“Year of uncertainty for Indonesia’s economy,” an Op-Ed by Siwage Dharma Negara in The Straits Times
The article was first published by The Straits Times on January 5, 2017.
Dr Siwage Dharma Negara is Fellow and Assistant Coordinator, Indonesia Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
The article was first published by Huffington Post on January 4, 2017.
Dr Joergen Oerstroem Moeller is Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
The article was first published online by TODAY on January 4, 2017.
Dr Tang Siew Mun is Senior Fellow, and Head, ASEAN Studies Centre, at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
The article was first published by TODAY on January 4, 2017.
Dr Ooi Kee Beng is Deputy Director at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute and Dr Norshahril Saat is Fellow at the same institute.
The article was first published by TODAY on January 4, 2017.
Dr Malcolm Cook is Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
The article was first published by Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative on January 3, 2017.
Dr Truong-Minh Vu is Visiting Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
The article was first published online by The Straits Times on 2 January 2017.
Dr Ooi Kee Beng is Deputy Director at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
The article was first published by TODAY on December 29, 2016.
Sub-Headline: Amid the challenges, Singapore’s foreign policy has delivered in several key areas this year. Singapore has reiterated its long-standing partnership with the US when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong visited Washington DC, the first official visit by a Singaporean Prime Minister in 31 years, said Dr Lim Tai Wei, a senior lecturer at SIM University and adjunct research fellow at the National University of Singapore’s East Asian Institute.
The interview was published online by World Review Special, Channel NewsAsia on 29 December 2016.
Dr Ooi Kee Beng is Deputy Director at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
“Indonesia Ratifies Maritime Border Treaty with Singapore”, a Commentary by Mustafa Izzuddin
On 15 December 2016, the Indonesian parliament (DPR) ratified a sea border treaty between Indonesia and Singapore to demarcate the maritime boundary in the eastern section of the Singapore Strait, covering a 9.45 km stretch between Changi and Batam. This ratification, achieved 27 months after this treaty was signed in September 2014, took place during a recently-concluded month-long parliamentary session in which DPR legislators passed only two bills into law, one of them being this bilateral maritime treaty, while delaying forty others. What then were the reasons for prioritising the ratification of this treaty bill?