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📚 Punk is often associated with Western music and fashion, but its political roots (resistance, anti-authoritarianism, DIY culture, and community organising) run deep across the Global South. Global Souths Hub's Mira Mookerjee has compiled, "Punk in the Global South: A Reading and Resource List", a comprehensive collection that explores how punk has shaped activism from Brazil’s transportation protests, to Morocco’s underground scenes, to Indonesia’s feminist and grassroots movements. These resources highlight how punk ideology has intersected with anti-colonialism, struggles for political freedom, and community-led resistance. Thank you to @MatttDavies, Academic Editor, @thirdworldq, Reader @UniofNewcastle & Visiting Professor @pucriooficial, Kevin Dunn, Professor @HWSColleges & @hsaefullah8122, Lecturer @UniNewEngland, who helped put this listicle together with their guidance and recommendations. Explore the listicle here ⬇️ buff.ly/y89lB7M

📢 We’re excited to announce the upcoming “Music and Political Mobilisation in the Asia Pacific” Symposium-a one-day event bringing together scholars, artists, & activists to explore the intersections of sound, politics,& resistance. 🗓️24 Oct 2025 📍@UniNewEngland Sydney Campus

UNE Indonesian Studies, Asia Pacific Research Network (APN) & Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation present a (hybrid) seminar: 📅 Friday, 29 August 2025 🕑 2 PM AEST 📍A3 LT, Arts Building, @UniNewEngland 🌐 Online attendance RSVP: une-au.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

A new piece on Hercules and gangster populism in Prabowo's Indonesia. @IndoAtMelb indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/?p=81828

Our newest episode of Indonesia Unedited is coming soon! 🎧 In this episode, our lecturer @hsaefullah8122 shares his journey through Indonesia’s underground music scene and why it matters as an alternative space for political expression. Stay tuned!

After 2 weeks of break, we’re back! Contact us to be listed in our Nongkrong Yuk! mailing list and join our weekly online Indonesian conversation gathering for free. This week, Tisha Rumbewas, an Australia Award Scholarships alumni & ILLA ambassador will join our chat. 🇮🇩✨

A powerful essay by ⁦@bartov_omer⁩ on his recent visit to Israel, unashamedly using his research on the German army under the Nazis to frame his understanding of the IDF in Gaza. theguardian.com/world/article/…

THREAD: Every time Israel conducts a massacre in a school, hospital, or designated safe zone, it claims the facility was being used for military purposes by Palestinians.

Prasasti Damalung ini tersimpan di Belanda selama dua abad. Ditemukan di Desa Ngaduman, Kab Semarang pada 1824. Prasasti penting bagi peradaban bangsa Indonesia: ia diciptakan oleh kalangan intelektual era Hindu-Budha (1371 saka atau 1449 masehi) di kawasan skriptoria Merapi-Merbabu. Saya pertama kali mendengar kisah prasasti ini awal tahun 2023 lalu ketika bersama @sarasdewi diundang bicara di Salatiga. Atas informasi itu pelacakan keberadaannya dilakukan oleh Pim Westerkamp, sejarawan dan kurator senior Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden. Kemarin siang waktu Belanda saya berkesempatan melihat benda bersejarah yang penting ini di gudang museum terletak di kota kecil s-Gravenzande. Momen yang membahagiakan karena sejak lama para ahli purbakala Indonesia berharap bisa menemukan kembali prasasti yang sempat "hilang" ini. Para pakar di dalam Tim Repatriasi Indonesia seperti Junus Satrio Atmodjo, Ninie Susanti dan Irmawati Marwoto mendukung pengembalian prasasti ini. Foto: Wendy Boham

Australia's Israel-Palestine policy is now a shambles. @AlboMP & @SenatorWong say they will only recognise Palestine as part of a peace process which doesn't exist, despite it being ALP platform policy. They support a 2-state solution that both Netanyahu and the Knesset explicitly reject. And they have to remain schtum on @IntlCrimCourt and @CIJ_ICJ rulings against Israel while claiming to support international law. They can’t use the “self-defence” argument to justify the slaughter of civilians in Gaza, so they digress to a moral panic about "growing anti-semitism" in Australia. And they cannot say Iran has the right to self-defence against Israeli state terror and assassinations without upsetting Washington, so they peddle a regional anti-escalation argument which Israel regularly violates and undermines. Standing with Israel comes at a very high price they never expected they would have to pay. What a mess!

This is a thread about Yehya Sinwar, Hamas’ new political leader. The picture is from his teens when he was a student at the Islamic University. Six decades before, in 1962, Sinwar was born in the Khan Younis refugee camp in southeastern Gaza.

90% of Palestinian schools in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed by Israel. Over 200 were directly hit. No university left standing. This is the Israeli army detonating a school in Khan Younis today. The scope of mass “evacuations”: total destruction.

Watch the special episode of “Indonesia Unedited” featuring the Indonesian Ambassador to Australia, HE Dr. Siswo Pramono. Pak Siswo discusses 🇮🇩’s international relations, including 🇦🇺-🇮🇩 relationship and 🇮🇩’s response to the Indo-Pacific tensions. youtu.be/0eCQg1kYZa4?si…

This image, this celebration of mass murder of the most atrocious kind, symbolizes a nation that has just completely lost its mind. It is absolutely repulsive to 99% of the planet, and I bet even to most Americans. Rarely in the history of the world has a group of elites so completely lost touch with the most basic moral principles. Witnessing this should terrify anyone with any common sense.

While 🇺🇸 welcomed the war criminal Netanyahu, & the IOF made a miserable quality staged video impersonating Hamas threatening the 2024 Olympics, 🇨🇳 once again stole the international stage by attempting to resolve the Middle East crisis(In 2023, it brokered the Saudi-Iran deal).

Get ready for the special episode of Indonesia Unedited feat. a special guest, Indonesian Ambassador to Australia, HE Dr Siswo Pramono. With our host, @hsaefullah8122, he discusses the opportunities & challenges in developing 🇮🇩🇦🇺 relationship in the current political climate.

Our colleague, @AhlstrandJane, has published an excellent work critically analyzing the discourse of 'social mobility' among Indonesian female celebrities, highlighting its influence by neoliberal ideology. Check it out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

3. The Labor government’s treatment of Senator Fatima Payman, Australia’s first hijabi Muslim woman in Parliament, forced her to resign because she dared to oppose a genocide. The Labor party only has space for the abstraction of diverse bodies but no space for the material realities of diversity. We have been given utterly crystal clear evidence that western imperialism will crush anyone who dares to threaten its geo-political alliances & interests. It will use people of colour who tick the intersectionality boxes to use the language of ‘diversity’ to betray you. It will use people who were raised on ‘struggle street’ to bully, intimidate and punish you.

It's been 48 hours since Israel murdered Gaza's water & environment chief engineer along with 4 municipality officials while they were working to restore the water supply to the famine-stricken northern Gaza. Not even a single passing mention of this in any mainstream media!