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Agreed, Indonesians tend to be much more open and socializing is in our DNA. Yeah, we are a nosy bunch and seem to consider even your personal problems as small talk material, but that's because we care.

Just to add, today's improvement in rupiah value has 2 other reasons than just the "New Normal" being enacted: 1) India has had their National Credit Rating downgraded by Moody's to Baa3, with negative outlook (they expect to downgrade further) With that, all the big 3 Credit Agencies...

Depends on where you are in the Tax bracket. If you make more than 500 Million a year, your Tax Rate is 30%, and thats as high as it'll go. I'll assume most working adults in mid-level positions have a yearly wage of 50 Million to 250 Million IDR. Then the tax rate for that bracket is 15%...

Phillipines seems to get a lot of use from the multi-role vessel we exported to them

To add to this discussion. The economic legacy of SBY is actually rather good, but he simply failed to invest in infrastructure due to putting waaaaay too much money into energy subsidies which provided economic stability, but no long term growth boost. If you look at historical government...

In Indonesia, Will COVID-19 Trigger Another Asian Financial Crisis? History may not repeat, but it does rhyme. By James Guild May 21, 2020 Credit: Unsplash GDP growth to slow to between 2.3 and .4 percent for the year – and even this may be optimistic. As the scale of the crisis became...

Understandable. Very few people outside the Indonesian medical community seem to understand what Herd Immunity even is. This guy... the concept he's explaining isn't even Herd Immunity. Rather simply its a segregation between low-risk and high-risk population. Low-risk people can continue to...

Truly, it is in South Korea we trust. We should have never wasted time trying to get Saudi Arabian investment. They see our interpretation of Islam as a threat any any investment we ever get out of them apart from brainwashing education investments are going to be halfhearted at best.

I actually have one half finished essay on Indonesian Elections, it was going to be my submission to the latest PDF writing contest but I got sidetracked. Its a bit stale now, but I'll dust it off and see if I could finish it and post it here. Its more about our culture and history then current...

Ban? We can't even enforce a baby lobster ban. So long as there are areas in Indonesia full with desperate villagers with no job prospects, this will continue

ISIS & co is at it again! _________________________ ISIS eyes Covid-19 weakness in Indonesia Terror group’s Indonesian affiliates appear to be answering the call to exploit the health crisis for extremist purposes By JOHN MCBETHMAY 6, 2020 A Muslim man wears a headband showing the Islamic State...

Ignore and report

Yeah, we might have failure bias when it come to talking about the quality of our troops armor. The shots that are stopped by the armor rarely get into the newspaper reports. Come to think of it though, almost every time I hear about an ambush casualty they're always shot in areas armor doesn't...

Well, for a somewhat related topic, check out the books "Kopassus" and "Intel" by Ken Conboy. They're available in Kinokuniya Plaza Central last time I checked. Those two books definitely helped me understand the subtext and nuance of the Timor crisis. "Kopassus" in particular also shines light...

People are riled up because they don't understand.

Indeed, I second @Chestnut on this. One of the reasons Indonesia has managed to stay together is, ironically, due to the acute awareness our past and current leaders have of its fragility. Furthermore, one of the reasons why there have been relatively few state & non-state actors who would even...

Happy about the way PT DI is finding their niche in the aviation sector, especially this type of small, rugged, propeller plane. I can really see this plane being a big hit with businesses and government institutions not only in Indonesia, but also oceania.

Including helicopter fleet iirc

Oh we managed to take out a few insurgents? Thats good news!

While dana desa has veen misused by some oknums, its been put to good use in many other areas and contributed clearly to development. Cutting it wholescale will only piss off those who have not used it to fund kkb. Areas without kkb activity should not be cut. That includes all of west papua...