India
China and India can teach the developing world a lot
To fight inequality, Indonesia should learn from China and India in combating digital illiteracy.
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4th Industrial Revolution
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Economy
Global Issue
System Initiative
Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesian men are wearing mini-skirts to end violence against women
A male-led Indonesian campaign group is attempting to eliminate violence against women.
Arctic
Greenland’s ice sheets are disappearing faster than predicted - here’s why you should care
Here are three key reasons why melting in Greenland poses significant global economic risks.
Gender Parity
What the world can learn about gender from an Indonesian ethnic group
The Bugis, an Indonesian ethnic group, view gender on a spectrum - a sort of sliding scale.
Future of Environment and Natural Resource Security
5 ways to restore Indonesia’s tropical peatlands
Five solutions on how to restore 2 million hectares of burnt and/or degraded peatland in Indonesia within five years, proposed by Nazir Foead.
Economy
Is Indonesia's economy on the rise?
Following a difficult 2015, the start of 2016 has been optimistic for Indonesia.
LGBT
Are emoji the new human rights frontier?
Human rights campaigners have expressed concern over Indonesia’s move to ban gay emoji.
Davos 2016
How can Indonesia extinguish its forest fires for good?
Davos 2016: In recent months, Indonesia has again come under the international spotlight for a problem that has dogged the country for more than two decades - haze resulting from uncontro...
Climate Change
Why efforts to stop Indonesia’s haze fires may not work
This article is published in collaboration with Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org South Sumatra’s governor, Alex Noerdin, is adamant there will be a “significant reduction” next year i...
Environment
How can we stop Indonesia’s forest fires?
This article is published in collaboration with Project Syndicate. Every year, forest fires ravage Indonesia, causing massive environmental, social, and economic devastation. This year’s...
Environment
What is the cost of Indonesia’s haze fires?
Thousands of fires in forests and on degraded, treeless peatland in Indonesia in September and October have spread a blinding, sickening haze across the archipelago nation, as well as nei...
Indonesia
Is this the year’s worst environmental crisis?
Forest fires have cost the Indonesian economy $16bn this year – twice as much as the amount spent on rebuilding Aceh after the 2004 tsunami, according to the World Bank. Fires caused by t...
Indonesia
How can we make palm oil more sustainable?
Efforts to certify entire districts or provinces as producers of sustainable palm oil could be a game-changer in reducing deforestation, haze and other environmental problems in Southeast...
Environment
How to save Indonesia’s mangroves
Which of the world’s great forests store the most carbon per hectare? The dense tropical rainforests of the Amazon, Borneo, the Congo or Papua New Guinea? The vast northern forests of Can...
ASEAN
Top 10 quotes from East Asia 2015
From healthcare and human rights to farming and infrastructure, here is a round-up of some of the top quotes from the World Economic Forum on East Asia 2015, which took place in Jakarta, ...