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Friday, April 18, 2025

New Publication in Contemporary Southeast Asia, April 2025

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Excited to share my latest publication in Contemporary Southeast Asia: 'The Rise of Religious Brokerage: Nahdlatul Ulama in Indonesia...
Monday, April 7, 2025

New Publication: Protecting two presidents: legislative decline in Indonesia's post-2024 election transition

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Happy to share our recently published article--as we watch legislative manipulation unfold before our very eyes in Indonesia, this research ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Indonesia's Political Crisis: What Prabowo's Administration Failed to See Coming

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 The political upheaval—indeed a crisis, if one dares to characterise it as such—that has engulfed Indonesia during the nascent stages of th...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

The Titanic Paradox: When Aid Becomes an Ego Trip

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  Remember Slavoj Žižek's brilliant take on Titanic ? The philosopher argued that Rose, the wealthy socialite, needed Jack's lower-c...
Friday, February 7, 2025

The Cost of Consensus: Prabowo's 100 Days of Political Gluttony and Fiscal Fasting

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In Indonesian politics, we seem to be experiencing what medical professionals might delicately call a case of institutional constipation. Th...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

The Price of Tomorrow: Inside Indonesia’s Chinese-Powered Sprint to 2045 (article for The Carter Center, 04 February 2025)

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  My latest article published by The Carter Center as part of an exciting new series "Beneath the Winds: The U.S.-China Rivalry from So...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

New Publication (Cross-Party Presidential Dynasticism in Indonesia, Pacific Affairs, March 2025)

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  Excited to share that our article "Cross-Party Presidential Dynasticism in Indonesia" is now available as a pre-print in Pacific...