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Beneath Indonesia’s low unemployment rate lies a quiet crisis of job quality, with millions trapped in informal, low-wage work that offers little security or upward mobility.
Wisnu Setiadi Nugroho, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. With over 15 years of experience spanning the public and private ...
As economic security reshapes trade, APEC's silence risks the organisation's irrelevance unless it can retool its own strengths.
Indonesia's entrepreneurial talent is being misdirected into rent-seeking and thuggery rather than productive innovation, ...
The Pertamina scandal exposes gaps in Indonesia’s fight against corruption and casts doubts on the Prabowo administration’s ...
A US–Japan sovereign wealth fund would do little for the United States, instead risking precisely what made its economy ...
Economic uncertainty was high on the agenda at a host of ASEAN-centred meetings last week, with the region decrying the ...
The ‘One Nation One Election’ proposal promises greater efficiency but may muffle the spirited pluralistic debates that ...
A novel Philippine Commission on Elections resolution targeting discriminatory campaign behaviour is an important step in ...
Trump’s chaotic tariff war turns the United States from trade rule-maker to rule-breaker, but if Southeast Asia can resist ...
Geopolitical tensions and authoritarian governance challenge Beijing’s efforts to engage the new generation of the Chinese ...
Southeast Asia now finds itself caught in a middle-democracy trap where development sidelines democratic progress ...