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Far Eastern Economic Review, part 1

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Back in

Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I reported and wrote for the Far Eastern Economic Review, which at the time was Asia's preeminent newsweekly - back when there were newsweeklies.

Here was the Economist's obituary for our beloved FEER. 

https://www.economist.com/node/14492327

I can not be thankful enough for the experience that FEER gave me, and I hope the appreciation is mutual. The magazine let me traipse around Indonesia to report on the country's evolving relationship with conflict - and yes, that is how I would describe it. After some three decades of not being able to even say 'conflict' in public, the tea in the pot bubbled over. More on that later.

For now, while I look for clips on the interwebs - which seem to have a short memory as far as print news is concerned, let me include some books which cite some of FEER articles. 

Development Without Freedom: The Politics of Asian Globalization - By Songok Han Thornton, William H. Thornton

East Asia Imperilled: Transnational Challenges to Security - By Alan Dupont

Human Rights and State Security: Indonesia and the Philippines - By Anja Jetschke

Disintegrating Indonesia?: Implications for Regional Security - By Tim Huxley

Christian Science Monitor