MIL-OSI Global: How Indonesia’s election puts global biodiversity at stake with an impending war on palm oil
Source: The Conversation – Indonesia – By Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University Tomorrow, Indonesia will hold a presidential election that will make or break incumbent Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s chances of getting a second term in a rematch with his nemesis, Prabowo Subianto. Jokowi’s re-election may put global biodiversity at […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Indonesia’s elections: why do they matter and what’s at stake?
Source: The Conversation – Indonesia – By Yohanes Sulaiman, Associate lecturer, Universitas Jendral Achmad Yani Tomorrow, the world’s third largest democracy, Indonesia, will hold its fifth national election since the fall of Soeharto’s authoritarian regime in 1998. India may organise the biggest and most expensive elections in the world, but they aren’t as complex as […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: How Indonesia’s elections differ from Australia’s
Source: The Conversation – Indonesia – By Hangga Fathana, Lecturer in International Relations, Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) As Australians prepare for their upcoming election in May, Indonesians will head to the ballot box Wednesday, 17 April 2019. Over 190 million people are registered to vote in Southeast Asia’s largest democracy. While citizens of both countries […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: The Dilan series gives Indonesian youth a window on life under Soeharto’s regime
Source: The Conversation – Indonesia – By Gaston Soehadi, Adjunct Lecturer of Literary Studies, Universitas Petra A teen romantic drama, Dilan 1991, has become a huge box-office hit in Indonesia not long after its release. It attracted an audience of 2 million only three days after its release in late February. So far, the sequel […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: One party’s lonely battle for minority voices in Indonesia
Source: The Conversation – Indonesia – By Jonathan Chen, Associate Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University Various minority groups in Indonesia face an inconvenient truth: whoever wins the election, they will end up losing, as candidates ignore minority interests in favour of securing the majority votes. Read more: Power at what cost? Those left out of […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Living with natural disasters – how to change Indonesia’s culture of passive resignation
Source: The Conversation – Indonesia – By Juliana Wijaya, Lecturer in Indonesian, University of California, Los Angeles Situated in the “Ring of Fire”, one of the most geologically active regions in the world, Indonesia is prone to natural disasters, as the past year has grimly confirmed. Seemingly endless earthquakes throughout Bali and Lombok through July […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: In India, job creation the biggest issue in voters’ minds
Source: The Conversation – Indonesia – By Asit K. Biswas, Visiting professor, University of Glasgow India will go to the polls between April 11 and May 19 for the election of representatives to the country’s lower house Lok Sabha. As India’s working-age population has increased, unemployment reached a 45-year high in 2017, at 6.1%. Job […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Debts are not that bad: ending the election debate on Indonesia’s debts
Source: The Conversation – Indonesia – By Stevanus Pangestu, Faculty Member, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya Indonesia’s final round of presidential debates for the general election in April will discuss economic and financial issues. We can expect that the two candidates – incumbent President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and his rival, Prabowo Subianto – will talk […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: For political parties in Indonesia, large social media following has little effect on electoral success
Source: The Conversation – Indonesia – By Ella S. Prihatini, Endeavour scholar, University of Western Australia Half of Indonesia’s 260 million population are connected to the internet. They spend on average nearly nine hours a day online. Joint Google-Temasek research has predicted that Indonesia will have 215 million internet users in 2020, making it the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: For political parties in Indonesia, large social media followers has little effect on electoral success
Source: The Conversation – Indonesia – By Ella S. Prihatini, Endeavour scholar and PhD candidate, University of Western Australia Half of Indonesia’s 260 million population are connected to the internet. They spend on average nearly nine hours a day online. Joint Google-Temasek research has predicted that Indonesia will have 215 million internet users in 2020, […]
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