Analysis

March 2025

Analysis/Indonesia
Arah Juang – March 7, 2025

Riang Karunianidi and Dipo Negoro – The first one hundred days of the administration of President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka has already given us a picture of how this regime will run in the future.

February 2025

Analysis/Indonesia
Arah Juang – February 25, 2025

Dika Moehammad – "In our lives, there is only one thing we have, that is courage. If we don't have that, then what is the value of our lives?" This was a statement by Indonesia's foremost author Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The problem of courage or guts is what we don't have today.

Analysis/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – February 22, 2025

Jakarta – A wave of demonstrations involving students and civil society organisations titled "Dark Indonesia" took place in a number of regions, including Jakarta, between Monday February 17 and Friday February 21.

Analysis/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – February 12, 2025

Jakarta – The inauguration of Deddy Corbuzier to the Defence Ministry as a special staff member for social and public communications adds to the long list of celebrities in government.

Analysis/Indonesia
Kompas Editorial – February 11, 2025

The polemic about writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer has only wasted energy. Now is the time to respect him in a place that is fitting.

Analysis/Indonesia
Kompas.id – February 8, 2025

Hilmar Farid – History, literature, and imagination come together in the life and works of Pramoedya Ananta Toer. He not only wrote literature, but also explored history and used words to revive the past that was deliberately deleted.

Analysis/West Papua
CNN Indonesia – February 7, 2025

Jakarta – The government plans to provide pardons or amnesty for around 44 thousand prisoners. One of the categories of prisoners who will receive amnesty are political prisoners related to Papua.

December 2024

Analysis/Indonesia
Kompas.com – December 27, 2024

Fika Nurul Ulya, Dani Prabowo, Jakarta – University of Indonesia (UI) Political Studies Centre (Puskapol) Director Hurriyah believes there is a hidden agenda by the political elite who are proposing changing the election of regional heads (Pilkada) from a direc

Analysis/Indonesia
Kompas.com – December 18, 2024

Vitorio Mantalean, Ardito Ramadhan, Jakarta – Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) Executive Director Djayadi Hanan believes that President Prabowo Subianto's proposal for regional heads to be elected by Regional Houses of Representatives (DPRD) is un

Analysis/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – December 16, 2024

Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto's proposal to restore the indirect election of regional heads (Pilkada) through Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) is not really a solution to the high political costs of elections.