Setting it all Ablaze: John Howard’s 1998 Letter to B.J. Habibie
This essay won an honorable mention in the 2024 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “Evaluate an exampl...
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The Taliban, Pakistan, and Indonesia: Changing the Geopolitical Landscape
The situation in Afghanistan On August 19, 2021, the Taliban declared the re-establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (further called the Emirate). A...
The Price of Progress: Indonesia’s Omnibus Law and the Environmental Sacrifice of Economic Expansion in Asia
On October 5, 2020, the Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat (MPR) — Indonesia’s main parliamentary body—passed a long-awaited “omnibus bill” amending existing produc...
Sunda Strait tsunami calls into question warning mechanisms
Written by Putt Punyagupta On December 22, a tumultuous series of waves pummelled coastal settlements on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java, killing nea...