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Purpose Maritime logistics is a complex system comprising multiple logistic service providers and their diverse activities. While existing literature explores how logistic service providers create value through their activities, quantitative measures in this area remain limited, particularly within the context of maritime logistics. This study investigates value creation and measurement in freight forwarders’ activities within maritime logistics. The primary objective is to enhance strategic decision-making for policymakers and freight forwarding companies by analyzing the impact of the value-adding activities on this sector’s cumulative value generation. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts Porter’s (1985) value chain framework to examine how freight forwarders generate value at the sectoral level. To measure and analyze the value creation of freight forwarders and their specific activities, a system dynamics approach is employed, utilizing causal loop diagrams and stock-flow diagrams. The Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, serves as the case study. Additionally, scenario analysis is conducted to explore the relationships between individual activities and overall value creation within the freight forwarding industry. Findings The key findings indicate that implementing an integrative strategy that concurrently enhances inland transportation and warehouse management activities can significantly boost the overall value generated by freight forwarders. However, greater emphasis should be placed on inland transportation activities as they contribute more substantially to value creation. From a policy perspective, prioritizing road infrastructure development and expanding warehousing capacity in proximity to port areas can further augment the value generated by freight forwarders. Originality/value From a practical perspective, this study offers a framework for practitioners and policymakers to identify and prioritize critical activities that enhance the overall value of the freight forwarding industry. From an academic standpoint, it seeks to stimulate conversation among freight logistics researchers, encouraging further investigation into value creation and measurement for other maritime logistics service providers, such as shipping lines and port terminal operators, across various regions. This effort could deepen the understanding of value creation within complex logistic networks.

Prior study shows that major Indonesian ports still need some improvements to achieve a better logistics performance. This study aims to analyze which variables can influence the present of idle time during loading and unloading process at Container Terminal Operation 2 Tanjung Priok Port Jakarta. The Tanjung Priok Port is chosen since the port is designed as the hub port in the national sea transport system of the country where it handles more than 50% Indonesia's trans-shipment cargo traffic. This study uses service blueprint, multiple regression analysis, and one-way anova method. The findings show that at the existing Tanjung Priok Port Container Terminal has 17 (seventeen) failure spots, which are categorized into 6 (six) variables namely head truck, computer system, weather, stevedoring worker, equipment failure, and operator activities, that cause the idle time at the port service. Nevertheless, based on the multiple regression analysis, only 5 (five) variables have a significant influence on the cause of idle time excluding weather variable. Finally, with one-way anova test it is found that operator activities at the gate-in process is the most significant influence to the idle-time at the port service.

This article examines the politics of justice and reconciliation in post-Suharto Indonesia with particular focus on the unprecedented pressures on the government to deal with past human rights abuses. Present Indonesian experience illustrates the complexity of dealing with past abuses and needs to be examined in the context of the constraints and possibilities negotiated by new democracies when dealing with past abuses. In a comparative sense the Indonesian case is not new in the sense that other new democracies have also faced this kind of situation. The case study of the Tanjung Priok killings in 1984 that will be presented here demonstrates the need to develop a strategy which combines the elements of prosecution and reconciliation in post-Suharto Indonesia.

This revised third edition provides an analysis of Suharto's New Order from its inception to the emergence of B.J. Habibie as President. The author reassesses the New Order's origins and its military roots and evaluates the considerable economic changes that have taken place since the 1960s. He examines Suharto's politics and, in a new chapter, the reasons behind the crisis and Suharto's fall.