Around the time I started my own magazine, Aksara, I had to compartmentalise my time more judiciously. This meant less conventional journalism work and more allocation for big projects (that technically was supposed to be undertaken in spurts, or so I had hoped). One of these projects was for Transparency International's Global Corruption Report. Coming from a country where corruption is regarded by the less scrupulous as a sport, reporting deeper on a persistent scourge was an important opportunity for me. I prepared the section on Southeast Asia, and the reporting took me to Thailand and Malaysia. It is work that I would readily assume again.

http://akgul.bilkent.edu.tr/CPI/2001_GCR_Inaugural_EN.pdf

Here are some citations for the report:

http://apcss.org/Publications/Edited%20Volumes/GrowthGovernance_files/Pub_Growth%20Governance/Pub_GrowthGovernancech14.pdf

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/AEDS-01-2016-0011?mbSc=1&fullSc=1&journalCode=aeds

https://www.itu.int/osg/spu/wsis-themes/humanrights/ICTs%20and%20HR.pdf