Rebecca Gidley begins as New Mandala's editor in August 2019.

If he’s serious about building Indonesia’s “human capital”, Jokowi should make mental health a policy priority.

Progress for pro-women policy requires being honest about the social and political barriers activists face.

What happens when civil society, the media, and policymakers are based in different cities?

Indonesia needs evidence-based policy, not policy-based evidence.

The 2019 ANU Indonesia Update conference takes stock of Indonesian democracy.

The activities of Lao dissidents who have fled to Thailand can offer some insight into anti-regime sentiment in Laos.

Authoritarian successor parties can be an important part of democratic consolidation, so we shouldn’t necessarily welcome a weak USDP.

Economic change is eroding the political power of traditional custodians of land in this part of Eastern Indonesia.

Jokowi owes his victory to NU support, and NU expects both material and ideological dividends.

New survey data show how strongly partisanship effects Indonesians’ policy preferences.

Though Austronesians operated in networks of oceanic trading that stretched from Asia to the Mediterranean for thousands of years, both the term and cultural grouping are little known.

The reformist chairman of Indonesia's Investment Coordination Board (BKPM) spoke to ANU's Hall Hill for New Mandala.

The “i-Suri” scheme shows the PH government continues to make limited strides toward women’s progress.

Nien Yuan Cheng continues her commentary on how Singapore artists are responding to the Bicentennial.

Ma’ruf Amin's electoral benefit was smaller than often assumed—but it was enough to get Jokowi over the line.

Public shock should be channelled towards real empowerment of indigenous communities.

Andrew Selth's recollections of the hazards of the rumour mill in Ne Win-era Myanmar.

Pakatan Harapan had promised academic freedom and institutional autonomy for public universities. Can it—or will it—deliver?

Despite Malaysia’s record of economic growth since the 1970s, poverty remains a persistent, and especially vexing, problem. How likely is a structural remedy under the new PH government?

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Reconsidering an oft-overlooked chapter in Vietnam’s decolonisation.

After failing to assemble a critical mass that aggressively rallies for his policies, Duterte is leading a top-down insurgency to overturn to overturn the liberal-democratic establishment.

Part 2 of this 3-part series on the SG Bicentennial explores MY Bridge of Light, a community play sponsored by the official bicentennial fund.