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Insight: After 100 days: Where to?
The Jakarta Post - February 5, 2010
Tomorrow marks the 100th day of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's second administration. But the results of the 100 days remain subject to debate. Government officials, of course, like to argue that they have made great progress in setting the future direction for the government. |
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Military postings are now less political
The Straits Times - February 1, 2010
Though personnel management may stabilise in the next few years as the 1976-1981 classes take charge, the fact that subsequent classes, from 1983 to 1991, are larger, averaging around 250 officers per year, means that post availability and promotion policies will remain a potential time bomb. |
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The 'Yudhoyono Paradox'
Today (Singapore) - January 30, 2010
While winning the election with an overwhelming mandate, the president continued his characteristic hesitation. Why? |
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The missing nuts and bolts of defense reform
The Jakarta Post - January 27, 2010
Defense economic and force structure issues have missing from defense reform policies. Unless these nuts-and-bolts issues are addressed publicly, we will always ponder whether our military reform has been successful. |
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Rapor kementrian pertahanan
Koran Tempo - January 27, 2010
Departemen Pertahanan masih harus membenahi diri dan membuktikan bahwa departemennya pantas diberi nilai biru yang sungguh biru untuk penilaian kinerja 100 hari pertama dari seluruh Kabinet Indonesia Bersatu II. |
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Review of 2009: RI's changing geo-strategic currents
The Jakarta Post - January 9, 2010
Beneath the flurry of "regional architecture" building throughout the year, strategic developments within the region have actually been following four main trends that will have significant ramifications for Indonesia's strategic relevance. |
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Partai politik dan dinamika koalisi 2010
Jurnal Nasional - January 6, 2010
Tahun 2009 merupakan tahun yang mengkhawatirkan bagi partai politik. Meski di tahun 2009 dilaksanakan pemilu legislatif dan pemilu presiden yang notabene partisipannya adalah partai politik, kita semakin melihat relevansi partai politik semakin tergerus dalam perpolitikan Indonesia. |
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Defense reforms for 2010-14: Men over materiel?
The Jakarta Post - January 3, 2010
As if getting a budget spike, committing to using local-made defense hardware will lead us down the path to "military transformation". But to hold such views narrowly could risk losing sight of the fact the key to sustainable military readiness and effectiveness is in the nation's men and women in uniform - not the tools they use. |
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Why Obama skipping Jakarta might not be so bad
The Jakarta Post - December 19, 2009
Critics have been tempted to argue that when President Obama skipped Jakarta during his Asia tour, perhaps Indonesia's role in American grand strategy is not so pivotal after all. Upon a closer look, however, the move was perhaps not such a bad thing for both countries. |
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Anticorruption and prejudice trap
The Jakarta Post - December 17, 2009
To deny there are some corrupt Chinese Indonesian business people would be an ultimate hypocrisy, yet to brand all Chinese Indonesians as corrupt would be pure idiocy. |
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