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Dec 18, 2024 | 
indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au | Jacqui Baker
Late last month, for the first time its history, Indonesia held simultaneous regional elections across 545 provinces, regencies and municipalities across the country.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Hinton |Erin Sims |Jacqui Baker
As Black Friday approaches, RSM UK is urging financial services providers and social media platforms to gear up for a spike in fraudulent transactions, and to protect consumers from fraudsters.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au | Jacqui Baker
About 1000km north of Jakarta is a little pocket of paradise, a sprinkle of islands called the Natuna Islands, home to less than 100,000 people. These sparsely populated islands are the gateway to the North Natuna Sea, an area of unparalleled natural wealth. These waters are rich in fish, tuna, mackerel and marine life which sustains fisher livelihoods. This is also an area endowed untapped gas and oil reserves worth many billions of dollars.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au | Jacqui Baker
One of the signature campaign promises of the Prabowo Subianto presidency is free lunches and milk for Indonesian school kids. This plan is linked to a much wider set of reforms to the way Indonesia’s produces and organises its agriculture sector, including the modernization of agriculture and converting land to plantations. The details are still pretty scant but this is not a thought bubble, food sovereignty is an issue that Prabowo has spent much of his political career touting.
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May 26, 2024 | 
indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au | Jacqui Baker
The talk on the street is all about electric cars and scooters as Indonesia strives to become a regional centre for manufacturing of electric vehicles (EVs). At the heart of that goal is constructing a national supply chain of locally built battery hubs to drive the transition to electric. But as my current guest reminds us, harnessing electricity has always been at the centre of Indonesia’s dreams of development.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au | Elisabeth Kramer |Jemma Purdey |Tito Ambyo |Jacqui Baker
Prabowo has exceeded expectations to claim victory in 2024 Indonesian presidential election. What do our Talking Indonesia’s co-hosts think about the result? Who are the winners and losers? What were the most interesting aspects of the campaign behind Prabowo’s success? And how did a pack of cigarettes save our co-host, Tito Ambyo, from possible jail time in the Suharto era?
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au | Jacqui Baker
Conglomerates are the main players in the Indonesian economy, controlling core industries like agribusiness, banking and property and telecommunications. They are often built over multiple generations of a single, often ethnic Chinese, family. Indonesia’s biggest conglomerates – Sinar Mas Group, Royal Golden Eagle, Lippo group and Salim group – and their their owners are household names.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
newmandala.org | Alexander R Arifianto |Aisah Putri Budiatri |Jacqui Baker |Trissia Wijaya
In Indonesia’s 2019 presidential election, the flow of support from Islamic groups to the two presidential tickets was distinctly polarised. Conservatives rallied behind Prabowo Subianto and Sandiaga Uno, whereas Nahdlatul Ulama (NU)—the country’s biggest Islamic organisation, which claims to represent up to 90 million Muslims—unequivocally endorsed Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Ma’ruf Amin.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au | Jacqui Baker
Indonesia has sadly been the site of many crimes and mass atrocities, but uncovering all the details is fraught with challenges. How many people were killed or injured? Who was at fault? Who was in charge? And yet, as long as these events are shrouded in mystery, wrongdoing can go unpunished, victims stay unheard and we are unable to learn from our collective mistakes. In this podcast, Jacqui Baker chats with writer and law student Aisyah Llewellyn.
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Apr 27, 2023 | 
indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au | Jacqui Baker
Indonesia is an important global hub for minerals and resource extraction. The value of its metallic minerals and coal industry in 2020 was the ninth-largest in the world. Indonesia’s extractive sector accounts for 25 percent of exports and is an important source of economic growth, government revenue, employment and technology transfer.
