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Greta Nabbs-Keller 9 Jan 2020 10:30

Can Indonesia lead? Maritime tensions with China escalate

Natuna Islands in the South China Sea has flared again, with Jakarta giving every indication it’s not for backing down.
Greta Nabbs-Keller 19 Nov 2018 14:00

Indonesia’s elections: Jokowi-Ma’ruf appeal to middle ground

Jokowi’s running mate Ma’ruf Amin is reinventing himself as a proponent of moderate Islam.
Greta Nabbs-Keller 26 Oct 2018 06:00

Indonesia: populism and politicisation of Islam

The terrorism threat in Southeast Asia fundamentally changed over 15 years, but Indonesian laws struggled to adapt.
Greta Nabbs-Keller 25 Oct 2018 16:00

Indonesia’s anti-terror law: crisis to consensus

How Indonesia moves rapidly from statement to agreement on contentious revisions to anti-terror laws.
Greta Nabbs-Keller 28 Aug 2018 06:00

Indonesia: running mates spark controversy

As the election race heats up, the economy is Jokowi’s likely vulnerability; meanwhile Prabowo boosts campaign coffers.
Greta Nabbs-Keller 10 Jan 2018 14:33

Indonesia elections: Three factors that will shape the political trajectory of 2018

The military and police are far from a spent force in Indonesia.
Greta Nabbs-Keller 22 Dec 2015 08:38

Year in Review: Leadership change boosts relations with Jakarta

The idea that Canberra's volatile political relationship with Jakarta could be remediated by greater ‘ballast’ has been an article of faith in Australian foreign policy circles since former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans employed the metaphor in a 1988 speech to a bilateral business forum. Evan's logic was that greater substance in the form of increased mutual interests would provide greater equilibrium to what he described as an 'overly intense political relationship'.
Greta Nabbs-Keller 23 Jul 2015 14:06

A frank and refreshing assessment of Australia-Indonesia relations

The great strength of Ken Ward's Condemned to Crisis? is that it confronts head-on some of the false constructs surrounding Australia-Indonesia relations.
Greta Nabbs-Keller 19 Sep 2014 11:47

The very public flaying of Marty Natalegawa

As jockeying intensifies for ministerial appointments in President-elect Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo's new cabinet, divisions and dissatisfaction within Indonesia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs have played out in a very public fashion. In a riveting if unedifying spectacle, Indonesia's press has carried tit for tat analysis and commentary both supporting, but mostly intensely critical of, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa. The criticisms (which are strangely reminiscent of those leveled against a cert

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Articles by Greta Nabbs-Keller (11)

Can Indonesia lead? Maritime tensions with China escalate

Indonesia’s elections: Jokowi-Ma’ruf appeal to middle ground

Indonesia: populism and politicisation of Islam

Indonesia’s anti-terror law: crisis to consensus

Indonesia: running mates spark controversy

Indonesia elections: Three factors that will shape the political trajectory of 2018

Year in Review: Leadership change boosts relations with Jakarta

A frank and refreshing assessment of Australia-Indonesia relations

The very public flaying of Marty Natalegawa