We’re excited to announce the publication of our new book New Worlds in Old Shells, on 8th Oct. The book explores how movements can build vibrant, radical, liberating projects that meet the needs of their communities. Launch webinar is on 22nd Oct, register here: wri-irg.org/en/story/202...

Between mid-June and mid-August, Prabowo’s push to re-write history as well as deepen his economic and strategic aims, has been going at pace. Read TAPOL's quarterly update for all the latest, out now: t.co/J6yfpkGi6D

"In the world’s third-largest democracy, the military’s expansion and its creep into civilian domains has drawn criticism from observers who say the move carries echoes of the country’s authoritarian past." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

A forthcoming article in the Journal of Genocide Research, analyzes official statements, declassified documents and media reports across four cases that involve U.S. support for governments as they were committing atrocities incl. Indonesia in East Timor from 1975-1999 truthout.org/articles/gaz...

Launching next week in Dili! Read online free at pressbooks.pub/everydaydipl...

Launching next week in Dili! Read online free at pressbooks.pub/everydaydipl...

🌍 Every day, all around the world, people are tortured using law enforcement equipment, including something as simple as a pair of handcuffs. 🔗 Learn more about the risks & concerns around the use of different kinds of restraints: omegaresearchfoundation.org/what-we-do/r...

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Garment workers confront Nike over wages - “I came to America to campaign for the rights of workers in Indonesia who were not paid by Nike during COVID," said Dedeh Nurhasanah. Activists from GLJ, Portland Jobs with Justice + other groups invited shoppers to take a quiz about Nike production.

The great historian of Southeast Asia, Anthony (Tony) Reid, died yesterday in Canberra, aged 85. His studies transformed our understanding of Indonesia and the region. A professor at the ANU for many years, he also founded institutes at UCLA & NUS. And he was a lovely person

In a district that holds Indonesia’s biggest coal reserves and sits near the new national capital, the country’s largest construction site, a large share of households in Paser district remain without an electricity connection.

A pay-to-release program for threatened sharks and rays significantly reduced bycatch in Indonesia, with 71% of wedgefish and 4% of hammerheads released alive; but it also led some fishers to intentionally catch these species to claim incentives.

Indonesia signs $10bn deal to buy 48 Turkish Kaan fighter jets - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/indonesia-signs-10bn-deal-buy-48-turkish-kaan-fighter-jets

Illegal #wildlife #crime is rampant in #Indonesia, from #birds to #orangutans, to coral. Trafficking online is worth $852.6mil USD per year. Indonesia is falling short on its response. Story via @360info_global #Boycott4Wildlife #extinction @palmoildetect

Indonesia expects to conclude free trade agreement with the EU by end June www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Join the NYCPeace and Justice contingent on Saturday. Bring signs that highlight the issues below.

All of these films are excellent and worth viewing. @owasow.bsky.social has given a really important film fest to help understand this moment in a historical context, with deep, valuable lessons in how we meet and inform the present moment and resist this autocratic takeover 🧵

After three months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, a Filipino green-card holder who had been arrested at Seattle-Tacoma Airport has finally gone home.

'“Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing’s relentless attacks on civilians make a sick mockery of ASEAN’s claims that the junta has implemented a ceasefire or that it has any intention of doing so,” said Yanghee Lee of SAC-M.' #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Myanmar 🔗 eng.mizzima.com/2025/05/31/2...

Landslide at a quarry in Cirebon, Indonesia, kills at least 14 men. Another 11 people are missing and believed to be dead. Officials had warned for years that the quarry was not meeting safety standards www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/w...

🇮🇩 Indonesia is moving to expand censorship of LGBT content, targeting not just TV and radio but also digital and social media. Activists warn this could further restrict free expression. globalpressjournal.com/asia/indones... #Indonesia #LGBTQ #Censorship

To be clear, yesterday’s protests appear to have been a success and media coverage is only one of many important outcomes. Organizing often builds over time and big events like April 5 often have a long tail of consequences from new movements to new leaders. Also: bsky.app/profile/owas...

"This is not solely about Tempo. Today it could be Tempo, but in the future, all of us as journalists could be threatened and the state must provide protection," said Tempo's Editor-in-Chief Setri Yasra en.tempo.co/read/1989586...

#Global 🌐 @freedomhouse.bsky.social reports that at least 55 governments around the world restrict freedom of movement in order to punish, coerce, or control dissidents, activists, journalists, and people they view as political opponents.

#WestPapua and the world’s biggest deforestation project. A West Papuan doctoral candidate has warned that indigenous noken-weaving practices back in her homeland are under threat with the world’s biggest deforestation project. #palmoil #deforestation #ecocide asiapacificreport.nz/2025/03/27/r...

Grist spoke with five experts to understand what free, prior, and informed consent should look like in this new era of extraction. grist.org/indigenous/m... #Indigenous #Tribe #Mining #Minerals #Environment

Friends in #MilkTeaAlliance Indonesia are literally on the front lines of protest today. They risking violence to fight back against the TNI law. Keep up the fight! Tolak Militerisme, Lawan Kapitalisme, Ganyans Oligarki! #CabutUUTNI

Students across Indonesia have been protesting against the controversial Military Law. More rallies were held today, in the capital Jakarta and other cities.

Although Duterte is in The Hague, his successor Marcos Jr is continuing his brutal drug war- www.worldpoliticsreview.com/philippines-...

Given the other police violence, beatings of protesters, preventing medics getting to the scene, numerous arrests, targeting & threatening of journalists... and the underlying cause of the TNI law, I'd say state violence to supress the protests. Also this though 👇

I shared my thoughts on some of President Prabowo's policies, which might lead us back to an authoritarian regime by the end of 2024. It's getting clearer now.

Adding the alt text to this good explainer from Shiba. Support & Amplify our Indonesian friends in their ongoing struggle!

#MilkTeaAlliance Friends of Myanmar joined 234 orgs to objections to the ammendment to the TNI law in Indonesia. It is a threat to democracy & accountability. Sigs Inc: @pvamplify.bsky.social @mtacalendar.bsky.social @athan-info.bsky.social @hurfom.bsky.social @etan009.bsky.social #TolakRUUTNI

What the US can learn from South Koreans who stopped an authoritarian power-grab: Jungmin Choi wri-irg.org/en/story/202...

JUST IN: Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.

We urge the UN to investigate #Myanmar Special Envoy Julie Bishop over conflicts of interest involving her business work, which involve Chinese state-owned companies with links to the Myanmar's military junta. www.theaustralian.com.au/world/un-urg...

Today, Merauke is the site of the Indonesian gov't’s National Food Strategic Project, which will see the destruction of more than 2 million hectares of native Merauke forests and wetlands. For the Indigenous Malind people it’s a disaster about to happen. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

CFA: SOAS is looking for papers for the upcoming graduate student conference Flows and Currents in South East Asia. Details below! App Deadline: April 4 Event Data: July 4 tinyurl.com/2z4rs2k7

Sign on letter on crash of US military spy plane in Philippines and call to end to military assistance. Link to sign on: actionnetwork.org/letters/tran...

Sign on letter on crash of US military spy plane in Philippines and call to end to military assistance. Link to sign on: actionnetwork.org/letters/tran...

I'm so glad that both Emma Larkin and Thongchai Winichakul, authors from whom I have learned so much about Burma and Thailand, have written endorsements (see below) for The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing, coming June 10 from @columbiagr.bsky.social

Marching with flags and banners reading #DarkIndonesia, thousands of students across Indonesia took to the streets to protest new government policies they say are “increasingly repressive and harmful to the people” www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...

US diplomacy is in free fall. @profsaunders.bsky.social takes stock of Rubio's early days (bad) & US talks with Russia in Saudi Arabia (terrible) goodauthority.org/news/why-hig...

Press Release: ‘Dirty copper’: Financial Conduct Authority alerted that ‘London Metal Exchange has knowledge of potential money laundering’ www.tapol.org/news/press-r...

Thousands of people attended a Presidents Day protest in New York on Monday to oppose the Trump administration's policies, including major cuts to federal programs and staff. Demonstrations also took place in Washington, D.C., and other cities.

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

Pls, Timor Leste, or indeed anyone: stand up for the people of Myanmar.

On 6 March I'll present my latest report to the UN Human Rights Council, on human rights defenders in isolated, remote & rural contexts. In the lead up, I am sharing stories illustrating how the risks & challenges these defenders face are often linked to their location. #OutOfSight #HRC58

NEW BOOK: To be released this year Written from the edge of the Pacific, an overview of the trends and key events over the past 15 years that continue to shape contemporary politics in Southeast Asia. More details to follow