In "Memory Complex", an empty Bangkok shophouse becomes home to artworks that provide a potent reminder of the sacrifices ...

Growing competition and disparity The customary rules governing bagang and serobila fishing traps in South Sulawesi served as precursors to claims over sea space for seaweed farming. Though access was ...

In 2016, Philippine Congresswoman Geraldine Roman became the first openly transgender woman elected to a national legislature in Asia. Her election received international media attention and was ...

Another label commonly used by both sides of the political divide (including in popular culture, like songs and movies) is thit sar phauk, literally someone who breaks a legal promise (of allegiance), ...

Jokowi broke the ‘Reformasi coalition’ Repression and harassment have played a part in the political marginalisation of reformist civil society. But that marginalisation is also deeply linked to ...

Finally, within the category of Buddhist Ideology of Order, we also identify the idea of the Obedient Majority, who are conceived of giving their support in multiple ways to the status quo—for example ...

Many ethnic nationalities have resisted institutional discrimination for decades, including by taking up arms against the central state. The military has responded with waging war against them, ...

In a speech delivered at the ANU’s Centre for Asian-Australian Leadership on 19 August, Foreign Minster Penny Wong announced changes to the Australian Government’s New Colombo Plan (NCP). The ...

On 13 June 2024, a nickel smelting furnace at the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) in Central Sulawesi caught fire and exploded, sending two workers to hospital. A year earlier, on 24 ...

From welfare good to wealth building asset The PAP government’s intention of selling rather than renting public housing flats was already scripted into the 1959 Housing and Development Act.

When former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan first announced his intention to contest the presidency in late 2022, he was supported by the NasDem Party, a Jokowi coalition member, as well as by ...

Before the election of Joko Widodo as Indonesia’s president in 2014, Indonesian politics was regarded by many observers as being marked by relatively negligible levels of polarisation. This ...