Presently, COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the world, claiming tens of thousands of human casualties. The economic costs of the virus are still on-going but certain to be devastating to the global economy. Travel ban, trade restriction, social distancing and lock down are severely hurting businesses and will create loss of jobs. Indonesian economy has shown several damages that the virus has done to the country’s trade and industry, workforce, and financial market sector.
Continue readingFPCI Issues to Watch on Covid-19, US-China Relations, and ASEAN – Interview with Prof. Kishore Mahbubani
Along with the rising cases of coronavirus infection around the world, the political tensions between global major powers are also growing significantly. Experts from all over the world start to discuss the geopolitical and geo-economics aspects of the COVID-19 outbreak. From the fragility of the globalized system, the changes in global economic directions until the analysis of US-China power race competition during and after the coronavirus pandemic.
Continue readingFPCI Countries to Watch on South Korea and COVID-19 Outbreak – Interview with Ambassador Kim Chang-Beom
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on March 11th that coronavirus outbreak or also known as COVID-19 considered as the global pandemic. More and more countries are affected by the spread of this inevitable deathly virus. Governments all around the world are urged to enhance the containment and mitigation measures to protect its citizens from the COVID-19 infection. However, recently one country has garnered praise from around the world, on how the government-controlled the epidemic.
Continue readingFPCI-LIPI Roundtable Discussion – Global Maritime Fulcrum in Jokowi’s 2nd Term: Enhancing Strategic Clarity and Policy Content
On Thursday, 5 March 2020, FPCI Research and Analysis (FPCI RnA) in collaboration with Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) convened a roundtable discussion on “The Global Maritime Fulcrum in Jokowi’s 2nd Term: Enhancing Strategic Clarity and Policy Content”. This topic was raised due to President Jokowi’s vision of Global Maritime Fulcrum as Indonesia’s grand strategy. However, the vision seems to be fading at the beginning of President Jokowi’s 2nd term. It can be seen in how the terms “maritime” and “Global Maritime Fulcrum (GMF)” have become rarely mentioned by the President as well as the Foreign Minister during the 2020 annual press statement.
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