Posts with tag: Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa

Indonesia’s Malacca Strait ‘toll’ proposal violates UNCLOS. Is there an alternative?
Analysis, Foreign Policy, SecurityThe idea is deeply controversial. If seriously proposed, it would face fierce opposition through legal, diplomatic, and even economic means. At the very least, it could hurt Indonesia’s credibility.

New Indonesian finance minister wants to inject more money to revive growth. Will it work?
Analysis, EconomyPurbaya Yudhi Sadewa, the plain-speaking senior economist who was recently appointed Indonesia’s new finance minister, can’t be more different to Sri Mulyani, his reformist predecessor who led the country’s fiscal policymaking for more than a decade.


