On top of eroding civil liberties, the Indonesian government has been employing a discursive strategy to delegitimise its critics' democratic agency. In my short piece published by the LSE SEA Centre's blog, I explore two of these discursive strategies: blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2025/09...

If backlash against women's inclusion constitutes democratic deconsolidation, why has it been possible to declare a democracy as consolidated without women? My short blog for ECPR's The Loop:

Yesterday I was interviewed by Radio Študent about the recent protests in Indonesia. Interviewed also were Dr Soe Tjen Marching and Andreas Harsono. The RŠ programme is in Slovenian, but our answers are in English. My comments start at 1:17, and then 7:41: radiostudent.si/politika/off...

Read this. Millions of Indonesians are in the streets protesting the policies of a corrupt president and his legislative flunkies. 🦅 🇮🇩 Selamat berjuang 🇮🇩 🦅

My latest article, discussing how most Indonesians' understanding of democracy may make efforts to sustain widespread resistance against the erosion of civil supremacy challenging: eastasiaforum.org/2025/04/22/i...

In Indonesia, contesting the government's conception of democracy has been part of the fight against democratic backsliding. My piece on the politics of (re)defining democracy in Indonesia, published by The Diplomat: thediplomat.com/2025/04/cont...