Promoting of foundational human rights values in Cambodia’s politically sensitive climate.
The price for maintaining Indonesia’s palm oil industry hegemony
Facing the cooking oil crisis seriously means untangling the complex web that maintains the hegemony of palm oil oligarchy.
Palm Oil: the Grease of Empire by Max Haiven (review)
How can one come to understand palm oil as always both local and global, without offering primacy to one and diminishing the other?
Counter-polarisation and political expediency
...there are grounds for doubting that counter-polarisation is the real reason for many recent political manoeuvres.
Kita perlu bicara! Seni, pelanggaran, dan politik di Documenta 15
Kolektif-kolektif berorientasi hak asasi manusia dari Indonesia telah dituduh anti-Semitis di salah satu pameran terbesar di Eropa, Dokumenta di Kassel, German.
We need to talk! Art, offence and politics in Documenta 15
Human-rights oriented Indonesian art collectives have been accused of anti-Semitism at one of Europe's largest art exhibitions, Documenta, in Kassel, Germany.
From Duterte to Marcos Jr: a forum
The new president and the rule of law, the judiciary, patterns of political mobilisation, and media and disinformation.
RISE 2: Considerations of saltwater, fish, mangroves & people, oil & plastic
From remote Torres Strait to mega-cities like Jakarta, enforced climate refugee status continues to increase.
Simultaneous street art campaign for cage-free farms in 7 major Indonesian cities
Success is also closely linked to the public support of consumers who care about animal welfare and demand better standards.
Digital contention in post-coup Myanmar
Social media dissidence has likely facilitated a civil disobedience movement with greater grassroots support than ever—a development that the Tatmadaw might find difficult to halt.
Brewing for democracy: digital activism & the #MilkTeaAlliance
Digital activism, identity, and transnational contentious politics
Academics call on Government to protect stranded Myanmar students
A group of academics is urging the Federal Government to grant humanitarian protection visas to a small cohort of gifted students.
The network origin of the Thai youth revolution
Since 2014, young activists have set up underground spaces across Thailand, laying ground for today's movements
‘Other Possible Worlds’ Contemporary art from Thailand
Investigating urbanisation, the environment, inequality, and the political rights and duties of Thai people.
SDGs in North Sumatra: climate action, peace, justice, and institutions
...local government appears to be taking no clear steps toward mitigating natural disasters and climate change.
Fragrant Frontier: The editors’ account
...a borderland–frontier in a state of flux, where social and environmental trajectories are diverse, dynamic, and consequential...
NBSEAS talks to Jonathan Saha on “Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar”
Saha brings together the emerging field of animal studies with the more established field of postcolonial studies.
Bullets and ballots: violent politics and extremism in southern Philippines
Violence was avoided this election, but is more likely in the 2025 BARMM regional elections
People’s power and resistance in Southeast Asia in comparison: a roundtable
...movements signify the transformative potential of people’s power & its inherent precarity; state responses to protestors’ demands range widely...
“Building Back Better” than what? Lessons in Indonesia after volcanic eruptions
The Sendai Framework lays out clear actions to reduce disaster risk. But how effective is it?
A “Pangulo” ideology: leader-centrism and the return of a Marcos presidency
History, morality and facts become subservient to the success and protection of the individual leader.
Timor-Leste’s deep politics and the enigma of Xanana Gusmao
In 2018, Gusmao's reframing of his modernist vision through a lulik alliance signalled a return to his cultural roots that assisted in regaining his waning charisma.
Myanmar’s anti-junta forces are terrorists, says the Institute for Economics and Peace
Empirical data is not politically neutral, nor does it speak for itself. Divorced from its original context, it can cause harm.
No protection, more repression: freedom of expression in Southeast Asia
...these are fundamentally contrary to the principles of international human rights law and fail to meet the principle of “legal certainty” of international law.