The holes in donut politics

In a political landscape dominated by money-politics, can a box of treats sweeten up Indonesia's voters?

Paranormal politics

Why is witchcraft part of the political toolkit for Indonesian candidates?

Daulat – an afterword

Clive Kessler's concluding analysis of daulat, monarchy and constitutionalism in modern Malaysia.

Jokowimania: a dispatch from Southeast Sulawesi

Eve Warburton reports that PDI-P hopes Jokowimania will help the party make inroads in far-flung parts of Indonesia.

Hot on the hustings–Indonesia’s ‘caleg cantik’

An increasing number of celebrities standing for parliament is a side-effect of quotas for female representation in politics.

Political participation and pleasurable pain in Malaysia

If pleasurable pain can be said to be a critical political factor, then recent developments in Malaysia is to be welcomed.

Democracy, a ‘pathway to hell’

Democracy might be 'haram', but Islamist vigilantes are using it to their strategic advantage.

Indonesia Votes: what polling says

Who's winning, and why. Taking a look at some early polling.

Indonesia’s Overseas Vote: Time for Secession?

Indonesia's bizarre system for apportioning the votes of expats leads to some unusual campaign strategies.

The decline of the Demokrats

Conspiracy theories are the courier of political change.

Network monarchy’s twilight

Historians of the future may remember the latest round of political unrest in Thailand as the twilight of the ‘network monarchy’.

Let the campaign begin

Ross Tapsell lays out what Indonesia's 2014 elections are all about.

Meet Joko Widodo

No, he’s not the Messiah, but a bit of reformist populism was just what Indonesia needed in 2014

Daulat – a quibble about words?

Daulat and kedaulatan each has its place, and each is to be honoured in its own place, and not to be inserted into that of the other.

Malaysia, Singapore (and Brunei) at the AAS

Malaysia and Singapore in action at the Association of Asian Studies Conference.

Akanat “six degrees” Promphan

Akanat Promphan's extraordinary academic record reflects the deep status insecurity that drives the yellow side in Thai politics

Welcome to Indonesia Votes

Telling the story of Indonesia's election year, New Mandala style.

Daulat – the ancient and the modern

Is there something more to the position of the traditional Malay ruler than his modern constitutional position?

Democratisation by elections and protracted transition

Elections are the means for greater democratisation in Malaysia, yet it is leading to greater polarisation.

Daulat, kedaulatan, sovereignty and constitutionalism

Clive Kessler presents his original analysis of daulat, kedaulatan, sovereignty and modern constitutionalism in Malaysia.

Asia Pacific Week 2014

Asia Pacific Week 2014 will explore the theme of GlobaliseAsian from 23 June – 27 June 2014 at the ANU. Applications open on 10 March 2014.

Malaysia in 2014 – A perspective from Thailand

Insurgencies in southern Thailand complicates Malaysia-Thai relations.

Looks good on paper: Education reform in Burma

Rosalie Metro brings a critical perspective to the fragility of Burmese education materials in an analysis that has major policy implications

Malaysia’s “Devarajas”

Clive Kessler revisits the origins of 'daulat' and 'devaraja' and how Malaysia's 'new royalists" are re-imposing these concepts.