Productive Debt is Fine

Debate on state debt is still on going here in Indonesia. As the writer remembers, matters of foreign debt had become hot issue during 1997 crisis. During present global economy crisis, state debt emerges for debate. It is due to the fact that this crisis has forced many nations, including the advanced one as United [...]

Control the Stability of Rupiah

The stability of exchange rate for Rupiah against US Dollar has provided soft pad for us to gorgeous dream on our economic condition, at least for this first semester of 2009. Rupiah is strongly traded at IDR 10,000 per USD.
In determined 2010 RAPBN, the government draws on assumption for this exchange rate at IDR 9,500 [...]

Obama, Johnson, and Racial Politics

As a liberalist and a Democrat, I am amazed hearing the acceptance speech delivered by Barack Obama in his presidential nominee in last-week party convention. He highlights his core pledge: Change we can believe in.

However, he describes in details some typical policies-to-strive, e.g., health assurance for all, improvement on education quality, increase on economic growth [...]

Virtue: Establishing the Republic’s Idea

The awareness to nationalism has emerged since a hundred years; still this Republic is away from its idea. The fluctuation of political condition is truly affected. The elite politics is more loyal to its interest of either personal or faction than setting the interest of public as a primary.

The consequence is recorded through its history [...]