Break-ins and breaking news: the Timorese fence-jumpers of Jakarta

Among Jokowi’s legacies for Prabowo is a nearly opposition-free elite landscape

Prabowo has been generous to former military and police officers when doling out cabinet positions

“A pre-dawn break-in could lead to an evening KLM flight”

The outgoing president transformed the relationship between government and civil society in his decade in power

Indonesia’s biggest Islamic organisations have dealt away their freedom to criticise government

Widespread co-optation by the junta sits alongside significant monastic resistance

Framing the war in Myanmar as a ‘fight for democracy’ obscures the crisis of the nation-state at the conflict’s heart

On the end of the “transition paradigm” and the meanings of the present revolution

“To become good and dynamic, political science must be broadened and cooperate with, among others, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians”

“The prisoner’s body is a political, but perishable, weapon.”