Travelling through rural Java and Sulawesi, Jeff Neilson finds Prabowo’s signature "Red and White" village coo ...

Khin Zaw Win is currently the Director of the Tampadipa Institute, working on policy advocacy and capacity building since 2006. His current engagement includes communal issues, nationalism and ...

In this long-awaited book, Ngu Ik Tien, a senior lecturer in Chinese Studies at Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, offers a cogent and compelling account of politics in a Malaysian state with a ...

Editor’s note: this essay is an edited excerpt of the author’s chapter in a new volume from ANU Press, Experiencing Indonesia: 30 years of ACICIS, which contains reflections on the origins and ...

Indonesian Borneo has long been known for its gold mineral wealth—and its gold rushes. As Nancy Peluso has previously explored at New Mandala, not all of this gold mining occurs through large ...

Editor’s note: this piece was originally posted at New Mandala on 3 October 2017 and is being republished in light of the news of Prof Anthony Reid’s passing on 8 June 2025. The ANU Indonesia ...

How the issue of citizenship-for-votes plays out at GE13 remains moot but the certainty that Sabah remains BN’s fixed deposit no longer holds.

On 3 February, 2024, the Manila City Government marked the 79th anniversary of the Battle of Manila with a solemn but subdued ceremony. The event was attended by a select group of dignitaries, ...

1932 is usually described as the beginning of Thailand’s century-long coup season. Once upon a time when I sought to determine when this history of coups began I was surprised to find obscure ...

Paul Chambers looks back at the politicisation of the Royal Thai Police, before turning to the palace's recent personalisation of authority over an institution often overshadowed by the military.

The works in this exhibition by Indonesian artists, Bulan Fi Sabilliah and Fitri DK, comment on the Indonesian New Order’s legacy of the primacy of prescribed beauty ideals and women’s domestic and ...

Australia’s “History Wars” of the 1990s were marked by a public debate between proponents of contrasting ways of understanding Australia’s past. But our figuring of history should not be limited to ...