Reformasi Dispatch

Kevin and Erin talk with researcher Garda Ramadhito on Prabowo"s Palestine peace-keeping plans and political Islam in his term. Also, the political and environmental reckoning in Sumatra"s devastating flooding and the KPK takes a look at its own handling of a case involving Bobby Nasution. It takes a lot of money to ru

A week of superlatives for Indonesia - the tragic Senyar cyclone is the largest on record to hit Indonesia; a tax bribery case is affecting a key owner of the most profitable bank, BCA; a leadership struggle has incapacitated the largest Islamic organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), at a time when Indonesia prepares for

Kevin talks to Matt Busch on his new book "The Contested State: The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency during the Asian Financial Crisis." It takes a lot of money to run a podcast. You need subscription fees for hosting, audio recording services, editor"s salary and music licensing. Luckily, you, estemeed listeners o

Joining the pod is Dr Seth Soderborg to discuss polling trends in Indonesia.  Also discussed: Soeharto"s annointment as hero, the outlook for the new Police Reform Commission, improved BI foreign reserves, an Australian Defence Treaty and a bombing by a youth at a school in Kelapa Gading. It takes a lot of money to run

In this episode: plans for bestowing hero status on Soeharto, exonerating parliamentarians for August excesses, the president"s message to police, and Myanmar"s junta poses for polls. It takes a lot of money to run a podcast. You need subscription fees for hosting, audio recording services, editor"s salary and music li

In this episode: the Golkar chair seeks criminal defamation charges for social-media users who distribute disagreeable memes; Prabowo proffers Gaza engagement, but with political pitfalls - as seen at Asean"s summit attended by Trump; and Sjafrie seriously considers a purchase of yet more fighter jets, from China. It t