Aidan Hall

All things history, politics and southeast asia

[Aidan Hall @Aidan_Hall_]

In 1965-66 the UK🇬🇧 government tried to provoke a coup and encourage the massacre of civilians in Indonesia🇮🇩. Read how and why they did so in my article for @InsideIndo, an abridged version of my masters thesis at @lsehistory.
https://t.co/KX1Fxc0KwW

[BBC News Indonesia @BBCIndonesia]

Berbagai lapisan masyarakat dan sejumlah elemen mahasiswa dari sejumlah universitas masih menggelar demonstrasi di depan gedung DPR, Jakarta, Kamis (27/08) sore.

Massa tak hanya menuntut pengesahan RUU Perampasan Aset. Kritik terhadap MBG, KDMP, hingga penanganan bencana gempabumi di NTT dan karhutla di sejumlah wilayah Indonesia. https://t.co/1GzRX3JzhY

[regi-na @disiniregi]

baru kali ini pulang dari perpus, hati rasanya hangat betul 🥺♥️

perpusnya gratis. nyatu sama rumah pemilik. pasutri. ngeliat mereka kaya adem bgt. super duper BAIKKKKK.

aku daftar member biar bisa minjem. sebrang rumah mereka ada cafe.

📍Nandur Buku, Meruya, Jakbar

[David Fishman @pretentiouswhat]

Ironically, the primary purpose of the Three Gorges Dam is flood control, not power production, although that is of course an important secondary function of the facility.

The question "what if the dam fails?" is an incomplete hypothetical. Any engineering project, from a bridge to a skyscraper to a power plant, has some small risk of failure. The probabilistic question that should be asked is: "what is the risk if the dam isn't there?"

For that, we don't have to look for hypothetical counterfactuals. Before the Three Gorges Dam was built, major flooding events along the Yangtze occurred in 1998, 1954, 1935, and 1931, to name just the 20th century ones. Hundreds of thousands drowned across these events, plus several million deaths more attributed to subsequent disease and starvation.

If there is rainfall downstream at the same time as snowmelt or rainfall upstream, the combined water ingress can cause rivers and lakes to burst their banks, flooding communities and croplands. The reservoir functions as a huge sponge, absorbing upstream water to shield bodies of water downstream. It can also release water at strategic times later, for example to stabilize water supply during droughts.

Since the dam's construction, there have been two major flood seasons on the Yangtze, in 2010 and 2020, and neither produced mortality anywhere close to the past. So the 3GD is not just NOT a "really terrible" idea; it is probably among the most life-saving hydraulic engineering projects ever undertaken...AND it produces power.

Many hydroelectric facilities worldwide share this design logic, including Egypt's Aswan Dam, built to control the flooding of the Nile River, and India's Hirakud Dam, built to control the flooding of the Mahanadi River. To a lesser extent, the USA's Hoover Dam and TVA dam projects as well. All were conceived as water management projects first and power projects second.

[ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute @ISEAS]

#New in the Trends in Southeast Asia Series from #ISEASPublishing - No. 21/26: “Meme Generation Fights Militarization: Youth Protest in Prabowo’s Indonesia” By Yatun Sastramidjaja. Visit #ISEASBookshop https://t.co/7ddxzx8DR9 Download https://t.co/gN1uhx9Lca

[Joseph Rachman @rachman_joseph]

Watch this man

Governor of West Java "Kang" Dedi Mulyadi is the canniest self-promoter in Indonesian politics

When floods hit Sumatra he rushed there, now he rushes to NTT after an earthquake

Many will be comparing to this to a presidential response widely seen as inadequate

[agis @dallaballer]

Mengunjungi seorang teman, diperlihatkan bundel koran Malang yg memberitakan Peristiwa Madiun 48 secara real-time, dari sebelum meletus hingga sesudahnya. Heran, pemberitaan sedemikian terang-terangan ternyata tak cukup mendorong pemerintah mengantisipasi kemungkinan terburuk.

[Aidan Hall @Aidan_Hall_]

@farraspradana_ Tulisan ini menarik sekali. Hal yang paling menarik: seperti Muhammad Yamin, Malaka ingin 'Greater Indonesia' yang termasuk Malaya, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma dan Filipina. Negara itu namanya 'Aslia' (see p. 7, 169-170, 190-192).

[Detail Kekalahan @farraspradana_]

Tan Malaka ada di mana-mana.

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

The Great Mosque of Jaipur

Many years ago I became obsessed with the work of Albert Kahn, the French photographer who commissioned colour images from across the world in the wake of WW1.

For years I was intrigued by this image entitled "Great Mosque of Jaipur" which was a place I could never quite find.

[agis @dallaballer]

Mendapatkan majalah istimewa, bagian sejarah pers Indonesia era kolonial. Menghembuskan propaganda nafas perjuangan Islam dan semangat kekirian. Surat kabar yg diasuh tokoh legendaris Haji Misbach, sang Haji Merah! Edisi ini keluar pasca dibuang ke Boven Digul.

[Brad Simpson (bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social) @bradleyrsimpson]

Please distribute widely. I'm thrilled to be one of the organizers of what promises to be a landmark conference on the history of Indonesian internationalism, to be held July 14-16 at UGM in Yogyakarta. Email me for more info. https://t.co/RmSv0afSpd

[Financial Times @FT]

Analysis of satellite imagery, open-source data and verified footage shows that Israeli forces have systematically destroyed homes, roads, farmland and forests despite a ceasefire with Hizbollah. https://t.co/NFukdFjbjw

[Logos ID @logos_id]

Wah pas sekali mimin baru beli!! Kemarin sekilas lihat sangat menarik isinya!

[NUS Press @NUS_Press]

#NewBook: 📚 "Print Passages" is the first in-depth history of colonial era Indonesian print and book culture. Author Kuitert will share her insights alongside fellow experts online on 28 Aug. Get the book / sign up for the launch here: https://t.co/wKhpvPa2kw

[Aqwam Fiazmi Hanifan @aqfiazfan]

Ini contoh kasus kalau monetisasi platform gak diatur dan dibiarkan ugal-ugalan. Bagaimana banyak ibu-ibu di pedalaman Kalimantan atau Sumatera secara gak sadar terlibat dlm berita-berita hoax pendukung Trump atau kelompok konservatif kanan di Amerika, Eropa atau Australia.

Saya intens ngulik ini dari 2 bulan lalu, laporan panjang sedang on going berjalan. Feelingku ini akan jadi bom masalah besar di musim Pemilu 2029 nanti.

Link artikel: https://t.co/7HFYcaUl6M

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

Why is the Last Tomb of the Ottoman Empire lying abandoned in rural India?

[Emile Chabal @emile_chabal]

It's here! After so many years!

I wasn't entirely sure this book would really happen, until I opened the box. Now, perhaps, it's time to let go of it and see what others think..?

Thanks to @Harvard_Press and everyone else who followed me in this journey.

[New Mandala @newmandala]

NEW 🇦🇺🇮🇩 "With the decline of Indonesian language education in our schools, and of Indonesian studies in our universities, the structural foundation that ACICIS was built to complement has weakened dramatically." https://t.co/Z4LZqlQ13M

[Bambang @sibambaang]

Siap-siap 2 pulau ini gak lama lagi akan hilang.
90% lahannya abis ditambang.

Lokasi Kepulauan Riau.l

[tempo.co @tempodotco]

Tempo memiliki pemimpin redaksi baru. Bagja Hidayat, yang sebelumnya menjabat wakil pemimpin redaksi Tempo, ditunjuk sebagai pemimpin redaksi menggantikan Setri Yasra. Serah terima jabatan itu berlangsung di kantor Tempo, Jalan Palmerah Barat, Jakarta Selatan, pada 29 Juli 2026.

Pada kesempatan yang sama, Setri Yasra, yang kini bergeser ke jajaran direksi, mengatakan bahwa pergantian pemimpin redaksi di Tempo adalah bagian dari kaderisasi.

#tempodotco #TUpdate #Pemred