Institutional entrepreneurshipIlliberal polities are working together in international institutions, both global and regional, in two main ways. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a second body where authoritarian cooperation is finding institutional form. And in that capacity, it shows that illiberal powers can create effective and durable international institutions. However, it has proven useful to Russia, especially since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, providing a means to circumvent international trade sanctions. * The United States is Indonesia’s second-largest export market and Russia is its 25th — trade with the latter is around one-fifteenth the value of exports to the United States.