US considers slapping sanctions back on Myanmar a year after removing them

Washington is considering re-imposing targeted sanctions on Myanmar in response to the atrocities against Rohingya.

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Sumitronomics: Balancing Socialism and Pragmatism in 100 Days Prabowo’s

Just four months after Prabowo Subianto was inaugurated as President, the public raised their dissatisfaction with several of his administration’s policies, which appear to be growing. Student demonstrations and civil society protests since mid-February 2025 indicate that Prabowo’s new government have institutional reforms and an administration-style shift that has not yet been effectively communicated to …

Platform Banking: The way to the future for Islamic Banking

Islamic banking is entering the state of irrelevance, or impasse. Many countries adopting dual banking system are witnessing the growth of Islamic banking sector stagnating. Indonesia for instance is growing at single digit in 2017, much lower than its peak of 47% in 2011, or 15-20% in the last three years. The growth of innovative …

The Politics of Sharia Law: Islamist Activists and the State in Democratizing Indonesia

The period of study was 1945-1998. ‘Jakarta Charter’ was not included in the constitution, and a secular constitution for Indonesia was adopted. A ‘new order’ military dictatorship in 1965 saw the perpetuation of the secular-nationalist elites’s domination of the bureaucracy and military. Although movements based on ‘political Islam’ or Islamist movements were convenient allies of …

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