How A Chinese Railway Helped Jokowi Cement His Infrastructure Legacy
December 10th, 2023
Via East Asia Forum, commentary on how a Chinese railway helped Jokowi cement his infrastructure legacy: Indonesia welcomed its first high-speed railway in October 2023, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia and a significant leap for Indonesia’s infrastructural development. The US$7.3 billion Jakarta-Bandung line, financed by Chinese banks and built with Chinese technology, […]
Read more »Forget Netflix and Disney: A Local Streaming Service is King in Indonesia
December 7th, 2023
Via Rest of World, a look at how Indonesia’s Vidio cracked the code for what the masses actually watch, drawing tens of millions with teen fiction adaptations and premium sports. In late October, football fans across Indonesia roared from their living rooms as rivals Chelsea and Manchester United clashed in the English Premier League. They […]
Read more »Chinese Nickel Miners in Indonesia Face Threat from Falling Prices
December 5th, 2023
Via Caixin Global, a report on how Chinese nickel miners in Indonesia face a threat from falling prices: A nickel rush in Indonesia by Chinese mining companies over the last decade may come to a halt as falling prices for the metal used in steel production makes processing the material in the Southeast Asian country […]
Read more »The Possible Outcomes If Indonesia Joins BRICS
November 28th, 2023
Via Modern Diplomacy, commentary on possible outcomes if Indonesia were to join the BRICS: Before we delve further into the complexity of the possibilities that could occur if Indonesia joins BRICS, it is important to know what BRICS is and the agenda it has. BRICS is an association of 5 countries consisting of Brazil, Russia, […]
Read more »Is Indonesia Set To Become An Economic Superpower?
November 19th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, commentary on Indonesia’s economic prospects: Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo is a man in a hurry. Accompanied by a vast retinue of cabinet ministers, his chef, and 100 chief executives he has travelled to the heart of Borneo’s rainforest to oversee his audacious plan to build a new capital there. In […]
Read more »The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway: Indonesia’s Lessons Learned
November 13th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, an article on lessons Indonesia learned from the Jakarta-Bandung high speed railway project: It would be an understatement to say that October was a momentous month for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Beijing celebrated the initiative’s 10th anniversary by holding the third Belt and Road Forum; around the same time, its […]
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