Hydro-power projects and cultural rights for Bunong communities in Cambodia

INDONESIA AT NEW MANDALA

• In Indonesia, Sumatra’s coal brings more harm than good about 1 week ago

  The coal sector is strongly linked to national and regional oligarchs, and coal businesses often play a role as financiers for political candidates.

• Indonesia’s geopolitical future needs robust climate action about 2 weeks ago

  Equipping activism with a geopolitical angle might prove useful, giving environmentalism a base in foreign policy and economic nationalism.

• Researching in Indonesia without fieldwork in the age of COVID about 2 weeks ago

  What alternative designs have researchers implemented to manage the limitations of the "new normal"?

• Pertanyakan niat: pemerintah Indonesia tak berkomitmen hapuskan kekerasan seksual about 1 month ago

  Dengan dihilangkannya kata ‘penghapusan’ dari RUU kekerasan seksual, bangsa tidak lagi berusaha untuk menghentikan kekerasan seksual...

• Video: Mental health in Indonesia: then, now and things to come about 1 month ago

  In this webinar recording, meet extraordinary individuals sharing their experiences in mental health in Indonesia.

SOUTHEAST ASIA IN A TIME OF CORONAVIRUS

• COVID-19 flights to nowhere: radical escape or radical reimagining of the everyday? about 1 year 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 2 years ago

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

THAILAND AT NEW MANDALA

• Thai Youth Movements in Comparison: White Ribbons in 2020 and Din Daeng in 2021 about 1 month ago

  All youth groups are calling for change, but at different levels.

• NBSEAS: Thongchai Winichakul and his book on the Thamassat University massacre about 3 months 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 4 months ago

  หยุดการเมืองในมิติการเลือกตั้งที่นับวันสร้างนักการเมืองและพรรคการเมืองที่เข้มแข็งเหนือระบบราชการควบคู่ไปกับประชาธิปไตยท้องถิ่น

• Central-local relations in Thailand since 2014 about 4 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 4 months ago

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

• Cambodia’s 1991 Paris Peace Agreements: Thirty years of contested commemoration about 2 months ago

  Stakeholders commemorate the same history, but they have different interpretations.

• Maintaining the legacy of human and civic rights: 30 years after the PPA about 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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

ART, DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

• Living Art under attack in Timor-Leste: Arte Moris about 3 weeks ago

  The eviction of the young nation's only art school has shown who holds the real power in Timor-Leste.

• Salvaging Southeast Asian history: shipwrecks and Chinese blue-and-white about 3 months 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 5 months ago

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

• Protest Art – AnuPyinNyar about 7 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 7 months ago

  A utopian vision with glimpses of a dystopian future.

PERSPECTIVES ON THE PAST

• At what cost: The impact of Indonesia’s Omnibus law on underwater cultural heritage about 11 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 1 year 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 2 years 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.

• Living Art under attack in Timor-Leste: Arte Moris about 3 weeks ago

  The eviction of the young nation's only art school has shown who holds the real power in Timor-Leste.

• Salvaging Southeast Asian history: shipwrecks and Chinese blue-and-white about 3 months 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 5 months ago

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

• Protest Art – AnuPyinNyar about 7 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 7 months ago

  A utopian vision with glimpses of a dystopian future.