Beyond the “Berkeley Mafia” A look at the rise of banker and investor technocrats in Indonesia—and how they’ve eclipsed academic economists as a key source of influence over the direction of economic ...

Art in a time of democratic abeyance in Thailand In "Memory Complex", an empty Bangkok shophouse becomes home to artworks that provide a potent reminder of the sacrifices made for the possiblity of ...

Sea space, conflict and state building in Sulawesi In Indonesia, a boom in demand for seaweed from largely China-based industry has transformed seaweed farmers’ relationships with the sea and each ...

There’s a notorious stretch of road in Indonesia, by the border of North Sumatra and Aceh provinces, that passes through kilometres and kilometres of oil palm plantations. There are few people there, ...

Coffee, conflict, and inadvertent state-building in Vietnam Post-Đổi Mới Vietnam saw large-scale internal migration by those seeking new economic opportunities opened up by the reforms. Amid a boom in ...

Making Mainland Southeast Asia safe for autocracy The region’s close political and economic links to Beijing loom large in explanations of why it remains in the democratic doldrums. But overemphasis ...

Name-calling in Myanmar: on people Honorifics, nicknames and pseudonyms for prominent Myanmar figures have been a mainstay of Myanmar public life, with the subtleties of their use often lost on many ...

Name-calling in Myanmar: on protocols From Naypyidaw to Tatmadaw, how various political actors are referred to is more politically loaded than many journalists, and some scholars, recognise. Andrew ...

Ethnic solidarities in Myanmar: coalitions or movement? The social revolution bound up in the resistance to the coup has opened, in a partial yet meaningful way, avenues for Myanmar to transcend ...

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 ...

Ethnonationalism and Myanmar’s future The crisis in Myanmar is a fundamental struggle over the identity and structure of the nation-state. Underpinning this conflict are ethnonational politics that ...

A new direction for the New Colombo Plan. Maybe. Changes to the decade-old program seek to extend the length of time Australian students spend studying in Asia and the Pacific, but universities ...