The September 2025 edition of the Indonesian Update presents a series of critical analyses on  political, economic, social, and legal issues that have recently been in the public spotlight. This month’s main report is titled “Characterization and the Death of Expertise: What is the Quality of Digital Activism among Indonesian Youth?”. This article examines the shifting patterns of participation among ...

The August 2025 edition of the Indonesian Update presents a critical analysis of the political, social, economic, and legal developments shaping the national policy landscape. This month’s main report highlights the dynamics of the separation of powers through the cases of Hasto’s Amnesty and Tom Lembong’s Abolition. This paper shall not only examine the legal and constitutional implications but shall ...

The November-December 2024 edition of the Indonesian Update features a main report on President Prabowo’s administration, which has serious concerns about energy transition and climate policy. This was stated in the G20 Summit and COP29. At least, there are three risks that President Prabowo’s administration must mitigate in 2025 and beyond; namely, technological risk, social risk, and institutional framework risk. ...

The October 2024 edition of the Indonesian Update features a major report on women’s representation in Indonesian politics, which still faces challenges even though the 30% quota has been formally implemented. Many political parties only fulfill this requirement symbolically without substantial support, such as cadreship and coaching. A strategy is needed to increase women’s participation in politics, including incentives for ...

The September 2022 edition of the Indonesian Update raises a main report on the increase in fuel prices. Due to the swelling of the subsidies and compensation budget, the government has made price adjustments by increasing subsidized and non-subsidized fuel prices. This government policy has created a domino effect in the community. In the field of law, the Indonesian Update ...

The August 2021 edition of the Indonesian Update features a main report on vulnerabilities in health and education aspects that are still experienced by Indonesian children today. Vulnerability in the aspects of children’s health and education is influenced by various aspects, especially the socio-economic conditions of the family. In addition, this vulnerability is also due to the problem of collecting ...

The September 2020 edition of the Indonesian Update raises the main report on the violations of a number of prospective candidates in the registration stage of the 2020 Regional Head Election (Bapaslon) candidate pairs (Pilkada). Violations in this stage are due to crowds, which should have been avoided,  in order to grow the image of the regional head candidates. It ...

This November 2016 edition of the Indonesian Update will raise important themes on several fields. The main report for this edition is “Post-411 Actions: How Does the Law Work?”. On political affairs, it talks about “The 4/11 Demonstrations in the Context of Relationship between Islam and Politics”. On economic affairs, it talks about “The Potrait of Industry under the Economic ...

This June 2016 edition of the Indonesian Update will raise important themes on several fields. The main report for this edition is “Inflation in the Holy Month of Ramadan”. On the social affairs, it will talk about “Food imports as an Affirmation Policy”. On legal affairs, it talks about “Optimization of the Police Reform”. On politics, it talks about “Political ...