A distilled everyday muse, fragmented and alphabetically voiced. — 1. The temptation to ‘slice’ the systemic oppressions up is the byproduct of the capitalist flow in society. Suffering transforms into a commodity chain while atomistically privatizing the oppression: it cultivates into separated gradations of economic inequalities, undermining class politics and situating the oppressed to compete, earning recognition and selling the…

Not even a week after Elon Musk’s effect on DOGE, a sudden U-turn has performed on Bitcoin. Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk has suspended accepting bitcoin as payment due to environmental concerns. Consequently, a dip is inevitable, and Bitcoin’s price dropped 5% while after the announcement. While three months ago…

Di antara pemulihan ekonomi dan risiko gagal bayar utang; COVID-19 menjadi alasan mengapa BUMN landai pendapatan, hingga meroketnya beban utang. — Lonjakan utang BUMN dialami hampir 90% dari total 142 BUMN di Indonesia. Bukan hanya diakibatkan pandemi, sebenarnya, tren kenaikan utang tersebut telah berangsur-angsur merangkak naik selama periode 2015–2019. Dalam kuartal ketiga tahun 2020, Kementrian BUMN mencatat total utang mencapai 1.682 triliun, naik Rp 289 triliun dibandingkan posisi akhir 2019. Sedangkan…

Sekitar 5,1 juta pekerja informal yang mengadu nasib di Jabodetabek menjadi kelompok yang paling terdampak COVID-19 (SUSENAS, 2019). Secara teknis, pekerja informal sangat minim perlindungan sosial, hukum dan akses kesehatan dari negara. Akibatnya, deprivasi hingga penurunan pendapatan dialami oleh 70 juta angkatan pekerja informal lainnya yang tersebar di seluruh penjuru…

There’s always a “sweet spot” of smartphone use. We can either be satisfied or be overwhelmed by its tendency to instant gratification and omit to quit. — It’s once again your smartphones are becoming more plant than your average people-based relationship, say, in physical interaction. Doing so physical interaction is getting extra if we cue the current pandemic situation. Para-social communications through social networks grant an instant door to connecting our lives to others.

Menjelang satu tahun pandemi menerjang, penanganan COVID-19 di Indonesia masih belum menemui titik terang — Sampai hari ini, angka positif COVID-19 telah mencapai 1,3 juta dengan asumsi bahwa akan terus meningkat setiap harinya. Sejak April tahun lalu, pemerintah telah menggelontorkan paket kebijakan Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar (PSBB) yang diikuti dengan alokasi APBN sebesar Rp677,2 triliun. Termasuk di dalamnya berupa program Jaringan Pengaman Sosial (JPS) senilai…

Today’s turbulent economy recalls how they behaved in the nerve of the financial crisis 12 years ago — The outbreak of COVID-19 put the global economic plunge as affected by the collapse of demand, supply & market instability. A total restriction caused by the Great Lockdown roughly cut 50% of economic growth in the emerging economy. IMF had considered that global growth projected at -4,4% in June 2020…

Kolapsnya rezim Soeharto menjadi babak baru bagi oligarki. Sebelum reformasi, Soeharto merupakan sosok oligark dengan kekuatan politik dan kekayaan material yang terkonsentrasi bak sultan. Ia juga turut menjadi ikon investasi di balik sirkulasi penanaman modal neoliberal berkedok liberalisasi ekonomi. Namun di saat yang sama, Orde Baru juga berhasil mendesain kondisi…

Critique of practical doctrine on rational choice theory and productive force in political society — No matter how much we insist on developing a good and happy life, it has often constantly focused on cognitive interest. This kind of objective development context, now interpreted as a ‘liberation’ from its converted essence. Marx challenged the dialectical nuance and reassumed its relationship to the economic turbulence that…