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20 years after Tak Bai, impunity trumps justice

Authorities continue to slow-pedal judicial processes in the face of community demands for accountability

Jokowi broke the ‘Reformasi coalition’

The outgoing president transformed the relationship between government and civil society in his decade in power

Buddhist division and polarisation in Myanmar’s revolutionary situation

Widespread co-optation by the junta sits alongside significant monastic resistance

Ethnonationalism and Myanmar’s future

Framing the war in Myanmar as a ‘fight for democracy’ obscures the crisis of the nation-state at the conflict’s heart

Revolution and solidarity in Myanmar

On the end of the “transition paradigm” and the meanings of the present revolution

Clerics to coal miners: the decline of Indonesia’s Islamic civil society

Indonesia’s biggest Islamic organisations have dealt away their freedom to criticise government

A new direction for the New Colombo Plan. Maybe.

Australia’s flagship study-in-the Asia Pacific program does a good job of changing student behaviour, but not so much that of their universities

Ideological (mega)projects: Xiong’an and Nusantara

Two problematic planned cities, one postcolonial utopia

Apply for New Mandala’s Emerging Scholar Award

Showcase your doctoral research via New Mandala

Jim Scott in memoriam, Southeast Asian studies in perpetuum

“The field of Southeast Asian studies has come to resemble the region as he saw and celebrated it, warts and all”

James C. Scott: against the myopic study of politics

“To become good and dynamic, political science must be broadened and cooperate with, among others, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians”

The price of representation in Indonesia

New evidence for the overriding importance of money in electoral success