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

August’s protests destroyed beloved colonial-era buildings

There is economic and social upside for Indonesia in reducing its contributions to climate change

Sound analysis requires looking the conflict’s grim realities in the face

A subculture of street protest survives beyond Jokowi

On what’s lost when the Dutch East Indies is recalled as a time of picturesque sophistication

Caught in the middle of a new politicisation of Japan’s migration program

Failing to learn the lessons from failures abroad

On the rise of banker and investor technocrats in Indonesia

An ethnography of rural electrification in Laos

Enshrining spiritual, political and economic powers in Southern Laos