Several global financial institutions—including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Asian ...

In Indonesia, it is legally required to specify a religion on official documents. Nonbelievers say they are being ...

A rare legal effort to secure rights for atheists and non-believers was quashed last month by Indonesia's Constitutional Court, which ruled that a citizen must profess a faith, even a minority one, on ...

Cronyism and rapid industrialisation existed side-by-side in America’s gilded age, which ran from the late 1870s to the late ...

Established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy under the noble guise of aiding developing nations, USAID was, in many ...

The emergence of Indonesia’s Reformation Period (Reformasi in Indonesian) after Suharto stepped down from the presidency in 1998 implied a significant break with the past. Indonesian politics changed ...

As Boediono is an experienced economist, it raised people's trust in the pair. Despite Indonesia's authoritarian past under Suharto, army generals who run for president can still count on much popular ...

After Indonesia reached Independence, the Christian elite kept constituting an influential force in the country's politics (including the army) and economy during both Soekarno's and (the first half ...

The GOP’s silence after the pardons made it complicit in Trump’s decision to normalize paramilitary violence in the US.

In addition to VAT, Indonesia has a so-called luxury-goods sales tax (LGST), a tax that was introduced in the Suharto era and meant to create a more just society. This tax implies that the deliveries ...

thus being engines of economic change and development during Suharto's New Order regime. Although the manufacturing sub-sector has lost its momentum after the Asian Crisis of the late 1990s, it still ...

This "law" particularly applies to an emerging market like Indonesia: investing in Indonesia can be highly ... Indonesian history has shown that in some extreme cases (such as the ouster of Suharto in ...