News and analysis from Southeast Asia twice a week 🙂 and 🇦🇺🇮🇩 whenever I feel like it
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Yesterday, we found out that Cong. Paolo Duterte filed libel complaints against GMA journalists. Today, journalist Philip Lustre is arrested in a press conference over a warrant from Davao for a cyber libel case he did not know existed. Libel must be decriminalized.
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Spoke with Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur in the occupied Palestinian territories, about how Indonesia should reconsider its involvement in Trump's Gaza peace plan reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…
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Six Greenpeace Indonesia activists were arrested and taken to Polda Metro Jaya following a protest at Bundaran HI earlier today.
The professional climbers consist of four men and two women.
(idntimes.com/news/indonesia/…)
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Demonstrasi mahasiswa ini digelar bertepatan dua tahun pemerintahan Prabowo-Gibran.
Di Jakarta, puluhan mahasiswa berdemonstrasi di kawasan Patung Kuda, Jakarta Pusat, Selasa (20/10) siang. Mereka membawa spanduk bertuliskan Rapor Merah 2 Tahun Tolak Rezim Fasis Prabowo-Gibran. bbc.com/indonesia/articles/c…
The amount of times you hear Kami Belum Tantu on Instagram is directly related to the expected size of the demo (only once so far, but it did sound sick with the banner unfurling)
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Setidaknya tiga anak meninggal dunia di tengah kepungan kabut asap karhutla. "Pemerintah jangan buta. Jangan bilang kondisi asap tidak parah. Banyak yang kena ISPA," ujar seorang ibu. bbc.in/3VIpaca
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If you want to read on, check the full version on @OCCRP here
occrp.org/en/feature/meet-th…
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Malaysian student faces online threats after videos of her criticising Najib donations went viral bit.ly/4yNr4Gl
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The past few weeks have been truly devastating for #Rohingya.
Governments are moving towards returns, deals and renewed engagement with the #MyanmarMilitary.
Meanwhile, the news from #RakhineState is truly horrifying.
Our sources tell us Rohingya are trapped between Myanmar military airstrikes and their communities terrorised by the #ArakanArmy.
Young Rohingya are forcibly recruited to become human shields. People are being arrested and extorted. Families are fleeing. Homes, land and villages are taken by the Arakan Army.
On 28 September, 34 Rohingya from one village in #Rathedaung were arrested at once by Arakan Army.
The next day, one man was returned to his family dead.The other 33 are still missing. Their families have been given no answers.
Politics is going backwards while Rohingya face total erasure.
This is an emergency.
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Rohingya exclusion birthed one crisis; the coup spread it nationwide. Only a shared political future for all can end both.
Deporting refugees and shaking hands with the general behind both crises solves neither.
english.dvb.no/get-the-rohin…
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Indigenous and civil-society organizations in Indonesia's Pontianak criticized the national government for failing to attend the first court proceedings in their class action suit seeking to hold it responsible for the haze engulfing the province. reuters.com/business/environ…
this is absolutely shameless.
Mengakhiri agenda lawatan, kami menghadiri majlis makan tengah hari rasmi yang diserikan dengan persembahan kebudayaan dan warisan seni, mencerminkan kepelbagaian budaya Malaysia dan Myanmar.
Moga segala hasil dan persefahaman yang dicapai sepanjang lawatan ini dapat diterjemahkan kepada langkah susulan seperti yang dirancang, demi memperkukuh hubungan dua hala dan kepentingan bersama.
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#YakinMADANI
#DiplomasiMADANI
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I have a new piece in The Interpreter on the China-#Laos joint air training center at Ban Keun airport, an interesting test case of China's expanding military influence in mainland Southeast Asia. A few thoughts below🧵: lowyinstitute.org/the-interp…
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Reposting my piece from this week for @CFR_org and @ThinkGlobalHlth about how much Myanmar people are suffering as the White House now reportedly tries to engage with the brutal military regime Myanmar's Health System Is Under Siege, Endangering the Region thinkglobalhealth.org/articl…
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Min Aung Hlaing, accused of genocide and war crimes, gets the red carpet treatment in another SE Asian capital. After the coup his troops shot protesters, including children, in the head and publicised it. They’ve since bombed and killed 1000s, per the UN. reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…
