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We asked local communities, activists and researchers what could be done about palm oil companies' failure to provide a share of their plantations (or the profits from that share) to villagers across Indonesia. Here's what they said.

50th Anniversary Collection - Top 50 most cited articles in JPS - free access | Agrarian Conversations peasantjournal.org/news/50th-anni…

Keating has nothing of substance to add? How about finally tackling the arms industry/smh orthodoxy that a war between China and the USA is imminent and that Australia’s involvement in such a war is inevitable?

We are launching our book here at ANU - The Paradox of Agrarian Change: Food Security and the Politics of Social Protection in Indonesia Thanks to Prof Sharon Bessell and Jeff Neilson for being discussants. asiapacific.anu.edu.au/event/book-lau…

🗓️Patterns of food poverty persist across #Indonesia, despite a fall in poverty rates. What explains this troubling paradox? Come along to this #booklaunch where two book editors John F McCarthy & Andrew McWilliam will discuss their findings. Register: quicklink.anu.edu.au/tw2x

Sad reflection on contemporary Australia smh.com.au/culture/tv-and…

Look forward to sharing our research with colleagues and friends at Unsyiah tomorrow in Banda Aceh. Thanks for the wonderful collaboration 😎

Enjoying my first kopi gayo for a long time…

how does a specific politics of knowledge shape anti-poverty policies & provoke a politics of distribution in Indonesian villages? our paper on social cash transfers is finally out (open access)! doi.org/10.1080/004723…

Welcoming Enzo … newest addition to our household

I am thrilled to be working with a talented team of colleagues on this new climate change and food security research. Our team includes Suraya Affif Prudensius Maring, Rini Astuti, Ahmad Maryudi, Henri Sitorus, Mulia Nurhasan and Yovita Yasintha Bolly

Researchers: We've Underestimated The Risk of Simultaneous Crop Failures Worldwide : ScienceAlert sciencealert.com/researchers-we…

This report analyses 732 pieces of the Murdoch Media's Voice coverage and the results are alarming. Read it and help spread the word ahead of the referendum! murdochroyalcommission.org.au/interim-report/

"But while Australia’s Indonesian literacy is declining, China’s Indonesian literacy is on the rise. In China, there are now 19 universities teaching Indonesian." (Australia dropped from 22 unis teaching Indonesia to 12 between 1992 at 2022) theconversation.com/the-number-of-… 1/2

“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” – Spinoza

We are excited that Bapalitbang with regional govt agencies in Sikka Flores NTT in eastern indonesia are hosting focus group discussions with stakeholders today on climate change and food security under our #KONEKSI project

Animated discussion yesterday at the workshop on climate change and food security in eastern indonesia