The life and times of an Unesco convention in Timor-Leste

• Civil society in the Mekong: What can we learn from environmental struggles? about 4 days ago

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

• Campaigns, criminalisation and concessions: indigenous land rights in Cambodia about 1 week 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 3 weeks ago

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

• The price for maintaining Indonesia’s palm oil industry hegemony about 1 month ago

  Facing the cooking oil crisis seriously means untangling the complex web that maintains the hegemony of palm oil oligarchy.

• Palm Oil: the Grease of Empire by Max Haiven (review) about 2 months ago

  How can one come to understand palm oil as always both local and global, without offering primacy to one and diminishing the other?

INDONESIA AT NEW MANDALA

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

• Women’s rights & gender equality in Indonesia: watch now about 2 weeks ago

  Marking International Human Rights Day in 2021, this discussion on women’s rights and gender equality in Indonesia examined the achievements and challenges equality in political, economic and social fields.

• Techno-politics of data justice: perspectives from Indonesia and the Philippines about 4 weeks ago

  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.

• New Books on SEAsia: Elisabeth Kramer on “The Candidate’s Dilemma” about 4 weeks ago

  The Candidate's Dilemma delves into the lived experiences of candidates negotiating corruption.

• Antisemitism in Southeast Asia: Stories from Jerusalem to Jakarta about 1 month ago

  Southeast Asian antisemitism has often bemused scholars and researchers, because it has been described as an antisemitism without Jews.

THAILAND AT NEW MANDALA

• New Books on Southeast Asia: Chris Baker on “A History of Thailand” about 1 week 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 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

• Thailand breaks away from Southeast Asia’s brutally punitive drug policies about 1 month ago

  On 9 June 2022, people lined up to make their first legal purchases of cannabis.

• Brewing for democracy: digital activism & the #MilkTeaAlliance about 2 months ago

  Digital activism, identity, and transnational contentious politics

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

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

• Kita perlu bicara! Seni, pelanggaran, dan politik di Documenta 15 about 2 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 2 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.

• RISE 2: Considerations of saltwater, fish, mangroves & people, oil & plastic about 2 months ago

  From remote Torres Strait to mega-cities like Jakarta, enforced climate refugee status continues to increase.

• Simultaneous street art campaign for cage-free farms in 7 major Indonesian cities about 2 months ago

  Success is also closely linked to the public support of consumers who care about animal welfare and demand better standards.

• The women entrepreneurs of early modern Vietnam about 4 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 6 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 6 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 1 year 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 9 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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.