Modern-day slavery: Vietnamese women domestic workers in Saudi Arabia

• Maintaining the legacy of human and civic rights: 30 years after the PPA about 1 month ago

  Both civil society and the government have roles in educating people about the law, its implementations, and their legal rights.

• The PPA: Enabling Foreign Investment in Cambodia about 1 month ago

  The restoration of peace under the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) earned trust from foreign investors.

• The United Nations Peacekeeping Troops: a mixed legacy about 1 month ago

  Cambodia has gone from requiring peacekeepers to contributing more than 7,000 troops specialising in de-mining and engineering.

• Podcast 2. UNTAC Radio: Airwaves of Hope វិទ្យុអ៊ុនតាក់៖ រលកសំឡេងនៃក្ដីសង្ឃឹម about 1 month ago

  This podcast examines the role Radio UNTAC in informing millions of Cambodians en route to casting their ballot in the much-anticipated 1993 election

• Podcast 1. Guiding a transition to democracy: mission impossible? about 1 month ago

  Dive deep into archives of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia and its UNTAC Radio.

INDONESIA AT NEW MANDALA

• Indonesia’s Jalan tengah in the new age of great power rivalries about 6 days ago

  Indonesia’s decision to gamble with a degree of its strategic autonomy should thus be regarded as the latest reinterpretation of jalan tengah.

• Rethinking memories of Darul Islam about 1 week ago

  The anti-traditional rule of the Darul Islam movement had a tremendous impact on indigeneity and the way that it is constructed today among the Duri

• Rising religious radicalism in Indonesia: roots and shoots about 2 weeks ago

  Research conducted in 50 schools revealed that schools have become the arena in which to disseminate radical ideology

• Apa yang mendorong perubahan moral Indonesia? about 2 weeks ago

  Nilai-nilai demokrasi di Indonesia terkooptasi untuk membantu tujuan yang tidak liberal

• The Costs of Repressing Islamists about 1 month ago

  The banning of FPI or any other “anti-Pancasila” group is not a shortcut to ending deep-seated discrimination against minorities.

SOUTHEAST ASIA IN A TIME OF CORONAVIRUS

• COVID-19 flights to nowhere: radical escape or radical reimagining of the everyday? about 12 months ago

  The illusion that the domestic space is only a site for social reproduction is over, but what will replace it?

• The role of neighbourhood leaders in Indonesia’s COVID-19 response about 1 year ago

  Neighbourhood leaders enjoy high levels of public trust but concerns about legitimacy and conflict limit the extent to which they can implement COVID-19 restrictions.

• Gendering Indonesia’s responses to COVID-19: Preliminary thoughts about 1 year ago

  The approach used in the creation of these policies ignores that women may face more difficulty in accessing the promised benefits.

• Moral economies: the politics of donation in Thailand under COVID-19 about 1 year ago

  During the pandemic, “immodest” or ungrateful receiving by the poor has been strongly denounced both by the state and middle-class donors.

• LGBTQ+ community leaders in Indonesia: overcoming pandemic hardship about 1 year ago

  LGBTQ+ Indonesians are driving some of the most effective community responses to the hardships of the pandemic.

THAILAND AT NEW MANDALA

• NBSEAS: Thongchai Winichakul and his book on the Thamassat University massacre about 4 weeks ago

  An interview about a remarkable new book, by one who has thought and felt about the October 6 massacres as both an historian and a survivor.

• การครองอำนาจรัฐในระบอบคสช.: ความถดถอยของอำนาจท้องถิ่น about 2 months ago

  หยุดการเมืองในมิติการเลือกตั้งที่นับวันสร้างนักการเมืองและพรรคการเมืองที่เข้มแข็งเหนือระบบราชการควบคู่ไปกับประชาธิปไตยท้องถิ่น

• Central-local relations in Thailand since 2014 about 2 months ago

  The 2014 coup interrupted mechanisms of local democracy that emerged from innovations in the 1997 constitution.

• Leadership does matter: Thailand’s COVID-19 response about 2 months ago

  Citizen trust in Thailand’s political system has been seriously affected by the problems in the handling of the pandemic.

• An absence felt: Thai foreign policy’s decade of retrenchment about 3 months ago

  ...more critical than leadership or domestic politics in accounting for Thailand’s decade of foreign policy retrenchment is...regional and geopolitics.

ART, DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

• Salvaging Southeast Asian history: shipwrecks and Chinese blue-and-white about 1 month ago

  This salvaged cargo draws attention to the pivotal role played by Southeast Asian merchants and consumers in the circulation of Chinese ceramics.

• ‘The East’ in a transnational context: The Indonesian War of Independence in film about 4 months ago

  Ethical questions around Dutch soldiers’ actions on which the film reflects are less urgent in Indonesian films.

• Protest Art – AnuPyinNyar about 5 months ago

  Since the start of the coup, Ku Kue's art has featured front and centre in many protests around the country.

• Storytelling, subversion and satire in Tita Salina’s 1001st Island about 5 months ago

  A utopian vision with glimpses of a dystopian future.

• Temasek History Research Centre: Archaeology and Art History of Southeast Asia Programme webinar series about 5 months ago

  Comprehensive introductory lectures in Archaeology and Art History of Southeast Asia with a focus on the pre-Modern to the Modern periods.

PERSPECTIVES ON THE PAST

• At what cost: The impact of Indonesia’s Omnibus law on underwater cultural heritage about 9 months ago

  Why, after such a long hiatus, is underwater cultural heritage is once again being considered as an economic, not an archaeological or historical, resource?

• Age of Empires II: Rise of the Rajas – playing the past in Southeast Asia about 12 months ago

  For better or worse, players and game designers are part of the project of making Southeast Asian history.

• Writing History in Premodern Java about 1 year ago

  The materiality of writing has major implications for the practice of history...When you look at a ‘medieval’ Javanese manuscript, it is almost always an 18th or 19th century copy of a copy of a copy ... and so on.

• Was Majapahit really an empire? about 2 years ago

  A critical reflection on the emergence, dominance and legacy of Java’s historic ‘empire’.

• Human rights and heritage sites in Myanmar: An irreconcilable juxtaposition or a productive conversation? about 2 years ago

  What does world heritage inscription means in a country where human rights abuses are ongoing.

BOOK REVIEWS

• North Korea and Myanmar: Divergent Paths about 4 years ago

  Ben Dunant reviews "North Korea and Myanmar: Divergent Paths", which paints Myanmar and North Korea regimes less as outposts of tyranny and more as rational actors.

• Lifting the shadows on a secret war about 5 years ago

  Hunter Marston reviews Josh Kurlantzick's newly published study of the CIA's covert military operations in Laos.

• Legacies matter in 2017 Myanmar about 5 years ago

  Gerard McCarthy reviews Marie Lall's Understanding reform in Myanmar.