One of the legacies Joko Widodo leaves Indonesia is a dramatically changed relationship between government and civil society. For the first decade and a half of the post-Suharto period, pro-democracy ...

Nurses wearing the starched white caps and uniforms long abandoned for utilitarian scrubs in much of the world volunteer to check the temperatures of migrant workers who are returning to Myanmar from ...

In Malaysia, moneylending, an activity of lending money with interest, with or without security by a licensed moneylender to a borrower, as defined by the Moneylenders Act 1951 are often confused with ...

The ascent of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr to the presidency was historic. With 31 million votes, he secured over 50% of the electorate in an election by plurality. Three decades since the ouster of ...

The 10 th of August 2020 will be remembered as either a key date in Thailand’s transition to democracy or as a precursor to yet another coup carried out by a military pledging itself to the defence of ...

In the aftermath of 2021 February military coup there are widespread calls from civil society in Myanmar to overcome previous ethnic, religious and class differences and to consolidate the national ...

Among the great unanswered questions from the 1960s and 70s is how to understand politics and counter movements in the former colonies. The old imperial rulers thought they understood but had lost out ...

A battle for international recognition between Myanmar’s junta and Aung San Suu Kyi’s deposed civilian government is underway. The opposition in the incarnation of the Committee Representing ...

From September to November 2025, severe flooding inundated large parts of both rural and urban Indonesia, especially on the islands of Sumatra and Bali. This disruption affected livelihoods, damaged ...

Judging from national and international headlines, Jakarta’s gubernatorial election on 19 April represents not just a major turning point for the nation’s capital and city of 12 million, but ...

Sebuah penerjemahan artikel ini dalam berbahasa Indonesia telah terbit disini. ‘National races’ or taingyintha is among the pre-eminent political ideas in Myanmar today. It has animated brutal ...

Given the heterogeneity, tonnage and toxicity of modern waste, a convincing argument could be made for waste as the inscription of the Anthropocene. Even though it is both organic and inorganic waste ...