On May 31, 2024, Azriansyah Agoes, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Northern Illinois University and a COMPOSE Fellow at UIII’s Faculty of Social Sciences, led a Brownbag discussion titled “Natural Resources and Regime Durability: The Case of Indonesia’s Golkar and Cambodia’s CPP.” The session, held from 14:00 to 15:30 in the Teleconference Room, Faculty B Building, UIII, examined how authoritarian regimes like Indonesia’s Golkar and Cambodia’s CPP leverage natural resource revenues to sustain political control through patronage systems.
