technology in a press conference in 1987.
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He has inspired generations of Indonesians. Through his work, he changed many lives, including mine.
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
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Indonesia’s top engineer and former president, Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie or B.J. Habibie, who built the country’s aircraft industry from scratch, died at 83 in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Palm oil development is not just about the economy but also needs to consider social and environmental costs.
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There are studies showing that farmers can have economic benefits from palm oil. However, they can also be impoverished by the commodity.
Active fire hotspots detected by S-NPP/VIIRS on September 7 2019.
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We have developed an online tool to help authorities identify which areas they should focus on for reducing forest fires and haze in order to maximize overall health benefits.
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Not talking about racism – what it is, what it looks like in Indonesia, and why it matters – has allowed it to become even more powerful.
Indonesian flag flown as kite at an Independence Day celebration in Bali.
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The prevailing hyper-nationalism in Indonesia today betrays the modernist idea of nationhood which inspired the nationalist movement in the archipelago a century ago.
Indonesia needs to urgently pass this bill as the country still does not have a specific law on cyber security.
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Indonesia is set to issue its first cyber security bill. It’s badly needed, but in its current form the legislation also create risks of abuses of power and violations of human rights.
As Amazon fires rage, Indonesia faces similar issues with peat fires that have been burning for several weeks in parts of Sumatra and Kalimantan.
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A forest professor tells his experience on the hardships of putting out peat fires in Indonesia
Timorese children are seen in 1999 following the referendum on independence from Indonesia.
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Two decades after it helped the Timorese people gain their freedom, Canada would do well to provide a significant helping hand to the country again.
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Timor-Leste has had a long and violent history of struggle for self-determination, and while there is much to celebrate, there is also still much to do.
Political arrests have been on the rise in recent years in restive West Papua, and the local population is pushing for a new referendum on independence.
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Violence has returned to West Papua over the arrests of students for allegedly desecrating a flag. So much for the new push for reconciliation under Indonesia President Joko Widodo.