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World Nitrates Loads In Kilotons Each Year New Estimates
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2026-05-08) Jegatheesan, R.; Knight, J.; Hall, Chris
A calculation using United Nations data.
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Captain, striker, and the integralist state
(Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, 2023-07-20) Walker, Joshua
A bold development in Prabowo Subianto’s 2024 presidential campaign has been his promise that if he wins, he will invite his vanquished election rivals to join his government. He argues that Indonesia is too big, too diverse, and has too many ethnic groups to reach its potential unless its leaders are willing to work together cohesively. Prabowo’s own post-election-defeat inclusion within President Jokowi’s government in 2019 may thus become one of Indonesia’s defining political precedents.
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Soeharto’s sons and national cars: time for Bambang, not Tommy, to shine under New Order redux?
(The University of Melbourne, 2026-01-06) Walker, Joshua
Commentators have warned that President Prabowo Subianto’s national car program is at risk of repeating the failure of Tommy Soeharto’s national car brand, Timor, in the 1990s. They are right to remind us of Tommy’s Timor debacle. But when considering Indonesia’s national car ambitions, we should also remember another of Soeharto’s sons: Bambang Trihatmodjo.
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Nature-inspired carbon storage and transport: encapsulated CO2 hydrate flow in pipes to imitate blood flow in vessels
(2025-07-19) Zhang, Yuxuan; Rahbari, Alireza; Chen, Lijin; Chalermsinsuwan, Benjapon; Zhai, Xiaoqiang; Wang, Fei; Liu, Ming; Wang, Xiaolin
Hydrate slurry has been recognized as an efficient and cost-effective method for CO2transport; however, its practical application is constrained by risks of plugging and agglomeration due to hydrate deposition. Here, we propose a new concept for hydrate-based carbon transport utilizing encapsulated hydrate flow, inspired by the transport of red blood cells (RBCs) in blood vessels. Experiments and computational fluid dynamics-discrete element method (CFD-DEM) simulations are conducted to investigate the flow dynamics and dissociation kinetics of CO₂ hydrates encapsulated in RBC-shaped capsules for pipeline transport. The dissociation rate constant is determined by optimizing the model against the experimental dissociation data. The results demonstrate that a higher capsule-to-pipe diameter ratio effectively enhances flow stability, reduces both hydrate dissociation and pressure drop for a given hydrate quantity. Comparative analyses indicate that for various hydrate volume fractions, the pressure drop gradients of the encapsulated hydrate flow are reduced by up to 92 % compared to the traditional slurry flow at flow rates from 0.005 to 0.0063 m³ /s. Additionally, the flow with RBC-shaped capsules consistently exhibit lower pressure drops compared to spherical ones under identical conditions. The improved performance of encapsulated hydrate flow is attributed to differences in flow rheology, viscosity, and particle-particle and particle-wall interactions, demonstrating the potential of encapsulated hydrate transport to enhance carbon storage and pipeline transport efficiency while mitigating risks of pipeline blockage and CO₂ release, critical for process safety in carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems.
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'Chong dich nhu chong giac' ('Fighting the pandemic like fighting the invader'): Audience agency and historical resources in Vietnam's early securitisation of Covid-19
(2023) Phan, Xuan Dung; Quah, Say Jye; To, Minh Son
Vietnam's initial response to Covid-19 was conspicuous for various reasons, including how its attempt at securitisation drew deeply from historical narratives, symbols, and traditions specific to the Vietnamese experience, as well as how the securitisation project was not simply top-down and state-driven but also featured ground-up participation where the public was mobilised to participate in and actively reiterate securitisation practices. This richly textured empirical case study of the workings of Vietnamese society and politics represents an invitation to explore key debates surrounding securitisation theory. Reflecting on the empirical material of the case, this paper builds on scholarship seeking to highlight the shortcomings of the Copenhagen School's model of securitisation and from there further explore securitisation theory and its limits. It takes aim at how the audience and its agency is conceptualised in the theory and develops the notions of 'historical resources' and 'activation architecture' to more adequately explain the processes of securitisation.
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Hydrogenation of low density polyethylene using transition metal based catalyst loaded on active natural zeolite: Effect of temperature and metal loading
(2026) Sihombing, Junifa L.; Pulungan, Ahmad N.; Herlinawati, Herlinawati; Kembaren, Agus; Simanjuntak, Janter P.; Efiyanti, Lisna; Hadi, Muhammad; Rahayu, Rahayu; Wibowo, Ary A.
The conversion of plastic waste to fuel is a viable approach to address challenges associated with LDPE waste while enhancing energy utilization in pyrolysis. Elevated olefin levels beyond set standards adversely affect exhaust emissions, underscoring the need for hydrogenation. This study comprises multiple phases, including catalyst formulation from natural zeolites, transition metal deposition, and hydrogenation of pyrolytic oil using these catalysts. Results indicate that the Nickel-based catalyst yields a significantly lower olefin yield of 6.1 % with Ni/SNZ and 5.76 % with NiMo/SNZ, complying with EN228 standards. In contrast, the CoMo/SNZ catalyst significantly increases carbon content to 87.25 %, demonstrating improved deoxygenation and achieving the highest HHV of 39.95 MJ/kg, reflecting enhanced liquid product quality for potential alternative fuel applications.
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Continental Drift: Southeast Asia Amidst Regional Wars, Great Power Rivalry, and Globalization at Risk
(ISEAS Publishing, 2026) To, Minh Son; Liow, Joseph
Amid an intensifying major power rivalry and polarizing regional wars in Europe and the Middle East, the search for direction in Southeast Asia, as Chong Ja Ian described in the previous issue, has become an individual pursuit by nation-states rather than a collective one in 2024. Despite shared objectives of economic growth and regime security, Southeast Asian states have taken different, and at times divergent, foreign policy paths to realize them. A slow but not imperceptible continental drift is under way as their economies and politics shift along with global trends of protectionism and centrifugal forces of great power competition. Southeast Asians resolutely insist on not “choosing sides”, but their different reactions to wars waged abroad and tensions at home bear out the subtle gradients in their political and strategic outlooks. Whereas tensions in the South China Sea continue to shape US relations with Vietnam and the Philippines, frustration towards the West over the Gaza crisis has seen Indonesia and Malaysia gravitate towards China. The pull of economics remains the fundamental force behind their relations with great powers, but the push of politics can act as an enabler—or mitigator—as well. The noticeable absence of ASEAN and its centrality from geopolitical and geo-economic conversations over the past year accentuate these divergences. In the face of several major crises that have accelerated in the past twelve months, ASEAN has not mustered adequate voice. With Indonesia and Thailand occupied with internal dramas during and after their respective elections, little attention from regional states, not to mention ASEAN as a whole, was given to the civil war raging in Myanmar, which has now entered its third year.
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The Anxious State: Impossibility of Closure and State's Ontological (In-)security in Postcolonial and Postrevolutionary Vietnam
(2024) To, Minh Son
This article develops an account of ontological security of the state as constituted by endless pursuits of discursive totality. Grounded in discussions on state's ontology, Lacanian and postcolonial insights, the article advances an account of state's ontological security as predicated upon a totalising but perpetually contingent discourse that reifies itself through ideational order and foreclosure of alternatives. Discursive totality obtains for the state its ontological security by layering social reality to bury its original lack and fixing signifiers in particular, exclusive ways, which must be continually maintained due to the discourse' very contingency. The case of Vietnam's 'syncretic socialism' and its continual rearticulations in response to different political ruptures embody this 'anxious state' always on the move to (re)enclose social terrain within its discourse. The maintenance of discursive totality rests upon syncretic socialism's capacity to extend itself by rearranging or incorporating signifiers and keep contingency at bay by foreclosing alternatives.
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The social contexts and cultural meanings of amphetamine-type stimulant use and their implications for policy and practice
(IP Communications, 2005) Dwyer, Robyn; Pennay, Amy; Green, Rachael; Siokou, Christine; Barratt, Monica J.; Thomson, Nicola; Moore, David
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Effecten van de Marshall-Hulp op het Nederlandse Economisch Herstel (1947-1953)
(1985-02-22) van der Eng, Pierre
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Gender and Politics Reimagined: Centring Oceanic and Asian Lenses
(ANU Press, 2025) Jakimow, Tanya; Jolly, Margaret; Palmieri, Sonia; Vijeyarasa, Ramona
This timely collection reflects a coming together of academics, gender and development practitioners and activists to reflect on the gendering of politics. By centring Asia and Oceania and traversing numerous disciplines, the volume disrupts the illusion of certainty and clarity as to what is known about gender and politics. Individual chapters present specific research projects, while providing epistemological, theoretical and methodological reflections on how knowledge is produced and by whom, challenging the existing canon. The contributions collectively demonstrate the possibilities for theorising from Asia and Oceania to address the lack of diversity in political representation and leadership on a global scale, in which gender, race, class, caste, (dis)ability and sexual identity are powerfully interconnected. Arising out of the Gender and Cultural Diversity in Politics: Australia, Asia and the Pacific workshop held at The Australian National University in 2022, this collection underscores the importance of fostering scholarship and mentorship in the academy. The diversity of authorship encompasses differences in ethnicity, nationality, sexuality and career stage, with an emphasis on the inclusion of authors from various Oceanic and Asian countries. The volume promotes academic practice as integral to social change, and social action as a form of knowledge production. As such, Gender and Politics Reimagined is sure to be a cornerstone in future scholarly and activist discussions.
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The Cultivation System in the Dutch East Indies
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011) van der Eng, Pierre
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Nuclear balance and extended deterrence: evidence from cold war superpower alliances
(2026) Suh, Kyungwon
Does a favorable nuclear balance of power strengthen the credibility of extended deterrence against nuclear-armed opponents? This “superiority-credibility” thesis has long been supported by scholars and policymakers, but surprisingly little attention has been paid to testing this idea empirically. This paper tests the thesis using conflict initiation data from the superpower-led alliances during the Cold War. My statistical analyses find that there is no evidence that the degree of a superpower patron's military nuclear advantages vis-à-vis another nuclear-armed superpower significantly reduces the likelihood that the patron's allies become targets of militarized disputes. This finding holds across multiple model specifications and a wide range of measures of the balance of nuclear forces. This paper contributes to theoretical debates on the role of the nuclear balance in interactions between nuclear-armed states and policy debates on the size of the American nuclear arsenal in the coming era of deterring 2 nuclear-armed peers.
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Drugs And Public Health: Australian Perspectives on Policy and Practice
(Oxford University Press, 2008) Moore, David; Dietze, Paul
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Indonesia: Review of Rural Development Information: Descriptions of Australian Rural Development Projects in Indonesia
(Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), 1998-07-01) van der Eng, Pierre
This document was compiled for AusAID as part of the project "Indonesia: Review of Rural Development Information". The aim of the project was to collect and collate technical information from Australia's experience with rural development assistance in Indonesia and place it in the context of Indonesia's agricultural and rural development policies. The resulting document forms a reference resource which enhances AusAID's corporate memory and can be used for Australia's future rural development work in Indonesia. Apart from a description of the projects which had a direct impact on rural development in Indonesia, the document provides the reader with the broad context in which Australia's ODA projects affecting rural development in Indonesia should be regarded. It therefore offers a very brief history of Australia's ODA program (chapter 1), an overview of the development of policies affecting rural, particularly agricultural development, and their outcomes in Indonesia (chapter 2), a survey of Australia's ODA to Indonesia (chapter 3), and a general discussion of the Australian projects as far as they impacted on rural development in Indonesia (chapter 4). All chapters make extensive use of the available literature, particularly the publications issued by AusAID and its predecessors. The document is based on research in various libraries throughout Canberra: the library of The Australian National University, the National Library of Australia, the H.V. Evatt library at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the libraries of ACIAR and AusTrade, and particularly the AusAID library. The requirement to limit research to the material available in libraries in Canberra meant that several initial intentions could not be pursued to the full. In particular, the goal of relating Australia's past experience with rural development projects in Indonesia to Indonesia's current agricultural and rural development policies could only be realised in part. Apart from Repelita VI and cursory documentation from websites in Indonesia, insufficient current documentation appears to be available in Canberra to assess Indonesia's current agricultural policies in any depth. Reviewing the current state of public policy making in Indonesia would be paramount, given that rural development policies have been drastically adjusted in scale and scope as a consequence of the severe erosion of public budgets caused by both the economic downturn and accelerating inflation since mid-1997. Volume II contains two inventories of projects sponsored by the Australian government which affected rural development in Indonesia. One inventory concerns 41 projects directly supported by AusAID, the other involves 84 agricultural research projects financed through ACIAR. As far the available documentation allowed, the inventories provide the general features, and where possible the impact and innovations of the projects. However, they do not dwell very much on the details of all the technical issues involved. The project reports kept at the AusAID library provide the details which could not be summarised.
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By Design: Australia’s Role in Supporting Women’s Political Leadership in the Pacific
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2026) Palmieri, Sonia
In 2023, when asked to reflect on the number and role of women leaders in the Pacific, then Samoan Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa noted ‘Australia has been a leading donor on gender equality in the Pacific a lot of resourcing has gone into this, both fiscal and human resources, technological resources. The question being posed is, why is there not enough change?’ Prime Minister Fiamē’s response questions not only the desired outcome (presumably, more women in leadership), but the process (Australia’s support for women’s increased political participation in the region). In this chapter, I compare two programs funded by the Australian Government that I have been involved with over the past 10 years: the Pacific Women's Parliamentary Partnerships, implemented by officers of the Australian Parliament, and the Balance of Power program, implemented by Pacific Islanders across three countries, Fiji, Tonga, and Vanuatu. I argue that Australia’s motivations for supporting women’s increased political representation in the Pacific have an impact on the types of programs it designs and funds. Good (gender equality) designs must articulate a development problem that is accepted in local contexts and addressed by local actors defining their own, contextualised program strategies.
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Marshall-Hulp voor Nederland, Het Aanbod van een Perspectief (1947-1953)
(1984-06-01) van der Eng, Pierre
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Estimating Historical GDP of Asian Countries: Some Experiences from Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam
(Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, 1996-07-01) van der Eng, Pierre
This research paper was written to draw attention to the main challenges that the "Project for Compiling Long-Term Economic Statistics for All Asia" must overcome when reconstructing national accounts in the past. These challenges became apparent from the experiences of national account reconstruction in Southeast Asian countries, particularly Indonesia. Part 1 demonstrates that when reconstructing national accounts based on existing data, it is more appropriate to use Gross National Income (GDPQ) based on production rather than Gross National Income based on income or expenditure. Part 2 describes the procedure for estimating data on Total Value Added (GVA) of major economic sectors in past national accounts using 'backward' extrapolation from time-series indicators of economic activity. Part 3 details the main issues related to the construction of the above indicators, and Part 4 considers the selection of years in which the estimated indicators can be linked to existing value-added data. Part 5 discusses the assumptions implied in the above estimation procedure, namely, the assumption that relative prices, the ratio of inputs to total output, and the proportion of items included in and excluded from production remain constant. Part 6 briefly touches upon the elements that constitute the difference between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National Income (GNOM), and states that it is desirable to mention the impact of changes in the terms of trade. In the sections on Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam, the author describes the main problems encountered in the process of estimating the historical GDP of these three countries. The remaining two parts, while extending beyond the scope of the national accounting reconstruction project, focus on two issues that this project should consider: income distribution and the possibility of international comparisons of per capita GDP levels. Finally, a summary is provided of matters related to past national accounting reconstructions that are worth considering in this project.
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Disciplining Harmony: A transdisciplinary historical interrogation of the ‘disciplining’ of music in education, and its impact on music participation in society
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026-01-01) Pike-Rowney, Georgia
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How the Chinese Communist Party Stays in Power
(Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 2026-04-02) Hillman, Ben
In this episode of Pekingology, CSIS Senior Fellow Henrietta Levin is joined by Ben Hillman, Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World at Australian National University and co-editor of the new book, ⁠The Communist Party of China: Understanding the Durability of the World's Most Powerful Political Organization⁠. Ben explains how the Party has managed to stay in power, becoming the world's second-longest ruling party (barely losing out to North Korea's communist party) and maintaining an iron grip on power across vastly different phases in China's development. Ben addresses the role of ideology in Party governance, the utility of linguistic engineering and patriotic symbols in bolstering political legitimacy, the role of the United Front Work Department in manufacturing buy-in, and the Party's tremendous capacity for coercion.

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