Danantara and the return of the shareholder state
For decades, the dominant idea in corporate governance was that governments should regulate markets, while shareholders should own…
Rising US Treasury yields put Asia back on edge
NEW YORK – US Treasury yields are pressing against their highest levels since 2007, and Asia’s policymakers know…
China’s 25-year tax reach will cost it more than it collects
China is now chasing decades of unpaid tax on money its wealthiest citizens moved offshore, in some cases…
Will Israel build a stealth fighter jet?
A senior Israeli official, likely Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recently briefed the Israeli press delegation that traveled to Washington with him for…
Blind spot: The hidden workers behind Indonesia’s digital boom
Today, Indonesia stands as one of the most formidable digital economic powerhouses in Southeast Asia. Bank Indonesia recorded…
Enter Helios: quantum computer sets high watermark for accuracy
In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in mid-air, held in place by electric fields…
What Indonesia’s finance chief really brought back from Beijing
When Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa landed in Beijing last week, the official agenda appeared straightforward: secure support…
Why Xi is walling in China’s money – and why it won’t work
TOKYO – China’s latest fix for its ailing economy: build a better birdcage. The metaphor runs deep in…
The leakage and lies keeping Indonesia’s rupiah weak
Indonesia embodies one of the strangest paradoxes in emerging-market economics. Every time global commodity prices, from coal to…
Bank of Japan squeezed by Takaichi, Trump and Iran war inflation
Speaking on Wednesday (May 27), Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda cautioned that central banks must prevent this…
MSCI’s Indonesia purge exposes a deeper market crisis
The May 2026 rebalancing by Morgan Stanley Capital International may go down as one of the most consequential…
Indonesia’s debt wall hits an economy running on borrowed time
Indonesia is entering a critical test of its fiscal resilience. Beneath the government’s optimistic narrative of a stable…