Professor Edward Aspinall researches Indonesian and Southeast Asian politics at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. His latest books are “Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia”, coauthored with Meredith L. Weiss, Allen Hicken and Paul D. Hutchcroft (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and “Governing Urban Indonesia”, co-edited with Amalinda Savirani (ISEAS, 2024).