Vedi R. Hadiz (FASSA) is Professor of Asian Studies and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, where he was Director. He has also been Assistant Deputy Vice-Chancellor International at the University of Melbourne. At Murdoch University, he was Professor of Asian Societies and Politics and at the National University of Singapore, Associate Professor of Sociology. He has written on oligarchy and capitalism, democracy and populism and labour movements in Indonesia/Southeast Asia and the Middle East.Richard Robison (FASSA) is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, and Emeritus Professor, Murdoch University. He was formerly Professor of Political Economy at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, the Netherlands, and Director of the Australian Research Council’s Special Centre for the Study of Political and Economic Change in Asia at Murdoch University, Australia. He has written widely on the political economy of Indonesia and Southeast Asia.