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  1. Postingan yang sangat bermanfaat, maju terus new mandala

  2. Kangkung says:

    Some fighters of liberal ideas in Indonesia brave enough to hold on autonomy on their anatomy and show off their gentalia in public despite public condemnation and police arrests.

  3. Mark Woodward says:

    There is no reason to expect that relief efforts will reach the most vulnerable people, especially ethnic and religious minorities. Minorities including the Rohingya and other Muslims and Christians in the Northwest have long been at risk of persecution, if not actually experiencing it.

    I’ve been on the Nagaland (India)/Burma border twice in the last year — once with one foot in Nagaland and the other in Burma. The Burma government clearly cares little about the welfare of Naga people. The paved road stops at the border. From that point there is nothing but a foot path leading into Burma. Konyak Naga people on the India side carry on a clandestine trade with those on the Burma side with whom they have religious, ethnic and kinship ties but are not able to offer them much assistance — other than (literally) preaching from the mountain tops through loud speakers to offer some measure of comfort.

  4. BAMBANG PRANGGONO, IR., MBA. says:

    Me myself had established a national mosque youth movement during the 70’s in Bandung. A non partisan muslim youth organization outside of the existing polarized Muhammadiyah – N.U. patron, as a reaction to the anti Islam pressure from the Soeharto’s government. Named BKPMI, ( or Indonesian Assembly of Mosque Youth), the “back to mosque” movement was quickly spreading all over the archipelago. Without the aid of any rich patron nor internet technology, it gained popularity among millions of muslim youth. The internet was not used at those time.

  5. Fajar Nindyo says:

    Democracy level in Indonesia decrease after issuing of UU ITE

  6. Barbara Leigh says:

    A most insightful series of reflections based on in-depth research into celebrity culture – where the political and the theatrical morph into each other. Writ large – Duterte and Trump personify this trend. Agency by either members of an audience or by attendees at political rallies. Understandable. Disturbing!!

  7. John Lowrie says:

    Accurate summary of well-founded fears that PM Hun Sen in Cambodia is using the potential threat of a major Covid-19 outbreak to consolidate the intrusive controls he already wields over the country to stifle all remaining forms of opposition. This has only one purpose – to assure his rule and plan for his succession. It comes at the most severe of costs. In most countries remarkable collective community-led initiatives have sprung-up, to help most vulnerable groups, and to ensure social-distancing and isolation policies are effective in stemming the spread of infection. Hun Sen’s measures, before and after his Emergency Law, have as one major purpose to destroy freedom of assembly. In other words to prevent not only self-help groups helping neighbours out through the difficulties but also of course to stop mobilising political opposition. So you can see his priority is self-preservation not that of people. https://twitter.com/LowrieJohn/status/1248240278823227393?s=20

  8. Elly Kent says:

    We hope to be publishing articles looking at these aspects over the coming weeks, stay tuned!

  9. Point taken.

  10. im interested on the outbreaks in the marginalized:remote, stateless.and discriminated

  11. Elly Kent says:

    Please note that in the third paragraph “authors are encouraged to suggest new themes to the guest editor”. If you consider your proposed topic would add a new perspective to this conversation, feel free to send a proposed abstract to our guest editor.

  12. Peter Cohen says:

    This has everything to do with ideology and nothing to do with public health. Nowhere did I see the topic of doctors and research in virology in Southeast Asia. This demonstrates that the divide between science and social science can be easily real and it shows the ignorance of social science when it comes to medicine.

  13. Sophiemarie Kung says:

    Most scholars have been focusing on analyzing contemporary Thai politics at the individual and national levels i.e. class struggle, military legitimacy or left-right ideology, failing to touch on the international level of analysis where the real objective lies. I propose to analyze the FFP’s strategic and foreign policy agenda as the means to explain the underlying force on the national security issue leading to the confrontation between the FFP and the Thai military. Whereas Piyabutr’s goal seems to aim at ‘liberte, fraternite, egalite’, Thanathorn’s goal in seeking state power aims to alter Thailand’s military and foreign policy, failing to understand the significance of the special relations between China and Thailand.

  14. Angeli Grace says:

    Very interesting.

  15. Tukkae says:

    Apart from the questionable rulings on political cases, the Constitution Court surprised in early 2014 before the coup by stopping the high speed train project of the Yingluck administration, one judge even claiming “Non paved roads should disappear first” before such a project is implemented.

  16. Min Kyaw says:

    Don’t left-wing political ideologies undermind Thainess? Preserving Thainess, and their ethnicities, should be a highest priority for the Thais.

  17. Josh says:

    “If Thai garlic is so good – “Thai garlic is better in taste and medicinal properties, such as preventing cancer. Consumers want to buy Thai garlic” – why can’t it command a premium price?”

    In fact Thai garlic does cost more, which is why Chinese garlic is outselling it. Now that supply from China is under threat due to the slowdown in transport in the coronavirus age, the prices are becoming more equal. But That garlic has been priced at a higher point per weight than Chinese garlic for at least 10 years, in my observation.

  18. ARF says:

    I was thinking that your comment is (/must be) ironic… but now I have doubts… Are you serious?
    “Well, the answer is yes with some caveats” This is totally made up.

  19. Jafri Basron says:

    Cohen,
    Shalom

    Your tone of writting implied so much of your mindset and inclination about the Cocos Island Malay community.

  20. Jafri Basron says:

    There are plenty of research papers on Cocos Island community at University of Malaya.