“Don’t let democracy be in the hands of elites,” said Jokowi. “Democracy must be held by the people.”
Aimee Harman
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo remarked that the speed of service is the key to bureaucratic reform as one of the national priorities agenda for his next term during his speech in the Indonesia Vision event last July in Bogor, West Java.
“After participating in this event, the participants are expected to be able to apply the technology in their respective schools and further develop and utilise renewable energy technology.”
Already well-educated and well-earning households can afford to give their progeny a headstart, but the poor are left with underfunded and poorly-run state schools.
Thousands of Indonesians are still in shelters two weeks after a deadly earthquake sparked a stream of fake news and hoaxes warning that an even bigger disaster was looming.
In 2003, a tiny skeleton was found in a cave on the island of Flores. Many things on Flores grow very big and very small – another example of how, biologically, islands are deeply weird.
“Indonesia boasts a vibrant business culture and a stable financial system, and a high rate of technology adoption. Innovation capacity remains limited, but is increasing.”
E-commerce giant Tokopedia is on course to nearly triple its contribution to the Indonesian economy this year, creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
“I ask that all Indonesians pray that he gets well soon. I ask for everyone’s help in fighting radicalism and terrorism because we can only do it together.”
In Indonesia, the world’s second-largest cigarette market, the government has yet to put in place policies to prevent youths from taking up vaping.
Kevin Evans, Indonesia Director of the AIC, says these “quite severe criminal punishments” are of considerable concern to the research community inside and outside of Indonesia.
Australia is fortunate to have a neighbour to its north that is largely unified. Predictable, if unspectacular, growth has “helped Indonesia consolidate democracy”.
“Our target was to have five unicorns by the end of 2019. Welcome to OVO that has already become the new Indonesian unicorn.”
With 3 billion people predicted to be offline still in 2023 and with many more failing to reap the internet’s full potential, the time to address digital exclusion is now.
The recent protests have signified the largest student movement since the fall of Soeharto’s regime in 1998. But today, there is no single, clearly defined enemy.
The new political and administrative centre will be one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia in the next 10 years.