Andreas Harsono

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) Thailand’s caretaker prime minister declares election victory as vote count continues | ABC NEWS

Thailand’s interim Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has declared victory in the country's election despite vote counting still taking place. His Bhumjaithai Party surged in popularity over its nationalistic stance against Cambodia head of the election www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjfL...

Indonesian parliament abruptly appointed lawmaker Adies Kadir as a Constitutional Court justice, replacing an appointee who had served only five months. He was temporarily suspended over remarks that fueled the national unrest www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...

BBC reporter infiltrated a Telegram channel, discovering footage of thousands of hotel guests’ intimate moments being streamed without their consent in China. They were filmed by tiny hidden cameras www.instagram.com/reel/DUbEZ4B...

YouTube video by CNA Insider He Tours The World Repairing Guitars For Bands: How This Gen Z Makes It Work | Money Mind

A Singaporean guitar tech turned a niche craft into a living, running his bespoke guitar shop and touring with rock bands repairing guitars www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeZU...

YouTube video by South China Morning Post Hashim Djojohadikusumo on Prabowo’s vision for Indonesia

In an interview, Hashim Djojohadikusumo talked about his brother Prabowo’s vision for Indonesia, admitting the problems at the Jakarta stock markets and the massive free lunch at schools www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhfx...

In Indonesia, fighting between government forces and Papuan insurgents increased in five provinces, resulting in civilian deaths and mass displacement. Troops protect food estate project in Merauke, displacing Indigenous communities, deforestation www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

Indonesia’s leader is going after critics with a vengeance. This could complicate relations with Australia A proposed law against disinformation and foreign propaganda could imperil activists and journalists in Indonesia – and potentially those living abroad.

Indonesia’s vulnerable democratic system has been under repeated attack from government for most of the last decade. Under the administrations of Jokowi and now Prabowo, a laundry list of actions have been taken to chip away at it theconversation.com/indonesias-l...

He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years

Martin Weil, one of hundreds being let go at The Washington Post, has worked on local news there since 1965, witnessing the paper’s rise and now retrenchment.

The thrill of a byline in The Washington Post “never went away,” he said www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

In Jakarta, a market meltdown and the saga of a contested gold mine in Sumatra is raising more questions about Southeast Asia’s biggest economy www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Jakarta's worst stock tumble in three decades drew attention to a major problem at the heart of this equity market: a handful of billionaires own so much of their listed companies that barely any of those companies’ shares are left to trade www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Key investors of Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd., a Hong Kong-based conglomerate that controlled the Martabe gold mine in Sumatra, were getting anxious. They wanted Jardine to answer a simple question: Do you still own the gold mine or not www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Washington Post Lays Off More Than 300 Journalists

The Washington Post laid off about 30 percent of all its employees, including people on the business side and more than 300 of the roughly 800 journalists in the newsroom www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

The Murder of The Washington Post Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post, and Will Lewis, the publisher since 2023, are embarking on the latest step to kill everything that makes the paper special. It has survived for nearly 150 years. It may not survive much longer share.google/k7wzbAk5MqaN...

‘My Crazy Friend’: The Royals Who Stayed Close to Epstein

The Epstein documents uncovered fresh evidence of how some royal family members, and those in their orbit, repeatedly shrugged off the convicted sex offender’s sleazy reputation as they plied him with praise and made requests for money, gifts and attention www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/w...

Moody’s Downgrades Indonesia Rating Outlook to Negative Moody’s Ratings lowered its outlook on Indonesia’s credit rating to negative, citing concerns over policy stability under President Prabowo Subianto.

Moody’s lowered its outlook on Indonesia’s credit rating to negative, driven by “lower predictability in policymaking" --a week after Indonesian stocks fell to a record low. It’s another blow to Prabowo whose reign as president has unsettled markets share.google/Y9tipIzOsKxj...

Nuclear Arms Control Era Comes to End Amid Global Rush for New Weapons

Nuclear arms control era comes to end. Beijing, Moscow and shaken American allies are seeking new warheads as President Trump ends more than a half century of nuclear arms control with Russia www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

Messages in the latest Epstein files suggesting that Bill Gates had engaged in extramarital sex brought up “painful” memories, his former wife Melinda French said in an interview. Gates has denied the claims www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

A majority of Americans disapprove of how President Donald Trump has handled top issues, including the economy, in his second term, a new poll from The New York Times/Siena found www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/p...

Citi Analyst Rebuked by Indonesia Finance Chief for Lacking PhD Indonesia took aim at a Citigroup Inc. economist for a report that said its budget deficit risks breaching the legal limit this year, highlighting growing pressure on global banks over research that g...

In January report, Citi raised Indonesia's 2026 budget deficit forecast to 3.5% of gross domestic product from an initial estimate of 2.7%, taking it beyond the 3% ceiling enshrined in the law in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis share.google/1ZyK8c37SzL9...

YouTube video by Reuters Thai rural voters' shift tests Pheu Thai’s populist machine

Populist Pheu Thai party has dominated agrarian Ubon Ratchathani and neighboring provinces in northeastern Thailand for decades, but that grip is weakening and voters are switching allegiance to powerful individual candidates www.youtube.com/watch?v=We1C...

YouTube video by CNA Thailand Votes 2026: Pheu Thai party's slide from power and the future of the Shinawatra dynasty

After being in power for two years, Thailand's Pheu Thai party has been rocked by turmoil: two prime ministers ousted, its coalition splintered and its patriarch, Thaksin Shinawatra, back behind bars www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwge...

YouTube video by WCCO - CBS Minnesota ICE agents confronted by crowd at Minneapolis taco shop

A south Minneapolis taco shop is back open after a confrontation involving men believed to be ICE agents raised fear among workers and neighbors www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6QJ...

YouTube video by Bloomberg Television What Went Wrong in Indonesia's Stock Market? Finance Chief Weighs in on Selloff, MSCI Downgrade

Finance Minister Purbaya Sadewa defended Indonesia's economic track in the wake of a recent slump in the rupiah and local stocks. He criticized Citigroup Inc. for a report that said the nation's budget deficit could breach the legal limit this year www.youtube.com/watch?v=auWA...

What happened on human rights around the world in 2025? @hrw.org is going to launch a global report from Bangkok. It's available on Zoom hrworg.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Indonesia Lifts Ban on Grok After New Assurances From X Corp

Indonesia joined Malaysia and the Philippines in reversing its Grok restrictions, weeks after it blocked the chatbot because it was used to generate sexually explicit images of real people www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/w...

T. Kumar, Rights Activist Who Was Shaped by Time in Prison, Dies at 76

After being jailed as a resistance organizer for the Tamil minority in his native Sri Lanka, T. Kumar studied law, moved to Washington DC, and spoke out against governmental repression worldwide www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/w...

YouTube video by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Brittney Griner Learns the Story of an Enslaved Ancestor and Her Family | Finding Your Roots | PBS

Brittney Griner has her ancestry traced back more than 250 years to her seventh great-grandparents, Marie Coincoin and Pierre Metoyer, in colonial Louisiana. Marie was born into slavery around 1742, while Pierre was a white man born in France www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCJX...

Danantara's big plan to cannibalize Indonesia's textiles - Asia Times Indonesia’s government has recently thrown a political and economic spanner into the works of the country’s crucial textile industry. Through the state

Indonesia's textile firms, already operating on the edge, will be pushed further as the government is to build a state-owned textile industry. It risks creating an internally funded rival, financed by taxpayers, that could suffocate the local players asiatimes.com/2026/02/dana...

Why Malaysia, not Indonesia, is the strategic first stop for China’s Muslim F&B entrepreneurs KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 — When Chinese Muslim entrepreneurs look beyond China’s borders, Malaysia often tops the list — not for its market size, but for something far more...

When Chinese Muslim entrepreneurs look beyond China’s borders, Malaysia often tops the list — not for its market size, but for something far more practical: a shared language, a multicultural society and a business environment they already understand share.google/29EJMKllLpNi...

China’s Disappearing Generals For three years, Xi Jinping has been cleaning out the Chinese military elite, bringing high-level dismissals and disappearances to nearly every arm of the military.

In China, Xi Jinping’s extraordinary purges over three years have left a void at the top of the world’s second-most powerful military www.nytimes.com/interactive/...