1. Thinking about: who gets to describe Indonesia’s seas. Kaplan’s Monsoon reads the Strait of Malacca as a corridor for other people’s ships. From our side of the water it is a front yard, and the gap between those two readings is where most of my writing now sits.

    Doing:

    • Writing a series on Indonesia’s seas. The latest essay reads Monsoon from the edge of the Strait of Malacca: Jantung Samudera yang Tereduksi Sebatas Selat.
    • Launched Satu Sistem, a tested catalogue of automation workflows in Bahasa Indonesia.
    • Based in Melbourne. Slow weeks, on purpose.