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Even years later, if I told a Jakarta taxi driver I used to teach at Satya Wacana, their face would light up: “Arief Budiman, very good!”

“For hundreds of years, we’ve been practising so-called self-quarantine. Long before the recent COVID-19 outbreak. We called it besesandingon.”

The collection of facial recognition data to identify separatist insurgents in the deep south will only feed distrust towards the Thai state.

With tourism making up a relatively small portion of Indonesia’s GDP, investment and household consumption do the heavy lifting in this trillion-dollar economy.

The intensification of punitive sexual surveillance in Indonesia goes deeper than the rise of conservative Islam.

Constraints on freedom of expression have expanded alongside dynamic economic growth in Laos over the past 12 months. Where will it lead?

Young people are at a higher risk of mental health conditions when compared to the rest of the population, leading to poorer health outcomes, human rights violations and local and global economic loss.

Women in Rakhine state are doubly jeopardised when the threat of COVID-19 intersects with war.

Reports emerging of anti-communist attacks in cities and rural areas, arrests of activists and union members, and military action in spite of a declared ceasefire.

Technological solutions like TraceTogether will only effectively if people believe it’s there to help them.