Indonesia’s troubled quest for food self-sufficiency (John McBeth, The Strategist)

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/indonesias-troubled-quest-food-self-sufficiency/

Jokowi’s coming struggle against religious extremism in Indonesia (John McBeth, The Strategist)

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/jokowis-coming-struggle-religious-extremism-indonesia/

Rodrigo Duterte: a genuine political outsider (John McBeth, The Strategist)

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/rodrigo-duterte-genuine-political-outsider/

Indonesia’s cabinet revamp: the return of Sri Mulyani Indrawati (John McBeth, The Strategist)

She’s back! Six years after being run out of town over the 2008 Bank Century bailout debacle, Sri Mulyani Indrawati is back as finance minister in a newly-reshuffled Indonesian Cabinet that provides further evidence President Joko Widodo is growing into his job.

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/indonesias-cabinet-revamp-return-sri-mulyani-indrawati/

A win for Widodo: Indonesia’s new police chief (John McBeth, The Strategist)

Indonesian President Joko Widodo may have finally come of age as a leader with his decision to ignore seniority—and Indonesian Democratic Party for Struggle (PDI-P) chairperson Megawati Sukarnoputri—in choosing counter-terrorism guru, Tito Karnavian, as Indonesia’s new police chief.

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/win-widodo-indonesias-new-police-chief/

The ghost of communists past (John McBeth, ASPI The Strategist)

It has been 50 years since the Indonesian military crushed the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) in a bloody pogrom that’s widely believed to have taken at least 500,000 lives—many of them innocent victims of personal vendettas

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-ghost-of-communists-past/

Abu Sayyaf and terrorism in the southern Philippines (John McBeth, ASPI)

When Washington dispatched a joint special operations task force to the southern Philippines in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, it was motivated by evidence that the Abu Sayyaf (ASG) militant group had links with Al Qaeda and was expanding its influence beyond the immediate region.

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/abu-sayyaf-and-terrorism-in-the-southern-philippines/