Some time ago I wrote about the curious case of Japanese colonial subjects in the Dutch East Indies. The interesting observation is that After concluding a Treaty of Trade and Navigation in 1896, the Netherlands and Japan recognised each other as most favoured nations, and subsequently the Tokyo government pressed the Dutch to accord its […]
Category: Indonesia
Religion, Ethnicity, and Indonesia’s 2019 Presidential Election
Now that Joko Widodo has been certified as the victor in Indonesia’s 2019 presidential elections, the question turns to what happened. While the current media focus is rightly on the post-election violence that wracked Jakarta last week and who is responsible for them, we also need to understand what drove the electoral results themselves. Several […]
