Fellows & Editors
Sebastian Strangio
- Trip:
- Fellows 2017
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Indonesia
- Year:
- 2017
- Find me on:
Sebastian Strangio is an author and journalist focusing on Southeast Asia. From 2008 to 2011 he worked as an editor and reporter at The Phnom Penh Post in Cambodia, and he has since reported extensively from the region, covering everything from ethnic conflict in Myanmar to the Bangladeshi organ trade. His writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, and The Atlantic, among many other publications, and he is the author of the book Hun Sen’s Cambodia (Yale University Press, 2014), a path-breaking examination of Cambodia’s history since the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979. Strangio grew up in Australia, and holds a B.A. and Master’s degree in international politics from the University of Melbourne.
Stories
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After Ahok: Indonesia Grapples with the Rise of Political Islam
JAKARTA – Five months after its closure, the doors of the Al-Hidayah mosque were sealed with wooden planks and crisscrossed with yellow police tape, as if it some kind of grisly crime...
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Suharto Museum Celebrates Dictator’s Life, Omitting Dark Chapters
KEMUSUK, Indonesia — Indonesia’s former dictator looms in bronze over the entrance to the small museum set amid the palm trees and emerald rice fields of central Java. Depicted in...
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Ghosts of Pogroms Past Haunt Indonesia
JAKARTA — Nearly two decades after anti-Chinese riots tore through this part of Indonesia’s capital, one busy road still bears the scars. Amid the clamor of heat and traffic of...
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