Caption: Fresh oil palm fruit bunches (credit: KOMPAS.com/Pandawa Borniat) #SawitBaik emerged and became a trending topic on Indonesian social media, particularly Twitter (now known as X), in the months leading up to the end of 2019. The hashtag did not emerge organically, in the sense of being generated without orchestration by the public. The government […]
Climate change is a real threat to the existence of humanity. However, attention to this issue is not widely discussed in mainstream media coverage, in this case major online media outlets. A survey conducted by the Center of Economic and Law Studies (Celios) and Unitrend shows that, in the period from November 2022 to May […]
Eco-friendly labels on products made by large companies are no longer uncommon today. Products derived from palm oil all the way to cement now carry green-friendly stamps. Furthermore, more and more companies are claiming to have achieved net-zero. Some of the companies applying such claims even come from sectors that are generally known as major […]
President Prabowo Subianto gathered senior journalists at his residence in Hambalang, Bogor, West Java, in early 2026. Unlike a similar gathering that took place in 2025, this time it was not only journalists who were invited to converse. Economists and other public figures also participated in the meeting. In the conversation that was broadcast the […]
President Prabowo Subianto personally delivered a speech on fiscal policy at the DPR plenary session on Wednesday (20/5/2026). This was out of the ordinary. Previously, such delivery was done by the Minister of Finance. The most important point of the speech was the restructuring of the export scheme for coal, palm oil, and ferro-nickel. Starting […]
Reston Dennis Juah 
Noor Ul Ain 
Hassan Barrie 
Hoby Nasandratra Andriamiandrisoa 