Erin Cook
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News and analysis from Southeast Asia three times a week 🙂
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Joined June 2019
On Reformasi this week we chatted with David Mathieson about how it stands in Myanmar as the country closes in on the fourth anniversary of the military coup. Some interesting insight into the NUG too, I think.
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No one works as quickly as an Indonesian banner printer.
Malam ini, kami menutup lambang makara sebagai bentuk pernyataan sikap mahasiswa universitas Indonesia yang melawan perusakan terhadap proses demokrasi. Lawan!
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We have reached the end point of the croissant fusion, there can be no more.
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what is the plot of this movie lol.
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I just saw this on reddit and it has blown my mind. People always tell me this, but WHOa
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Eksil, a documentary on Indonesia's exiled nationals during the 1965 unrest, is coming to Australia. Cannot be missed tweak your schedule to catch it.
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I just learnt this isn't a real word to most English speakers. What next 😡
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My intention was to do an explainer for non-chronically Indonesia pol-obsessed people, but I'm not sure I've hit that tone exactly. This is huge and like all Schrodinger's Constitutional Crises, a difficult one to parse for casual observers:
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I am a connoisseur of terrible influencers in SEA content, but Nas Daily is always setting a new standard.
"Everything is affordable. to white tourists at least!" .@nasdaily's take on Bali and the "whitest village in Asia" is one of the most extreme examples of tone-deaf influencer content I've seen in a while.
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I’m on my Philippines book journey atm and I’m cackling at how FUNNY people were/are even in the darkest days
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Tim Winton's next novel is about a coastal youth spending his summer in the WA regions with his grizzly granddad as he confronts questions about masculinity and becoming a man. One day, he comes across a tiny radioactive pellet.
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It really is bloody unfair that Southeast Asia is struggling so hard right now. Last year, everyone tried hard and some countries were gold standards of the world! As soon as it came to accessing vaccines, everything collapsed. Not right!.
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Kissinger is dead but his policies are still killing people in Laos
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It's actually bonkers how good the coffee in Jakarta is. Every hundred metres someone has a small espresso machine and an enormous list of options, and it's always good. the worst coffee in town is the expensive mall coffee.
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“If you can vote for your idols, you should also vote for your country too.” K-pop stans are turning their might to May's election in the Philippines
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The Jakarta Post goes all caps to sound the alarm on what will be the pandemic's biggest story in the world this week.
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Knock up some of the Tiong Bahru 1920s style in Weston Creek and I'll never complain about anything again
For once, Canberra's obsession with becoming a little Singapore may be fruitful! Would love to see this govt check out HDB and how it could work for us:
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Prabowo on the phone to Trump with what I am CERTAIN is a China Daily on the desk, beautiful
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Jakarta, Bali AND Indonesia! Busy fella.
Questions are being raised over ‘Airbus Albo’ and his busy schedule travelling overseas. 🤔. MORE:
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It's going to be very, very difficult to get SEA news from outside an individual country now. There are a lot of people online sharing hyper-local news or broader views in countries that are completely unchill with traditional media publishing 'unapproved' views and reporting.
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following the news in the Philippines as a foreigner is so fun. I've learnt a lot about charter change but also somehow know what Heart Evangelista is doing at all times.
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Indonesia just won gold in the Olympics' most bananas sport, I love it.
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Very disrespectful to veterans of the UK MasterChef vs Malaysia and Indonesia twitter wars 😔
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This Najib Razak thing is just about one of the saddest things I've ever heard, really. Ordinary Malaysians get punitive sentences for crimes of desperation and Najib gets to go home? Maybe plead to the Agong? Please! Give me a break.
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Cyber bullying for policy works lol.
Rapid antigen tests should be free and available. We are in a pandemic. Everyone needs access.
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I know, I know. But it is stunning to check in on Singaporean mainstream press today, one of the biggest days for Singapore in the international media for a long time, and there's nothing. Electric scooter wars leading CNA.
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it's absolutely wild to see so many people policing Queen takes. she represented something extraordinarily destructive to millions and millions over centuries and some people think you shouldn't say a word because it might hurt the feelings of people who collect union jack merch.
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How funny is the very true sentence: Caroline Kennedy went to Summernats.
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What is happening in Indonesia is important because it is happening to people, it is not important because it is near Australia or because it’s strategically relevant.
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'Rodriguez earlier explained that the campaign did not think beyond May 9.' excuse me what
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Singapore is so hard to understand. The politics is very nuanced and the internet drama is absolutely bonkers.
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@marrowing I feel like I relearnt how to eat vegetables when I moved to Indonesia lol sauce! Garlic! It was that easy all along!.
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It kinda annoys me when staff journalists based in like London or New York do these Myanmar stories 'everyone is ignoring this! can you believe it!!' As though Southeast Asia hasn't been yelling about it for two years??.
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Enough of what the digital nomads in Bali think. Here's a brilliant young queer Jakartan writer on what the criminal code means for them and their community:
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I quit my job to go Substack full time! I’m half super excited half super scared but tell ya what, I’m coming in hung tomorrow 😭.
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There's a certain type of Labor fella who seems to think the average punter is charmed by language and jargon picked up in Young Labor and it's very delusional. If this is the line from ALP talking heads this surely will go much worse than they anticipate.
Unsurprisingly Hamasniks have no idea that when someone is elected as a Labor representative & quits the party but stays in office they have historically been called “a rat”.Some of the pathetic attempts to make it about gender or religion shows both ignorance & delusion.#auspol.
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my go-to torrent site has shut down but also left this weird message
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Why do motorbike riders in mainland SEA wear helmets like this (L) and riders in maritime SEA wear ones like that (R)? It's puzzled me forever, someone must know!
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A Commodore with ACT plates has worked its way into the convoy on Adelaide Ave and stopped driving, trapping half of the freaks outside the Thai embassy and they’re all losing it at him Hahhaha.
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Football fans aren't letting the pressure up on the govt on the stadium tragedy. Good for them! Jakmania a very organised, passionate group who always come out to show support for Jakartans, now turning their power to other fans.
Aksi suporter, Minggu (30/10) pagi ini di Hotel Indonesia, Thamrin, Jakarta. Massa aksi yang terdiri dari berbagai klub Indonesia ini menyuarakan untuk usut tuntas Tragedi Kanjuruhan.
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I think we need to do a better job of explaining WHY Indonesian is good for Australians to learn. 'it's next door' and a vague nod at business isn't enough IMO
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almost 99-year-old Mahathir Mohamad thinks Biden isn't doing great for his age.
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@lechblaine I keep searching 'canberra' to get airport news and this is the top every time! it's going to be seared into my memory
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Why are Americans like this? It's a show about dogs for kids. What has happened? This is triggering me more than AUKUS.
Scanning the horizon to see if the time is right to express my belief that Bluey is neoliberal suburban propaganda.
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I am easily wound up but holy smokes nothing gets me like a white fella with a 'help me travel the world' cardboard sign in SEA.
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It is remarkable really, to have come in a decade ago on so much promise - and now students are rolling up mock guillotine to the gates of parliament.
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I'm just leaving KL now - unannounced because I have a lot of people I want to see here but I'm still not feeling great. I did nothing but go to Kinokuniya at KLCC and guess who I saw lol
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Not to be rude but why does the whole world have to be involved in a primary race for a mayor of a US city.
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the Philippines is shoving a month's worth of news into a day!.
JUST IN: Comelec says it has suspended all proceedings in connection with the people's initiative route to amend the 1987 Constitution. @rapplerdotcom.
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A friend lives ~3km away from Pertamina fire in Tanjung Priok and he's forwarded some scary videos from around the neighbourhood! Says it stinks like hell too. 🙏Looks so bad
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Pinoy twitter is really standing out on the timeline lately. So dark, so much death, little hope. I'm thinking of everyone 🙏.
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My workmate just asked me if my boobs grew after the vaccine because hers did. A new weapon in fighting hesitancy??.
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@BenatarSeaOrg Indonesia has the highest number of people who speak three OR MoRE languages in the world. Just mind blowing.
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bit rude of AFA to call Southeast Asia 'unstable' IMO with the exception of Myanmar, it feels a touch more stable than many other parts of the world.
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The Indonesian Publishers Association pulled out of Frankfurt after the book fair organisers said it supports Israel and ditched a plan to award a Palestinian writer
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'i don't know a thing about Indonesia therefore it does fuck all'.
It's no more well known about than it's South-East Asian counterparts (Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand etc.) despite being way bigger, no good at any of the big sports, not a very influential diaspora (as far as I know). Not to throw shade or anything, it's just odd.
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Print 😭😭😭 you love to see it
I don't think Albo missing the Prabowo Subianto inauguration is the worst thing ever, but I do think it's worth thinking about. Especially as part of a larger assessment on how it's all going:
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the collapse of the UK is much funnier than the collapse of the US imo.
Chants of ‘my name is Boris’ and ‘this is a work event’ outside Downing Street as maybe a hundred bewigged Boris lookalikes jig around in the street. Utterly surreal
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If you don't click through, this is a funny very Singapore headline. But click through and see what was written "IF 1 (syringe) = 1 DEATH = 1 (stick figure being hanged) = HOW MANY 4 U SG GOV?".
Graffiti found on wall of Buona Vista MRT underpass; police investigations ongoing
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This is rude lol you can't just sit and watch ABC be smashed at every turn for decades and then be so dismissive of what they do with what they have left.
Now back to regular programming. I remember watching the ABC coverage of the coup in the Phillipines in the 1980s. They did a great job then.
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Voters had eight days between presidential election and this teasing a Jakarta gubernatorial for Ridwan Kamil. Tiring!
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straight into the veins, please
this is the best ACT election in a long time. every day someone is getting done for posting!.
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@Picketer Lmao there's definitely someone out there she texted this to like 'hes STILL a loser???'.
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I know foreign desks are spread thin and that is NOT the fault of any journalist, but the international and regional mastheads are doing the planet an enormous disservice on Myanmar. It shouldn't be this hard to find coverage.
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Twitter users across the region have reshaped how I personally see things and have been extraordinarily generous with time and energy in explaining or dropping a few links. It will be very hard now to find, eg Thailand protest movements or Filipino political context etc.
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mohon maaf, Indonesia.
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Combined wealth of 'Gina Rinehart, Andrew Forrest and Harry Triguboff – has more than doubled since 2020 at a staggering rate of $1.5m an hour'?? criminal!
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that was just a lil joke, the ST story is actually fascinating. more than a third of applications to take another wife have been rejected by the Syariah courts over financial concerns
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Great one from @warjati on the emerging dynasty in Indonesian politics. Especially interested in the Kaesang analysis - haven't read too much about him!
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This 'Google Timeline' thing really ought to be paused for the remainder of the pandemic
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15 months into working at a clinic during a pandemic: I finally cried at work lol people are being really, hideously rude to admin staff and I think it's getting worse in Canberra.
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Jakarta looks nothing like the film set in 1960s Indonesia and filmed in Manila
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Jokowi’s favourite sport of forcing less fit foreign leaders onto bikes in the tropics continues 😂 (c/o @TrevinSu)
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Enough to make me miss working for the party during carbon tax 🥲.
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This view of his makes a bit more sense once you know his ~politics
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Being Canberran is so funny every week I have to clarify to people that I didn't go to ANU and never worked at DFAT and I'm just like, from there.
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I feel like if the only responses CNN are seeing and hearing are from Western male academics that doesn’t bode well for the pool of resources on which the reporting was based.
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Europe has officially fallen.
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Simple but effective cover of this week's Tempo English. Suharto stepped down 25 years ago yesterday
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someone do a feature on the RARBG brothers in arms that are fighting ON BOTH SIDES in Europe.
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