Freaky Friday

The Hendropriyono pot calls the Prabowo kettle black, Jokowi goes to Papua and Gerindra gets Happy.

Making Peace with the Enemy

Why do victims of human rights abuses support for Prabowo’s candidacy for President?

Songsuda Yodmani and the 2014 coup

Pavin Chachavalpongpun takes aim at a press conference that sought to legitimise Thailand's recent coup

Student Politics in the Selfie-Age

Elena Williams discovers that student politics in Yogyakarta aren't what they used to be.

Dissonance in Malaysia-Japan relations

The dissonance between Abe and Najib is explained by the current status of their long dominant parties

NTEU condemns Thai coup

The Australian higher education union calls for the release of all academics and students detained by Thailand's junta

Promiscuity into promise?

Dan Slater argues that voters are facing a most fateful electoral decision

Who’s who in the Thai coup?

Confused about who's who in the Thai coup? Here is a detailed analysis to put things straight.

Thaksin Thinks, Prayuth Acts

Anders Engvall looks at the economic direction of Thailand's military junta

Friday wrap

The campaign this week in social and mass media: NM Indonesia editors sat on fesbuk this week so you could at least get some work done.

“Foreign influence” in Red Shirt demonstrations

Grant Evans analyses the role of Lao citizens who support Thailand's Red Shirt movement

After the coup

New Mandala co-founder Nicholas Farrelly offers a quick take in the aftermath of Thailand's latest coup

Thailand: a “soft revolution” in a happy country

The coup's intentions cannot be accomplished without taming people to be innocuous citizens

Campaigning on religious nationalism

How a Shia candidate used 'religious nationalism' to win in a majority Sunni electorate.

Securing Success

Bob Lowry asks where do the political preferences of the police and the military lie?

Prabowo and the art of being tegas

If a presidential candidate appears to punch someone, and no one talks about it, did it ever happen?

Thorns of the Thai rose

Camille Gazeau explores how a London hairdresser has become the number one enemy of Thai royalists.

Sukarno’s two bodies

John Roosa explains how both Prabowo and Jokowi are advertising themselves as the legatees of Indonesia’s first President, Sukarno.

Thailand, what next?

Thai constitutional law scholar Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang explores what might happen next in Thailand.

Thailand’s invitation to violence

Andrew Walker identifies two institutional failures at the heart of Thailand's political crisis: the monarchy and the Democrat party.

Thailand’s information war

Aim Sinpeng reports on the Thai military's heavy handed actions against freedom of information.

Examining ISMA’s Nam Tien ideology

It is dangerous for Malay Muslims to look to 'immigrants' or the past to define themselves

Condemnation of the coup

Leading Thai Studies academics urge the immediate return to constitutional rule by a civilian government

ANU No Coup

A group of students, faculty and alumni of the Australian National University has written an open letter condemning the latest military coup in Thailand.