With many believing the 2024 Indonesian presidential election to be probably the dirtiest and worst since Reformasi, it’s now up to the country’s Constitutional Court to decide on the polls’ outcome on April 22.

The Academy Awards, like the movies it celebrated and honoured, never failed to awe and surprise. The 96th ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last week at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles was no different.

IN 1996 an American writer, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, published a book based on his doctoral dissertation at Harvard University. It created quite a commotion among the public and was hotly debated by historians.

SPORTS can be cruel. And unfair. Even merciless. In sports even those labelled ‘Invincibles’ floundered.All Blacks – the world’s best known rugby team – can lose.

I WAS wrong. I predicted a France versus Ireland rugby showdown in the final of World Cup but both did not make it.