Professor Vedi Hadiz

Director and Professor of Asian Studies, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne

Politics & Society

Uncivil society

Civil society has been seen as a bedrock of democracy, but around the world democracy is being undermined by the same forces that were supposed to sustain it

Politics & Society

Widodo on track to win, but what next?

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo is poised to win a second term, but what does this mean for civil society, policy, women, minorities, and Australia?

Politics & Society

Oligarchs, money and religion

The Indonesian parliamentary and presidential elections bring together a heady mix of reformers, reactionaries and religion

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