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- No. 6: Burhanuddin Muhtadi, Visiting Fellow
- No. 9: Siwage Dharma Negara, Senior Fellow
- No. 10: Siwage Dharma Negara, Senior Fellow
- No. 17: Leo Suryadinata, Visiting Senior Fellow
- No. 27: Kevin Zhang, Senior Research Officer
- No. 28: Mohd Faizal Bin Musa, Visiting Fellow
- No. 44: Ian Storey, Senior Fellow
- No. 51: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
- No. 52: William Choong, Senior Fellow
Brunei | Cambodia | Indonesia | Laos | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Timor-Leste | Vietnam | ASEAN / Southeast Asia | Asia Pacific | East / South China Sea | Climate Change/Environment | Others
Cambodia
1. Chinese and Cambodian relation towards the future — a Survey Report on the Cognition of Cambodia’s Generation Z Youth Group to China
Khmer Times, 17 August 2022
2. Taiwan Frets for ‘Thousands’ Trafficked Into Cambodia
Luke Hunt
Diplomat, 16 August 2022
Indonesia
3. 2023 state budget draft optimistic, but realistic: Budget Committee
Antara, 17 August 2022
4. Advancing Indonesia’s five big agendas
Antara, 17 August 2022
5. Minister estimates tax revenues in 2023 to reach Rp2,016.9 trillion
Antara, 17 August 2022
6. Commentary: Indonesia’s 2024 election will pit party elites against popular figures
Burhanuddin Muhtadi
Channel News Asia, 17 August 2022
7. TNI dan Polisi mengajar murid di sekolah-sekolah Papua: efektif atau menumbuhkan trauma? [TNI and Police teach students in Papuan schools: effective or traumatizing?]
Uning Musthofiyah, PhD Researcher, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Conversation, 17 August 2022
8. Indonesian Leader Calls for Unity, Braces for Global Crises
Niniek Karmini
Diplomat, 17 August 2022
9. 佐科拟缩减明年预算约2％ 学者：审慎政策为加强投资者信心 [Widodo plans to reduce next year’s budget by about 2%; Scholars: prudent policy to strengthen investor confidence]
Lianhe Zaobao 联合早报, 17 August 2022
10. Indonesia’s Widodo hails ‘strong’ economy, rising global profile
Aisyah Llewellyn
AL Jazeera, 16 August 2022
11. Indonesia averts a Ukraine war noodle crisis
John McBeth
Asia Times, 16 August 2022
12. Data Bicara: kenapa usia harapan orang Indonesia naik 80% dalam 70 tahun terakhir tapi harapan hidup sehat rendah? [Why has the life expectancy of Indonesians increased by 80% in the last 70 years but healthy life expectancy is low?]
Penulis, Ahmad Nurhasim, Iqbal Elyazar
Conversation, 16 August 2022
13. Riset: bagaimana wajah ketimpangan Indonesia pada zaman kolonial Belanda? [Research: what was the face of Indonesia’s inequality in the Dutch colonial era?]
[Link to the article “Inequality in late colonial Indonesia: new evidence on regional differences“]
Pim de Zwart, Assistant Professor, Wageningen University
Conversation, 16 August 2022
14. Indonesia Increasingly Gets Recognition in Global Leadership: Jokowi
JAYANTY NADA SHOFA
Jakarta Globe, 16 August 2022
15. Jokowi : RI must boost downstream investment, take over global green market
Vincent Fabian Thomas
Jakarta Post, 16 August 2022
16. Quo vadis, Indonesian nationalism?
Yvette Tanamal
Jakarta Post, 16 August 2022
17. 印尼总统佐科迁都大计和时间赛跑 [Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s plan to move the capital is a race against time]
Lianhe Zaobao 联合早报, 16 August 2022
18. Towards ICCS 2022 – The Role of Theology among Christian Indonesians during COVID-19 Pandemic – A Perspective from Indonesia
Albertus Bagus Laksana, S. J.
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 16 August 2022
19. Widodo tells Parliament that North Kalimantan will be world’s biggest green industrial park
Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja
Straits Times, 16 August 2022
Malaysia
20. Big party schisms lead to a dead end
Terence Netto
Free Malaysia Today, 17 August 2022
21. Can DAP or PH cooperate with Umno?
P Ramasamy
Free Malaysia Today, 17 August 2022
22. No impending split in PAS, says spiritual leader
Faiz Zainudin
Free Malaysia Today, 17 August 2022
23. Malaysia cannot decouple from China’s economy; closer integration expected: Malaysian ambassador
Hu Yuwei
Global Times, 17 August 2022
24. East Malaysia parties will be kingmakers in GE15, says MCA sec-gen
Khoo Gek San
Malaysian Insight, 17 August 2022
25. No more ‘stacks of cash’
MARTIN CARVALHO and JOSEPH KAOS JR
Star, 17 August 2022
26. Only four states have anti-hopping law for now
Star, 17 August 2022
27. More needed for free public transport in JB to be gamechanger
Kevin Zhang
Malaysiakini, 16 August 2022
28. Orang Singapura bertanya, orang Malaysia suka yang korup, ya? [Malaysians like the corrupt, ask Singaporeans]
Mohd Faizal Musa atau Faisal Tehrani bertugas sebagai felo di Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu (UKM), Felo Pelawat di ISEAS-Yusuf Ishak dan Bersekutu untuk sebuah projek di bawah Weatherhead Center, Universiti Harvard.
Malaysian Insight, 16 August 2022
29. Will the 8.9% growth momentum last?
Sinchew 星洲网, 16 August 2022
30. Day of reckoning? Ship scandal piles pressure on Malaysian PM Ismail Sabri to call for snap polls
Joseph Sipalan
South China Morning Post, 16 August 2022
31. MP hopes Sabah govt serious about developing Tawau as border town
Durie Rainer Fong
Star, 16 August 2022
32. States advised to adopt Federal anti-hopping law format for uniformity
Martin Carvalho and Joseph Kaos Jr
Star, 16 August 2022
Myanmar
33. Steering committee established to purchase, store and distribute Russian oil
Eleven Myanmar, 16 August 2022
34. Engagement With Myanmar’s Junta Has Failed
Ye Myo Hein, a fellow with the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Foreign Policy, 16 August 2022
35. Not fare: Foodpanda riders dodge soldiers to deliver food and get paid a pittance
Frontier Myanmar, 16 August 2022
36. Don’t Bet on Myanmar Junta No. 2 Ousting His Boss
Irrawaddy, 16 August 2022
37. Myanmar’s Supply Chains Break Down Amid Fuel Shortages
Irrawaddy, 16 August 2022
38. UN human rights chief advises Rohingya to wait for repatriation
Sunil Barua and Abdur Rahman
Radio Free Asia, 16 August 2022
Philippines
39. What the Philippines has at stake in Taiwan
SUSANNAH PATTON
Interpreter, 16 August 2022
40. Philippines considers pivot to Japan to help finance railway projects, after funding shortfall stalls China deals
South China Morning Post, 16 August 2022
Thailand
41. New border bridge plan gets a boost
Bangkok Post, 17 August 2022
42. Ruam Phaen Din ‘no mere clone’
Wassana Nanuam
Bangkok Post, 17 August 2022
43. Why Is Household Debt in Thailand So High?
James Guild
Diplomat, 16 August 2022
44. Thailand likely to deploy Chinese submarine engines to avoid showing Beijing ‘signs of weakness’, analysts say
Jitsiree Thongnoi
South China Morning Post, 16 August 2022
Vietnam
45. Income per capita in 2030 expected to be equal to Malaysia in 2007
VietNamNet, 16 August 2022
46. Vietnam able to become new tiger in Asia: economist
VietNamNet, 16 August 2022
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
47. Russian defence minister invited to ADMM-Plus and related meetings
Khmer Times, 17 August 2022
48. SEA’s great power ‘neutrality’ risks being pro-China and anti-US
Susannah Patton
ThinkChina, 17 August 2022
49. Oxford to Introduce Southeast Asian Studies Center
Jakarta Globe, 16 August 2022
50. 东盟不易秉持中立 [Not easy for ASEAN to maintain neutrality]
刘凯迪
Sinchew 星洲网, 16 August 2022
Asia Pacific
51. Forum: Key events of the past decade offer perspective on US-China ties
Vijayakumar P.T.
Straits Times, 17 August 2022
52. 報復裴洛西訪台 專家：陸未來禁令 可能針對綠縣市產業 [Retaliation for Pelosi’s Taiwan visit – Experts: Mainland’s future bans may target industries controlled by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party]
世界新聞網, 16 August 2022
53. Speaker Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit: Implications for the Indo-Pacific
Jude Blanchette, Charles Edel, Christopher B. Johnstone, Victor Cha, Ellen Kim, Gregory B. Poling
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (United States), 15 August 2022
East/South China Sea
54. Why is Australia risking conflict with China?
Mark Valencia
Asia Times, 16 August 2022
Climate Change/Environment
55. South-east Asian food companies risk loss of investments, higher capital costs amid rising ESG demands
UMA DEVI
Business Times, 17 August 2022
56. In Sumatra, rising seas and sinking land spell hard times for fishers
Tonggo Simangunsong
Mongabay, 16 August 2022
57. Food Insecurity Beyond Borders: Untangling the Complex Impacts of Ukraine War on Global Food Security
[12-page PDF document]
Jose Ma. Luis P. Montesclaros, Margareth Sembiring
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 16 August 2022
58. Indonesian companies step up climate change targets, tap into green businesses
Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja
Straits Times, 16 August 2022
59. New climate policy fails to sway critics
Bangkok Post, 15 August 2022
60. How digitalized buildings can improve energy efficiency in ASEAN
Christina Aprilia and Rio Jon Piter Siltonga
Jakarta Post, 15 August 2022
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