The current trends of the global economy coupled with high uncertainty brought by the global pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, and other unpredictable factors have ne-cessitated the need to have new empirical insight that better reflects the current reality. This has been the main reason why the Ministry of Finance was duty-bound to sponsor research that will guide policy and decision makers from various business climbs through a project titled "Road to Indonesia G20 Presidency 2022". In an ...

Meetings are not always effective. No clear agenda, no participation from the audience, and no decision after hours of meeting - these are just few things contributing to an ineffective meeting. Imagine you are the leader of the meeting - would you let this happen? Leading a meeting is about progressing towards a decision making, to come to a conclusion of what to do next. Aside from a clear agenda of why a meeting is needed, those in the room have their role to play. As participants, ...

After being sworn in as the Governor of North Sulawesi in February 2016, Olly Dondokambey acted quickly for the province. He saw that North Sulawesi has a huge potential for tourism as a source of sustainable economic resources. He did a lot of things to improve tourism in North Sulawesi, mainly bt opening direct international flight routes to Sam Ratulangi Airport, Manado. To achieve this end, he strived to convince the national goverment, ministries, and the private sector. His ...

For decades, Chinese Indonesians have been in numerous harsh spotlights in their own country. Starting from supposedly simple things like obtaining official documents to be legal citizens of Indonesia, their only homeland now, where they can be harassed and cornered, which not seldom can extend to the extremes where they are made as victims and scapegoat particularly when issues related to racism arise. Similar to other ethnic groups, they also live in different economic classes. Some are ...

PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS continues to be the most popular and widely used text in the Economics classroom. The 4th edition features a strong revision of content in all 36 chapters while maintaining the clear and accessible writing style that is the hallmark of the highly respected author. The 4th edition also features an expanded instructor's resource package designed to assist instructors in course planning and classroom presentation and full integration of content with Aplia, the leading ...

How complicated is unemployment in Indonesia? Why is it said that job advertisements keep appearing, but the unemployment remains massive? Why is most people in the natural resource-rich country poor economically? Is that true that the unemployment is a separate problem? Or, is it a result of other problem? Is this due to wrong state management or something else? Then, why a reference calling Indonesian migrant workers as the "pahlawan devisa" heroes-heroes of foreign exchange for ...