One country, many EV policies

Electric vehicle (EV) transition is no longer a unified national project. It is becoming a patchwork of provincial experiments—each shaped less by strategy than by fiscal pressure. With new rules issued via the Ministry of Home Affairs, regional governments are no...

Parliamentary threshold: A cartel in democratic clothing

The debate over revising Election Law has once again returned to a familiar battleground: the parliamentary threshold. On paper, it is a technical mechanism—currently set at 4 percent of the national vote—to determine which parties qualify for seats in the House of...

Questioning MBG’s digital backbone

In addition to procuring 28,300 Samsung Galaxy Tab Active 5 tablets, it was also revealed that BGN allocated Rp1.2 trillion on IT needs. However, according to BGN Head Dadan Hindayana, the actual expenditure amounted to Rp749 billion, comprising approximately Rp 199...

Squeezed margins at Data Center Indonesia

PT DCI Indonesia Tbk (DCII), involved in data centre business, reported 10.9% increase in sales revenues to Rp858 billion in the first quarter of 2025, but net profit dropped nearly 10% to Rp377.8 billion. Cost of revenues skyrocketed 47% to Rp372.6 billion in the...

More pressures in the financial market

Composite index of Indonesia Stock Exchange/IDX (IHSG/JCI) ended substantially lower by 2.16% Thursday (Apr 23), dragged down by multiple factors, including further sliding of rupiah, the rise of crude oil, and correction in inflated stocks like Barito Renewables...

Missed opportunities at Freeport Indonesia

Temporary suspension of operations at the Grasberg Block Cave underground mine following last September mud rush incident led to downfall of copper and gold production at PT Freeport Indonesia in the first quarter of 2026. PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) produced only 95...

Double down on MBG: Subsidized housing for SPPG employees

Following the controversy over the electric motorcycle procurement, reports surfaced that the Ministry of Housing and Settlement (PKP) planned to allocate a quota of 1,000 subsidized housing units for SPPG employees, specifically SPPI graduates. Although both BGN and...

From assistant to observer: When AI starts watching your screen

When OpenAI quietly introduced its new “Chronicle” feature inside Codex, the headline sounded deceptively simple: an AI that can “see” your screen to better assist you. But beneath that promise lies a far more consequential shift—one that could redefine the...
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