This article was first published in Kompas on 7 Oktober 2025 and has been translated using AI. Our current way of governance may resemble the critique of the poet Juvenal from the first century AD Roman era: “panem et circenses” (bread and circuses). If one were to summarize, perhaps the fundamental issue faced by this…
Fairwork Indonesia Ratings 2025
In August 2025, Affan Kurniawan, a 21-year-old delivery driver, set out on his motorbike to complete another order in Jakarta. He was not joining a protest that day — he was simply working, delivering food when he was struck and killed by police armored vehicle that drove into crowds near parliament. Media reports later confirmed…
Maintain Civil Supermacy
Civil supremacy is the last bastion in keeping the state on the side of its people, not armed forces. In August 28, 2025, the situation around the Indonesian House of Representatives heated up after a Brimob tactical vehicle ran over Affan Kurniawan in the Pejompongan area amid panic. The escalation followed with tear gas, Molotov…
SAMA-SAMA
Pembangunan yang inklusif tidak lahir dari satu arah, tetapi muncul dari sinergi yang kuat antara masyarakat dan aparatur negara. Menyadari pentingnya kolaborasi ini, Centre for Innovation Policy and Governance (CIPG) bersama Yayasan Ashoka Pembaharu bagi Masyarakat memperkenalkan program SAMA-SAMA (Sinergi Aktor Masyarakat dan Aparatur), sebuah program yang berupaya menghadirkan wadah komunikasi terbuka dan intensif antara…
Policy Reasoning Before the Court
This article was first published in Kompas on 1 August 2025 and has been translated using AI. Even though he has received an abolition, the case of Tom Lembong remains important as a public lesson, especially when policy logic confronts the legal interpretations of the court. On July 18, 2025, the Corruption Court…
Flexibility of Our Bureaucratic Work
This article was first published in Kompas on 8 Juli 2025 and has been translated using AI. The economy can be boosted, but without a strong bureaucratic machine, the vehicle named Indonesia will never reach its destination. Is our bureaucracy capable of advancing this nation? In the midst of the hustle and bustle of development…
Technical and Ethical Issues of TB Vaccine Clinical Trials
This article was first published in Kompas on 25 Mei 2025 and has been translated using AI. As long as there is political will, strong regulations, and maintained public ethics, ethical, open, sovereign, and fair collaboration can be realized. In early May 2025, the Indonesian Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, conveyed three main reasons…
Strategic Plan for the Industrial Services Standardization and Policy Agency (BSKJI) 2025-2029
Preparation of the technocratic draft of the BSKJI Strategic Plan 2025-2029 will serve as a reference for units/work units within the BSKJI environment. Programme Start: May 2024 Area of Interest: Knowledge and Innovation Team: Irsan Pawennei, Klara Esti, Adriansyah Dhani Darmawan
The Death of Technocratism in Prabowo’s Political Pragmatism
This article was first published in Kompas on 21 April 2025 and has been translated using AI. If policies are allowed to be driven solely by political intuition without correction from knowledge, evidence, and data, what emerges is not a strong government, but rather a fragile one.After the revelry ends, reality usually strikes immediately. This expression…
Sir, Don’t Let Reformation Die
This article was first published in Kompas on 25 March 2025. This article has been translated using AI. We all must dare to speak up louder to the DPR and the government: Sir, for the sake of the future of this country, don’t let reform die! Twenty-six years ago, the 1998 Reformasi brought great hope…