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Indonesia Election results As expected, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has won re-election by about 10 percent, according to Quick Counts released by several reputable polling organizations. Now comes the power-struggle – both due to the fact that challenger Prabowo Subianto will likely challenge the results, and because Jokowi will have to form
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Election day in Indonesia is coming up, this Thursday, April 17th. It will be a massive undertaking. (Full piece on Indonesia’s election logistics from Lowy Intepretor.) 193 million eligible voters and, due to turnout far above that of the United States, the largest single-day election in the world. Here
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To understand Asia, and its importance in the world, knowing what’s happening now is often not enough. Current events in the region are complex and often connected to deeply entrenched historical, cultural, gender, or social issues. Often, ignorance about this complexity leads to misunderstanding, or, in some cases, disaster.
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New to Asia Undercovered? Sign up for free weekly updates on Asia’s top undercovered stories here. Still Undercovered: Xinjiang Human Rights Crisis I wrote a piece about the use of technology in Xinjiang nearly a year ago, after several stories broke what was becoming a massive human rights crisis.
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Thailand’s Election: A farce? If you only follow American media outlets, you wouldn’t know that Thailand, the 20th largest country in the world and one which holds an important geopolitical and economic role in Asia, had elections this week. It got nearly no attention in as American media
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This week: Arrested for singing a song in Indonesia and China’s terrorism double standard. With Thailand’s elections are just five days away, and with India and Indonesias coming up next month, expect lots of undercovered updates in the coming weeks. New to Asia Undercovered? Sign up for free
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This week: The 70 year long war in Myanmar, Kashmir’s simmering conflict, China’s domestic social media strategy, and much more. New to Asia Undercovered? Sign up for free weekly updates on Asia’s top undercovered stories here. A forgotten, but important date. March 10th was the 60th Anniversary
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This week: Growing criticism of China’s Belt and Road, intra-coalition agitation in Malaysia, and a new, remote military outpost in Central Asia. New to Asia Undercovered? Sign up for free here. Undercovered this week First, several stories from China, starting with a thought piece by Minxin Pei in Nikkei
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This week: China’s Little Red Smartphone, Indonesia’s second Presidential debate, salt mining in Myanmar, could Japan join 2019’s Asia wave of elections? New to Asia Undercovered? Sign up for free here. Undercovered this week The smartphone: China’s latest tool to control its population, now with its
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This week: Election news from Taiwan, India and the Philippines, dredging the Mekong, and some good and bad Lunar New Year stories. New to Asia Undercovered? Sign up for free here. Undercovered this week First, the good - some timely Year of the Pig journalism from Martin Choi on how
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Happy Lunar New Year to those who celebrate it! China’s Uyghur Propaganda Propaganda is a tool of dictators and strongmen around the world, and China is using it to great effect to shape global discourse around its mass incarceration of more than a million Uyghur Muslims in secret re-education
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This week in Asia Undercovered: another date set in Thailand, Whatsapp being used to divide Indians by caste, a postmortem, and a big misstep by Jokowi in Indonesia. Undercovered this week I really enjoyed this piece by Than Toe Aung on what it was like to grow up Muslim just