Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
This will be hugely unpopular, but maybe Indonesia would be a little better managed if it were still the Dutch East Indies?Colonialism is bad, sure, we all have to believe that.  But an overwhelming percentage of the hot-spots and problem areas in the world are in places where old European colonial administrations were driven out by nationalists precipitously.  In some places, it's taken these countries fifty years to develop institutions that are in the ball-park of the old colonial administrations, and some of them are still corrupt and evil enough to put Leopold II to shame.