Podcast Episodes

Season 6 Episode 2 (with Iskandarsyah Bakri)

Season 6 Episode 2

Joining the pod is Isanksarsyah Bakri, senior advisor to the Aceh governor, for a discussion of the livelihoods crisis facing the province after the …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Season 6 Episode 1 (with Burhanuddin Muhtadi and Maria Monica Wihardja)

Season 6 Episode 1

Burhanuddin Muhtadi of the polling firm Indikator politik, together with Monica Wihardja of ISEAS, join the pod to discuss their empirical analysis o…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

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Season 5 Episode 40 (with Dr. Chris Chaplin)

Season 5 Episode 40

Dr Chris Chaplin joins the pod to discuss the latest in politics, and the background to his new analytical endeavor, www.cearta.co.  Also: police app…

4 months, 1 week ago

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Season 5 Episode 39 (with Garda Ramadhito)

Season 5 Episode 39

Kevin and Erin talk with researcher Garda Ramadhito on Prabowo's Palestine peace-keeping plans and political Islam in his term. Also, the political a…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Season 5 Episode 38

Season 5 Episode 38

A week of superlatives for Indonesia - the tragic Senyar cyclone is the largest on record to hit Indonesia; a tax bribery case is affecting a key own…

5 months ago

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Season 5 Episode 37 (with Matt Busch)

Season 5 Episode 37

Kevin talks to Matt Busch on his new book "The Contested State: The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency during the Asian Financial Crisis."

It takes …

5 months, 1 week ago

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Season 5 Episode 36

Season 5 Episode 36

Joining the pod is Dr Seth Soderborg to discuss polling trends in Indonesia.  Also discussed: Soeharto's annointment as hero, the outlook for the new…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Season 5 Episode 35

Season 5 Episode 35

In this episode: plans for bestowing hero status on Soeharto, exonerating parliamentarians for August excesses, the president's message to police, an…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

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Season 5 Episode 34

Season 5 Episode 34

In this episode: the Golkar chair seeks criminal defamation charges for social-media users who distribute disagreeable memes; Prabowo proffers Gaza e…

6 months ago

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Acid Reign - Season 5 Episode 33 (with Krista Shennum)

Season 5 Episode 33

Our pod guest Krista Shennum from Climate Rights International discussed CRI's extensive field research on nickel sector impacts on communities acros…

6 months, 1 week ago

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