Facebook 
Twitter 
Soundcloud 
Youtube 
Rss 
Readers who received the email notification of the new post “Indonesians want a more diverse legislature” should know that this piece was published under the wrong byline. The piece wasn’t authored be me, as the previous email from New Mandala would have you believe, but rather Eve Warburton, Edward Aspinall, Diego Fossati, Burhanuddin Muhtadi and Sally White. My apologies to readers and the authors for the error, which has been corrected on the New Mandala website.
Recently at New Mandala
Indonesians want a more diverse legislature
A new survey shows support for a class and gender mix that better reflects society.
Video: Roundtable on Indonesia’s 2024 elections
ANU experts share their impressions and predictions about Indonesia's election
Translating atrocity at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
The ECCC highlights some hazards of miscommunication and mistranslation in multilingual war crimes proceedings
Of prison blocks and condos
On the sidelines of Changi Prison lies a fissure in an environment engineered to “invisibilise” Singapore’s social divides.
The plastipelago
Indonesia’s encounter with the “plasticene” has led to a naïve and hasty government effort to rebrand waste as an asset.
A coup by any other name
A close look at the blocking of Pita’s appointment shows how conservatives are happy to cut legal corners to thwart reformist politics.