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A provocative documentary examines the asymmetries of Indonesia’s oil palm boom, but leaves some difficult questions unaddressed.

Subnational variation in extrajudicial killings speaks to the political logic behind the campaign.

As long as the global attitude towards religious issues doesn't change, and Malaysians themselves mostly stay silent on these issues, the temptation will always be to smother dissent in the ‘invisibility cloak of religion’.

The idea of finding the El Dorado of Asia is a continuing obsession.

Once hailed as the saviour of the democratic status quo, Indonesia’s president is now busily degrading democratic norms.

Establishing parliamentary committees will help the new PH government meet its GE14 promises of better governance, as ministers and senior officials can be called to account.

Would high political office discipline Ma’ruf Amin’s conservatism, or would his conservatism influence government policy?

Survey data suggest Dutertismo isn't necessarily out of line with popular values.

Notes on the first joint meeting of the Asian Society for the History of Medicine & History of Medicine in Southeast Asia, Jakarta, 27-30 June 2018

Is Pia Wurtzbach, winner of Miss Universe 2015, the contemporary articulation of Philippines beauty standards?

Hans Pols proposes a new perspective on the history of colonial medicine from the viewpoint of indigenous physicians.