Research based debate –

Jakarta Post, Tempo and

Economic & Political Weekly

• ‘From irony of success to tragedy of failure’failure’ Jakarta Post 30.10.20 PDF.

• ‘Homage to AE Priyono’. Jakarta Post 15 04.20 PDF.

• ‘In memoriam: Arief Budiman, architect of the democracy movement’, Jakarta Post 04.20, PDF.

• ‘The rise and crumbling of reformist populism in Indonesia’ Jakarta Post 29 and 30.10.19 PDF.

• Overtaking Right-Wing Populism in Indonesia?’ Jakarta Post 10.03.2017: http://www.thejakartapost.com/academia/2017/03/10/insight-overtaking-right-wing-populism-in-indonesia.html http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/03/14/correction.html PDF

• ’The Politics of Amnesia’ Economic and Political Weekly 3 Oct 2015 (full version) cit with PDF in article section – Indonesia. Short version; ’The Politics of Amnesia’ Jakarta Post 29.09.15) PDF.

• ‘From Neoliberalism to New-Etatism’, Jakarta Post 18 Dec, 2014. PDF.

Next generation. (East Laut Island, Kotabaru, S. Kalimantan)

• ‘Stagnation or Transformation in Jokowi’s Indonesia?’ Tempo (English Edition) November 23, 2014, Jakarta. PDF.

• ‘Indonesia’s Democratization Stagnant but Not Lost’, Jakarta Post, February 25, 2014. PDF. 

• ‘Megawati’s Indian Lessons’, Jakarta Post, December 16, 2013. PDF.

• ‘Democracy Bashing: On Corruption and Peace’ In Aceh, Jakarta Post, 27 January 2012. PDF.

• ‘Is Social Democracy Being Undermined?’ (2011) Economic and Political Weekly (op.cit. with PDF in article/essays – general section)

• ‘The Maestro of Civil Society Work (Remembering Asmara Nababan)’ Jakarta Post, 8 November /2010. PDF. 

• ‘Remembering Joesoef Isak's Contribution to Democracy’, Jakarta Post, August 21, 2009. PDF.

• ‘The Nobel Prize for Ahtisaari and Aceh’, Jakarta Post 10 December, 2008. PDF. 

• ‘Indonesian Democracy: Advances, Setbacks, Options’, Jakarta Post, May 6, 2008. PDF 

• ‘From Elitist to Popular Representation’, Jakarta Post, April 11, 2007. PDF

• ‘The Political System Needs to be Opened, Not Closed’, Jakarta Post, December 27, 2006. PDF

• ‘C’mon, Bung, Let’s Get It Back’, Tempo, October 18, 2004. (In Indonesian in Edisi11-17 October) PDF

• ‘What’s Wrong with Indonesia’s Democratisation?’ Asian Journal of Social Sciences (2002) op.cit with PDF in article section-Indonesia. Brief versionpublished in Jakarta Post, April 10 and 11, 2001,PDF and Economic and Political Weekly, April 14, 2001.

• ‘An Open Letter to Indonesian Reformists’ (about the need for a genuine truth and reconciliation commission on the 1965/66 massacres), Jakarta Post, April 17, 2000. PDF

• ‘Students Deserve Peace Prize’ – Jakarta Post 1999-10-07. 

• ‘Reconciliation a Must in East Timor’ - Jakarta Post/on line edition Jakarta. 1999-09-28 (also with the title Crisis in East Timor in Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay) Vol. XXXIV:39, 1999) - Jakarta Post, Jakarta, 1999-09-27/28. PDF to EPW version

• ‘Birth of the World's Third Largest Democracy - Part 1 & 2 -- Jakarta Post, Economic and Political Weekly,Bombay (1999) Op.cit. with PDF in article section-Indonesia

• ‘The Day After’, in Economic and Political Weekly, January 8, 2000. PDF 

• ‘Will the Students Succeed?’ in Jakarta Post 1999-02-09. PDF

• ‘Sizing up an Appropriate Electoral System’, in Jakarta Post 1998-12-09. PDF

• ‘The Indonesian Lesson’ (brief version) Jakarta Post 1998 (Op.cit. with PDF in article-essay section – Indonesia.)

• ‘Whither Studies of Asian Democratisation?’ in Kasarinlan University of the Philippines. 1997; 12 (1) and  Economic and Political Weekly. 1998-01; 33 (3). PDF

• ‘Violence in Paradise’, in Economic and Political Weekly1998-01:33(4) and with the title ‘The Dark Side of Paradise’, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars,  30:4 (1998). PDF

• ‘From New to Human Order in Indonesia?’ In NIAS nytt,  3, October 1996 and Economic and Political Weekly, October 5, 1996, PDF

• ‘Old Communism Irrelevant’ (during the crackdown on democracy activists branded as communists) in Jakarta Post,1996-08-23. PDF