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Chinese Tourists Are Beijing's Newest Economic Weapon

Chinese Tourists Are Beijing's Newest Economic Weapon

Foreign Policy Magazine — In early 2017, South Korea decided to deploy the U.S.-made THAAD missile defense system, designed to protect against possible attacks from its northern neighbor. That didn't make a much larger-and usually friendlier-neighbor happy. China saw THAAD as a potential threat to its own security and reacted swiftly and strongly.
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Islamic Leaders Have Nothing to Say About China's Internment Camps for Muslims

Islamic Leaders Have Nothing to Say About China's Internment Camps for Muslims

Foreign Policy Magazine — Internment camps with up to a million prisoners. Empty neighborhoods. Students, musicians, athletes, and peaceful academics jailed. A massive high-tech surveillance state that monitors and judges every movement. The future of more than 10 million Uighurs, the members of China's Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, is looking increasingly grim.
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Back to the Future: Japanese Youth Flee Cities for the Countryside

Back to the Future: Japanese Youth Flee Cities for the Countryside

OZY — Kana Naito had worked eight years at a prestigious American brokerage firm in Tokyo when she decided she was done trying to meet her quotas there. Instead of hunting for another job in the Japanese capital, she spent some time with her family and then drove to rural Yamanashi prefecture, about 100 miles from Tokyo.
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China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants

China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants

Engadget — Xinjiang is the home to the Uyghurs, a Turkic people who mostly follow Islam and have a distinct culture and language. Not surprisingly, the region has a tenuous relationship with Beijing, which is more than 1,400 miles away.
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The Rapid Rise of Censorship in Southeast Asia

The Rapid Rise of Censorship in Southeast Asia

The Diplomat Magazine — Reuters journalist Wa Lone is escorted by police as he leaves court outside Yangon, Myanmar (Jan. 10, 2018). Image Credit: AP Photo/Thein Zaw The number of blocked sites, as documented by independent internet monitors, is on the rise in nearly every Southeast Asian nation, part of a wider downturn in freedom of information across the region.
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The missing trade war against China's digital protectionism

The missing trade war against China's digital protectionism

Engadget — "China's extensive use of digital trade barriers ... have reshaped the production and sales of many global tech sectors as they've been forced to either adapt to China's restrictive and costly requirements or avoid the market entirely," said Nigel Cory, trade policy analyst at the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.
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Indonesia's tragic war on drugs

Indonesia's tragic war on drugs

Equal Times — Early last year, Indonesia's new President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, a political outsider elected with the support of many in civil society, quickly squandered much of his international goodwill when he proceeded with a series of executions of foreign nationals for drug-related crimes. And there's fear of more ahead.
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Government Corruption May Foil Indonesia's New Palm Oil Ban - Planet Experts

Government Corruption May Foil Indonesia's New Palm Oil Ban - Planet Experts

Planet Experts — Big news from Indonesia - President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo recently announced a comprehensive ban on new mining and palm oil plantations in the country. Though, alone, it's not enough, the move is the clearest sign that Indonesia's globally crucial tropical forests can be protected from future deforestation and accompanying fires .
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Can satellites help save the world's rainforests?

Can satellites help save the world's rainforests?

The Daily Dot — Over the past half-century, they've been destroyed at a rapid clip. And it's only getting worse. Just last year, fires precipitated by a long dry season and the effects of El Niño burned 2 million hectares of Indonesian rainforest. While the fires burned, satellites overhead were gathering data. Thanks to those eyes in the skies, we have a nearly day-to-day account of what happened in Indonesia, from when the hotspots, or potential fires, first emerged to when dangerous haze began forcing schools to close in Malaysia and Singapore.
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How Increasing Transparency Can Help Prevent Further Devastation in Indonesia

How Increasing Transparency Can Help Prevent Further Devastation in Indonesia

Sustainable Brands — Late last year, devastating fires engulfed 2 million hectares of land in Indonesia. They were driven by years of rampant, unregulated deforestation, chiefly for the expansion of paper pulp and oil palm plantations. Through global supply chains, we are all connected to Indonesia's fires and to the deforestation that led to them. It's easy to say we need to stop deforestation, but this is nearly impossible without adequate information.
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A burning problem

A burning problem

New Internationalist — Pekanbaru, in the heart of the biodiverse, tropical island of Sumatra, is one of Indonesia's richest cities. When I visited last September, the city was unexpectedly dark and gloomy. Across the island, hundreds of fires were raging, blanketing the city in a haze that blocked the sun and forced residents to don air masks. Pollution was at 10 times the acceptable level. The fires soon engulfed two million hectares as the poisonous cloud spread across Southeast Asia.
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Can we build a humane alternative to Uber?

Can we build a humane alternative to Uber?

The Daily Dot — By now, most people have recognized "the sharing economy" as more a convenient slogan than as heralding a new era of prosperity. Thanks to forward-thinking platforms such as Airbnb and Uber, we were told, the sharing economy would let people work in whole new ways. But lately there's been turmoil in what's now more widely known as the on-demand or gig economy.
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In Taiwan, people are using technology to mobilise networks, transform politics

In Taiwan, people are using technology to mobilise networks, transform politics

Mobilisation Lab — Taiwan has in recent years experienced some of the world's most dramatic protests. The Sunflower Movement, a youth-driven but cross-sectoral coalition famously occupied the Taiwanese Parliament for more than three weeks as it fought against a controversial trade deal that they felt would impinge on Taiwanese sovereignty. Software, social media and other rapidly evolving technologies are fueling a digital democracy and political change in Taiwan.
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Why your favorite apps are designed to addict you

Why your favorite apps are designed to addict you

The Daily Dot — When marketers decide how to spend their advertising money online, a few stats are crucial. First, usage time-how much time a user spends on an app, and second, frequency of use-how often users check said network or app. regularly mentions both in its quarterly financial presentations and is clearly winning, with Americans using the network an average of more than 40 minutes a day . We're spending more and more time on apps-to the delight of advertisers and developers but, potentially, to the detriment of our mental health.
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Remembering Indonesia's Bloody Coup

Remembering Indonesia's Bloody Coup

The Diplomat Magazine — In the heart of Medan, Indonesia third largest city and the setting for much of Joshua Oppenheimer's Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing , is a meticulously maintained, but quiet memorial. From a distance it looks similar to the war memorials scattered throughout Western countries. What it commemorates, though, is one of the 20th century's darkest moments. The Monumen Perjuangan 66 has on its white-plastered sides visual depictions of the military-led crackdown that resulted in the deaths of an estimated 500,000 to 2 million Indonesians.
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2022 Beijing Winter Games: an olympic-sized setback for Tibet

2022 Beijing Winter Games: an olympic-sized setback for Tibet

equaltimes.org — In early 2008, months before China was to welcome the world to the Olympic Games in Beijing, an uprising began in Lhasa, the capital of occupied Tibet, and spread across the country...
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International body freezes expansion of palm oil giant

International body freezes expansion of palm oil giant

SciDev.Net — The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has prohibited Singapore-based Golden Agri Resources (GAR) from developing new areas for oil palm plantations in Indonesia, where it is the largest producer of the tropical commodity, for alleged violations of several RSPO norms such as community land rights.
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A light in dark corners

A light in dark corners

Southeast Asia Globe Magazine — In 2000, Indonesia was facing a crisis. With a shambolic economy and a newly established, but weak, democracy, there were great fears that the vestiges of the Suharto era - namely, cronyism and corruption - would haunt the country's future.
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Indonesia's Death Penalty Hypocrisy

Indonesia's Death Penalty Hypocrisy

The Diplomat — Last year, thousands of Indonesians collected coins in a last-minute attempt to save a migrant worker, Satinah, from imminent execution while on death row in Saudi Arabia. The campaign galvanized the country, led to a trending hashtag #savesatinah, and forced then-President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to intervene and pay the remainder of the blood money to get Satinah taken off death row. Today, it is the world that is campaigning against Indonesia's new administration, led by President Joko Widodo and its use of the death penalty against foreign citizens in its fight against drug trafficking.
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Is 2014 the Start of an Asian Spring?

Is 2014 the Start of an Asian Spring?

The Diplomat — 2014 was a banner year for protests in many rapidly growing and changing countries in East and Southeast Asia, and may foreshadow coming change in the region.
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Putting the word out - Southeast Asia Globe Magazine

Putting the word out - Southeast Asia Globe Magazine

Southeast Asia Globe — At most literary soirées, mentioning the works of Okky Madasari, Ayu Utami or Seno Gumira Ajidarma would result in a round of blank stares. But drop those names at a book club in Jakarta and you will earn approving nods from the assembled bookworms. All of them are award-winning, bestselling writers in Indonesia - one of the world's fastest growing literary markets - yet they are barely known abroad.
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Indonesia: What's left of the left?

Indonesia: What's left of the left?

Al Jazeera — Indonesia may be Southeast Asia's most successful democracy, but communist and regional parties are still banned.
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Suharto's ghost stalks Indonesian election

Suharto's ghost stalks Indonesian election

Al Jazeera — Indonesia polls are a contest between two diametrically opposed views of the country's troubled past.
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Is political Islam rising in Indonesia?

Is political Islam rising in Indonesia?

Al Jazeera — Indonesia's Muslim parties fared better than expected in April's parliamentary vote but are unlikely to win power.
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