Contributors – Page 40

Ma Bo

Ma Bo was a Wang Gungwu Visiting Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. He is also Associate Professor at the School of International Studies and the Assistant Director of the Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies at Nanjing University, China.

Ma. Diosa Labiste

Ma. Diosa Labiste is an associate professor at the Department of Journalism in the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication. She is one of the coordinators of Tsek.ph, a pioneering collaborative fact-checking project for Philippine elections.

Made Supriatma

Made Supriatma is a Visiting Fellow in the Indonesia Studies Programme, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. Made’s research focus is on Indonesian politics, civil-military relations, and ethnic/identity politics and he is also a freelance journalist.

Mae Chow

Mae Chow is a Research Assistant at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation (CAG) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

Mael Raynaud

Mael Raynaud is a political analyst specialising in decentralization, federalism and education reform in Myanmar.

Mahfud MD

Professor Mahfud MD is a former Coordinating Minister for Politics, Legal and Security Affairs (2019-2024) of Indonesia. He was the first civilian to hold this role and has served in all three branches of government. He was Defence Minister (2000-2001) and later Law and Human Rights Minister (2001) under Abdurrahman Wahid, a legislator (2004-2008) in the House of Representatives representing the National Awakening Party (PKB) and elected as a justice for the Constitutional Court in 2008. In the 2024 presidential election, Mahfud was Ganjar Pranowo’s running mate, supported by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). Mahfud is affiliated with Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, Indonesian Islamic University (UII), Yogyakarta.