People from various provinces in the country sent letters with poems and essays to Radio UNTAC.
Salvaging Southeast Asian history: shipwrecks and Chinese blue-and-white
This salvaged cargo draws attention to the pivotal role played by Southeast Asian merchants and consumers in the circulation of Chinese ceramics.
Young Cambodians and the Paris Peace Agreements: a legacy
The legacy of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements is a commitment to create and uphold the conditions necessary for the Cambodian people to engage in open, meaningful, and critical debate.
The Centrality of the Civil Disobedience Movement in Myanmar’s Post-Coup Era
Humanitarian work without the recognition of the CDM will provoke public distrust and rejection.
Alatas and autonomous knowledge
Ideas for an autonomous social science tradition have influenced scholars for two generations.
การครองอำนาจรัฐในระบอบคสช.: ความถดถอยของอำนาจท้องถิ่น
หยุดการเมืองในมิติการเลือกตั้งที่นับวันสร้างนักการเมืองและพรรคการเมืองที่เข้มแข็งเหนือระบบราชการควบคู่ไปกับประชาธิปไตยท้องถิ่น
New Books in SEAsia Studies: David Brenner’s ‘Rebel Politics’
Highlighting the hidden social dynamics and everyday practices of political violence, ethnic conflict, rebel governance and borderland politics.
On business, research and garment workers in Myanmar: Interview with Sara Tödt
"...I see great value in capturing women’s stories in a rich and encompassing way."
Indifference in diversity: ignorance & apathy towards refugees in Indonesia
A new documentary seeks to explore the plight of refugees in Indonesia seeking resettlement in Australia.
Central-local relations in Thailand since 2014
The 2014 coup interrupted mechanisms of local democracy that emerged from innovations in the 1997 constitution.
Indigenous Papuan women and the struggle for land
Amid the chaotic contestation over natural resources in Papua, it is the indigenous women who are constantly pushed out of the arena.
Mental health in Indonesia: then, now and things to come
A webinar for World Mental Health Day will showcase small sample of extraordinary individuals sharing their experiences in mental health in Indonesia.
Herd immunity/herding constituents: parpol and COVID-19 vaccines in Indonesia #2
These events are heavily political in the distinctively clientelistic sense that dominates in Indonesia.
Herd immunity/herding constituents: parpol and COVID-19 vaccines in Indonesia #1
Online and social media shows that several political parties are actively involved in the vaccination program.
Other ways of remembering
Do local peoples—hunter-gatherer, farmers, and others who are “missing” from historical records—remember in the same way? In subjecting memories to maps, we alter the knowledge...
Invoking memories of Darul Islam
Reports from Afghanistan and contemporary memory activism teach us that memories of trauma run deep, as the author and others have found among the Sulawesi survivors of DI/TI.
Indonesia’s sugar scandals
The effects of decisions about sugar made during tumultuous periods in Indonesian history linger into the contemporary era.
The Rajapaksa regime: navigating the victor’s peace
The climate of increased repression is having a chilling effect on CSOs (civil society organisations), especially those with a human rights focus.
Leadership does matter: Thailand’s COVID-19 response
Citizen trust in Thailand’s political system has been seriously affected by the problems in the handling of the pandemic.
Traumatic Pasts in Asia: The editors’ account
These case studies analyse both the psychological and communal effects of violence and natural disasters and how communities attempt to overcome their effects.
Profile: Hunter Marston on shifting from Buddhist philosophy to politics in Myanmar
"I saw for the first time that Buddhist philosophy was connected to daily struggles and politics at a very fundamental level."
The pursuit of communitarianism at the expense of true harmony
...with persistent advocacy outside of the courts and increased social acceptance...it is possible for the ideal family unit to expand beyond heterosexual norms.
Vale Dr Ni Win Zaw, Head, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of Yangon
Dr Ni Win Zaw’s vision and commitment to development of education will take considerable time to replace.
An absence felt: Thai foreign policy’s decade of retrenchment
...more critical than leadership or domestic politics in accounting for Thailand’s decade of foreign policy retrenchment is...regional and geopolitics.