Women entrepreneurs in Halmahera: quiet contributors

INDONESIA AT NEW MANDALA

• Women entrepreneurs in Halmahera: quiet contributors about 4 days ago

  Within a male-dominated social structure, they face challenges running their businesses, but persist in spite of marginalising geographical, economic and cultural conditions.

• Can Indonesia clean up political pollution along the Citarum River? about 5 days ago

  River pollution is not only a result of overwhelming waste, but a problem of resource capture across all levels of governance.

• Bridging historical archives and earthquake hazard studies in Indonesia about 6 days ago

  Historical records complement studies of seismic hazard and are an important standalone tool for the study of earthquake hazards.

• The other side of Indonesian women workers about 6 days ago

  Increased factory profits is the priority, and workers’ rights to rest, set hours and clear tasks are not protected.

• Watch now: The inaugural Tony and Yohanni Johns lecture by Greg Fealy about 2 weeks ago

  On-the-ground studies find enormous variety and behaviour that often confound the conventional categorisations of religious type.

• Can Indonesia clean up political pollution along the Citarum River? about 5 days ago

  River pollution is not only a result of overwhelming waste, but a problem of resource capture across all levels of governance.

• Profile: Patrick Anderson’s career in environmental and human rights movements about 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago

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

• Campaigns, criminalisation and concessions: indigenous land rights in Cambodia about 4 months ago

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

THAILAND AT NEW MANDALA

• After the Nong Bua Lamphu shooting, a need for grief-sensitive journalism about 1 month ago

  Evidence of inappropriate reporting on the Nong Bua Lamphu tragedy is rife.

• Public programs weekend: Our Grandfather Road about 2 months 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 months 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 4 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 4 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.

• A (qualified) farewell from the editor about 4 days ago

  Working on New Mandala has been a labour of love which has motivated me to pursue my own academic work as a researcher and teacher.

• Asian Art Research Now: Postgraduate workshop about 3 weeks ago

  Supportive critique and cross-pollination across institutional boundaries, as well as those of geography and temporality.

• The Yogyakartan Surrealism of Jokowi about 2 months ago

  Like the Yogyakartan surrealist, Jokowi’s leadership offers a dreamscape, relying much on the promise of the future.

• A conversation about Vomit Girl: Mai Nguyen-Long talks to Elly Kent about 2 months ago

  Studying Vietnamese folkloric practices, the artist has crafted objects that reflect the aesthetics of creative subversion and resistance.

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

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

• The women entrepreneurs of early modern Vietnam about 7 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 9 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 9 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.

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.