Archive - The Reformist by Think Policy

Editorial: SOE Commissioners are important, actually

Here’s a wild idea: what if we only hire industry professionals for these high-stakes roles?

Jul 10 • The Reformist Desk

How immigration became a fertile ground for corruption

Layers of fraudulent behaviors await at Indonesia’s borders

Jul 6 • The Reformist Desk

Editorial: Who will be left to govern when every policy leads to conviction?

On Nadiem Makarim’s 10-year sentence

Jul 2 • The Reformist Desk

June 2026

The wrong defendant: BPJS Ketenagakerjaan on trial for laws it never wrote

A response to The Reformist’s vol. 29 on social security system reform

Jun 30 • Akbar Nurdin

Editorial: Patriot Bonds, tax amnesty in disguise?

There’s been a worrying trend of sneaking in controversial provisions into hard-to-find bills

Jun 26 • The Reformist Desk

Teach (kids) a lesson: How to be a good citizen

Reimagining civic education that brings political reality into classrooms

Jun 25 • Hanna Vanya

Taming the Taper Tantrum

How Indonesia handled an economic crisis — and what the current administration should learn from it

Jun 18 • The Reformist Desk

Editorial: BGN graft case probe calls for MBG overhaul

The Prabowo administration must seize this momentum to rethink the free meals program

Jun 12 • The Reformist Desk

Finding the true heirs to Indonesia’s cultural heritage

A critical response to The Reformist’s vol. 28 on cultural heritage management reform

Jun 10 • Yogi Susatyo and Fiqrulloh Fajrin

Indonesia’s 7 deadly (economic) sins

Little has changed since economists prescribed these seven demands

Jun 6 • The Reformist Desk

Reforming the sacred, diagnosing holes in Hajj governance

Four major concerns unearthed through audits

Jun 4

May 2026

A loss is bound to happen in public policy

Criminalizing it isn’t the answer

May 16 • Andhyta (Afu) F. Utami

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