Hi, I'm Diemas
I write about who owns the world's debt, where the money actually goes, and what that's doing to the planet.
I'm an author and researcher from Lombok, Indonesia. I write books and papers on monetary power, degrowth, and the new institutions reshaping the global economy -- and I run Kuartal, a media and advisory group built on the same questions.
My latest book
Manufacturing World Order
The China Dream, the Modern Silk Roads, and the New Institutions Shaping a World Made in China
More books
All books
The Debt Order
Financial Hegemony, Digital Sovereignty, and the Coming Monetary Transition
Samalas
The Eruption that Shrouded the Earth
Babad Lombok, Babad Sakra, Babad Praya, Babad Selaparang
An Oral Chronicle of the Island of Lombok — English translations
Recent research
All researchA Hegelian Ecocentric Framework for Evaluating Deep-Seabed Mining Moratoria
D. S. Hawkins · 2026
Governing Environmental Services in the Rinjani Landscape
D. S. Hawkins, M. Ang, S. Trisnadewi, F. Rachman · 2026
On Chinese Hegemony in Africa's Development Agenda: A Critical Perspective on the Belt and Road
D. S. Hawkins · TRANSBORDERS: International Relations Journal 9 (1) · 2026
What I'm working on right now
Most of my time these days goes into Kuartal, the media and advisory group I founded to report on markets and capital the way I think they should be reported on -- with the full ledger in view, not just the share price. Alongside that, I'm finishing The Debt Order, researching Samalas with Meliawati Ang, and writing the newsletter.
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Degrowth with Diemas Hawkins
On degrowth economics, the state of the environment and the economy, climate change, and what's wrong with how we currently do capitalism.