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- No. 10: Siwage Dharma Negara, Senior Fellow and Co-coordinator
- No. 16: Norshahril Saat, Senior Fellow, and Nur Syafiqah Binte Mohd Taufek, Research Officer
- No. 21: Norshahril Saat, Senior Fellow, and Lee Poh Onn
- No. 29: Cassey Lee, Senior Fellow and Co-ordinator
- No. 38: Aries A Arugay, Visiting 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 | Media, Technology & Society | Others
Indonesia
1. High debt to shrink fiscal space for Prabowo administration
Deni Ghifari
Jakarta Post, 8 July 2024
2. Analysis: Jokowi pulls all stops to stop Anies from winning Jakarta race
Tenggara Strategics
Jakarta Post, 8 July 2024
3. Indonesia’s tariff policy within the global political economy
Virdika Rizky Utama
Jakarta Post, 8 July 2024
4. Indonesia’s EV drive faces geopolitical headwinds
Robert Walker and Hilman Palaon
Nikkei Asia, 8 July 2024
5. Kaesang Advised to Contest in Central Java Rather than Jakarta
Djibril Muhammad
Jakarta Globe, 7 July 2024
6. Kaesang tops latest survey for potential candidates to run in Central Java race
Radhiyya Indra’s
Jakarta Post, 7 July 2024
7. Disagreement emerges among pro-Prabowo parties over regional election candidates
Yerica Lai
Jakarta Post, 7 July 2024
8. Golkar, Gerindra race to win West Java heats up
Yerica Lai
Jakarta Post, 6 July 2024
9. Indonesia business lobby says tariffs ‘not solution’ for industry
Akane Okutsu
Nikkei Asia, 6 July 2024
10. Indonesia gets ‘wake-up call’ to step up sustainability efforts in nickel industry after BASF pull-out
Amy Chew
South China Morning Post, 6 July 2024
11. Jemaah Islamiyah disbands: End of an era or strategic transformation?
Kusumasari Ayuningtyas
Benar News, 5 July 2024
12. PKB backs Bobby Nasution for North Sumatra election
News Desk (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta Post, 5 July 2024
Laos
13. Laos can feed itself, but its food security is complicated
David Hutt
Radio Free Asia, 7 July 2024
14. China Now “Owns A Country”, Literally! Expert Says There Is No Other Nation With A Higher Debt Exposure Than Laos
Sakshi Tiwari
Eurasian Times, 6 July 2024
Malaysia
15. Protes pengundi terhadap kegagalan tangani isu setempat, nasional punca PH kalah [Voters’ protest against failure to deal with local and national issues caused PH loss]
Prof Dr Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani
Berita Harian, 8 July 2024
16. The Rise Of A New Breed Of Islamic Preacher In Malaysia – OpEd
[Link to Scholarly or Trendy? The Declining Influence of Malaysian Muftis and the Emergence of Popular Preachers]
Vanitha Nadaraj
Eurasia Review, 8 July 2024
17. Will Sg Bakap loss lead to same ending as Tg Piai defeat?
Isabelle Leong & Haspaizi Zain
Malaysiakini, 8 July 2024
18. The further greening of Sungai Bakap
Mustafa K. Anuar
The Malaysian Insight, 8 July 2024
19. Kerajaan perpaduan jangan lena diulit kuasa [The unity government should not be complacent about power]
Syed Badli Shah Syed Osman aktivis PKR dan mantan naib ketua Angkatan Muda Keadilan Malaysia.
The Malaysian Insight, 8 July 2024
20. Gagal urus isu, komunikasi punca kalah di Sungai Bakap [Failure to manage issues, communication is the cause of defeat in Sungai Bakap]
Utusan Malaysia, 8 July 2024
21. Commentary: Sarawak offers Malaysia lessons in managing diversity
[This commentary first appeared on ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute’s blog, Fulcrum.]
Norshahril Saat and Lee Poh Onn
CNA, 7 July 2024
22. People reject Anwar’s govt, policies, say Bersatu leaders
Free Malaysia Today, 7 July 2024
23. S’wak parties don’t need Sabah presence to fortify Bornean bloc, says Shafie
Muguntan Vanar
Star, 7 July 2024
24. The political corruption of education
K. Haridas
The Malaysian Insight, 7 July 2024
25. Sentimen Islam terancam antara punca kekalahan – Ahmad Zahid [Sentiment of Islam being threatened one of the reasons for loss – Ahmad Zahid]
Amran Mulup
Utusan Malaysia, 7 July 2024
26. Economists back creation of special economic zones in Sarawak
Amirul Aiman
Free Malaysia Today, 6 July 2024
27. Discontent all around as voters head for polls in Sungai Bakap
Predeep Nambiar
Free Malaysia Today, 6 July 2024
28. ‘We lost the narrative’, Penang CM says over Sg Bakap loss
Shahrin Aizat Noorshahrizam, N Faizal Ghazali & Seth Akmal
Malaysiakini, 6 July 2024
29. Millions of Malaysians dip into retirement savings to make ends meet
Joseph Sipalan
South China Morning Post, 6 July 2024
Myanmar
30. The road to a resistance victory in Myanmar
Anthony Davis
Asia Times, 8 July 2024
31. Myanmar military’s bombing of civilians set for record year
Dominic Faulder
Nikkei Asia, 8 July 2024
32. July 7 Memorial: Recalling The Source of Myanmar’s Revolutionary Spirit
Irrawaddy, 7 July 2024
33. ‘Demographic dividend’ a long-term casualty of Myanmar’s civil war
David Hutt
Radio Free Asia, 6 July 2024
34. In Myanmar’s ‘fight to the death’, it’s the junta and its warlords vs everyone else
Huw Watkin
South China Morning Post, 6 July 2024
35. Defector Stories: Inside the Exodus from Myanmar’s Military
Gary Rocchio
Irrawaddy, 5 July 2024
Philippines
36. Philippines to seek diplomatic solutions in South China Sea
Ramon Royandoyan and Yuki Fujita
Nikkei Asia, 8 July 2024
37. Former Philippine leader Duterte and aide accused of steering government contracts to cronies
Jim Gomez
AP News, 5 July 2024
38. The unravelling of the Marcos-Duterte dynastic alliance
[Originally published here on Fulcrum]
Aries A Arugay
ThinkChina, 5 July 2024
Thailand
39. Divisions on the horizon?
Bangkok Post, 6 July 2024
40. Special Border Economic Zones’ progress revealed
The Nation, 6 July 2024
41. Thailand’s Strange and Undemocratic Democracy
Voranai Vanijaka
Diplomat, 5 July 2024
42. Blue faction set to dominate senate once EC issues certification
The Nation, 5 July 2024
Vietnam
43. Political upheaval in Vietnam is holding its economy back
Ahmed Albayrak Roland Rajah
Interpreter, 8 July 2024
44. Is Vietnam’s anti-corruption drive a disguised power grab?
Toru Takahashi
Nikkei Asia, 8 July 2024
45. Putin’s diplomacy roadshow in North Korea and Vietnam
Khang Vu
Interpreter, 5 July 2024
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
46. Myanmar rebels flooding Thailand with meth
Wassana Nanuam
Bangkok Post, 8 July 2024
47. In Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, ageing Asia’s demographic reckoning looms
Aidan Jones, Kimberly Lim and Aminah Farid
South China Morning Post, 6 July 2024
48. Malaysia appoints former national security chief to broker Thai peace talks
Benar News, 5 July 2024
East/South China Sea
49. Philippines, Japan sign landmark defence deal in move to counter China
Mara Cepeda
Straits Times, 8 July 2024
50. 日菲《互惠准入协定》潜藏破坏性 [The Japan-Philippines Reciprocal Access Agreement is potentially destructive]
孙家珅是中国社会科学院东海问题研究中心助理研究员
环球网, 8 July 2024
51. Philippine Military Demands $1M in Reparations From China After Maritime Clash
Sebastian Strangio
Diplomat, 5 July 2024
52. When America and China Collided: Why the Countries Are Dangerously Unprepared for a Repeat of the 2001 Crisis
Jane Perlez
Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2024
53. South China Sea: most Filipinos want Beijing to follow rules-based order, survey shows
[Link to 2-page PDF document: Public opinion on the WPS issue from a commissioned survey]
Raissa Robles
South China Morning Post, 5 July 2024
Climate Change/Environment
54. Malaysia’s Sarawak seeks billion-dollar gains in global decarbonisation market climate
Tan Ai Leng
Business Times, 8 July 2024
55. Empowering small farmers can combat climate risk across Asia
Lisa Genasci
Nikkei Asia, 7 July 2024
56. Is Wind Farm Development in Low-Wind Regions a High-Stakes Gamble?
Agus Hasan
Jakarta Globe, 6 July 2024
57. Chinese EVs Are Gaining Momentum in Indonesia
Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Yeta Purnama
Stratsea, 6 July 2024
Media, Technology & Society
58. Future of Data Governance in Asia and Operationalisation of ‘Data Free Flow with Trust’
[Link to 8-page PDF]
Keita Oikawa
ERIA, 5 July 2024
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