22 Aug 2024
Economic diplomacy: Playing defence with Prabowo
New security cooperation with Indonesia does not make up for the slow progress in building fresh economic links.
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20 Aug 2024
Looking back at Jokowi’s decade of resource nationalism
How successful were the Indonesian president’s efforts to localise and industrialise the country’s natural commodities? -
1 Aug 2024
Nationalism vs globalism: Making the case for Indonesian dual citizenship
A lack of rights for Indonesians living and working abroad means they cannot truly be citizens of the world. -
22 Mar 2024
Australia confronts an Indonesian nickel glut
Competition over strategic commodities may increasingly define the economic relationship between the two producers. -
14 Feb 2024
Indonesians abroad exercise their right to vote
Hopes for dual citizenship and promoting positive diplomatic relations with Australia is on the mind of the diaspora. -
30 Nov 2023
Indonesia: The high cost of high-speed rail
A first for Southeast Asia is worth celebrating. But infrastructure spending still must prove itself effective. -
27 Oct 2023
Geopolitics and the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway
Has the bullet train project strained the once tight relationship between Indonesia and China? -
17 Oct 2023
Indonesia and its bid for OECD membership
The benefits outweigh the costs for one of Southeast Asia’s most dynamic emerging economies to join the “club”. -
11 Oct 2023
Indonesia’s “golden visa” pitch to big-wheel investors
The President has a downstreaming vision and needs long-term capital to make it reality. -
3 Jul 2023
Jokowi’s visit to Australia is about much more than electric vehicles
The President has a roadmap for economic success that could also set bilateral relations on the right path. -
20 Mar 2023
Indonesia’s nickel superhighway
There are vast opportunities to build new industries when you’re sitting on the globe’s largest reserve of rare earth. -
20 Feb 2023
Indonesia’s uncertain climb up the nickel value chain
Demand for EVs is driving domestic and foreign direct investment in the country’s minerals sector. But caution is needed. -
21 Sep 2022
Making sense of Indonesia’s fuel riots
Cutting subsidies is a step in the right direction, but a more robust social safety net is ultimately a better fix. -
27 Jul 2022
The Indonesia Investment Authority: Jokowi’s trouble-shooter?
Jakarta’s sovereign wealth fund offers investors an attractive way into the country’s booming infrastructure sector. -
19 Nov 2021
The true challenge to Indonesia’s large informal economy
The President’s promise to empower women’s enterprises will mean little unless the scourge of corruption is also curbed. -
16 Nov 2020
Putting real Australian money on the table to help Indonesia
An outright loan for A$1.5 billion won’t meet all Indonesia’s needs – but it’s a very welcome start. -
17 Sep 2020
Covid-19 and Indonesian monetary policy
Funding the deficit is a necessary short-term measure, but “free money” can lead down a dangerous path. -
10 Sep 2020
Economic diplomacy: Borders, barriers and obstacles
Reshoring incentives gather steam, India’s RCEP regrets sink in, and Indonesia’s stimulus spending gets stuck. -
15 Apr 2020
Australia should offer Indonesia crisis insurance – quickly
With little to no cost at home, a multi-billion “standby” loan will help restore economic confidence in a big neighbour. -
12 Sep 2019
Economic diplomacy: Indonesian trade, ADB v BRI and Chinese money
Indonesia’s economic growth might not be spectacular, but it is the world’s most stable – and that helps Australia. -
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7 Dec 2017
The ill-advised rush for Australia to strike a trade deal with Indonesia
An arbitrary end of year deadline looms, yet comments by Indonesian officials should give Australian negotiators pause. -
31 Aug 2017
Addressing global capital flows
It’s time for the IMF to develop some operational guidelines for capital-flow management for emerging economies. -
8 Aug 2017
Indonesia: ‘Twin deficits’ still a brake on high growth ambitions
The current account and fiscal deficits played a key role in the growth deceleration that started a few years ago and have so far only been partially unwound. -
9 May 2017
Indonesian prosperity needs certainty on resource regulation
Only regulatory certainty will ensure that Indonesia's resources are ‘used for the greatest possible prosperity of the people’. -
5 Apr 2017
Credit rating agency caution retards Indonesian growth
S&P's ranking of Indonesia is out of line with other similar countries that have investment-grade status including India, the Philippines and South Africa. -
30 Nov 2016
Indonesia considers trade options post TPP
The Indonesian government is also trying to increase trade diplomacy with partner countries through bilateral agreements.