By Muhammad Edhie Purnawan, S.E., M.A., Ph.D
Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM)

Amid increasingly stringent U.S.

By: Wisnu Setiadi Nugroho

Department of Economics, FEB UGM

Head of  Equitable Transformation for Alleviating Poverty and Inequality Working Group (EQUITAS)

As Indonesia progresses toward upper-middle-income status, one critical metric remains stuck in the past: our poverty line.

West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi plans to make vasectomy a requirement for receiving social assistance (bansos).

By: Muhammad Edhie Purnawan (Department of Economics, FEB UGM)

Prolog
Trump and Powell have been friends in the past.

By: Muhammad Edhie Purnawan, Ph.D. Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Gadjah Mada University

Prologue
It is on a stage—where Donald Trump is standing tall—with his usual style of speech: enthusiastic and confident, holding a big hammer that reads “Reciprocal Tariffs,” ready to hit any country that does not agree with his vision.

On April 8, 2025, at an economic workshop in Jakarta, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati looked at Trump’s stage with pensive eyes.

Since the end of 2019, the world community has been surprised by the presence of the Covid-19 virus which continues until now and has become one of the largest pandemics in the history of mankind.

Nowadays, the world is facing various socio-economic problems that are increasingly complex.

Research on anthropomorphism in the business world was conducted by Lecturer of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada (FEB UGM) Widya Paramita, Ph.D.

Tourism indeed often brings economic growth to local communities, but on the other hand, it cannot be denied that tourism also sometimes has the potential to have a detrimental impact, especially when tourists behave unethically.