08 November, 2024

Break-ins and breaking news: the Timorese fence-jumpers of Jakarta

Jim Della-Giacoma

“A pre-dawn break-in could lead to an evening KLM flight”

Jokowi broke the ‘Reformasi coalition’

The outgoing president transformed the relationship between government and civil society in his decade in power

Ethnonationalism and Myanmar’s future

Framing the war in Myanmar as a ‘fight for democracy’ obscures the crisis of the nation-state at the conflict’s heart

A most militarised cabinet

Prabowo has been generous to former military and police officers when doling out cabinet positions

REVIEWS & NEWS

Jim Scott in memoriam, Southeast Asian studies in perpetuum

“The field of Southeast Asian studies has come to resemble the region as he saw and celebrated it, warts and all”

Review: “On the Shadow Tracks”

“This is a book with a whole lot of heart for Myanmar and her people.”

Review: “Thai Diplomacy”

Edited interviews with Tej Bunnag provide "unvarnished insights" and "nuanced history" for students of Thai foreign policy.

Defection and revolution in Myanmar

For the first time, a resistance movement against military rule is welcoming and aiding soldiers who choose to join the ‘people’s side’

OTHER COUNTRIES

OUR ARCHIVE

Population loss in Portuguese Timor during WW2 revisited

A new archival find suggests that Japanese occupation was more devastating than previously thought

20 years after Tak Bai, impunity trumps justice

Authorities continue to slow-pedal judicial processes in the face of community demands for accountability

Reclaiming Phnom Penh’s streets for citizens

On the promise of “spontaneous tactical urbanism” to renew Cambodia’s capital

ARTSEA

The land moves west

Artists at the Makassar Biennale grapple with the social and environmental consequences of land reclamation.

Carl Josef Kleingrothe: capturing the colonial life of Deli, Sumatra

A look at the life of the photographer whose work captivated European audiences' looking for images of the 'exotic' Indies.

Memories of Burma’s art scene in the 1970s

Andrew Selth recalls an era of flourishing artistic expression amid heavy-handed censorship.