Author: Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad
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2045 and a World Without Ignorance: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
In 2045, AI and total transparency create a world where everyone knows that everyone knows. Drawing on Pinker’s common knowledge: the end of pretense, and a new psychological burden.
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2045 in Kurzweil’s Shadow: What Happens When the Singularity Truly Draws Near?
Ray Kurzweil framed 2045 as the year the singularity arrives. Beyond the hype: what it really means for intelligence, human–machine fusion, work, meaning, and the politics of consciousness.
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Golden Indonesia 2045: What Will Really Happen?
AI, geopolitics, climate, and identity will decide Indonesia’s fate in 2045. Beyond the official optimism, what will really happen to the generation that inherits the Golden Indonesia dream?
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The Tea-Packet Road: Methamphetamine, the State, and the Fishermen of the Strait of Malacca, 2020–2026
Between 2020 and 2026, the Strait of Malacca hardened into one of the world’s busiest narcotics corridors. This investigative report traces how methamphetamine, the state, and the fishermen of the Strait became entangled — a story of crossings, not just crime.
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Human Mornings in 2045: AI, the Digital Body, and the Struggle to Remain Human
In 2045, AI and biosensors govern our mornings before we even wake. A meditation on the digital body, faith, boredom, and the struggle to remain human in an age of humanoids.
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Indonesia Strategic Intelligence Report (7–12 July 2026): Political Crisis, Papua Conflict, BrahMos Deal, Economy, and National Security
Indonesia Strategic Intelligence Report (7–12 July 2026) presents a field-grade assessment of the most significant developments affecting Indonesia’s political stability, national security, defense modernization, economic resilience, and geopolitical position. This edition examines the Febrie Adriansyah institutional crisis, the Papua conflict following the killing of a US pilot, the India–Indonesia BrahMos defense agreement, mounting economic pressures,…
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Global Intelligence Briefing (7–12 July 2026): Iran War, US–China Rivalry, Ukraine, South China Sea, and Global Security Risks
The latest KBA13 Insight Global Intelligence Briefing analyzes the most significant geopolitical developments of July 2026, including the Iran conflict, US–China rivalry, Ukraine, South China Sea tensions, cyber intelligence, terrorism, economic warfare, and strategic risks likely to shape global security in the months ahead.
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Koperasi dan Kemandirian Ekonomi Rakyat: Mengapa Masa Depan Indonesia Bergantung pada Kepemilikan Bersama?
Koperasi sering dipandang sebagai lembaga ekonomi tradisional yang kehilangan relevansi. Pandangan tersebut justru menutupi kenyataan bahwa banyak negara maju membangun sektor pertanian, industri, hingga sistem keuangan melalui koperasi modern. Esai ini mengulas sejarah koperasi sejak Rochdale, gagasan Mohammad Hatta, perkembangan koperasi Indonesia, hingga evaluasi Koperasi Merah Putih. Dengan membandingkan pengalaman Mondragon, Amul, Rabobank, dan Desjardins,…
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Isaiah Berlin Through the Archive: Reconstructing an Intellectual Life from the Bodleian Papers
Most readers know Isaiah Berlin through his celebrated essays on liberty and pluralism. Far fewer know that the Bodleian Libraries preserve one of the most comprehensive archival collections ever assembled for a twentieth-century intellectual. Drawing on the Berlin Papers, this essay argues that archives reveal not only what philosophers wrote but also how ideas were…