In the immediate aftermath of an event like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the path forward is not always clear. Looking backward, what have we learned?
Oil palm fruit in North Aceh, Indonesia.
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Palm oil is responsible for widespread deforestation and labor abuses, but it’s also cheap and incredibly useful. That’s why many advocates call for reforming the industry, not replacing it.
Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto (foreground, left) and Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (right).
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The budget number, slated to cover a 25-year-period, is not peculiar. Nevertheless, weapon systems procurement needs to involve good governance, accountability and legislative oversight.
A doctor stands by in a patient room at Pertamina Jaya Hospital in Cempaka Putih, Jakarta.
ANTARA FOTO/M Risyal Hidayat/wsj.
Significant discrepancies in the quantity and quality of hospitals’ facilities and services for COVID-19 treatment have contributed to increasing risks for medical workers.
Deforestation in a village called Salena in Palu, Central Sulawesi, during the pandemic.
ANTARAFOTO/Basri Marzuki/hp.
Tensions have been building over the last month following the killing of an Indonesian intelligence chief. The government has vowed to ‘chase and arrest’ all armed militants in the region.
The KRI Nanggala-402 submarine and its crew in 2012 upon completing an overhaul and retrofit.
M Risyal Hidayat/Antara Foto
Indonesian defence planners need to assume the worst-case scenario of future weapon system accidents and account for the whole acquisition lifecycle in weapon system procurements.
This Warty Pig is part of a panel dated to more than 45,500 years in age.
Basran Burhan/Griffith University
The ancient cave paintings have only begun to tell us about the lives of the earliest people who lived in Australasia. The art is disappearing just as we are beginning to understand its significance.
Bajau fishermen on Hoga Island, Wakatobi National Park.
Photo by Chloe King
Chloe King, The University of Edinburgh and Wa Iba, Universitas Halu Oleo
Tourism development should support local communities to increase their skills and knowledge to better equip them to be resilient to crises and economic shocks.
Mergers and splits involving education and research ministries, like the recent one in Indonesia, have huge consequences. How do other countries govern their national education and science policies?
No longer sharing names.
Indrianto Eko Suwarso/Antara Foto
The institutional design of BRIN allows for political intervention, showing how the Indonesian government is unwilling to prioritise research and technology.
Mobile traders, or pedagang along-along, in Langkat, Sumatra, were able to continue selling fish despite COVID-19 disruptions.
Sharon K. Suri
The search for the Indonesian submarine KRI Nanggala faces huge uncertainties and a very tight deadline.
A student from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia performs the Jaranan Dance in Surabaya as part of the campus’s summer program in 2018.
ANTARA FOTO/Moch Asim
When Australian universities cancel their language programs, they abandon their crucial role in promoting engagement with Indonesia. In the long run, ties between the two countries will suffer for it.