Thailand can’t move forward without fresh elections, which are scheduled for July, yet it can’t seem to hold them either. And its electoral dysfunction is causing economic as well as political paralysis: GDP is hardly growing.

Indonesia’s future rests with Southeast Asia, and ASEAN is at the heart of the region’s institutional architecture. If Indonesia is to shape its own geostrategic environment, then it must work with its neighbors to strengthen ASEAN.

Indonesia’s future depends on a strong Southeast Asia. The country’s next leader must make strategic choices that help prepare the region for the challenges it will face.

Indonesians will go to the polls in 2014 for the fourth time since President Suharto’s authoritarian regime ended in 1998. But the country’s voting system is complicated, and twelve political parties will vie for the attention of 190 million eligible voters.

Five key politicians are likely to play a large role in Indonesia’s 2014 presidential election, whether as official candidates or behind-the-scenes powerbrokers.

Indonesia’s political parties can be divided into two broad groups: secular parties and Islamic parties. Within these categories, parties espouse a wide variety of ideologies, policy platforms, and leadership models.

Cambodia’s upcoming parliamentary elections will likely be rigged, but Washington should not respond by stopping U.S. aid. A strategy of engagement would be more effective.