Indonesia must strengthen legal governance and anti-corruption enforcement before joining the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration and Corrections Yusril Ihza Mahendra said.
Politics
Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country’s largest Islamic organisation, is facing its worst organisational crisis in years as it navigates the changing political landscape under the Prabowo Subianto administration.
Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Defence, Dr Billy Joseph MP, Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Richard Marles MP, and Indonesia’s Minister of Defence General (Ret.) Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, met today in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, for their inaugural Trilateral Defence Ministers’ Meeting.
Details on Indonesia’s GCI are still emerging, but the Indonesian Ministry of Immigration’s Abdullah Rasyid told the ABC there were no mentions of land and property ownership rights in the regulations that underpinned the new visa program.
For Beijing, Indonesia functions as a strategic partner and hub which an economic centre of gravity securing critical mineral supply chains for electric vehicles and renewable industries.
A privately operated airport inside one of the world’s largest nickel-processing hubs has ignited a national debate over sovereignty and regulatory oversight in Indonesia, after senior officials alleged the facility runs without full supervision from the central government.
Centralisation, with the military as its enforcer, has long been seen as an expedient fix for elite political dysfunction and regional dissent. President Prabowo Subianto’s early embrace of centralisation and military influence suggests a risk of repeating that cycle.
Nonaligned Indonesia relies primarily on diplomacy and has turned down invitations to join security alliances. It has forged cooperation programmes with everyone that matters to national security, including China.
Member of Commission I of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI), TB Hasanuddin, has issued a strong warning regarding the newly announced Indonesia–Australia security agreement unveiled by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
The ABC understands it means Indonesia would be required to share information on matters that would be important for Australia’s security, and vice-versa.
Prabowo made his debut at the UN General Assembly with a controversial speech that implied a departure from Indonesia’s long-held foreign policy on the Middle East.
Indonesia has awarded former authoritarian leader Suharto the title of national hero, in a move that has sparked accusations of historical revisionism in the world’s third-largest democracy.
State funding for the project has plunged, while construction has slowed and few civil servants have been eager to move away from Jakarta
In a statement, the department said an internal investigation found that the commentator had erroneously referred to the president as Joko Widodo instead of the current president, Prabowo Subianto.
If Indonesia truly aims to be a credible middle power in the Indo-Pacific, leadership within ASEAN is not optional—it is essential.
Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto has just marked one year in office. Here is what has happened
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is marking his first year in power after a series of arrests of protesters in recent months.
