Southeast Asia struggles to get noticed despite its size. The pod is joining a movement to focus more attention on our neighbourhood, which when taken together would be the world's fourth biggest economy and endlessly fascinating, anyway. Erin Cook, author of newsletter Dari Mulut ke Mulut (https://darimulut.substack.com/)  will join us for a bi-monthly round up the news and analysis from the region. Here's her Twitter: @imerincook. On The Level will be back after the Eid holidays. For now here's our first interview with Erin.

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