The Return of the Single Door
Indonesia, August 2026: current conditions and scenarios to 2030
Indonesia's 2026 crisis: record-low rupiah, disputed GDP data, and a state reasserting control via Danantara, capital controls and export monopolies.
Gary Dean
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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.
Digital Sovereignty
It's Time for Indonesia to Act
Europe built a sovereign office suite in 72 hours. Indonesia has talked digital sovereignty for 20 years. Gary Dean on why that must change now.
Ethno-Religious Conflict in Maluku
A manufactured war
Analysis of the 1999-2000 Maluku conflict: how ethnic tension, religion and Jakarta's power struggles turned communal strife into war.
The Myth of the Jakarta Lobby
A critique of Brian Toohey's 1999 'Jakarta Lobby' article, exposing Australian ignorance towards Indonesia during the East Timor crisis.
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.
The development and future of the nation-state
Tracing the nation-state from hunter-gatherer bands to Westphalia and colonialism, and its decline under globalisation and the rise of global cities.
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.
Globalisasi, Kedaulatan Nasional dan Konflik Masa Depan
Analisis akademis tentang dampak globalisasi terhadap kedaulatan negara bangsa, peran AS dan MNC, serta potensi konflik masa depan. Esai UGM 1997.
Siapa yang pantas menjadi Presiden Indonesia Tahun Depan?
Satu Pandangan
Analisis calon pengganti Suharto: Hartono, Sutrisno, Harmoko, Habibie, dan Megawati sebagai alternatif kepemimpinan Indonesia.
