Time to shift our focus on Indonesian communist studies?

• Profile: Patrick Anderson’s career in environmental and human rights movements about 4 weeks ago

  Working in solidarity globally and at the intersection of environmental protection and human rights.

• A new capital city for who? Central-local tensions in Indonesia about 1 month ago

  A lack of coordination between state actors and a lack of acknowledgment between state and society undermines the new capital project.

• Civil society in the Mekong: What can we learn from environmental struggles? about 2 months ago

  As political space contracts, the role for informal networks or coalitions expands.

• Campaigns, criminalisation and concessions: indigenous land rights in Cambodia about 2 months ago

  All Cambodians suffer from natural resources exploitation, but indigenous peoples' social, cultural and economic ties are deeply ingrained in forests

• Hari Tani Nasional: A forum hosted by the ANU Indonesia Institute about 2 months ago

  What are the most important policy problems facing rural Indonesia, and what can researchers do about them?

INDONESIA AT NEW MANDALA

• Time to shift our focus on Indonesian communist studies? about 2 days ago

  Political actors' roles in regenerating the spectre of communism deserve closer attention.

• Public programs weekend: Our Grandfather Road about 2 weeks ago

  Interact with some of the most socially-engaged and topical art produced by contemporary artists both emerging and established from the region

• Watch: Deepening the Australia-Indonesia relationship through study abroad & research collaboration about 2 weeks ago

  Four stories of success from ANU alumni who have been engaged in strengthening the Australia-Indonesia relationship.

• “Perempuan Merdeka” women’s art exhibition at the 39th Indonesia Update about 4 weeks ago

  The artists’ playful images expose societal norms and offer alternatives to understanding women’s position in society

• Profile: Patrick Anderson’s career in environmental and human rights movements about 4 weeks ago

  Working in solidarity globally and at the intersection of environmental protection and human rights.

THAILAND AT NEW MANDALA

• Public programs weekend: Our Grandfather Road about 2 weeks ago

  Interact with some of the most socially-engaged and topical art produced by contemporary artists both emerging and established from the region

• Suffer the children: in Thailand, children risk sexual abuse by officials charged with their care about 2 weeks ago

  It is in the interests of conservative and progressive Thais to develop new cultural norms and effective legal sanctions to address sexual abuse.

• New Books on Southeast Asia: Chris Baker on “A History of Thailand” about 2 months ago

  This new edition contains a new chapter on Thailand's turbulent politics since 2006 and incorporates new sources and research throughout.

• “Mandatory” deaths for the poor, get out of jail free card for the rich in Asia about 2 months ago

  The fact that dirty money needs to be cleaned provides opportunities for law enforcement agencies in ASEAN to collectively monitor drug lords and drug traffickers.

• New Books in Southeast Asian Studies: Supalak Ganjanakhundee on “A Soldier King” about 2 months ago

  ...how far can earlier interpretations of Thai politics be adapted to explain the growing influence of the monarchy...

• Public programs weekend: Our Grandfather Road about 2 weeks ago

  Interact with some of the most socially-engaged and topical art produced by contemporary artists both emerging and established from the region

• “Perempuan Merdeka” women’s art exhibition at the 39th Indonesia Update about 4 weeks ago

  The artists’ playful images expose societal norms and offer alternatives to understanding women’s position in society

• Our Grandfather Road—The (gendered) body & place in contemporary Southeast Asian art about 2 months ago

  Against monolithic narratives of womanhood, nationhood, regionalism; emphasising body & environment.

• Kita perlu bicara! Seni, pelanggaran, dan politik di Documenta 15 about 3 months ago

  Kolektif-kolektif berorientasi hak asasi manusia dari Indonesia telah dituduh anti-Semitis di salah satu pameran terbesar di Eropa, Dokumenta di Kassel, German.

• We need to talk! Art, offence and politics in Documenta 15 about 3 months ago

  Human-rights oriented Indonesian art collectives have been accused of anti-Semitism at one of Europe's largest art exhibitions, Documenta, in Kassel, Germany.

• The women entrepreneurs of early modern Vietnam about 5 months ago

  Their contributions were fundamental to shaping Vietnam’s early modern social, religious, and economic society, but historical scholarship has neglected their experiences for centuries.

• Whose history, whose future? Creating a new legacy of shared maritime heritage about 7 months ago

  Proactive engagement, people-to-people connections, developing mutual trust and respect is essential to protect Perth for the future.

• Forgotten art history: the art of Chinese-Indonesian women in the 20th century about 7 months ago

  Uncovering transnational and gendered experiences reveals a far richer and more multifaceted picture of Indonesian art and identity.

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

• Remembering HMAS Perth (I) for the future about 2 years ago

  For Indonesia and Australia, the salvage of Perth has put maritime heritage cooperation into the spotlight, prompting greater bilateral engagement.

• Cambodia’s 1991 Paris Peace Agreements: Thirty years of contested commemoration about 10 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 12 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 12 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 12 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 12 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

SOUTHEAST ASIA IN A TIME OF CORONAVIRUS

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