@erincook
Following Southeast Asia and Timor-Leste, mostly elections, FP and Instagram posts. Don't complain to me that I don't cover business enough, I do not know of such things. Read my newsletter 🤓 https://darimulut.substack.com
This is a major move by a country that was very happy to bribe Trump with a Board of Peace membership three weeks ago.
Indonesia has looked at the global chessboard and, as a trading state, concluded that they need prepare for a different world order. Actions have consequences.
Immovable object (Prabowo administration) vs unstoppable force (14 year old Javanese kid addicted to Roblox)
This is so interesting because young Indonesians are online ONLINE and not dummies about it, VPNs are basic. But it's surely the largest group so far for this specific type of regulation to apply to - very curious to see how platforms respond
Take it, Italy!
Lmfaooo
OBSESSED with it, immediately bought a book lol amazing the difference between what people my age say vs when I ask what their mum or grandma thinks
I also learnt a lot about: Iraqi resilience in times of conflict, Haley Bieber, the Nepali royal family massacre, Canberra Gen Z Muslims car pooling to Lakemba Ramadan markets like we did to Homebake
My casual bill paying job is at suburban GP clinic, so I work with a lot of very young women and immigrant women. And it's amazing cos I get to explain touchstones. This week: mullets as culture, Ivan Milat, why saying 'see you next Tuesday' is accidentally funny, the concept of Big Day Out.
Scamming weekend dads, you love to see it
Excellent! Okay with your endorsement that's the top of the list
There's a whole world out there my millennial arse never sees, but good move on that one haha
Ooh I've got this on my list! Did you like it? Sounds fascinating
Harga Mati for memes
Tung Tung Tung Sahur? Indonesian yes, but has been considered part of that group for a while.
Italian brainrot was never actually Italian anyway - just folk taking the piss.
The perks of having young sons, you know too much 😅
The Italian brain rotters are trying to claim tuk tuk sahur (going to try to explain this to Kevin on the podcast)
Look what you made them do
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Haven't they suffered enough 😞
A flagrant disregard for the Oxford comma so suckers like me engage
They know what they're doing and I don't like it
Haha good on them!
What a choice for a nice Thursday night in!
I love them 🥹
this is so good. some of the writers mentioned who were shipped across the archipelago to Boven Digul could well have ended up in Cowra!
I love that the local news immediately took the piss
Angus Taylor and friends wanted to check out the cost of living crisis via the poshest minimart in Canberra's poshest area. He's on it 🫡
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A man described by federal prosecutors as a leader in Japan’s Yakuza organized crime syndicate was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years in prison for trafficking uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in a plot meant to supply Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
No photo - but here's an approximation of how I looked getting Ross's lowdown on 2028
There must be a lot of 'told ya so' going around Jakarta today!
