Southeast Asia

Analysis | International

Indonesia at 273 Million: The Volcanic Reality Show Everyone’s Streaming but No One’s Scripting
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

Indonesia: 273 Million People, 17,000 Islands, and One Giant Reality Show Called “Globalization” By a Correspondent Who’s Learned to Drink Luwak Coffee Without Asking Too Many Questions JAKARTA—From the air, Indonesia looks like someone spilled coffee on a map of the planet and then tried to mop it up with a sari. Seventeen-thousand-odd islands, three…

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Analysis | International

Bangkok Sinks Two Centimeters a Year—And Rises in Global Relevance by the Hour
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

**Bangkok: The Sweltering Capital Where the Future Goes to Take a Cold Shower** The smell of diesel exhaust, durian, and unspoken dreams hits you at Suvarnabhumi like a geopolitical uppercut. Bangkok, that humid, hyperventilating metropolis, has spent centuries perfecting the art of looking simultaneously exhausted and inexhaustible—a trick most global cities are still trying to…

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