My latest #TalkingIndonesia ep is out early this week in response to the surge in COVID cases in Indonesia. Epidemiologist Dicky Budi Man talks through the latest crisis. bit.ly/3x1uJBb #COVID19

📢 It's not too late to register for tonight's webinar with up and coming #Indonesia scholar Thomas Power Tom Power! Tune in at 5pm AEST as he exposes some of the most illiberal tendencies of Indonesian democracy under Joko Widodo's presidency. 👇 buff.ly/3hlFnw6

How populist was Yingluck Shinawatra compared to her brother, Thaksin? The answer provides insight into the Pheu Thai party and its supporters. thaidatapoints.com/post/populism-…

This 👇suggests that official COVID figures in Indonesia are a vast underestimate, even when compared to India's upsurge. Indonesia's COVID surge is terrible even looking at the official figures, but those figures are capturing only a fraction of what is really happening.

THE EVOLVING PANDEMIC | INDONESIA BECOMES THE NEWEST HOTSPOT The Southeast Asian giant has overtaken India as Asia's new epicenter for the coronavirus pandemic, with daily infections exceeding 40,000 for two straight days. s.nikkei.com/3eguAT7

The Pandemic Has a New Epicenter: Indonesia - The New York Times ⁦Dicky Budi Man⁩ ⁦@LaporCovid⁩ ⁦KawalCOVID19⁩ ⁦Rod Brazier⁩ ⁦Jo Stevens⁩ ⁦The New York Times⁩ nytimes.com/2021/07/17/wor…

I have a new paper on how Covid has been politicized in the media in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Korea. It began as a project with students who were sent back from their exchanges in East Asia due to Covid. A fun project to work on! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Book launch. David Jenkins' "Young Soeharto: The Making of a Soldier, 1921-1945" anu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

We are hiring in Sociology and Political Science (IO & IPE), open rank positions. socsc.smu.edu.sg/socsc/faculty-…

Another new Cambridge SE Asia Element - Ethnicity and Politics in SE Asia, by Amy Liu and Jacob Ricks. FREE DOWNLOAD for next two weeks. cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Just published a new article in Party Politics with Jeremy Menchik. It’s on Indonesian Islamic parties and the conditions under which they use inclusive or exclusive campaign appeals. Happy to see this in print! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Just published an article “Visualizing politics in Indonesia” at IJoC. It draws on unique collections of posters from Indonesian elections (1955, 1982, 2009-12) and studies how their design and distribution has evolved over time. Ungated Link: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…

CfP: "A New Wave of Youth & Student Activism in Asia": workshop (SG, 29-30 Sept '23) & edited volume! What makes today's youth activism in E/SE Asia distinctive, novel, high-impact, attention-getting ... or not? Details & apply: tinyurl.com/2x2pew5p. Colm Fox Edward Aspinall

CfP: Feminist & queer youth activism in Asia: workshop (10-11 Nov, NY) & special issue! Why/how are gender/sexuality so central to youth movements--from drag performance to #metoo? Details & apply (by 30 April): tinyurl.com/2ndnm8e3. Edward Aspinall Shawna Tang 邓诗薇 New York Southeast Asia Network

My new edited volume with Amy H. Liu is now available for pre-order! Why read it? A thread. 1/X press.umich.edu/Books/S/State-…