Southeast Asia
Bangladesh-Myanmar Relations: Time to break the stalemate?
In this age of interdependence, all countries are interrelated and interconnected to each other. It is true that there will be some issues between...
Revisiting Indonesia’s Communication Strategy in Amplifying “New Bali” Tourism Project
Bali has been praised into top tourist destination in the world for decades. Surfing on Kuta beach, enjoying tropical fruit drinks while watching the...
How the Vietnamese History Constrains its Policy Choices Today
Recently, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Center released its annual State of Southeast Asia Report that, among other things, found Vietnamese distrust of China remains very high....
The ASEAN Way and the Myanmar Coup
Authors: Harsh Mahaseth and Aryan Tulsyan*
Myanmar has a long and complicated relationship with the ASEAN. It could be traced back to 1967, when the...
The Role ASEAN Could Have Played in the Myanmar Coup
Authors: Harsh Mahaseth and Aryan Tulsyan*
The ASEAN’s political strategy has suffered from incoherence because ASEAN and its member states have remained more concerned with...
Indonesia’s Own Jurassic Park: The Komodo National Park and Its Controversies
Authors:Harsh Mahaseth and Samyuktha Karthikeyan*
Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg is a class movie. Since the release of the movie, numerous people have hoped...
Dilemma of Indonesian Presidency at the G20 Summit as the West Rejects Russia’s Presence
The G20 is an international cooperation forum consisting of 19 giant economies. G20 membership consists of representatives of developed and developing countries as well...
Indonesian Herbs: Empowering Indonesian women in the Menoreh Mountain Area
Indonesia is a country rich in biodiversity that in each region of Indonesia has a lot of natural wealth in the form of medicinal...
Autocratic vs. Democratic Islam = UAE vs. Indonesia
Indonesia has emerged as a primary battleground between democratic and autocratic visions of Islam in the 21st century.
The battle pits Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the...
Indonesian Constitution Message on Election Postponement
It is provocating to read the legal point of view written by some Indonesian scholars to create legal basis of the delaying of concurrent...