Vincent Tanutama

Protests rocked Indonesia last week as lawmakers proposed lavish housing monthly allowance. The question is why the flame was so quickly lit? Answer: jobs, jobs, jobs. Under Jokowi, Indonesia focus on its natural resource endowment, which is to move up the value chain in processing things like raw nickel. But such sectors, as I have argued in the past, are not labor intensive and capital intensive. Meanwhile, Indonesia has lost comparative advantage. Its global market share of labor-intensive exports have stagnated while Vietnam exploded.

There's an eighth layer of Hell, Jahannam much worse than Al-Hawwiyah, called DPR RI

My take on the recent protests in Indonesia newmandala.org/mass-protest-a…

@abu_waras Jangan dibuka pintu pertanyaan ini, karena ada Pulau Menui yang dikelola 2 Pemprov Sulawasi Tengah dan Tenggara

Pertanyaan untuk Bobby: Pulau Apa Disebuah Daerah Yang Dikelola oleh Dua Pemerintahan Daerah Provinsi?

The largest planned deforestation in our history is currently unfolding in Indonesia’s West Papua region, displacing local communities and threatening biodiversity. Efforts to resist the destruction are being met with military repression. apnews.com/article/bioeth…

I am sad to learn of Jim’s passing. He was a great scholar, teacher, and mentor. RIP. stanforddaily.com/2025/02/19/jam…

@Boediantar4 Namanya juga penjual. Sebelumnya jual kayu, lalu jual negeri, sekarang jual diri.

Ngga ada dalam sejarah RI mantan presiden spt ini ....

@_alice_evans Thanks for this reference, Alice. However the generalization stops at Central IDN. Some of the more culturally variegated gender systems remain in Sulawesi, including the five-gender system in Bugis. Komodo people believe that their foremother gives birth to twins: man and komodo

Your regular reminder that Indonesia was once very culturally diverse cc @economeager

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Published in @apsrjournal (and open access!) What can luxury cars teach us about how autocratic regimes function? Let's uncover some 'kompromat' using brand new data on corruption in Putin's Russia 🧵 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

@wsandholtz This? The Brazilian mayors are more willing to learn the results of higher-N impact evaluation studies, suggesting that HTE gautam-rao.com/pdf/HMRS.pdf

The slightly less cynical converse to this (accurate!) argument is that evidence strengthens & empowers policymakers who happen to favor evidence-backed policy - at least in theory. But I confess I'm not aware of empirical work showing this. If you've seen it let me know

Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia, @EdwardAspinall, @merweissphd, @a2hicken, and Paul D. Hutchcroft @CUP_PoliSci | Reviewed by Mariela Daby at doi.org/10.1093/psquar…

@ariel_heryanto Kebiasaan nyontek, Pak. Nilai sekolah aja dikatrol. Bisanya lihat ke luar, nggak membatini yang sudah ada. Perlu ini itu, yang dapet juga situ-situ. Kalo pelajaran ini bisa dijual ke negara oligarkis lain, mungkin PDB Indonesia sudah selangit 😁

Mau seperti Shenzen Mau seperti Singapura Mau seperti New York atau Sydney Mau seperti . . .

@saiful_mujani Hobi baca playbook Pak Harto mungkin wkwk 😭

paling2 presiden @jokowi . apa yang ada di kepala anda pak? nasional.kompas.com/read/2024/03/1…

@ismailfahmi Dari link resmi aja udah ditulis bahwa kampus tidak akan dibangun, hanya kolaborasi penelitian berbasis keberlanjutan. sustainability.stanford.edu/news/indonesia…

Tapi di TikTok, banyak postingan dan komen yang siap mendukung berita ini, Stanford di IKN. Ok gas..

@iwilson69 Indonesia seemed to have a collective amnesia over his 2014 attempt to repeal local and presidential elections

His idea of what constitutes 'improvement' is well documented

I just learned that the westernmost point of Indonesia is closer to Russia than to its easternmost point

BREAKING: INDONESIA SAYS NO STATE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SUBJUGATE A WEAKER STATE THIS IS WHY WE HAVE INTERNATIONAL LAW “Israel has never been seriously interested in negotiations leading to a just and lasting peace. After all, a negotiation with someone holding a gun against your head is not a negotiation at all.”

Today I was arrested, in absentia, by a Moscow court. The crime is posting information about the atrocities committed by Russian troops in occupied Bucha in March 2022. Here is the full collection of court documents so far: voices.uchicago.edu/ksonin/files/2…. The documents might be interesting for scholars in different fields. First, those who study authoritarian regimes in the degenerate stage. The documents restate, on a hundred of pages, my words about the facts that are established by multiple investigations, official and unofficial, documented by major media, etc. and then proceed to claim that all these facts are somehow fake. Then, they charge me with stating these facts as facts. Putin and his henchmen, including the so-called "Russian diplomats", apparently believe that if people are prosecuted for saying that the Russian troops destroyed Mariupol and executed civilians in Bucha than this somehow changes what has actually happened. The second field of study is that of how a useless bureaucracy operates. There are dozens of high- and middle-level police bureaucrats working on transferring the case from one to another in an endless circle. Again and again they tell each other that it is impossible to establish my current location. For God's sake, I am teaching at @UChicago, my lecture schedule is posted, everything that I say and write is on my web-page, I travel around the world for conferences and vacation, post on social media almost daily... The primary investigator of my case is a 30-year old lieutenant. I wonder how she will stay sane doing these kind of "investigations" for the next 20 years until her retirement. Finally, students of Kafkaesque linguistics will find ample research material in these pages. There are experts, with their PhD diplomas in history and psychology on display, who discuss the meaning of the words "Russian" (what did I mean by saying "Russian soldiers"?), "civilian" (I said that "the @nytimes investigation confirmed killing of civilians in Bucha" - what I could have meant by that?), "war of conquest" (what's this?), etc. The cherry on top: the third social media post that I am prosecuted for - and will be sentenced in absentia to 7-9 years in a couple of months - was headlined "The Volga River Flows into Caspian Sea". We Russians use this expression as a metaphor for something obviously, trivially true. Like that the Russia's war against Ukraine is a war of conquest.

China is already exporting airplanes, and Indonesia is still complaining about expensive rice and debating to give schoolchildren free lunches 🙈

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