Sumatra's Flood and the 'Third Way'
The Discourse Beyond the Market and State: Self-Organization of Civil Society in Sumatra's Flooding Disaster
Jan 145 min read
Film Review: 'The Trader' (2018)
The film, 'The Trader', retells the story of an economic 'intermediary' of a global capitalist world. It tells the story of a Georgian broker merchant, called the 'sovdagar' (surprisingly similar to Indonesian word 'saudagar' ) who buys out 'products' or 'things' from cheap second-hand stores in Tibilisi, the 'capital' of Georgia, and sell them to the countryside. Most of the products seemed to be made of industrial materials not produced in Georgia, and imported from elsewh
Jan 74 min read
Why Indonesia Needs to Be Sovereign in Space
On 24 June 2025, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried a small but historic payload: The RIDU-Sat 1 nano-satellite, which was developed in collaboration between Indonesia’s Defence University, the Berlin Nano Satellite Alliance and the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). This achievement sends a broader message that national sovereignty today must extend beyond land, sea and air to encompass space and data. Image source: SatNOGS Databank In the digital age, data has be
Dec 14, 20254 min read
Sumatra’s Ongoing Tragedy: Proof the Government Still Refuses to Learn
What an insane insult and catastrophe when, as a citizen, I have put my trust and hope in people who have continuously failed to learn from the past, even though they are now in a position of power to determine policy. A position so important, in fact, that they claimed that social media is currently only exaggerating the hydrometeorological and ecological disasters in many areas of Sumatra, which have clearly killed more than 600 people, left hundreds missing and hundreds of
Dec 1, 20252 min read
