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Three candidates, the same vote?

Jakarta’s election and elites’ control of Indonesia’s national politics.

Prayer, peace and protest in Jakarta

Images from inside Indonesia's latest mass mobilisation to defend Islam.

“There will be no peace in this land”

Can Duterte rescue peace talks?

Religious warfare and the Jakarta election

Why political Islam has made a major comeback in Indonesia.

Ethnicity and Jakarta’s election

Survey experiment shows that Ahok's Chinese background matters most to voters.

The head vs the heart in the case against Ahok

It's not just justice at stake, writes Esther Kuntjara.

Stone dragging and politics in Sumba

Reviving an old burial tradition worrying for local democracy.

Anlong Veng calling

Reconciliation and remembrance in the Khmer Rouge’s last stronghold.

Lifting the shadows on a secret war

Hunter Marston reviews Josh Kurlantzick's newly published study of the CIA's covert military operations in Laos.

Assessing Indonesia’s new decree on refugees

New policy tackles long overlooked challenge.

Show us the money (and other stuff)

Social transfers and distributive politics in the race to be Jakarta's next governor.

Loneliness and love under Thailand’s junta 

Tightening the grip on Thais’ hearts and minds.