Andreas Harsono

Ted Turner was one of the U.S.’s largest private landowners, establishing himself as a pioneer of land conservation. He owned 13 ranches spread across six states. His 500,000-acre Vermejo Park Ranch is one of the largest pieces of private land nytimes.com/2026/05/07/rea…

A day after Indonesia’s parliament approved the long‑awaited Domestic Workers Protection Law, granting domestic workers long denied legal safeguards, two female workers jumped from a four-story building in Jakarta hrw.org/news/2026/05/1…

Trump’s and Xi’s body language at the Beijing summit mirrored their styles. Although at odds over issues like trade and Taiwan, the U.S. and Chinese leaders met with a show of friendly gestures nytimes.com/2026/05/14/wor…

RIP Barbara Sillars Harvey, former U.S. deputy ambassador to Jakarta, a scholar on Indonesia who wrote her Ph.D. on the Permesta at Cornell University, died in Washington DC at 92 legacy.com/us/obituaries/…

Nyai Sholichah Wahid Hasyim bukan sekadar isteri ulama @nahdlatululama tapi juga perempuan mandiri, cerdas, dan penuh dedikasi. Perannya dalam pendidikan dan sosial jadi fondasi bagi keterlibatan perempuan di ruang publik. @inayawahid akan buang suara us02web.zoom.us/j/85734607555?…

Documentary, Pesta Babi, investigates the rapid deforestation of West Papua. Indonesia’s push for “food security” and “energy transition” are being used to justify agribusiness expansion, clearing vast forest and displacing Indigenous communities youtu.be/2i6qFK71T00?si…

Intervensi Bank Indonesia belum bisa meredam pelemahan nilai tukar rupiah. Kuncinya disiplin fiskal, khususnya soal MBG dan koperasi Merah Putih youtu.be/Dgh2OmDak88?si…

Chaos in the Philippines as former police chief Ronald dela Rosa, an ally of former president Rodrigo Duterte, wanted by the Int'l Criminal Court in The Hague, takes refuge in senate to avoid arrest, spending a night there theguardian.com/world/2026/may…

Beijing has called Taiwan the “core of China’s core interests.” Xi Jinping is likely to focus on getting President Trump to slow approval of more weapons for the self-governing island nytimes.com/2026/05/12/wor…

Pihak yang paling bertanggung jawab menjaga perlintasan rel kereta adalah pemerintah daerah. Dari sekitar 4.000 perlintasan di Indonesia, ada 1.900 tak dijaga pemerintah daerah. Warga minta sumbangan, tabrakan kereta api terjadi tempo.co/hukum/perlinta…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked India’s 1.4 billion people to spend less on fuel, fertilizer, and travel, a call for sacrifice that landed like a thunderclap and underlined the severity of the economic crisis caused by the war in Iran nytimes.com/2026/05/11/wor…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked India’s 1.4 billion people to spend less on fuel, fertilizer, and travel, a call for sacrifice that landed like a thunderclap and underlined the severity of the economic crisis caused by the war in Iran nytimes.com/2026/05/11/wor…

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner @nargesfnd has been transferred from jail to a Tehran hospital amid concern over her deteriorating health. Iranian authorities granted her "a sentence suspension on heavy bail" share.google/K0WItUib5RtAoA…

Asian nations worry that the president might trade security commitments for better economic terms with China during his planned meeting with Xi Jinping this week nytimes.com/2026/05/11/wor…

China and Indonesia have launched a new cross-border QR payment system, building a regional digital payments network as it pushes to internationalise the yuan and reduce dependence on the US dollar share.google/rlZs1BEyeThzsz…

As the U.S. views Beijing as a rival in space, the stars above South America have become flash points in a geopolitical struggle, with American officials trying to halt astronomy projects in the Andean deserts out of fear China nytimes.com/2026/05/10/wor…

When Ted Turner first conjured CNN, he often slept on the sofa in his office in Atlanta to get the unlikely enterprise going, wandering into the newsroom in his bathrobe and eating out of vending machines or in the cafeteria nytimes.com/2026/05/09/opi…

China’s leader Xi Jinping spent 13 years building a military to rival that of the United States. But the stronger the Chinese forces grew, the less he trusted the generals he had handpicked to run them nytimes.com/2026/05/09/wor…

James F. Sundah (kelahiran Semarang tahun 1955), penulis lagu "Lilin-lilin Kecil" meninggal dunia di New York karena kanker. James didampingi isterinya Priscillia Suntoso, pengacara khusus imigrasi. Kami sering ngobrol di Jakarta dan New York facebook.com/liasundahsunto…