How Indonesia's Big Tycoons Rigged Market, Played MSCI

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Indonesia's Market Crash: Could Your Investments Be Next? Crisis Explained

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Something Is Wrong With Indonesian Economy | Dark Side of Indonesia’s Economic Boom

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So Western countries decided not to buy nickel anymore when it comes from coal powered smelters like in Indonesia?

On top of that these smelters are owned by Chinese companies.

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FBI Director Kash Patel returns looted artifacts to Indonesian president during overseas trip

Good news! Amazing stuff!

"FBI Director Kash Patel this week returned looted cultural artifacts from Indonesia's Papua region to Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto while on an overseas trip to the country.

Indonesian officials told reporters that the handover took place Wednesday at Subianto’s residence in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. The return was part of an ongoing effort to recover and return cultural artifacts.

“Besides our official discussions, Patel also brought Indonesian cultural artifacts as part of cooperation between the Indonesian government, through the Culture Ministry, and the FBI to return cultural objects that had been illegally smuggled into the United States,” Indonesian Culture Minister Fadli Zon told reporters after the meeting.

The items included stone axe heads and ceremonial objects traced to the Dani, Asmat and Sentani tribes, which Zon claimed hold immense historical and cultural value for Indonesia, according to Antara News in Indonesia.

The foreign minister noted that the FBI has been working with the country on its repatriation efforts and previously helped recover bronze statues and objects from several other cultural sites. ..."

Patel returns looted artifacts to Indonesian president during overseas trip | Just The News "Indonesian officials told reporters that the handover took place Wednesday at Subianto’s residence in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. The return was part of an ongoing effort to recover and return cultural artifacts."

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Indonesia's coastal erosion crisis triggers $80bn seawall bet

Is this necessary? Will this work?

"Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is reviving an ambitious, long-stalled plan to build a 500-kilometer seawall to try to protect communities from accelerating coastal erosion in the economic powerhouse that is Java, the world's most populous island. A September 2025 presidential regulation designated what was dubbed the "Giant Seawall" a national strategic project at an estimated cost of $80 billion. If the undertaking can surmount engineering, financial and political issues, Indonesia will have built the world's longest seawall."

Indonesia's coastal erosion crisis triggers $80bn seawall bet - Nikkei Asia "Prabowo revives grand 500km wall plan; Java villages, businesses sink as waves encroach"

8th-Century Carvings and the Path to Enlightenment, the Borobudur Temple, Indonesia

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Indonesia Plans to Turn Its Islands Into Aircraft Carriers. Here's Why with Palki Sharma

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Indonesia, as the first country, to send troops to Gaza under Phase II ceasefire

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Indonesia to send troops to Gaza under Phase II ceasefire | The Jerusalem Post "Indonesia is expected to become the first country to deploy troops to the International Stabilization Force in Gaza during Phase II of the ceasefire, KAN News reported."

These ancient handprints from Indonesia may represent some of the world’s first rock art about 70,000 years old

Amazing stuff!

"Brown-pigmented hand stencils found on the walls of caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and dated to at least 67,800 years ago may be the oldest known examples of rock art in the world. The paintings—reported today in Nature—indicate that Sulawesi was a waypoint for early migrants to the greater region known as Sahul, which once connected Australia and New Guinea. ...

If the dates hold up, they would predate the oldest known Neanderthal paintings in Europe by about 1000 years. In some cases, similar motifs are found in the Sulawesi caves that are separated by tens of thousands of years, indicating a remarkable degree of continuity in the artistic culture of the islands’ early inhabitants. ..."

From the abstract:

"The Indonesian archipelago is host to some of the earliest known rock art in the world. Previously, secure Pleistocene dates were reported for figurative cave art and stencils of human hands in two areas in Indonesia—the Maros-Pangkep karsts in the southwestern peninsula of the island of Sulawesi and the Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat region of eastern Kalimantan, Borneo.

Here we describe a series of early dated rock art motifs from the southeastern portion of Sulawesi. Among this assemblage of Pleistocene (and possibly more recent) motifs, laser-ablation U-series (LA-U-series) dating of calcite overlying a hand stencil from Liang Metanduno on Muna Island yielded a U-series date of 71.6 ± 3.8 thousand years ago (ka), providing a minimum-age constraint of 67.8 ka for the underlying motif. The Muna minimum (67.8 ± 3.8 ka) exceeds the published minimum for rock art in Maros-Pangkep by 16.6 thousand years (kyr) (ref. 5) and is 1.1 kyr greater than the published minimum for a hand stencil from Spain attributed to Neanderthals, which until now represented the oldest demonstrated minimum-age constraint for cave art worldwide.

Moreover, the presence of this extremely old art in Sulawesi suggests that the initial peopling of Sahul about 65 ka7 involved maritime journeys between Borneo and Papua, a region that remains poorly explored from an archaeological perspective."

These ancient handprints may represent some of the world’s first rock art | Science | AAAS

Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi (open access)

Fig. 1: Map of Sulawesi and the wider region.

Fig. 2 Fig. 2: Dated rock art from Liang Metanduno.

Bonnie Blue blasted for making Bali (Indonesia) her ‘dirty sex pit’. She was arrested.

Did the adult/porn star pick the wrong country for her performance? 😊

Malaysia vs Indonesia: Who Gets to Claim the Durian? with Palki Sharma

Tutti frutti!

Indonesians Angry as Suharto Named National Hero by Government with Palki Sharma

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Can Indonesia’s vice-president bring peace to Papua?

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Incorporating Islamic values into a sexual education program in Indonesia

This seems to be a promising approach or initiative!

"A session [at the International Conference on Family Planning 2025 in Bogotà, Colombia] highlighting an effort to incorporate Islamic values into a sexual education program in Indonesia is one of several exploring ways to engage religious leaders, male allies, and other partners to boost sexual and reproductive health rights for all."

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Spin may resolve century-old puzzle of light's momentum in matter

Amazing stuff! This paper (only 7 pages) was written by a single researcher employed at an university in Indonesia.

According to Google Scholar the lifetime citations of Adam B. Cahaya are only 358. Maybe this citation count will go up now. He published about 69 articles so far.

"When you shine a flashlight into a glass of water, the beam bends. That simple observation, familiar since ancient times, hides one of the oldest puzzles in physics: what really happens to the momentum of light when it enters a medium? ...

For more than a century, scientists have debated whether light's momentum inside matter is larger or smaller than in empty space. The two competing answers are known as the Minkowski momentum, which is larger and seems to explain how light bends, and the Abraham momentum, which is smaller and matches the actual push or pull that light exerts on the medium.

The controversy never went away because experiments seemed to confirm both sides. Some setups measured the larger Minkowski value, others supported Abraham, leaving physicists with a paradox. ...

What I found is that the resolution lies not in choosing between Abraham and Minkowski, but in recognizing that both are correct—once we include spin in the picture. ...

Spin is the intrinsic "twist" of light waves, a quantum property as fundamental as energy or momentum. By projecting momentum onto spin, I found a unified description: the Minkowski momentum corresponds to the magnitude of this spin-projected momentum, while the Abraham momentum is its expectation value—the average that actually drives motion and is directly tied to the Lorentz force on the medium.

This reframes the problem: Abraham and Minkowski are not rivals but complementary aspects of the same spin–momentum structure. ..."

From the abstract:

"The momentum of light in dielectric media has been a century-long controversy that continues to attract significant interest. In a linear dielectric medium with refractive index 𝑛, the momentum is predicted to be smaller by a factor of 𝑛 according to Abraham and larger by the same factor according to Minkowski.

By studying the coupled dynamics of electromagnetic waves and dipoles in a dielectric medium, we show that the change in momentum of the dipole, expressed by the Lorentz force, corresponds to the Abraham momentum and is given by the expectation value of the spin-projected momentum vector. On the other hand, the Minkowski momentum is obtained as the magnitude of the spin-projected momentum vector from the energy-momentum dispersion relation derived by diagonalizing the coupled Hamiltonian and determines the direction of refraction in accordance with Snell's law.

Our model also predicts a zitterbewegung-like oscillation due to helicity mixing between left- and right-handed wave components, mediated by dipole oscillation. These internal wave dynamics may be observable via wave-packet motion or polarization-sensitive measurements."

Spin may resolve century-old puzzle of light's momentum in matter (This article is also written by the scientist of the article below)

Zitterbewegung, momentum, and spin dynamics of electromagnetic waves in a linear dielectric medium (no public access)

Zitterbewegung, momentum and spin dynamics of electromagnetic waves in linear dielectric medium (preprint, open access)

When light enters a medium like water or glass, it bends, raising the long-standing question of how much momentum it carries inside. By projecting momentum onto spin, I found a consistent picture: the larger Minkowski momentum corresponds to the magnitude of this spin-projected momentum, while the smaller Abraham momentum is the expectation value of the vector.

Why Prabowo Is Targeting Indonesia's Billionaires After Deadly Unrest? with Palki Sharma

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Indonesia’s hospital ships are powerful tools of diplomacy

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According to Google search: "The United States currently has two large hospital ships: the USNS Mercy and the USNS Comfort."

"Within Southeast Asia, Indonesia stands out as the only country in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations operating dedicated hospital ships. Its investment is thus particularly striking and highlights its approach to humanitarian readiness and regional diplomacy. ...

Then consider Britain. The Royal Navy is among the most capable globally, with nuclear-powered submarines and two modern aircraft carriers. And still, it has no hospital ship. ...

Indonesia operates three hospital ships despite facing no imminent external threat. On paper, this seems puzzling. 

Hospital ships come with strict obligations under the Geneva Conventions: they must be marked, declared and used solely for medical purposes. These requirements make them costly and politically sensitive, especially in peacetime.

Yet in Indonesia’s case, the explanation lies less in war than in disasters.

The country is incredibly disaster-prone. It has faced earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods and tsunamis. ..."

Indonesia’s hospital ships are powerful tools of diplomacy | The Strategist

What's Behind Indonesia's Deadly Protests? with Palki Sharma

What will be the outcome of these protests? How much of a dictator is the president?

Trump’s Indonesia Trade Deal: Relief or Exploitation? with Palki Sharma

Palki totally failed to explain or mention what the Indonesian tariffs on US imports were before the deal. Does she suffer from the Trump Derangement Syndrome?

Indonesian female metal band shreds stereotypes

Enjoy! These three ladies wearing head scarfs rock! They are accused of playing devil worship music! 😊