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article 17 Aug 2026

Waiting for the Super Rich

The Orde Baru relaunches on Serangan Island, Bali

Bali's Serangan Island: an international financial centre rising on reclaimed land tangled in New Order dynasties, tax havens and mangrove destruction.

essay 15 Aug 2026

The Soldier's Inheritance

Prabowo Subianto and the New Order Restoration

How Prabowo's New Order military formation shapes Indonesia's 2025-26 institutions: Kopassus, the 1998 abductions, Danantara and Suharto's hero decree.

essay 1 Nov 1999

The New Order State and the Tempo Affair

A conflict of values

How Indonesia's 1994 Tempo banning exposed a deeper clash between New Order corporatism and Western liberal individualism under Soeharto.

essay 2 Jun 1998

Analysing the end of Suharto's Indonesia

The role of culture in Indonesian politics

Javanese cosmology and aliran streams, not Western political science, explain Suharto's 1998 fall—an anthropological analysis.