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- No. 13: Regional Outlook Forum 2023
- No. 23: Regional Outlook Forum 2023
- No. 24: Regional Outlook Forum 2023
- No. 26: Regional Outlook Forum 2023
- No. 27: Regional Outlook Forum 2023
- No. 28: Regional Outlook Forum 2023
- No. 32: Regional Outlook Forum 2023
- No. 34: Regional Outlook Forum 2023
- No. 35: Regional Outlook Forum 2023
- No. 36: Mohd Faizal Musa, Visiting Fellow
- No. 37: Regional Outlook Forum 2023
- No. 50: Le Hong Hiep, Senior Fellow
- No. 57: Regional Outlook Forum 2023
- No. 58: Regional Outlook Forum 2023
- No. 60: Regional Outlook Forum 2023
- No. 61: Regional Outlook Forum 2023
Brunei | Cambodia | Indonesia | Laos | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Timor-Leste | Vietnam | ASEAN / Southeast Asia | Asia Pacific | East/South China Sea | Climate Change/Environment | Others
Indonesia
1. Indonesia’s New Criminal Code: Scaling Up Conservatism and Watering Down Protections for Critics and Minorities
Tito Ambyo
Australian Institute of International Affairs, 11 January 2023
2. RI eyes new markets for coal, palm oil as global recession looms
This a
Fadhil Haidar Sulaeman
The Jakarta Post, 11 January 2023
3. ‘It’s my call’: Megawati pulls rank at PDI-P bash
Yerica Lai
The Jakarta Post, 11 January 2023
4. Indonesia’s capital move mirrors the Dutch
Eka Permanasari
The Jakarta Post, 11 January 2023
5. Choose own members as candidates, Indonesia’s PDI-P tells other parties ahead of 2024 presidential election
Kiki Siregar
Channel News Asia, 10 January 2023
6. Facilitating Global Trade and Investment and Leveraging Value Added in Downstream
Industries
Raihan M. Ramadhan and Pyan A. Muchtar
ERIA, 10 January 2023
7. Redefining Indonesia’s Digital Economy
Militcyano Samuel Sapulette and Pyan A. Muchtar
ERIA, 10 January 2023
8. The Global Economic Outlook and the State of Indonesia
Ivana Markus and Pyan A. Muchtar
ERIA, 10 January 2023
9. RCEP and Indonesia: Economic Reform and Prospects for Implementation
Yose R. Damuri, Deni Friawan
ERIA, 10 January 2023
10. Why Indonesia Plans to Ban Bauxite Exports in 2023
James Guild
The Jakarta Post, 10 January 2023
11. Comprehensive Job Creation Law to Come into Force in 3 Months: Airlangga
Heru Andriyanto
Jakarta Globe, 9 January 2023
Malaysia
12. 2 ADUN PH sertai Kabinet Hajiji, Ir Shahelmey ganti Bung Moktar sebagai TKM [2 PH state assemblypersons join Hajiji’s cabinet, Ir Shahelmey replaces Bung Moktar as Deputy Chief Minister]
Berita Harian, 11 January 2023
13. Khairy’s decision to back Anwar seen as survival strategy
Raevathi Supramaniam
Free Malaysia Today, 11 January 2023
14. PH assemblymen join Hajiji’s Cabinet
Free Malaysia Today, 11 January 2023
15. Can Malaysia regain its lost Asian Tiger stripes?
David Pillai
Free Malaysia Today, 11 January 2023
16. Pakatan duo in, Sabah Umno top three out in new state Cabinet line-up
Julia Chan
Malay Mail Online, 11 January 2023
17. Whither Anwar’s ‘more Malay than PN’ approach?
Ahmad Mustakim Zulkifli & Nur Hasliza Mohd Salleh
Malaysia Now, 11 January 2023
18. COMMENT | Umno’s GE15 collapse
Bridget Welsh
Malaysiakini, 11 January 2023
19. We must study Nusantara’s impact
B.A Hamzah
New Straits Times, 11 January 2023
20. Umno assembly to set direction after party’s dismal showing at Malaysia polls
Shannon Teoh
Straits Times, 11 January 2023
21. Permatang Pauh MP brews fear, anger in Penang
The Malaysian Insight, 11 January 2023
22. All eyes on Negri Sembilan, Kedah elections
Ravin Palanisamy
The Malaysian Insight, 11 January 2023
23. 凯利：若赢得巫统高职 不会退出现政府 [Khairy: If successful in winning the leadership, Umno will not pull out of current government]
联合早报, 11 January 2023
24. Former Malaysia health minister Khairy Jamaluddin ‘thinking about’ running for UMNO presidency
Aqil Haziq Mahmud
Channel News Asia, 10 January 2023
25. Malaysia PM Anwar backs Sabah chief minister to remain in his post
Channel News Asia, 10 January 2023
26. Fix domestic issues instead of using foreign policy to win political support: Malaysian transport minister
Aqil Haziq Mahmud
Channel News Asia, 10 January 2023
27. KJ moots long-term PH-BN alliance to chart centrist course
Free Malaysia Today, 10 January 2023
28. Khairy: Umno will continue to back PM Anwar if my allies or I become president
Radzi Razak
Malay Mail Online, 10 January 2023
29. Statistics Department: Malaysia’s unemployment continued to decline in Nov 2022
Keertan Ayamany
Malay Mail Online, 10 January 2023
30. Tough for Sabah to follow Sarawak, analysts say on local rule
Azzman Abdul Jamal
Malaysia Now, 10 January 2023
31. Tightening anti-hopping law will not solve Sabah problem
Wong Chin Huat
Malaysiakini, 10 January 2023
32. Khairy Jamaluddin proposes unified, centrist, long-term vision of M’sia, invites M’sian minister to discuss over coffee
Tan Min-Wei
Mothership, 10 January 2023
33. Reforms needed post-GE15, says G25
Star, 10 January 2023
34. State elections and Umno polls may shape future of Malaysian govt, says Loke
Bernama
Star, 10 January 2023
35. Umno will still support Malaysia’s unity government if I’m president: Khairy Jamaluddin
Cheong Poh Kwan
Straits Times, 10 January 2023
36. Selamat hari lahir Fatimah [Happy birthday Fatimah]
Mohd Faizal Musa atau Faisal Tehrani bertugas sebagai felo di Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu (UKM), Felo Pelawat di ISEAS-Yusuf Ishak dan Bersekutu untuk sebuah projek di bawah Weatherhead Center, Universiti Harvard.
The Malaysian Insight, 10 January 2023
37. 巫统党选左右大马政治格局 陆兆福：领导变更或冲击希盟 [Umno Party Election Determines Malaysia’s Political Landscape, Anthony Loke: Leadership Change May Impact PH]
The Malaysian Insight, 10 January 2023
38. Pasir Salak voters prefer Perikatan’s fresh, corruption-free brand
Mohd Farhan Darwis
The Malaysian Insight, 10 January 2023
39. Sanggupkah BN korbankan NS demi Kerajaan Perpaduan? [Is BN willing to sacrifice Negri Sembilan for the Unity Government?]
Hussaini Amran
MalaysiaGazette, 9 January 2023
Myanmar
40. Gateways for action on Myanmar crisis
Vitit Muntarbhorn
Bangkok Post, 11 January 2023
41. Myanmar’s Revolutionary Forces Prepare to go on the Offensive
Yuzana
Irrawaddy, 10 January 2023
Philippines
42. Philippines: coups rumors and destabilization plots
Jason Castaneda
Asia Times, 11 January 2023
43. Strengthening FOI
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 11 January 2023
44. Marcos Jnr bolstered China-Philippines relations, but how will US ties, South China Sea and infrastructure factor in?
Richard Heydarian
South China Morning Post, 11 January 2023
45. The Marcos-Duterte Ticket Won. Can This Philippine Alliance Last?
Sui-Lee Wee & Camille Elemia
New York Times, 10 January 2023
Thailand
46. Ruling PPRP to name Prawit as its sole candidate for PM
Mongkol Bangprapa
Bangkok Post, 11 January 2023
47. Cabinet gives the nod to 3.35 trillion baht budget for next fiscal year
The Nation Thailand, 10 January 2023
Vietnam
48. The reasons for dismissal of two Deputy Prime Ministers
VietNamNet, 11 January 2023
49. How Vietnam’s Anti-Corruption Fight Keeps Expanding
Philip Heijmans
Bloomberg, 10 January 2023
50. Vietnam attractive destination for foreign manufacturing
Vietnam Investment Review, 10 January 2023
51. Economic diplomacy to be promoted to support development and integration
Voice of Vietnam, 10 January 2023
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
52. 杨荣文：世界正进入多事之秋 亚细安可扮演柔性要角缓冲多极格局 [George Yeo: ASEAN can play an important role in an emerging multipolar world]
沈泽玮
联合早报, 11 January 2023
53. Kao Kim Hourn takes office as new Secretary-General of ASEAN
ASEAN Secretariat News, 10 January 2023
54. Asean at the Crossroads
B A Hamzah
Asia Sentinel, 10 January 2023
55. Biden’s Half-Hearted Policy Towards Southeast Asia
Derek Grossman,
Foreign Policy, 10 January 2023
56. PM’s official visit to Indonesia
MySinchew, 10 January 2023
57. Asean not interested in doing business with single major power exclusively: George Yeo
Hariz Baharudin
Straits Times, 10 January 2023
58. George Yeo: ASEAN’s advantage in an emerging multipolar world
George Yeo
ThinkChina, 10 January 2023
59. ASEAN’s achievements under Cambodian chairmanship
Sim Vireak
Asia Times, 9 January 2023
Asia Pacific
60. 美前外交官泰利斯：中国劣势比美国多 [Former US diplomat Tellis: China has more disadvantages than the US]
吴汉钧
联合早报, 11 January 2023
61. US, West ‘uncomfortable’ with losing world dominance amid China’s rise: Singapore’s George Yeo
Dewey Sim
South China Morning Post, 10 January 2023
East/South China Sea
62. Philippines’ Supreme Court rules 2005 oil exploration deal with China, Vietnam is void
Mara Cepeda
Straits Times, 10 January 2023
Climate Change/Environment
63. Crossing the carbon border
Stephen Minas
Interpreter, 11 January 2023
64. Indonesia’s biofuel push must go beyond palm oil to reduce risk, experts say
Hans Nicholas Jong on 10 January 2023
Mongabay, 10 January 2023
Others
Global Economy
65. Global recession warning as World Bank cuts economic forecast
Jonathan Josephs
BBC, 11 January 2023
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