Late last week I tweeted a summary evaluation of the state of democracy in Southeast Asia: Any evidence of democratic backsliding in Southeast Asia in the past decade? With the benefit of a bit of historical perspective, not really pic.twitter.com/ukk5b9W3Jc — Tom Pepinsky (@TomPepinsky) October 11, 2019 Given the global concern with the state of […]
Category: Indonesia
Unrest, Violence, and Race in Papua
The past several weeks have seen sustained unrest in Indonesian Papua. The proximate cause was the shameful treatment of Papuan students living in Surabaya, East Java who were alleged to have desecrated the Indonesian flag on Indonesia’s independence day. But this is just a trigger; the issues are far deeper. Today’s article in the Sydney […]
