Amid rising energy security pressures, Indonesia is turning to one of its most underused resources — geothermal. The sovereign wealth fund Danantara has allocated US$120 million for 19 geothermal ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's visit to Australia in late April 2026 coincides with the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation. Both countries face an ...

ASEAN has long framed trade diversification as a strategic priority, but in practice its economic ties have become more regionally concentrated, with engagement with the Gulf Cooperation Council ...

Indonesia under President Prabowo Subianto appears to have entered a post-Islamist arrangement, with no major Islamist party standing in open opposition. But this convergence rests on state coercion ...

India and Nepal are upgrading their bilateral partnership, with a landmark power trade agreement, cross-border transmission upgrades and petroleum pipeline expansion marking a new phase in the ...

Rommel Banlaoi, PhD, is the President of Philippine Society for International Security Studies and Chairman of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research. He used to teach at ...

Dr Raymond Atje is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta.

Emma Dalton is a Japanese studies scholar with interdisciplinary research interests in sociology and political science. Her research is concerned broadly with gender inequality in Japan and more ...

Takeo Otani is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Territory and History, The Japan Institute of International Affairs. He is also a doctoral researcher at Hitotsubashi University, specialising in ...

Anthony Saich is Daewoo Professor of International Relations and Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga is a PhD candidate in International Law at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), UOW and an officer in the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL). His ...

Despite the impact of super Typhoon Yagi and a stormy geopolitical landscape, Vietnam’s GDP grew by 7.09 per cent in 2024, exceeding international forecast figures. But 2024 was not just a reset for ...