Douglas Kammen writes on the history and politics of Indonesia and East Timor. His most recent books are Independent Timor-Leste: Between Coercion and Consent (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Cina Timor: Baba, Hakka, and Cantonese in the Making of Timor-Leste (Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies, 2019). He teaches at the National University of Singapore.