The year of voting fearfully. Indonesia to elect a new presidentBy Duncan Graham | February 8, 2024It's a big year for elections worldwide, with some four billion people picking leaders in the US, India and 70 ...
Sex and the sea slugs. Indonesian boat-people invasion is more about sea cucumbersBy Duncan Graham | January 24, 2024Australians ended 2023 to shock-horror reports of "the largest cohort of foreign fishers to be detained in over a ...
Boat boy shame. Juvenile people smugglers wrongly imprisoned, finally compensatedBy Duncan Graham | December 23, 2023The Federal Court in Canberra today approved a settlement of $27.5 million to be paid to 220 Indonesian men who ...
Nowhere to go. Refugees stranded in Indonesia while the world looks away.By Duncan Graham | December 12, 2023The Bali Process was supposed to sort out the tragedy of boat people. Since then, hundreds of asylum seekers have ...
Revenge of the jungle – Indonesia’s new capital unloved and unfundedBy Duncan Graham | December 4, 2023Indonesia’s biggest-ever civil engineering project deep in Borneo’s equatorial jungle is under threat. So is ...
The Moore Report on South East Asian trade unlikely to lead to more tradeBy Duncan Graham | November 4, 2023Indonesia is the biggest economy in the South East Asian region, and our closest neighbour. It's the tenth largest ...
Indonesian elections: the making of a dynasty and unmaking of democracy?By Duncan Graham | October 24, 2023Indonesian politics are played hard. Corruption is a given, but a devious ploy to keep President Jokowi wielding ...
The Silent War – Australia and Indonesia mum on Papuan human right abusesBy Duncan Graham | September 1, 2023An Australian academic has lit the fuse of diplomatic fury by publicly criticising Indonesia’s brutal response to ...
Ganjar Interview: Indonesia’s next President will never dye, but wants closer ties with AustraliaBy Duncan Graham | July 30, 2023Ganjar Pranowo, the civilian administrator, corruption fighter and sometime porn connoisseur, has some high ...
Unpacking the president’s mien: just how successful was Jokowi’s visit to Australia?By Duncan Graham | July 17, 2023He came, he went and in between he did what exactly? Duncan Graham unpacks the reality of last week's visit to ...
Archipela-no-go: global soccer, then Coldplay, fall foul of rising homophobia, anti-Israel sentiment in IndonesiaBy Duncan Graham | June 29, 2023Indonesia's supposed core belief in diversity is being tested by religious-led homophobia and anti-semitism. It ...
Indonesia: how Australia’s biggest and closest neighbour uses our aidBy Duncan Graham | May 28, 2023Indonesia is Australia's biggest and closest neighbour and needs our aid, and much can be done with goodwill and ...