Post by Eve Warburton

A new kind of resource nationalism is emerging in Indonesia under President Prabowo. For over a decade Indonesia has, like many other resource-rich countries, embraced more nationalist approaches to governing its resource industries against the backdrop of rising mineral demand and supply chain competition. President Prabowo wants to hold the nationalist path, but also reduce corruption and problematic permitting in these strategic industries. In this oped for East Asia Forum I argue the President's new brand of resource nationalism combines statism, coercion, and nativism - an approach that won't solve the entrenched but increasingly urgent problems of environmental harm and land conflicts.