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SEAsia political risk analyst @SPGMarketintel, ex head of Asean @FT Confidential Research, and @BBCIndonesia. Views are mine.

Joined January 2013
No better book to accompany my train journey from Yogya to Jember passing through what was Majapahit's hearland @HeraldLinde .
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Replying to @MarSec_Bradford
US Navy also present on the south coast of East Java :)
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Replying to @ColminIndonesia
i don't know whether you knew that he also sang in Indonesian. I remember a BBC radio intvw in the early 1990s in which spoke of the beauty of Java's north coast. youtu.be/G4tmhNgzj5g
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Replying to @ColminIndonesia
V informative, thanks. Indonesians call the whole island Kalimantan, not just the Indonesian part. I only realised few years ago that Borneo was a derivation of Brunei. See Bowring's Empire of the Winds:
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Charts that matter from @FTConfidential. Why the rupiah is prone to swings and why diaspora bonds are probably not the answer.
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I've accepted the challenge from @DanGallucci1.This is one of my favourite books ever. Next, I'd like to nominate @prinzmagtulis
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Indonesian anti-terror police in impressive live fire training. Must watch whole clip!
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Things have turned for the worse in #Indonesia, and I am not just talking about the protest in Jakarta.