Gary Dean
The Thamrin attack from twelve storeys up -- Jakarta, 14 January 2016
Gary Dean recalls the 2016 Jakarta Starbucks bombing from his 12th-floor office window—eyewitness photos, messages, and Indonesia's swift aftermath.
When Dharmas Go Wrong
Every strength of a dharma has a dark twin: the fence that unites also excludes, the authority that frees also rules. No dharma escapes its own failures.
Oxytocin isn't the 'love hormone' fuelling tribal hatred—evidence shows it strengthens in-group bonds far more reliably than out-group hostility.
A manufactured war
Analysis of the 1999-2000 Maluku conflict: how ethnic tension, religion and Jakarta's power struggles turned communal strife into war.
Milgram's obedience experiment examined: collective morality, war crimes, and how individual freedom clashes with bureaucratic authority.
