Beautiful endorsement by one of Indonesia's leading intellectuals: 'Finally the book 'Revolusi' by David van Reybrouck David Van Reybrouck was published in English. For this book he conducted research for 4 years, interviewed around 200 witnesses and used hundreds of primary sources.'

For anyone interested in colonization and decolonization, David Van Reybrouck's REVOLUSI is essential.
'Immensely readable'―Adam Hochschild, Atlantic
'Long overdue and utterly compelling'―Alec Russell, FT
'Magnificent.'―Todd Kushner, Washington Independent Review of Books

Si l’histoire est bien «la résurrection de la vie intégrale» selon Jules #Michelet , c’est ce très grand miracle qu’a réussi (à nouveau) David Van Reybrouck, remémorant l’épaisseur humaine, la complexité géopolitique & les conséquences mondiales de la révolution indonésienne🇮🇩 Merveille!

This Saturday in Flagey, I'll be on stage with Paul Verhaeghe, Béatrice Delvaux... to discuss the state of democracy. Welcome!

Yesterday I had my first interview on NPR, America's number one public radio, on the publication of Revolusi. It was such a joy to talk about Indonesian history. After all, Barack Obama grew up in Jakarta and the work 'ketchup' comes from the Malay 'kecap'!

We Need To Talk, het burgerpanel over partijfinanciering, zit halverwege. Zullen burgers op 6 dagen tijd slagen waar de partijen al 15 jaar hun tanden op stuk bijten?

🙌Bruxelles, capitale du renouveau démocratique ce weekend !

✨4 #assembléescitoyennes se déroulent en simultanée ce weekend au niveau du 1°parlbruparl , 2° #Brugov , 3° #fédéral 🇧🇪et 4°European Commission🇪🇺.

Un petit aperçu 🧶

'Revolusi' is about to be published in Italian and La Repubblica generously gave me three pages of its magazine to talk about the colonialism of the past and the future. Thank you so much. ''All roads lead to Jakarta'.

While a French Citizens' Assembly just proposed new legislation on euthanasia, an Irish Citizens' Assembly asks for a constitutional referendum on biodiversity. These are big steps forward!

Hoofdredactioneel commentaar van Le Monde: 'De ernst van de werkzaamheden van de burgerconventie over het levenseinde lijkt aan te tonen dat het mogelijk is de wedloop naar pittige polemieken en polariserende argumenten te vermijden.'

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Terwijl Frankrijk brandt over de pensioenen, was er een buitengewoon sereen burgerberaad mogelijk over euthanasie. De aanbevelingen liggen nu op tafel en oogsten veel waardering.

A breakthrough for #sortition as Le Monde salutes the 'serious work' of France's latest randomly selected citizens' assembly on the end of life and calls for more subjects to be tackled with such 'collective intelligence' and 'enlightened debate'.

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“Je m’intéresse depuis longtemps aux panels citoyens et mon expérience de la pandémie a achevé de me convaincre qu’il y a là un instrument déterminant pour permettre à nos démocraties de traverser les crises.” Marius Gilbert - @mariusgilbert.bsky.social 🧵

President Emmanuel Macron officialized the institutionalization of #citizensassemblies in France by announcing a 3rd one for the fall on a TBD topic (guesses are #immigration or #democraticrenewal ) & a bill on #endoflife by the end of summer. #deliberativedemocracy

Today the 184 members of France's Citizens' Assembly on End of Life gave their recommendations to
Emmanuel Macron.

After 27 days of deliberation over the course of 4 months, they reached 92% consensus on their final report with 67 recommendations.
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An amazing day that crowned an inspiring four months. Congratulations to you and the other organizers of this wonderful citizens' assembly!

The whole process showed politics doesn't have to be 'as usual'. Here's hoping this opens the way to many more experiments in sortition!

Le jour d'après : dans un pays fracturé 🇫🇷 par la réforme des retraites, la #Conventionfindevie prouve de façon éclatante que pour surmonter les divisions, il faut + et non - de #démocratie .

Préférendum, Global Assembly, Carbon Wallet et même désobéissance civile David Van Reybrouck poursuit son travail sur les formes de l’innovation démocratique, à l’âge des conséquences. A la suite de l’immense Johan Huizinga, un des 1ers «à penser nature & culture comme un tout cohérent»

Euh... Deelnemers aan We Need To Talk die drie weekends opofferen om over partijfinanciering te praten: Julia Dora (16), Steffano (16 jaar), Darlin (17), Marouane (18), Hanne (21), Sam (23 jaar)... En dat zijn nog maar de mensen die ik zelf sprak.

This weekend, Citizens' Assemblies took place in Belgium, Switzerland and Denmark. Is anyone aware of other examples? @thorsten@doesntuseX