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Tom Pepinsky
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I teach comparative politics, political economy, and Southeast Asian studies at Cornell. I'm also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and editor of the Journal of East Asian Studies. Banned from Russia. tompepinsky.com
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In better news, Indonesia also seems to have just discovered the oldest pyramid in the world, challenging the belief that advanced masonry began only after the onset of agriculture www.sciencealert.com/giant-pyrami...

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While the world has its eyes on the Middle East, democratic conditions in Indonesia are looking grim. The Supreme Court has overruled the Constitution in order to allow the sitting president's son to stand as Vice Presidential candidate with a disgraced general with a stained human rights record

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Full scientific article here. Stuff in Indonesia is so old that it is buried by volcanos and jungle and looks like an odd hill onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Tom Pepinsky
@tompepinsky.bsky.social
I teach comparative politics, political economy, and Southeast Asian studies at Cornell. I'm also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and editor of the Journal of East Asian Studies. Banned from Russia. tompepinsky.com
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