Author: Hal Hill and Chris Manning, ANUPresident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (universally known as SBY) announced the cabinet for his second five-year term shortly after his inauguration on October 20. Its composition and quality provide one of the best indications of the president’s policy priorities, as well as his political strategy.SBY’s Democrat Party emerged as the major, though minority,... [Read Post]
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JAKARTA, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian former president Abdurrahman Wahid passed away at the age of 69 in the country's landmark hospital Cipto Mangunkusumo (RSCM) on Wednesday, due to complications of stroke, kidney and heart problems. Wahid was born on Sept. 7, 1940 in Jombang, East Java, as t...
31 Dec 2009 08:15
December 6th, 2009Authors: Hadi Soesastro (CSIS, Jakarta) and Peter Drysdale (ANU, Canberra)The idea that regional architecture in Asia and the Pacific is not up to the tasks it now needs to serve has been around for some time. It has been inspired in part by worries about the untidiness in the comp...
31 Dec 2009 08:13
Guest Author: Donald K. Emmerson, Southeast Asia Forum, Stanford UniversityJakarta, Indonesia—‘When will he come?’ Again and again in this city I have been asked when US President Barack Hussein will visit Indonesia. I cannot remember a time, since my first trip here in 1967, when Indonesians...
20 May 2009 05:52


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