Indonesia's Appointee Apocalypse: The What-When-How-and-Why of an Upcoming Regional-Head Interregnum

Send us a text Over the next two years, fully half of all democratically elected regional heads across Indonesia will undergo replacement with interim appointees chosen by either the president or the home affairs minister. Reformasi Dispatch examines multiple sources of confusion that already afflict the process. Also: Southeast Asia's first Holocaust Museum, in North Sulawesi, highlights an Indonesian Jewish community -- estimated to number perhaps 200 people -- that has shunned atte...