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Press Freedom and LGBTQ+ Rights: Benchmarks of Democracy Decline in Southeast Asia

PHNOM PENH, Aug 21 (IPS) - Three notable events have boosted the democratic process in Southeast Asia in recent decades. The fall of the Marcos regime in 1986, the Reformasi that shifted Indonesian politics in the late 1990s, and Aung San Suu Kyi s victory over the military junta in Myanmar. However, today Marcos son is president of the Philippines, Indonesian presidential candidates want to centralize power again, and Myanmar is embroiled in an armed conflict.What is going on in the region, and what does this mean for democracy? ....

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