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Indonesia, as the largest archipelagic state in Southeast Asia, holds immense renewable energy potential ranging from geothermal and hydropower to solar and wind. Yet despite these natural advantages, the country remains heavily dependent on fossil fuels. To meet its Paris Agreement commitments and achieve the national target of 23% renewable energy in its energy mix by 2025, Indonesia must accelerate its green energy transition through strategic investments, policy reform, and infrastructure development

This article explores the strategic expansion of China’s Digital RMB and its implications for the global financial order. It contrasts the promise of faster, de-dollarized, and geopolitically autonomous payments with the entrenched dominance of the USD, trust barriers, and technical limitations. Through the case of Indonesia and global data, it offers a nuanced analysis of how emerging economies can navigate the Digital RMB’s opportunities and risks.

This article dissects the anatomy of systemic value extraction in Indonesia's capital markets through a detailed examination of financial engineering mechanisms that exploit regulatory deficiencies. The Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) has become an arena where sophisticated actors manipulate market structures through concentrated shareholding, offshore collateralization, and algorithmic trading strategies. These practices create dangerous feedback loops that disconnect stock valuations from underlying fundamentals, undermine market integrity, and ultimately transform capital markets from engines of economic growth into tools for value extraction. The phenomenon of "saham gorengan" (artificially inflated stocks) is particularly prevalent in low-float securities where price manipulation is facilitated by thin trading volumes and concentrated ownership. By analyzing the structural mechanisms of manipulation, algorithmic trading strategies, and regulatory frameworks, this article identifies critical enforcement gaps and proposes strategic reforms necessary to restore market integrity and realign capital markets with their intended economic purpose. The analysis draws on concrete cases from Indonesia and international markets, including the Jiwasraya scandal, Archegos collapse, and numerous instances of low float manipulation schemes that have severely impacted market integrity.

This article explores the strategic expansion of China’s Digital RMB and its implications for the global financial order. It contrasts the promise of faster, de-dollarized, and geopolitically autonomous payments with the entrenched dominance of the USD, trust barriers, and technical limitations. Through the case of Indonesia and global data, it offers a nuanced analysis of how emerging economies can navigate the Digital RMB’s opportunities and risks.

This article explores tax forgiveness policies in developing countries, focusing on prominent case studies from Indonesia, Nigeria, and Argentina. It highlights how amnesty programs can generate short term revenue boosts and expand the tax base but often fail to improve long term tax compliance if not accompanied by structural reforms. The paper emphasizes that tax forgiveness whether through amnesties, pardons, or voluntary disclosure should be used as a one-time tool within a broader reform agenda, including tax administration modernization, digital infrastructure, and improved governance. Ultimately, tax forgiveness is a policy instrument, not a sustainable fiscal strategy

This article explores how the combination of volume and liquidity defines four distinct market environments, and how market makers act as central players in maintaining, exploiting, or stabilizing these conditions. The insights are tailored for traders, analysts, institutional investors, and system designers seeking to understand the microstructure of financial markets from a functional and strategic lens.

This article examines the intellectual progression from classical economic theory to modern market microstructure analysis, providing a framework for understanding market behavior that goes beyond surface-level technical analysis

This article explores how a quant trader decodes market movements through data and statistical frameworks rather than emotional narratives or conspiracy theories. It demystifies popular beliefs around market manipulation and introduces four analytical tools regime identification, order flow imbalance, volatility clustering, and liquidity mapping—to explain how markets truly operate. A mindset shift from paranoia to pattern recognition is emphasized as the foundation for sustainable trading success.

Indonesia, as the largest archipelagic state in Southeast Asia, holds immense renewable energy potential ranging from geothermal and hydropower to solar and wind. Yet despite these natural advantages, the country remains heavily dependent on fossil fuels. To meet its Paris Agreement commitments and achieve the national target of 23% renewable energy in its energy mix by 2025, Indonesia must accelerate its green energy transition through strategic investments, policy reform, and infrastructure development

This article dissects the anatomy of systemic value extraction in Indonesia's capital markets through a detailed examination of financial engineering mechanisms that exploit regulatory deficiencies. The Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) has become an arena where sophisticated actors manipulate market structures through concentrated shareholding, offshore collateralization, and algorithmic trading strategies. These practices create dangerous feedback loops that disconnect stock valuations from underlying fundamentals, undermine market integrity, and ultimately transform capital markets from engines of economic growth into tools for value extraction. The phenomenon of "saham gorengan" (artificially inflated stocks) is particularly prevalent in low-float securities where price manipulation is facilitated by thin trading volumes and concentrated ownership. By analyzing the structural mechanisms of manipulation, algorithmic trading strategies, and regulatory frameworks, this article identifies critical enforcement gaps and proposes strategic reforms necessary to restore market integrity and realign capital markets with their intended economic purpose. The analysis draws on concrete cases from Indonesia and international markets, including the Jiwasraya scandal, Archegos collapse, and numerous instances of low float manipulation schemes that have severely impacted market integrity.

The recent implementation of the United States' universal and targeted tariffs has triggered unprecedented disruption in global trade dynamics, necessitating swift and strategic policy responses from export-oriented economies. This paper analyzes Indonesia's economic exposure to this "Global Tariff Shock 2025" and evaluates potential policy pathways to mitigate negative impacts while strengthening long-term economic resilience. Our analysis indicates that Indonesia's vulnerability extends beyond direct export exposure to the United States (9.8% of exports) to encompass broader systemic risks including global demand contraction, capital flight, and value chain disruptions. Through quantitative modeling and scenario analysis, we demonstrate that a coordinated dual approach—combining export market diversification with domestic fiscal stimulus through tax-side interventions—offers the most favorable balance of short-term stabilization and long-term resilience. Key findings suggest that reallocating 10-15% of non-mandatory government expenditure toward targeted tax cuts could activate domestic consumption without increasing sovereign debt, while strategic export diversification toward emerging markets could halve projected GDP losses. This paper outlines a comprehensive policy framework to transform external shock into structural opportunity, emphasizing the importance of maintaining Indonesia's strategic economic autonomy in an increasingly fragmented global trade environment.