The haze is often blamed on oil palm plantations, but the reality is more complicated: fire, peatland, economics, land ownership, enforcement and responsibility all intersect long before the smoke crosses a border.
Little walk down the memory lane… Some of you old farts might remember this place. bongkersz.com. The Flaccid Mind. A stupid name for a blog where I spent an equally stupid amount of time writing equally stupid things. I started blogging sometime around 2005. Back then there was no Instagram, TikTok, Threads or whatever shit […]
A 2018 return to blogging, reflecting on why long-form writing faded after social media and what drew bongkersz back to the keyboard.
A 2016 pre-election Sarawak opinion post setting out the issues the author believed mattered most, including everyday costs, infrastructure, basic services and governance.
Turning 33 in Kalimantan, reflecting on birthdays, writing less in the social-media era, and sitting on the other side of a job interview.
A 2015 opinion post on Bersih, electoral reform and institutional reform, arguing over what the movement was asking for and how those demands were framed.