Australia is no longer competitive in the nickel market, largely due to Indonesia’s recent domination in the sector. This domination strategy has been carefully planned by Indonesia as it looks to boost its downstream industrial policy in critical minerals processing with the backing of Chinese investments.
I mean politics in Indonesia haven’t been good since US overthrew the communists there, and pretty much anybody in power will necessarily have links to the previous governments.
I see this take a lot here. He was popular with the middle class, but he was essentially a neoliberal who also happened to be a competent administrator. His administration was responsible for massive displacement through bulldozing of slums, and did nothing to help the West Papuans fighting a Suharto-era ecocidal extractive regime on their land.
I can’t blame you for the fact that he was complicit in the West Papuan conflict (specifically in blocking its internet access while it’s being bombed by Indonesian armed forces) but displacing people in slums, I mean, I don’t remember him directly complicit in that necessarily… if anything, he did provide low-income housing?
Different topic, but Jokowi has been big on palm oil exports to the detriment of the environment. He also passed anti-worker and anti-Marxist legislation.
I mean politics in Indonesia haven’t been good since US overthrew the communists there, and pretty much anybody in power will necessarily have links to the previous governments.
Joko Widodo was good tho… Wished we’d had more ppl like him
I see this take a lot here. He was popular with the middle class, but he was essentially a neoliberal who also happened to be a competent administrator. His administration was responsible for massive displacement through bulldozing of slums, and did nothing to help the West Papuans fighting a Suharto-era ecocidal extractive regime on their land.
I can’t blame you for the fact that he was complicit in the West Papuan conflict (specifically in blocking its internet access while it’s being bombed by Indonesian armed forces) but displacing people in slums, I mean, I don’t remember him directly complicit in that necessarily… if anything, he did provide low-income housing?
Different topic, but Jokowi has been big on palm oil exports to the detriment of the environment. He also passed anti-worker and anti-Marxist legislation.
I regret everything…
I should’ve learned from Lula…
No worries! I only know about Indonesia because I have leftist friends from there.