Asia
Coal comfort: Australia-India ties after the elections
In an odd quirk of timing, this year Australia and India’s elections will run in parallel. On 11 April, Scott Morrison made the trip to Canberra’s Government House and the…
Indonesia’s elections: the foreign policy challenges that await
Indonesia’s national leaders and politicians have mostly paid more attention to domestic issues for the country’s upcoming general elections compared to regional and global…
Even if Prabowo loses, Sandiaga Uno will win in Indonesia’s election
As Indonesians go to the polls on Wednesday, questions have arisen around the business interests of the man who could be their next vice president.
The youngest among the…
The souring mood towards Beijing from Berlin
Until recently, Germany was one of the few major Western countries that China had consistently amicable relations with in an increasingly hostile international environment for…
‘No thoughts about apologising’: Indonesia and the 1965–66 killings
In January, during Indonesia’s first presidential debate in the lead up to the Indonesian election next week on 17 April, Indonesian president, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo proclaimed…
Myanmar’s intelligence apparatus under Aung San Suu Kyi
When Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) took office in 2016, a wave of euphoria swept over Myanmar, shared by many people in other parts of the world.
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Australia-India: naval drills show trust, yet political caution still
The largest ever Australian naval fleet arrived in India this week to conduct the biennial AUSINDEX naval exercises with the Indian Navy. The size and shape of this year’s…
Jokowi’s cute political ploy has become a campaign sensation
With a week left until Indonesia’s presidential election, polls are tightening and huge mass rallies show the 193 million voters keen to have their say. For incumbent Joko Widodo,…
Analyses
Politics in Indonesia: Resilient elections, defective democracy
The pressures on Indonesian democracy are not likely to abate under a second-term Jokowi or a Prabowo presidency
Making a murderer: the assassination of Kim Jong-nam
Two years of James Bond-esque intrigue following Kim Jong-nam’s assassination in Malaysia have fizzled out, with backroom negotiations seeing murder charges dropped against the…