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Colonial rekening: what does the Netherlands owe Indonesia?

Measuring "colonial drain" isn't a straightforward business

The pesantren archipelago

Introducing a new dataset on Indonesia’s Islamic boarding schools

Why Islamists let Prabowo shift on Israel

Islamists have ceded influence over Indonesia’s Palestine policy

Laos’ nurses as vanguards of public health care?

Reflections on public health as a modernising project

In Bangkok, whose heritage counts?

The battle over Chao Mae Thapthim Shrine

Nusantara: the city that never was

What political project did Jokowi’s new capital embody?

How Bangsamoro’s political transition got stuck

Bad luck and bad judgement are undermining progress in ending the Mindanao conflict for good

Remembering 1965 against the politics of erasure

Memory as defiance in the face of sixty years of impunity

Who’s afraid of a little anarchy?

On the makings of Indonesia’s new protest scapegoat

Insurgent planning versus discretionary urbanism in Jakarta

Jakarta’s informal settlements are finding new ways to assert their rights and reshape their city

Indonesia’s heritage in flames

August’s protests destroyed beloved colonial-era buildings