Alatas and autonomous knowledge

Amid the chaotic contestation over natural resources in Papua, it is the indigenous women who are constantly pushed out of the arena.

A webinar for World Mental Health Day will showcase small sample of extraordinary individuals sharing their experiences in mental health in Indonesia.

These events are heavily political in the distinctively clientelistic sense that dominates in Indonesia.

Online and social media shows that several political parties are actively involved in the vaccination program.

Reports from Afghanistan and contemporary memory activism teach us that memories of trauma run deep, as the author and others have found among the Sulawesi survivors of DI/TI.

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

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.

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

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

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

หยุดการเมืองในมิติการเลือกตั้งที่นับวันสร้างนักการเมืองและพรรคการเมืองที่เข้มแข็งเหนือระบบราชการควบคู่ไปกับประชาธิปไตยท้องถิ่น

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

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

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

The 2020 Protest posed an existential threat to the Thai state. The government of Prayuth Chan-ocha has enlisted every available weapon to fight back, including COVID-19.

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

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

A utopian vision with glimpses of a dystopian future.

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

Morlam song practices still resound, even if criminalised, depoliticised and silenced.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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