Indonesia has long been governed by pilot, launching ambitious policies in visible, limited trials before scaling nationwide. But early progress is not the same as lasting delivery. Indonesia’s ambitious free nutritious meals program, or Makan Bergizi Gratis (MBG), was launched in January 2025 as a flagship policy of President Prabowo Subianto’s administration, fulfilling a campaign […]
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Ele traces her ‘origin story’ in Asian Studies/the study of Asia to her upbringing in Darwin as a child, where she began to learn the Indonesian language, where she had Indonesian friends, and where a rich variety of cultures and languages coexisted. Even at a young age, it gave her a strong sense of what
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Garry describes himself as primarily a political economist whose work is informed by political theory. It was only during his doctoral research, and something by accident, that his work developed an empirical focus on Asia. What began as a thesis that intended to learn how Australian firms were relocating production to (Southeast) Asia sparked an
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