Dehumanization is an effective strategy to mobilize the masses and breeds violence. This article explains why this is so and what is needed in the face of it.
Security
The recent dispute in Rempang Island is steeped in anti-Jakarta sentiment which has expressed itself in the past.
This is the second of a two-part article on the ongoing amendment of the controversial UU ITE in Indonesia, focusing on the discrepancy between public aspiration and political necessities as well as some legal complications.
The first of this two-part article on the amendment process of the controversial UU ITE focuses on the problematic beginning of the act as well as the questionable decision to keep the process behind closed doors.
stratsea.com is please to announce the publication of Regionalisasi Ketahanan Nasional Indonesia di ASEAN (The Regionalization of Indonesia’s National Resilience in ASEAN), written by Galby Rifqi Samhudi, a frequent contributor of political-security issues to our platform.
Indonesia’s new criminal code harks back not only to Soeharto’s New Order era, but also to the 17th century colonial period. State paternalism in the form of authoritarianism is back and in full swing in the country.
Malaysia’s current security threats are closely associated with its socio-political structure that it inherited from the colonial period. Simultaneously, the changing international order could also pose mounting challenges to the country’s management of the ever increasing traditional and non-traditional security threats.