Six years on from the siege, post-conflict reconstruction efforts need to consider the role of spaces and images in building peace.
Selective moderation: Indonesia–UAE religious diplomacy
Pragmatic political interests lie behind the promotion of ‘moderate’ Islam in both countries.
Selective moderation: Indonesia–UAE religious diplomacy
Pragmatic political interests lie behind the promotion of ‘moderate’ Islam in both countries.
Indonesia and North Korea: warm memories of the Cold War
Friendly ties to Pyongyang have been an emblem of non-alignment for generations of Indonesian foreign policy makers.
Image-making as necessity in Fighting Fear II
A recent exhibition showcased Myanmar artists' responses to the coup and resistance to it.
PHILIPPINES
VISIT THE PHILIPPINES HOME PAGEMartial Law nostalgia and Ilocano youth: reimagining the Marcos legacy
Recounted experiences from elder generations in Ilocos clash with national facts, and young people have to choose between the two.
Techno-politics of data justice: perspectives from Indonesia and the Philippines
EngageMedia's latest report tries to understand how people in different contexts imagine and experience the growing digital landscape through the lens of data justice.
Stay angry. Organise. Build solidarity. Democracy in post-disaster Philippines
Everyday political action shows democracy can work amidst constraints, in the aftermath of a tragedy.
Environmental Justice in Southeast Asia
Environmental justice on New MandalaTHAILAND
VISIT THE THAILAND HOMEPAGEAfter the Nong Bua Lamphu shooting, a need for grief-sensitive journalism
Evidence of inappropriate reporting on the Nong Bua Lamphu tragedy is rife.
Thailand breaks away from Southeast Asia’s brutally punitive drug policies
On 9 June 2022, people lined up to make their first legal purchases of cannabis.
Suffer the children: in Thailand, children risk sexual abuse by officials charged with their care
It is in the interests of conservative and progressive Thais to develop new cultural norms and effective legal sanctions to address sexual abuse.
MYANMAR
VISIT THE MYANMAR HOME PAGECommon enemy: a hollow slogan for solidarity in Myanmar
...how to divide power between the NUG and the ethnic states, and protect sub-minorities within minority states?
Effective third-sector actors in aid on the Thailand-Myanmar border
Myanmar CSOs have experience providing aid in the border areas and social capital with the war on community.
Myanmar’s anti-junta forces are terrorists, says the Institute for Economics and Peace
Empirical data is not politically neutral, nor does it speak for itself. Divorced from its original context, it can cause harm.
ART DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Visit the ARTSEA homepageLAOS, VIETNAM, TIMOR LESTE AND MORE
Queering LGBT rights in Timor-Leste
If the state’s role as the protector of LGBT community rights is naturalised, the LGBT community may struggle to problematise state-sponsored “homonormativity” as a political strategy.
Timor-Leste’s deep politics and the enigma of Xanana Gusmao
In 2018, Gusmao's reframing of his modernist vision through a lulik alliance signalled a return to his cultural roots that assisted in regaining his waning charisma.
Reshaping education and development: Learning from the Yru of Laos
The quest for “good citizens, disciplined, healthy, knowledgeable, highly-skilled with professionalism” may accidentally threaten multidimensional health.
MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE AND BRUNEI
VISIT THE MALAYSIA HOME PAGEAzhar Harun: Speaker of the Lower House who descended to a ‘Government Lapdog’
There is an urgent need for a reform-oriented speaker to be appointed to combat toxic Malaysian parliamentary proceedings.
Politics of literary translation in plurilingual Malaysia and Singapore
Literary translations between languages becomes a conscious, if not political, effort to let one another be heard within the national context.
The Singapore leg of #gotagohome: diaspora sentiments
Rajapaksa’s arrival has evoked the desire to defend Singapore’s social pluralism and rule of law...
Pop! Perspectives on the Past
Visit the Perspectives on the Past homepageCAMBODIA
VISIT THE CAMBODIA HOME PAGEBuddhism and peace-building in Samlot District’s Kampong Lapov
Through Buddhist ceremonies, relations between perpetrators and victims from different places have been reconnected and restructured.
Campaigns, criminalisation and concessions: indigenous land rights in Cambodia
All Cambodians suffer from natural resources exploitation, but indigenous peoples' social, cultural and economic ties are deeply ingrained in forests
“Human dignity” as a tool for human rights education in Cambodian law schools
Promoting of foundational human rights values in Cambodia’s politically sensitive climate.
BOOK REVIEWS
Palm Oil: the Grease of Empire by Max Haiven (review)
How can one come to understand palm oil as always both local and global, without offering primacy to one and diminishing the other?