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Indonesia 1965: the attempted coup and the rise of Suharto
2 May 2017Early on the morning of 1 October 1965, seven detachments of troops drove through the quiet streets...
Race, faith and Ahok’s defeat
27 April 2017After one of the most tumultuous campaigns in Indonesian history, the incumbent governor of Jakarta...
Jakarta election tests Indonesia's limits of tolerance
19 April 2017On 19 April, the residents of Jakarta – Indonesia’s sprawling capital – will go to the polls...
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The Political Economy of Myanmar
A recent two-week study tour gave 11 ANU students a first-hand insight into Myanmar’s...
Explaining the 2016 Islamist Mobilisation in Indonesia: Religious Intolerance, Militant Groups and the Politics of Accommodation
In this presentation, we analyse a unique set of polling data to show that a) Islamic conservatis
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Malaysia Update Conference 2016: Najib’s Malaysia — A Crisis of Confidence?
22 August 2016The past year in Malaysia has been as tumultuous as any in sixty years of independence. At its epicentre has...
First-hand transformation
20 January 2016Last week, fellow students from the Australian National University and I visited two villages in Myanmar’s...
Money politics and the prisoner’s dilemma
18 November 2015Up to 62 million Indonesians offered material benefits in return for their vote during the 2014 legislative...
