In the Media | 2025

"Much of the foreign policy approach that is being undertaken by Indonesia under the current government aligns with India’s own foreign policy posture... Both countries are a part of the Global South and are members of the G20, and now the BRICS. This presents a great opportunity for India to seek ways and explore areas that will give much-needed momentum to the India-Indonesia ties.”
- Asia Society Australia Maitri Fellow, Dr Premesha Saha, on 'Prabowo's Indonesia and the Future of India-Indonesia Strategic Ties' in Observer Research Foundation.
"Collaboration, parallel action, and even competition between China and western countries to develop energy infrastructure and policies in emerging markets could help unlock significant new business opportunities in renewable energy and economic growth for all.”
- Asia Society Australia Non-Resident Senior Policy Fellow, Dr Muyi Yang, on 'China's Role in Financing the Energy Transition in the Global South' in New Security Beat.
"Indonesia will need to ensure that it carefully balances its commitments to BRICS alongside its responsibilities and obligations within ASEAN and its existing relationships with Western nations like the US and the EU.”
- Asia Society Australia Policy Fellow, Dominique Fraser and Maitri Fellow, Dr Premesha Saha, on 'Indonesia in BRICS: New Chapter or Familiar Story?' in 9DASHLINE.
"Australia may have to give up on the idea of a strategic equilibrium in which both the United States and our Asian neighbours are invested and settle for something messier and less grand.”
- Asia Society Australia Distinguished Policy Fellow, Richard Maude, on 'Australia’s Indo-Pacific Destiny Up For Grabs in a New World Order' in The Australian Financial Review, mentioned in Defence Connect.
Asia Society Australia Distinguished Policy Fellow, Richard Maude, in the Australia in the World podcast on a 2025 incoming government brief.
“The election of more nationalist or populist governments in Europe and the United States, for example, could introduce considerable uncertainty in global affairs and alter some of Australia’s current foreign and economic policy planning assumptions.”
- Asia Society Australia Distinguished Policy Fellow, Richard Maude, mentioned in The Guardian about Australian intelligence review finds.
Asia Society Australia Program Manager, Jafrin Kabir, on SBS Hindi on Asian Australian Voices.