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Malaysia’s Forest City Went From Boomtown to Ghost Town

On an island in the Singapore Strait, a thicket of apartment blocks peers mournfully over the sea. A corps of green-shirted gardeners dutifully tends...

18.03.2024 6

Foreign Policy

Joseph Rachman

What Prabowo’s Victory Means For Indonesian Foreign Policy

The ascent of the former general is likely to shift the tone of the country's international engagement, if not the substance.

07.03.2024 10

The Diplomat

Joseph Rachman

Indonesia’s Election Winner Has a Dark Past and a Cute Image

JAKARTA—“One round, one round, Alhamdulillah, one round, Prabowo, Prabowo, Prabowo,” a jubilant crowd chanted as the man set to be Indonesia’s...

15.02.2024 20

Foreign Policy

Joseph Rachman

Manila Wants the Planes to Run on Time for Once

Egregiously long queues, regular delays, confusing signage, and poor amenities. When seasoned Southeast Asian travelers debate the region’s worst...

14.02.2024 20

Foreign Policy

Joseph Rachman

Malaysia Is Getting Back to Politics as Usual With Najib’s Pardon

Malaysia’s pardons board has halved the prison sentence of disgraced former Prime Minister Najib Razak, who was convicted in 2020 for his...

07.02.2024 6

Foreign Policy

Joseph Rachman

East Java Looms as Key Battleground in Indonesian Presidential Contest

The country's second-most populous province is also a stronghold of the country's largest and most influential Islamic organization, Nahdlatul Ulama.

02.02.2024 4

The Diplomat

Joseph Rachman

A Litmus Test for Indonesian Democracy

As Prabowo’s remarkable rise from disgraced exile to likely next president attests, in Indonesia things once thought buried can yet rise again.

02.01.2024 3

The Diplomat

Joseph Rachman

Gaza Is a Burning Topic for Southeast Asia’s Domestic Politics

In Indonesia, a presidential candidate and the foreign minister addressed hundreds of thousands of protestors. In Malaysia, the prime minister, draped...

29.12.2023 5

Foreign Policy

Joseph Rachman

Indonesia’s Presidential Elections Are an Exercise in Nepotism

Indonesia’s front-running presidential candidates made an incongruous pair as they stood side by side, wearing matching blue shirts, on the...

09.11.2023 3

Foreign Policy

Joseph Rachman

Indonesia Fast-Tracks Its Electric Vehicle Ambitions

Leaping up from his chair, Rachmat Kaimuddin begins to sketch out on a whiteboard the various stages of the complex supply chain for electric vehicles...

26.10.2023 3

The Diplomat

Joseph Rachman

Indonesia Asks Where the Money Is for Green Transition

“When I went to Washington last month, we explained it, they said yes, then I said, ‘where is the money?’ … They’re just talk.” Luhut...

27.09.2023 3

Foreign Policy

Joseph Rachman

US-Indonesia Security Relations Flourish in a Changing Indo-Pacific

Imagine this scenario: an Indonesian company is drilling for oil within its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, when the platform is...

14.09.2023 8

The Diplomat

Joseph Rachman

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