The new 2021 Special Autonomy Law for Papua (Otsus) effectively ends Papua’s political autonomy by taking powers away from provincial governments and giving them to Jakarta. Read More

The immediate blowback to Indonesia from the Taliban victory in Afghanistan is likely to be greater from pro-ISIS groups than from Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), Read More

Indonesia urgently needs to revisit the possibility of repatriating the neediest of its young citizens stranded abroad Read More

The Indonesian government needs to ensure that its current campaign against Islamist radicalism, which has broad public support, does not impinge on civil liberties and further restrict democratic space. Read More

The Sulu archipelago in the Philippines could face new violence from disgruntled fighters of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) even as Sulu Governor Sakur Tan is claiming success in ending old feuds among the archipelago’s political factions. Read More

Support for Islamic State is declining among Indonesian extremists, and Jemaah Ansharul Daulah (JAD), once the largest of the country’s many pro-ISIS groups, has become largely inactive. Read More

Indonesia has managed a rising number of women extremists in prison reasonably well, but the need for more women-specific protocols and more recognition of the work of women case officers (wali) is increasingly apparent. Read More

Indonesia needs to upgrade a regulation that leaves refugee management in the hands of under-resourced local governments and enact a law that will guarantee the rights of refugees such as the nearly 300 Rohingya who landed in Lhokseumawe, Aceh on 7 Septem Read More

The issue of recidivism among those convicted of terrorism in Indonesia needs a closer look as well over 100 of these prisoners are being released each year. Read More