In the Media | February 2024
"In the coming years as the GERD becomes fully operational and the Nile waters become even more susceptible to climate change, the dispute could become even more important for both countries and the wider region."
- Asia Society Policy Institute research associate, Genevieve Donnellon-May, on the politics of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Climate Diplomacy.
"Although there is hope for a greener future, without decarbonising the hardest-to-abate sectors, we cannot achieve carbon neutrality."
- Asia Society-Victoria Distinguished Fellow, Tatsuya Terazawa, on Australia’s Japanese hydrogen hopes in the Australian Financial Review.
Asia Society Policy Institute Senior Policy Fellow, Dr Natalie Sambhi, on what makes Indonesian democracy unique in The National Security Podcast.
"In the last few years Asia’s food security has suffered a series of crises induced by conflict, climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, causing great disruptions to food supply systems and increasing the number of people experiencing food insecurity."
- Asia Society Policy Institute research associate, Genevieve Donnellon-May, on the impact of global food chokepoint pressures on Asia’s food security in The Strategist.
"Indonesia is now a more corrupt country than when Jokowi took office, ranking 115 out of 180 countries surveyed. In 2014, when Jokowi was elected, Indonesia ranked 107 out of 175 countries according to Transparency International."
- Asia Society Policy Institute Senior Policy Fellow, Dr Natalie Sambhi, reflecting on legacy of departing Joko Widodo in Al Jazeera.
"If the projections are confirmed, Indonesia — the world’s third-largest democracy — will be left contending with a president who has said that the country needs neither elections nor democracy, who was barred from entering the United States for two decades because of his human rights record and who was long associated with Indonesia’s former dictator, Suharto."
- Asia Society Policy Institute Senior Policy Fellow, Dr Natalie Sambhi, on Prabowo Subianto setting to become Indonesia’s new leader in The New York Times, Politiken Denmark, Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, Tageblatt Lëtzebuerg, Tagesspiegel, Redaktions Netzwerk Deutschland, Breaking Defence.
Asia Society Policy Institute Senior Policy Fellow, Richard Maude, on reviewing 2023 and speculating about 2024 in Australia in the World.
"Cambodia's greater emphasis on local agricultural production and grand ambition of becoming one of the world's biggest agricultural producers face numerous domestic challenges."
- Asia Society Policy Institute research associate, Genevieve Donnellon-May, on Cambodia becoming an agricultural power in Bangkok Post.
"Long-running free trade agreement negotiations with the EU, Australia’s third-largest trading partner, had already collapsed last October, and talks now appear even less likely to progress."
- Asia Society Policy Institute research associate, Genevieve Donnellon-May, on Europe’s farmers counting costs in The Interpreter.
"Under Prabowo, Indonesia will seek as much continuity in its strategic environment as possible. Branding himself the “continuity” candidate and heir apparent to Jokowi, Prabowo must seek to maintain, if not strengthen, relationships that support high levels of economic growth and trade."
- Asia Society Policy Institute Senior Policy Fellow, Dr Natalie Sambhi, on if Asia-Pacific is ready for Indonesia’s Prabowo Presidency in Asia-Pacific Leadership Network.
"Efforts to achieve zero hunger have faced hurdles as witnessed in the current global food crisis, in turn fuelled by multiple emergencies including COVID-19 pandemic-related supply chain disruptions and consequent recessions, climate shocks in global bread baskets, armed conflicts, labour shortages, food price inflation, and government-imposed trade-distorting policies."
- Asia Society Policy Institute research associate, Genevieve Donnellon-May, on transforming food systems for the zero-hunger goal in Observer Research Foundation.
"While Jokowi leaves behind, in theory, a more permissive political environment for his successor to keep furthering his agenda, he also leaves a legacy of democratic backsliding."
- Asia Society Policy Institute Senior Policy Fellow, Dr Natalie Sambhi, on reflections on Jokowi’s legacy and Prabowo’s presidency in Brookings Institution.