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Joseph Rachman

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Freelancer covering Indonesia+SEAsia Words in @CNBC, @thetimes, @NikkeiAsia, @ForeignPolicy, @SCMPNews, @Diplomat_APAC, @FinancialReview, @asiatimesonline, etc

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The Indonesian Social Contract - if you ever wondered “what happens in Indonesia?”

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Loads of lovely memories of John Prescott today but I think this from Press Association is my favourite...

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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto announced that his government plans to retire all coal and other fossil fuel-powered power plants within 15 years. Experts and environmental activists are welcoming that, but aren't holding their breath. apnews.com/article/indone…


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Meeting Larry the Cat at 10 Downing Street. London, United Kingdom.

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Dancers getting ready for arrival of Ridwan Kamil, candidate for Jakarta governor

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first world: conflict of interest third world: corruption

Trump announced that Elon Musk will lead a new department to cut government spending. Looking at government subsidies for Musk's companies, we can be pretty sure where he will *not* be cutting. The conflict of interest is mind-boggling.

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“If Beijing could somehow get Indonesia to implicitly acknowledge, by accident or otherwise, China's overlapping rights in the North Natuna Sea, then China's dubious South China Sea claims will be strengthened at the expense of the other claimants.” Written in 2020. Could be…

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Did Prabowo just implicitly accept China's 9 Dash Line? And was it a concession or a bureaucratic screw up? A pleasure to talk to @aristioo and @GregPoling about this sudden and surprising shift asiatimes.com/2024/11/did-pr…


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This is quite the exchange between the leader and leader-to-be of the world's two most populous presidential democracies . Trump tells Prabowo "your English is so good" and Prabowo replies: "Yes sir, all my training is American."

Glad to be connected directly with President Elect @realDonaldTrump to extend my heartfelt congratulations on his election as the 47th President of the United States. I am looking forward to enhance the collaboration between our two great nations and to more productive…



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My wish for the next election is that poll trackers look like the one on the right 👉 not the left This was yet another election where the polling showed it could easily go either way, but most of the charts just showed two nice clean lines, one leading and one trailing. Bad!

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Rayner quickly becoming a favourite of mine

Angela Rayner has called in an application for 8,400 homes just *three hours* before it was due to go to planning committee with a recommendation for refusal. planningresource.co.uk/article/189536…

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We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇

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New Indonesia fund rings early alarm bells on Prabowo asiatimes.com/2024/11/new-in…

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Summary of how to win election


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