The NU Garis Lurus or 'true path NU' movement shows how the moderate stance of Indonesia's largest Islamic organisation is being internally contested.

New Mandala is looking for emerging Indonesian experts to write about Indonesia's biggest policy challenges in the lead up to the 2019 polls.

Thailand’s military government has passed an amendment to the Sangha Act that places the power to appoint and remove the twenty members of the Sangha Council, the highest governing body in the Thai Buddhist order, under the king’s power.

Nicole Curato talks to Clarke Jones about what the 'tough on crime' mentality looks like from inside the Philippine prison system.

While governments since at least Rama VI have defined Thainess by the ideology of nation-religion-king, comparing editions of the Royal Institute Dictionaries shows the changing meanings of these words.

International donors need to own up to their own roles in the ongoing Lao hydropower tragedy.

How did royalist, nationalist and anti-democratic forces overwhelm the originally heterogenous yellow-shirt movement?

Whatever new form of governance emerges from the Bangsamoro Organic Law, it will still confront security challenges as serious as ever.

CPP organisational and informational dominance over its rivals has been palpable.

What has and hasn't changed about how the media report on politics and policy after GE14?

President Duterte’s use of Bisaya is a push back against Imperial Manila’s dominance. But it is also creating new hierarchies of language of its own.

PoP reviews an important new book on the relationship between feminism and visual art in Indonesia

Revolutionary music can be a window into the social foundations of Myanmar’s Ethnic Armed Organisations.

President Duterte's trust rating lies at 89% in Mindanao. It's time to listen to the voice of the other 11%.

A proposed new law on special economic zones would create enclaves in which key workers' rights and environmental protections are absent, or go unenforced.

The first in a series of podcasts providing a snapshot of Malaysia in the aftermath of GE14.

Satirists cannot beat Duterte in his own game of telling jokes and performing in the theatre of the absurd.

The first in our series of perspectives from young writers from Mindanao on two years of Dutertismo.

The Supreme Court’s ouster of Maria Lourdes Sereno was not just a case of discriminatory legalism or unconstrained democracy. It is not democratic at all.

Duterte's anti-drug and anti-loitering campaigns have weaponised a 'cleanliness' aesthetic to deadly effect.

Do political dynasties hold back The Philippines' economic development? Nicole Curato investigates this question with Assoc Prof Ronald Mendoza.

Illiberalism at home, and pro-market ideologies abroad, are putting pressure on Southeast Asian civil society organisations' financial health.