Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAmok No More: Case Curve Starts Decline in Indonesia (with Erwan Teguh)
Season 1 Episode 22
Case detections are declining on a moving-average basis in Jakarta and, more recently, nationwide. Jeff and Kevin discuss the trends and the restric…
4 years, 9 months ago
Canary in a Covid Mine: Indonesia’s Harrowing Surge-Upon-a-Surge Poses Test for China’s Coronavac (with Bob Herrera-Lim)
Season 1 Episode 21
Bob Herrera Lim, Southeast Asia risk analyst for the consultancy Teneo, places Indonesia’s precipitous, unabated case spike in a regional context. W…
4 years, 9 months ago
Indo-Mayday: Delta Spike Impacts a Locked-Down Java
Season 1 Episode 20
With Java in the grip of a long-dreaded case spike fuelled by the Delta variant, the government is attempting to impose the strictest curbs applied t…
4 years, 9 months ago
Indonesia Inundated: Health System Strains Trigger Tightening (with Pandu Riono)
Season 1 Episode 19
Several countries have higher daily caseloads, but Indonesia has the sharpest spike underway. Many delta-driven transmissions may be going undetecte…
4 years, 10 months ago
Upsizing: Stunting Measures & Counter-Measures (with Simon Flint)
Season 1 Episode 18
Simon Flint, The 1,000 Days Fund Co-Founder explains the causes and effects of below-par growth in under-fives – something that affects nearly one in…
4 years, 10 months ago
Still Hlaing-ing On: No Ordinary Junta (with Charlie McCann)
Season 1 Episode 17
Charlie McCann, The Economist’s regional correspondent covering Myanmar, illuminates conditions endured by the Burmese, prospects for change and the …
4 years, 10 months ago
Heartland Politics: Governing Central Java (with Gov Ganjar Pranowo)
Season 1 Episode 16
The province that arguably constitutes Indonesia's political heartland gave rise to the current president as well as a potential successor: Gov Ganja…
4 years, 10 months ago
Inside the KPK Personnel Purge (with Novel Baswedan)
Season 1 Episode 15
Our exclusive interview with the renowned anti-corruption investigator examines conditions within the independent commission and considers what might…
4 years, 11 months ago
Carbon Archipelago: Managing Forests and Emissions (with Robert Blake)
Season 1 Episode 14
Robert Blake, the former US ambassador, enumerates factors that are slowing deforestation and examines prospects for US-Indonesia engagement on clima…
4 years, 11 months ago
An Anti-Anti-Corruption Commission?
Season 1 Episode 13
Heroic investigators handed non-jobs in personnel winnowing. Also: With nominating decisions just two years away, top provincial heads are clearly s…
4 years, 11 months ago