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Against Indonesia’s toxic alliances

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

A most militarised cabinet

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

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

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

Population loss in Portuguese Timor during WW2 revisited

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

20 years after Tak Bai, impunity trumps justice

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

Jokowi broke the ‘Reformasi coalition’

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

Buddhist division and polarisation in Myanmar’s revolutionary situation

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

Ethnonationalism and Myanmar’s future

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

Revolution and solidarity in Myanmar

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

Clerics to coal miners: the decline of Indonesia’s Islamic civil society

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

A new direction for the New Colombo Plan. Maybe.

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

Ideological (mega)projects: Xiong’an and Nusantara

Two problematic planned cities, one postcolonial utopia