Palakasan is a “negative” social practice that distorted the allocation of the SAP and other aid which local politicians had control over.

The coal sector is strongly linked to national and regional oligarchs, and coal businesses often play a role as financiers for political candidates.

Equipping activism with a geopolitical angle might prove useful, giving environmentalism a base in foreign policy and economic nationalism.

New Mandala invites submissions on the most pressing environmental justice issues in the Southeast Asia.

In the midst of the Spring Revolution, new opportunities arise for climate justice.

What alternative designs have researchers implemented to manage the limitations of the "new normal"?

The book begins with a provocative question: why did the communist-led resistance against French colonial rule in Vietnam fail in the south?

The eviction of the young nation's only art school has shown who holds the real power in Timor-Leste.

Cái chết mới đây của một cô gái vị thành niên tên H Xuân Siu, được tuyển dụng làm người giúp việc nhà tại Ả-rập Xê-út đã khiến cả thế giới bàng hoàng.

Financial ruptures have flowed on from an aggressive dam-building spree in Laos.

New Mandala is taking a break, in the meantime we leave readers with reflections & the top posts of 2022.

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95% of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people in resettlement sites built after Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 are not vaccinated.

In this webinar recording, meet extraordinary individuals sharing their experiences in mental health in Indonesia.

All youth groups are calling for change, but at different levels.

The quest for “good citizens, disciplined, healthy, knowledgeable, highly-skilled with professionalism” may accidentally threaten multidimensional health.

Food estates are costly and fail to value the application of ecological principles, especially local agroecological practices rooted in local communities.

Speakers will examine the extent to which Indonesian women have achieved equality in a broad array of political, economic and social fields

In this episode of the Nordic Asia Podcast Kenneth Bo Nielsen is joined by Olle Törnquist to discuss the main results and arguments in what he calls his endbook.

Stakeholders commemorate the same history, but they have different interpretations.

Recent research reveals a missive from the leader of the single most threatening Timorese uprising against the Portuguese.

Details around the recent death of migrant domestic worker, H Xuân Siu, reveal an exploitative transnational labour export system.

The story of these youths' contribution to the liberation of their homeland is yet to be fully written.

Indonesia’s decision to gamble with a degree of its strategic autonomy should thus be regarded as the latest reinterpretation of jalan tengah.