23/06/2017 She: Hi! I hope you still remember me. It has been more than half year we didn’t communicate? Many things happened for sure. Hope you’re doing fine. I just wanna say hi. He: Hi! It has been almost 10/11 months. Yes many things! It may surprise BUT I remember you. She: I’m home anyway. […]
Easy Come Easy Go Like A Ghost
14/05/2017 He: It is not the place or the space, It’s you! She: What about me? He: When you smile you bring my childhood, you bring the colors back! you are innocent. She: But He: There is no but just innocent. She: (laughing) He: I am not what I think I am, and I am […]
Send One African Child To School
We began with Jane and Kelvin in 2013. Kelvin was 4years old while Jane was 7, and both had never been to school. They had just lost their both parents to the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria and were living with their grandmother who could barely provide one meal per day for them. One busy Saturday afternoon after […]
Environmental Sustainability is Beyond Than Just A Theory
In my opinion, sustainability is maintaining the ability to keep something on track by balancing the life circle. In the other hand, the ability to maintain the renewable resources. Even though most of the academicians believe in sustainability theories built by land theories and public policy theories as well as framed by infrastructure theories, but […]
Addressing Trash Nightmare in Marapi Volcanic Mountain of West Sumatra Province: A Call to Action
The sample of policy brief To: The Governor of West Sumatra Province From: Winda Edelwis Zedilla Date: April 2017 Statement of Issue: Trash is annoying, It builds up mountainous landfills, fills the ocean with junk, litters space and pollutes the atmosphere. The mount Marapi is an active volcano and becomes one of the famous tourist […]
Vladimir Putin – Leadership Style Analysis
Before we talk about leadership analysis of Putin, let’s start with what leadership really means to me. In my opinion, leadership is the process to know yourself and your people altogether in order to carry out the roles and responsibilities. I think, leadership was born through experiences and it’s a never-ending process of self-study training. […]
ASEAN Community and Youth
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asia Nations) was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand by signing the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) which initiated by founding fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia (Adam Malik), Malaysia (Abdul Razak), Philippines (Narciso Ramos), Singapore (S. Rajaratnam) and Thailand (Thanat Khoman). Brunei Darussalam then joined on 7 January 1984, Vietnam […]
Indonesia in the G-20: Demolish a gap between Islam and the West
G-20 which consists of 19 nation-states and one regional organization, European Union became an exclusive forum for economic cooperation for the past nine years under strong commitment to face the world economy progress by strengthening the domestic financial institutions each member state. For the sake of financial stability, World Bank and IMF as Breton Woods […]
Trump versus China under Indonesia’s Point of View
Donald J Trump’s victory as a newly elected president of the United States seems to create cons issues since he has no experience in public office, no background in foreign policy as well as with zero political track record. As a successful businessman, he has to learn about international affairs quickly to demolish the anxiety […]
The Optimal Coordination Between Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Indonesia: Central Bank of Indonesia and Ministry of Finance Role
Based on the legal perspective, there have been varying levels of monetary and fiscal policy coordination in Indonesia which depending on the applicable legal framework. Under act Number 13 of 1968, Bank Indonesia was a member of monetary board chaired by the Finance Minister and including a government representative. This policy is directly coordinated to […]
