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Transit drives growth

The Jakarta Post 18 Apr 2026
E. very morning, Jakarta bears witness to millions of commuters who share the same calculation. how much time, money and frustration it takes to get from home to work, and which option will cost them the least of all three ... .
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Women farmers define the future of food security in Asia-Pacific

The Jakarta Post 18 Apr 2026
W. alk through any rice paddy in Southeast Asia, any market in the Pacific islands or any fishing village along the Bay of Bengal, and you will find women working. They are planting, harvesting, processing and selling ... .
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Lessons from the Iran crisis for the Indo-Pacific

The Jakarta Post 18 Apr 2026
T. he Iran crisis has once again demonstrated how deeply interconnected regional conflicts have become in an era of globalized security ... At the core of this concern lies the apprehension of strategic overstretch ... .
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Analysis: IDX, OJK to restore investor confidence ahead of MSCI review

The Jakarta Post 18 Apr 2026
T. he Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) enacted a new provision setting the minimum free float requirement at 15 percent for both listed companies and prospective issuers, doubling the previous threshold of 7.5 percent ... .
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Dismantling the bunker, demilitarizing Indonesian justice

The Jakarta Post 18 Apr 2026
D ... Consequently, the author demands that the case be tried in a civilian court ... These findings ultimately reveal a structural problem ... As an initial assessment, Article 65, paragraph (2), of Law No ... 3/2025, sets a strict jurisdictional boundary ... .
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The bullying crisis: A wake-up call for society

The Jakarta Post 18 Apr 2026
T. he bullying case involving 16 law students at the University of Indonesia (UI) marks a critical inflection point, revealing the growing normalization of aggression in Indonesian society ... .
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How US, Indonesia build strategic defense partnership anew

The Jakarta Post 18 Apr 2026
T. he United States builds order through architecture ... At its apex sit 32 NATO allies carrying Article 5 mutual defense obligations ... Understanding why it had to be invented requires understanding the problem Indonesia has always posed ... .
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Call for Expression of Interest: Academia, Research and Training Institutes - EU CBRN Risk Mitigation Centres of Excellence Initiative (UNICRI - United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute)

Public Technologies 17 Apr 2026
) ... The EU CBRN CoE Initiative, funded by the European Union, supports more than 60 partner countries across multiple regions through capacity-building, training, policy development, and technical cooperation ... Important Disclaimer ... 8 May 2026 ... Disclaimer.
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Cheap loans won’t fix SMEs

The Jakarta Post 17 Apr 2026
F ... Last year’s state liquidity injection, which saw hundreds of trillions of rupiah placed in commercial lenders with the instruction to boost credit disbursement, benefited mostly large corporate borrowers ... .
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Why development doesn't prevent war

The Jakarta Post 17 Apr 2026
I. n 1949, United States president Harry S. Truman laid out a bold vision that would shape global policy for generations. Poverty, he argued, was not merely a humanitarian concern but a threat to peace itself, and development was the remedy ... .
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Analysis: Mounting losses put construction SOE consolidation to the test

The Jakarta Post 17 Apr 2026
I ... Against this backdrop, the long-delayed consolidation plan for construction state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is once again under scrutiny ... buildings, infrastructure, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) ... The scale of the losses is striking ... .
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The real barriers to net zero aren’t renewables. They’re everything else

The Jakarta Post 17 Apr 2026
R. enewables are surging, yet demand growth, grid bottlenecks, mineral risks and mounting waste could stall the transition without parallel investment in transmission, storage and circular systems ... Momentum, driven primarily by solar, remains strong ... .
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A global shift: Indonesia’s role in a multi-hub Islamic economy

The Jakarta Post 17 Apr 2026
I. magine a massive engine that suddenly loses its axis. The wheels are still spinning but no longer in sync. Capital flows slow and projects stall until investors begin to wonder, where exactly is the safe place to put their trust? ... .
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Why we should care about Iranian and Venezuelan oil

The Jakarta Post 17 Apr 2026
I. magine an Indonesian refiner, trader or policymaker facing two tempting offers on the global market. one barrel from Iran, and one from Venezuela ... This is where a distant geopolitical story becomes a local Indonesian reality ... .
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America’s war, everyone’s problem

The Jakarta Post 17 Apr 2026
A. nyone old enough to have stayed up watching late-night American reality television in the early 2000s would have encountered Donald Trump before he became a politician. His NBC show, The Apprentice, projected him as the quintessential American CEO ... .
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