Indonesia and Norway resume cooperation in carbon emissions reduction by pushing down deforestation. Both support forest and land use (FOLU) net sink.

What is happening in the commodity market should be ringing alarm bells for investors, and especially for the economic authorities in Indonesia.

Foreign capital increased, while the trade surplus decreased. Double hits push the world to the brink of recession.

The World Bank projects the Indonesian economy to grow by 5.1 percent this year, only 0.1 percent lower than its calculations in January. It is shadowed by inflation and budget swelling due to subsidies.

The trade in Sumatran tigers continues. Prosecutors and judges do not care enough about the wider impact of the illegal wildlife trade.

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, some countries revoke the requirement to wear masks. Some people are still wary of taking them off.

Primordialism easily produces ‘racial cleansing’.

Indonesia obtained the status of being free of foot-and-mouth disease or FMD in 1990. At the time, the government ran a crash program at great expense.

Forcing economic growth in such volatile conditions is a dangerous policy. It is akin to driving a bus through a hailstorm. As long as it does not slow down immediately, the bus is at risk of crashing anytime.

By not condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Indonesia could lose the respect of the international community. This is a betrayal of our Constitution.

European Union’s plan to embargo Russia again rises world oil prices. The increase in fuel prices is a bet for Pertamina’s finance.

Youth’s role to release Indonesia from the grip of oligarchy.

The technology startup funding market is predicted to grow. Contribution to the environment and society becomes the greatest challenge.

Tempo compiled the tales of those who chose different migration paths. From one Chinese Indonesian family who went to the Netherlands and remained there, an Indo-European family who refused to leave, to a former KNIL soldier who left for the Netherlands and decided to return to Indonesia.

More than 300,000 Dutch, Indo Europeans, Chinese, Moluccan, Papuan, and others who used to live—and were even born—in Indonesia, chose to migrate to the Netherlands from 1945 until the early 1960s. Their stories were recorded and exhibited at the Sophiahof Museum in The Hague, the Netherlands, from February until June titled Ons Land: Dekolonisatie, Generaties, Verhalen.

The Russia-Ukraine war pumps up the price of global oil to stratospheric levels. Countries, including Indonesia, are in turmoil because of it.

Indonesia cannot remain neutral over the war between Russia and Ukraine. We must explicitly oppose the invasion of a sovereign country.

Some ASEAN nations are reluctant to condemn Russia. Indonesia is not even mentioning “Russia” by name. Only Singapore declares economic sanctions.

Indonesia needs to follow the example of the Netherlands, which based its policy on a historical investigation of the history of the 1945-1949 War of Independence. There is no need to make a fuss about financial compensation.

A landmark study by three major research institutes on extreme Dutch violence in Indonesia resulted in an apology by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the first one by a Dutch government head. The country’s rosy self-image is among the reasons this admittance comes so late.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologizes for extreme violence in the colonialism period. The ‘extreme violence’ is colonialism itself.

To build linguistic demarcations in Indonesia is to build walls with illusions. At the very least, such demarcation is fragile.

Indonesia’s extradition agreement with Singapore is continued after 15 years. It is seen as a disadvantage for Indonesia.

Experience from 2013 has shown that when the Fed reduces liquidity injections and raises interest rates, the resulting wave of capital reallocations can hurt the financial markets of emerging economies, including Indonesia.

The name ‘Indonesia’ is a name that was fought for with blood.

The fall of Afghanistan into the hands of the Taliban could trigger the revival of terrorist networks around the world. Indonesia must not stand idly by.

Hong Kong’s ban on flights from Indonesia serves as a wake-up call for airlines to tighten health requirements for passengers.

Indonesia has been included by HSBC analysts as one of the four emerging markets that are most vulnerable should the global financial market fall into panic, alongside Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

The Climate Ambition Summit was organized to help push for a renewed commitment on emission reduction, in order to achieve the target of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degree Celsius by 2030. Indonesia is seen as lacking ambition to meet its emission reduction target.