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”

A new archival find suggests that Japanese occupation was more devastating than previously thought

Authorities continue to slow-pedal judicial processes in the face of community demands for accountability

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

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

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

Australia’s flagship study-in-the Asia Pacific program does a good job of changing student behaviour, but not so much that of their universities

Two problematic planned cities, one postcolonial utopia

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“The field of Southeast Asian studies has come to resemble the region as he saw and celebrated it, warts and all”

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

New evidence for the overriding importance of money in electoral success

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

Relationships need to move beyond oversight to solidarity

On the promise of “spontaneous tactical urbanism” to renew Cambodia’s capital

International media outlets’ clichéd descriptions of the ongoing conflict are at best self-incriminating

An industry that markets itself as socially responsible is failing in its duty to protect worker safety

“This is a book with a whole lot of heart for Myanmar and her people.”

What an alleged gentleman’s agreement tells us about China’s vision of international law

The kretek cigarette industry and its devastating public health impacts are sustained via a huge apparatus of labour, and appeals to cultural nationalism