Kalla: Indonesia Must Push Myanmar to End Persecution of Rohingya
Bandung/Kupang. Vice President Jusuf Kalla says Indonesia must push Myanmar to end the discrimination and violence against the country’s Rohingya ethnic minority, as the influx of asylum seekers...
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As Asean Stumbles, Indonesia Must Find New Path to Aid Rohingya Refugees
Rohingya women from Myanmar gather by the coast in the confinement area for migrants at Kuala Cankoi at Kuala Cankoi in Aceh province on May 28, 2015. (AFP Photo/Januar) Jakarta. Human rights defenders...
View ArticleCommentary: RCEP — A Trade Agreement You Should Be Concerned About
You’ve probably heard of the controversial and secret Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations, which have generated concerns in many quarters. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph...
View ArticleCommentary: To Solve Boat People Crisis, We Must Engage With Myanmar
As a crisis involving thousands of people stranded at sea unfolded in April and May, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was inactive and impotent. The grouping of ten countries did not issue a...
View ArticleProgress Slow at Eighth Round of RCEP Negotiations
Jakarta. The eighth round of negotiations as part of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, has shown only slow progress, the Trade Ministry said in a statement on Monday. RCEP is a...
View ArticleCommentary: Who Sets the Rules of the Game in Asia?
It is now a commonplace to refer to the 21st century as the Asian Century. With the world economy struggling to recover from the global financial crisis, the Asia Pacific region, and especially its...
View ArticleCommentary: How Restrictive Are Asean’s Rules of Origin?
Asia accounts for more than 50 percent of the world’s automobile production, 62 percent of liquid display screen, 86 percent of smartphones and 100 percent of digital cameras. Much of this production...
View ArticleCommentary: Asean Yet to Lay the Foundations of the AEC
The Asean Economic Community (AEC) is set to arrive at the end of 2015. It is a significant step forward and could be a crucial turning point for Asean. But without a strong central authority and...
View ArticleJamil Maidan Flores: Never Again Should Asean Kowtow to China
For a while it looked like it would happen again. In 2012, with Cambodia as Asean chair, for the first time in the 45-year history of the regional organization, a regular ministerial meeting failed to...
View ArticleMasala Bumbu Sheds Light on Indonesia-India Relations
Jakarta. India and Indonesia. Just the names of these two countries mirror the multitude of similarities they have between them. Both names shares the same ancient Greek root word, Indo. Although not...
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