http://sr-indonesia.com/rss The Indonesian Journal of Leadership, Policy, and World Affairs http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/no-skills-no-surging-economy http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/no-skills-no-surging-economy Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:34:20 <p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;Times New Roman">There’s no need to spend hours flicking through data-dense surveys analyzing Indonesia’s education system to know it’s still fumbling… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/yemen-missile-crisis http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/yemen-missile-crisis Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:21:50 <p>In November, the Yemen crisis further escalated when it fired a <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/06/middleeast/iran-saudi-yemen-missile/index.html">Burqan 2H long-range ballistic missile</a>… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/prospects-and-challenges http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/prospects-and-challenges Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:53:57 <p>Jordan’s nuclear cooperation with the United States is improving, with the November 2017 signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to study and <a href="http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Jordan-to-consider-deployment-of-X-energy-SMR-2911175.html">assess</a>… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/china-reaches-out-to-west-bengal-and-eastern-india http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/china-reaches-out-to-west-bengal-and-eastern-india Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:52:41 <p style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;Times New Roman";Times New Roman";color:#212121;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;">In recent years, a number of Indian… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/no-deal-neighbors http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/no-deal-neighbors Fri, 19 Jan 2018 11:41:10 <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The end-of-year deadline to conclude the Australia-Indonesia free trade talks has come and gone. Now the ambition is early 2018, according to Minister of Trade Enggartiasto… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/closer-india-taiwan-relations http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/closer-india-taiwan-relations Fri, 19 Jan 2018 11:37:54 <p style="vertical-align:baseline">On December 14, 2017 a pact was signed between Tien Chung-kwang, a representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center (TECC) in India, and Sridharan Madhusudhanan,… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/reaction-to-trump-pakistan-tweet http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/reaction-to-trump-pakistan-tweet Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:35:20 <p>In recent days, all eyes have been on US President Donald Trump`s<a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/donald-trump-slams-pakistan-for-lies-and-deceit/articleshow/62326038.cms"… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/south-korea-s-nuclear-energy-dilemma http://www.sr-indonesia.com/web-exclusives/view/south-korea-s-nuclear-energy-dilemma Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:19:08 <p>South Korea’s nuclear energy programme has existed for a while now. However, with new President Moon Jae-in winning the election in <a href="mailto:[email protected]">2017</a> following… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/looking-ahead-moving-forward http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/looking-ahead-moving-forward Mon, 25 Dec 2017 17:15:55 <p>Happy New Year to our many readers, as we charge into our eighth year of publication! We firmly believe that 2018 will be as exciting, important and informative as last year and years past, as there… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/photo-essay/view/lost-in-mind http://www.sr-indonesia.com/photo-essay/view/lost-in-mind Mon, 25 Dec 2017 16:31:31 <p>At least one million Indonesians suffer from mental disorders. Of this number, at least 30,000 are bound by chains or kept in cages – despite a law dating back to the 1970s outlawing such practices.… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/the-united-non-western-states-of-the-world http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/the-united-non-western-states-of-the-world Mon, 25 Dec 2017 13:31:23 <p>Modern international affairs are considerably aggravated these days, not only due to the permanent Russian-American feud and the intractable North Korea-US confrontation, but also fundamental issues… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/maneuvering-within-islam-s-narrative-space http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/maneuvering-within-islam-s-narrative-space Sun, 24 Dec 2017 16:13:13 <p>War is a contest for influence. This contest occurs in narrative space that contains terrain and has morphology. Organizations, nonstate actors and states operate throughout the narrative space to… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/maneuver-in-the-narrative-space-lessons-from-islam-nusantara http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/maneuver-in-the-narrative-space-lessons-from-islam-nusantara Sun, 24 Dec 2017 16:08:12 <p><img src="http://sr-indonesia.com/uploads/borobudur2(1).jpg" alt="" width="500" height="369" /></p> <p>The history of Islam in the East Indies region, now dominated by Indonesia, is the history of… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/indonesia-s-media-and-the-south-china-sea http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/indonesia-s-media-and-the-south-china-sea Sun, 24 Dec 2017 15:52:12 <p>The recent 50th anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) was portrayed in diverse ways within the media. Some reports, for example, highlighted the regional grouping’s… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/child-marriage-and-the-perpetuation-of-poverty http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/child-marriage-and-the-perpetuation-of-poverty Sun, 24 Dec 2017 15:47:06 <p>Child marriage has been proven to be a leading cause of maternal mortality and childhood stunting in Indonesia and tends to perpetuate poverty. The scale of the problem is immense. While statistics… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/guidelines-to-living-less-dangerously-in-indonesia http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/guidelines-to-living-less-dangerously-in-indonesia Sun, 24 Dec 2017 15:38:50 <p><i>“In the West, we want answers for everything. Everything is right or wrong, or good or bad. But in the [wayang puppet] shadow play, no such final conclusion exists.”</i> Quote from the… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/reconciliation-at-the-crossroads-hindering-factors-sino-japanese-relations http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/reconciliation-at-the-crossroads-hindering-factors-sino-japanese-relations Sun, 24 Dec 2017 15:03:55 <p>With a joint communiqué in 1972, China`s longstanding demand for war reparations from Japan was withdrawn, marking the normalization of diplomatic relations and the start of reconciliation between… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/free-trade-or-women-s-rights http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/free-trade-or-women-s-rights Sun, 24 Dec 2017 14:53:50 <p>After 30 years of neoliberal globalization, it has been increasingly acknowledged that austerity, privatization, deregulation of finance, markets and corporations, and trade and investment liberalization… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/australia-s-russia-problem-it-s-china http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/australia-s-russia-problem-it-s-china Sun, 24 Dec 2017 14:39:43 <p>Russia’s interference in the 2016 American presidential election may be the most brazen assault by an authoritarian power on democratic institutions, but it is certainly not the only example… http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/a-wound-that-still-festers-in-singapore http://www.sr-indonesia.com/in-the-journal/view/a-wound-that-still-festers-in-singapore Sun, 24 Dec 2017 10:25:27 <p><img src="http://sr-indonesia.com/uploads/60 1987_Singapore_s_Marxist_Conspiracy_30_Years_On(4).jpg" width="400" height="621" alt="" /></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong><em>1987:…