Jokowi must make a difficult choice between keeping the political elites happy to pass his economic agenda, or keep the public happy with democratic and institutional reform
#Jokowi
#Indonesia
#KPK
@BurhanMuhtadi
Indonesia must manage its gains from the nickel beneficiation policy to build its factor endowments and sustain its comparative advantage in the industry, writes Faris Abdurrachman (New York University).
China's 'Africa Quad' faces grim prospects, even if European and Chinese companies continue to cooperate on the ground, writes
@D_Brautigam
,
@rgpiercey
and
@Saiscari
(Johns Hopkins University).
As the US Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates, it looks as though emerging markets like Indonesia may suffer capital outflows similar to 2013's so-called 'Taper Tantrum', writes
@chatibbasri
.
#Indonesia
#economics
#monetarypolicy
A group convened by the Asian Bureau of Economic Research has released its COVID-19 recovery strategy paper, 'An Asian strategy for recovery and reconstruction after COVID-19'.
Read the paper here: .
#ASEANPlusSix
#Recovery
#COVID19
Indonesia’s fiscal stimulus must focus on healthcare and social safety nets so that the country can control the spread of COVID-19 and limit the severity of its impacts on society
#Indonesia
#COVID19
#coronavirus
#
@chatibbasri
Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka remarkably convinced
#Kiribati
to rejoin the PIF by drawing on religion, personal background and traditional practices in the ‘
#PacificWay
’ of diplomacy, writes
@wqvktg
.
#Fiji
Southeast Asian countries are aligning with the United States and China for strategic benefit rather than ideological loyalty, writes Yuen Foong Khong (NUS).
Since December
#Japan
has intensified its tough
#COVID19
border policy, essentially closing the country to non-Japanese citizens, writes Yves Tiberghien and Saya Soma
The recent murder of 19-year-old Jenelyn Kennedy and other acts of violence against women mean
#PNG
must urgently do more to curb gender-based violence, writes Fiona Hukula (
@pngnri
).
#PNGWomenMatter
Vietnam continues to walk a fine line between maintaining ties with the United States and China, writes Khac Giang Nguyen (Victoria University of Wellington).
@khacgiang
#Vietnam
The Indonesian National Police is now acting as both a security force and political agent, helping to silence critics and persecuting those who threaten the president’s power, writes
@supriatma
(
@ISEAS
).
#Indonesia
#Police
Hardline Islamic groups offer appealing narratives to Muslims whose aspirations for social mobility are disappointed by the realities of Indonesia's development, writes Vedi Hadiz and Inaya Rakhmani.
Malay fears and resentment are driving a fateful clash between the traditional monarchy and Malaysia's elected government under Mahathir.
#Malaysia
#Politics
#Mahathir
#UMNO
Bainimarama is expected to struggle to secure a third term in power in Wednesday's general election, writes William Waqavakatoga
@wqvktg
(University of Adelaide)
#FijiPol
Indonesia's chairmanship of ASEAN is an opportunity to continue the progress made on global cooperation at the G20, writes M. Chatib Basri (University of Indonesia).
The solution to Japan’s demographic crisis will need to be an imaginative policy mix that empowers young people to form the kind of families they want and need, writes
@SzendiChelsea
(Aoyama Gakuin University).
#Japan
Due to precarious working and living conditions, Vietnamese workers have no choice but to withdraw their social insurance premiums before retiring and give up their pensions.
Indonesia sees the Belt and Road Initiative as a cheaper way to achieve greater
#maritime
#connectivity
than having to follow its own strategic doctrine, write Demas Nauvarian and Putu Shangrina Pramudia (CSGS)
@demasnauvarian
As corruption becomes more of a blockage in Mongolia, will its leaders choke or conquer the challenge it poses to its democracy?
#ulaanbaatar
#Democracy
#Mongolia
#Australia
moves towards a narrative dominated by national security, losing sight of the Chinese people and seeing only the state, writes Yun Jiang
@yun_aus
(ANU).
#AustraliaChina
Though Indonesia is not overly concerned about the new US–PNG Defense Cooperation Agreement, it wants to avoid stoking the US-China fire in the Indo-Pacific, writes Aristyo Rizka Darmawan (ANU).
An exodus of young talent from Japan's sclerotic
#bureaucracy
is an under-appreciated problem for Prime Minister Kishida, writes Ko Mishima (East Stroudsburg University).
#Japan
#PM_Kishida
Indonesia’s 2024 presidential election may force the country to reckon with its authoritarian past and the frailties of its contemporary democracy, writes Liam Gammon (ANU).
#IndonesiaElection
South Korea’s first female foreign minister left an important legacy in the fight for gender equality, but there is still much work to be done, writes
@kathrynbotto
(Carnegie Endowment).
#genderequity
The recent US–Indonesia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership does little to upgrade the lacklustre state of the relationship and remains mostly symbolic.
In its approach to Asia, the EU needs to play to its strengths as an economic power and avoid getting caught up in the US–China rivalry, writes
@shada_islam
Indonesia's open-list voting system is creating a situation where one-third of the electorate engages in vote buying, writes
@BurhanMuhtadi
.
#Indonesia
#elections
The West needs to implement a better
#China
strategy than antagonism, which only further entrenches hostility, justifies hatred, injures and weakens both sides, writes Chas W Freeman Jr (
@WatsonInstitute
).
#UnitedStates
#ForeignPolicy
Japan cannot afford to delay efforts to strengthen their defence technology capabilities and could considerably benefit from participating in AUKUS, writes
@rena_in_dc
(John Hopkins University).
While hedging is no panacea,
#Southeast
Asian states will continue to do so to ensure ASEAN
#neutrality
, maintain strategic
#autonomy
and prevent regional polarisation, writes Kuik Cheng-Chwee (National University of Malaysia).
The
#WTO
's rules and institutions require an carefully sequenced update in order to address growing unilateralism and protectionist forces, writes Zhijie Ding
@jerrydzj
@UCBerkeley
As
#USChina
competition intensifies, fear of antagonising China and a lack of trust will encourage Vietnam to exercise caution in
#maritime
/security cooperation with the United States and forge closer ties with India and Japan, writes
@minhphuongvu99
.
The Indonesian government wants to promote modern services industries but it will struggle to maximise its potential without implementing a cohesive approach, write
@acopatunru
and Sulistiyo Ardiyono (ANU).
North Koreans are in for a tough winter with bone-chilling temperatures, severe food shortages and an ongoing
#pandemic
, writes Gabriela Bernal (University of North Korean Studies).
#NorthKorea
#foodshortage
In a historic moment when democracy seems unsafe even in formerly safe-seeming spaces, democracy in Southeast Asia could be extinguished entirely, writes
@SlaterPolitics
.
As geopolitical relations between Australia and China intensify, ensuring the Chinese-Australian
#diaspora
community is at the forefront of decision-making is crucial.
#2022Election
In 2021, the conservative empire struck back. Thailand became less liberal and more authoritarian while COVID-19 devastated the economy and health system, writes Greg Raymond (ANU).
@gregoryVraymond
India is pursuing a proactive Central Asia policy that now goes beyond its interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but matching the rhetoric with real progress is proving difficult, writes
@gsachdevajnu
.
As Indonesia drifts into increasingly illiberal politics, Australia must remain focused on the overlapping multilateral interests at the heart of the bilateral relationship, writes Liam Gammon (ANU).
Australian fears of a potential Chinese naval presence in Vanuatu are reminiscent of Cold War-era suspicions, writes Jon Fraenkel.
#China
#Australia
#Pacific
Even if the
#LDP
is able to excise its connections with the church, religious engagement will remain a staple of
#Japan
's political life.
@mclaughlin_levi
Keeping Laos by Vietnam’s side is Hanoi’s top foreign policy priority. The question is how to do this without engaging in costly competition with China, writes
@khacgiang
(
@WellingtonUni
).
#Vietnam
#Laos
The dominant features of Japanese democracy during Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's tenure are voter apathy and the moribund state of inter-party competition, argues Tobias Harris.
#Japan
#Elections
#Abe
@observingjapan
The
#Muhyiddin
government’s botched handling of
#COVID19
has evoked unprecedented social reaction and, in the government’s failings, transformed political narratives and mobilisation, writes
@dririshsea
(University of Nottingham Malaysia).
#Malaysia
President Joko Widodo’s ambitious plan to improve
#Indonesia
’s logistics performance has fallen well short of expectations, write Krisna Gupta and Dhany Ratana (Politeknik APP Jakarta).
@imedkrisna
#Logistics
The latest issue of East Asia Forum Quarterly, 'Middle power game', is now available. Read it online here:
This issue deals with the importance of middle powers in Asia and their role in shaping the regional order.
#China
's and
#Indonesia
's Defence Minister's poorly received peace plane for
#Ukraine
indicate foreign affairs outlooks still couched in great power games, writes Jürgen Rüland (University of Freiburg).
The 2022 and 2023 APEC meetings give the United States an opportunity to engage with key regional players and advance its economic and trade objectives in the region, writes
@DougStrub
Current CPTPP member states should establish a working group and kickstart China’s accession negotiations as soon as possible, writes
@jerrydzj
and
@bellaaa_zhao
Without strategic intervention in the form of education, prevention or treatment programs, perpetrators will continue to go undetected as victims suffer in silence.
#Indonesia
#Schools
#SexualHarassment
Welcoming Indonesia into the OECD will enlarge the group’s economic might and further its democratic reach into the Global South, writes John West.
#IndonesiaOECD
#Mahathir
was lucky to hitch a ride on
#Malaysia
's modernisation tsunami just as it was cresting. Visible as he may be, Mahathir is but foam atop this long-swelling opposition wave, writes
@SlaterPolitics
.
#GE14
Australia’s future nuclear-powered submarine fleet could sail the high seas of the Indian and Pacific oceans and the straits of Southeast Asia unimpeded, writes Donald R Rothwell (ANU).
#AUKUS
#submarines
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The upcoming 2020 regional elections are exposing cracks in the integrity of Indonesia's democracy, writes Noory Okthariza (
@CSISIndonesia
).
#Indonesia
#Politics
Regardless of the IPEF outcome, partaking in its negotiations will solidify Indonesia’s status as a reliable and inclusive trade partner, writes Arrizal Jaknanihan (Bappenas).