The reform agenda must continue to be fought for. The threat of the death of democracy needs to be anticipated. With rampant corruption, steps must be taken to overcome it.

It was not easy to fight for the reforms that began in 1978-1998. Therefore, students need to maintain and care for democracy so that Indonesia is not controlled again by an authoritarian and repressive regime as before.

Political parties can no longer just answer the question "How to win the electoral competition," but they must also be able to answer "How power is monitored and for whom power is managed."

Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar has put ASEAN in a tight corner. The problems in Myanmar have become more complicated as a result of various forms of foreign interference and interests.

There is a simple question, but it is not easy to answer: how to explain the correlation between the strong role of religion on the one hand and the low quality of public life on the other hand?

We need to maintain independence and prevent the authority and capacity of the anticorruption commission and law enforcement institutions from being weakened.

Indonesia’s democratic responsiveness is now going through a tough test, ironically triggered by incidents within the state institutions, which should ideally be the source of that responsiveness.

We still have time to prevent regional instability as long as the policy revision is made from now.