Newspaper Articles/ Blogs
- Buehler, Michael. 2025. Resisting the temptations of AI may be impossible for underpaid markers, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7 July 2025.
- Buehler, Michael. 2025. Setelah Tragedi Nikel di Pulau Obi, Tempo, 20 Juni 2025.
- Buehler, Michael. 2025. Was hilft gegen dreckige Nickelgeschäfte? WOZ-Die Wochenzeitung, Nr. 22, 29. Mai 2025.
- Buehler, Michael. 2020 Regulating the Regulators: Regulators, Contracts, and Corruption in Indonesia’s Upstream Oil and Gas Sector. Inside Indonesia Vol. 142, Oct-Dec.
- Buehler, Michael. 2019. Indonesia takes wrong turn in the fight against corruption: New legislation will undermine the KPK, but the bigger mistake is conceptual. The Financial Times, October 2.
- Buehler, Michael. 2018. The fault lines between rich and poor in Lombok quake. New Mandala, August 17.
- Buehler, Michael. 2018. Dynamism beats dynasties in Indonesia’s local elections. East Asia Forum, July 12.
- Buehler, Michael. 2018. Desperation in the Indonesian Diaspora. New Mandala, April 17.
- Buehler, Michael. 2017. Informal Networks, Formal Politics and the Politicization of Islam in Indonesia. Middle East Institute, June 20.
- Buehler, Michael. 2015. Soal lobi, pertanyaan yang belum dijawab. New Mandala, November 11.
- Buehler, Michael. 2015. Lobbyist questions still unanswered. New Mandala, November 11.
- Buehler, Michael. 2015. Waiting in the White House Lobby: Why did a Singaporean consultant pay $80,000 to a Las Vegas PR company to lobby for the Indonesian government? New Mandala, November 6.
- Buehler, Michael. 2015. Indonesia’s dramatic executions hide the real problem: Indonesia’s draconian narcotics laws kill the country’s citizens – not low-level drug traffickers. Aljazeera, April 28.
- Buehler, Michael. 2014. The reassertion of the state. New Mandala, September 30.
- Buehler, Michael. 2013. Married with Children: The second round of direct elections for governors and district heads shows that democratisation is allowing powerful families to entrench themselves in local politics. Inside Indonesia, Vol. 112, Jul-Sep 13.
- Buehler, Michael. 2013. MIST of Confusion: The Hype About Indonesia’s Economic Growth. Asia Society Blog, February 4. Reprinted in Tempo English, February 24, 42-3.
- Buehler, Michael. 2012. Government Fiddles While Indonesia’s Workforce Burns. Asia Society Blog, November 21.
- Buehler, Michael. 2012. “Resource Nationalism” Clouds Indonesia’s Economic Prospects. The Diplomat, September 7.
- Buehler, Michael. 2012. Angels and Demons: While a famous ‘reformer’ tries to undermine Indonesia’s local democratic institutions, the predators come to the rescue. Inside Indonesia, Vol. 108, Apr-Jun 12. Reprinted in Tempo English, May 13, 20-1.
- Buehler, Michael. 2011. Whodunit? Politicians affiliated with secular parties implement most sharia regulations. Tempo: Special Edition 10 Years of Sharia, September 6, 58-9.
- Buehler, Michael. 2011. Partainya Sekuler, Aturannya Syariah. Tempo: Liputan Khusus 10 Tahun Perda Syariah, September 4, 74-5.
- Buehler, Michael. 2009. Islam and Democracy in Indonesia. Insight Turkey, Vol. 11, No. 4, 51-63.
- Buehler, Michael. 2009. Suicide and Progress in Modern Nusantara: The Absence of Political Murders in Indonesian Elections. Inside Indonesia, Vol 96, July-Sept 09.
- Buehler, Michael. 2008. No positive News: People living with HIV in Indonesia face corruption and incompetence in the health system. Inside Indonesia, Vol. 94, Oct-Dec 08.
- Buehler, Michael. 2007. Rise of the Clans: Direct Elections in South Sulawesi show that a new breed of political godfathers is coming to power in Indonesia’s regions. Inside Indonesia, Vol. 90, Nov-Dec 07.