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Climate disasters demand swift action
Oped, Genevieve Donnellon-May, Published on 10/12/2025
» Southeast Asia is in crisis. Less than a week after the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) concluded in Brazil, the region is grappling with devastating floods and landslides, underscoring the urgent climate challenges that countries have repeatedly raised on the global stage.
Southeast Asia facing hidden extremist threat
Oped, Muhammad Makmun Rasyid, Published on 07/07/2025
» In May, Indonesia's counter-terrorism unit arrested an 18-year-old man in Gowa, South Sulawesi, on charges of spreading Islamic State (IS) propaganda and inciting bomb attacks on social media. Identified only as MAS, the suspect represents a deeply troubling development in Southeast Asia's struggle against terrorism: the rise of youth radicalisation driven entirely by online exposure.
Bolstering Asia's tsunami defence
Oped, Victor Kuk, Published on 24/12/2024
» Though two decades have passed, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami is still fresh in my memory.
Repositioning the region in the Asian Century
Oped, Aristyo Rizka Darmawan, Published on 15/07/2020
» In 2018, the little red dot in Southeast Asia -- Singapore -- caught the world's attention as a result of the success of the movie Crazy Rich Asians. Viewers saw Mercedes-Benz AMGs and Ferraris, and all the other luxuries that one might expect to see in London or Paris. Indeed, Singapore has offered any experience that one could expect in developed countries. Not only Singapore, other capital cities in Asean -- Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Manila -- have increasingly become important business hubs in Asia.
Talking about counterterrorism in times of crisis
Oped, Fynn-Niklas Franke, Published on 06/06/2020
» Over the past few weeks, the long-spun controversy surrounding the role of the Indonesian military (TNI) in dealing with the phenomenon of domestic "terrorism" has entered a new phase.