For Trace Press publisher Nuzhat Abbas, the value of publishing extends beyond creating books: it is an effort to actively build “a different kind of public.”
It is open season again for Indonesian trolls targeting
Asia Pacific Report and other media with fake news and disinformation dispatches in a crude attempt to gloss over human rights violations.
Just three months ago I wrote about this issue in my âDear editorâ article exposing the disinformation campaign. There was silence for a while but now the fake letters to the editor and other media outlets have started again in earnest.
The latest four lengthy letters emailed to
APR canvas the following topics Jakartaâs controversial special autonomy status revised law for Papua, a brutal assault by Indonesian Air Force military policemen on a deaf Papuan man, and a shooting incident allegedly committed by pro-independence rebels and they appear to have been written from a stock template.
Expand your perspective on the environment
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For far too long, Asian Americans have been overlooked in conversations on climate change and the natural world. In a Yale School of Climate Change Communication report that purports to reveal which racial groups care most about climate change, for instance, the results for Asian Americans were unavailable, raising concerns over the low sample size. However, the inability to retrieve data on Asian communities whether because of language barriers or questions over which ethnic groups are considered Asian American reveals a more insidious concern: that Asian Americans have always been an afterthought in the national imagination.