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Aceh’s democratic test

On 9 April, Indonesia’s province of Aceh will hold elections for its local legislature, illustrating Indonesia’s recent evolutionary process of political maturation, writes Damien Kingsbury.

News and blogwatch: Fidel Castro resigns

Forgetting Castro … What a joke! … Castro, Cuba and charisma … The end of a (very long) era and a question, “what next?”