Bali based regional correspondent for the Straits Times, co-host of Reformasi Dispatch, co-founder of On The Level Media, wannabe Muay Thai fighter, dog dad
Will leverage my podcasting celebrity status from @Reformasi_pod and apply for a golden visa via the 'personage' lane me thinks! https://t.co/OuunvZ21o9
We originally budgeted 20 mins but then ... as can happen with a diplomats, we got chatty. I can honestly say among the better interviews -- ie it's up there with anything we've done with @MumfordAsia ...It's that good
Our latest! With @MarcielScot
fmr US ambassador to Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia and author of “Imperfect Partners” a look-back at his 35yr career w/ insights into, balancing China, democracy in SE Asia. Forget Netflix! Scot is THE diplomat https://t.co/q9PEVBcV82
Our latest! @evndari (Eva Sundari) joins to discuss the domestic workers bill finally winding through parliament. Among the reforms: a central registry to curb child and forced labour. Party politicking and JKT's new #LRT round out the pod
https://t.co/8P9lremGJP
Our latest! @ptr_yeung, joins the pod to talk about his new piece in @wired on the dirty business of making EV batteries. But first: how the KPK chair's zeal to press corruption charges on ex Jakarta Gov Anies Baswedan would backfire. https://t.co/FgGY3KTEpg
The Reformasi Weekly Newsletter is out. A lower court ruling -- sure to be overturned -- requires pushing the presidential election four months to allow the fledgling Partai Prima time to field candidates. Go to https://t.co/XD5zi0FBqL for a free two week trial
Our latest! https://t.co/B5uC7PtQSz
Ex-pol gen Ferdy Sambo sentence to death but Widodo admin unlikely to follow thru on police reform. TI @anticorruption's CPI shows big slump. And Dan Slater @SlaterPolitics joins to talk lessons from Indo democracy https://t.co/5au5N8CicH
@evimsofian 😂 I spend time thinking about the weirdness of Indonesian food in the Netherlands and Dutch food in Indonesia way, way more than I should. Maybe this is especially because I’m from Bandung.
The Widodo administration has squandered an opportunity to overhaul Indonesia’s corrupt police. Ferdy’s death sentence (which thankfully will likely not be carried out) distracts from the systemic rot he represents. Less noose. More broom https://t.co/acpMCH3kvZ
We’re putting together a great show at @Reformasi_pod@SlaterPolitics joins us. We read more tea leaves on the going’s on inside PDI-P. And after years of progress, corruption is making an unwelcome comeback.
COMING UP on this week’s Reformasi Dispatch: Dan Slater @slaterpolitics Murfin Prof @umichLSA talks to @jeffreyhutton and Kevin about the presidential election, Indonesian democracy’s successes and what could undo hard earned gains.
Our latest! @Tito_Ambyo of @RMIT & co-host of podcast Talking Indonesia joins to discuss signs of a PDIP-Jokowi split, stunting and consumer choice in power supply. Later we discuss Indonesia's fascination of horror and its role in tackling taboo topics https://t.co/xLLSfqVnDd