Iola Lenzi’s Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970 (Lund Humprhies, 2024, 240 pages) is the latest addition to a narrow but deep bibliography aiming to account ...

The global trend toward the neoliberalisation of higher education, characterised by market-driven practices, privatization, and financial austerity, poses serious threats to educational equity, ...

Beyond the “Berkeley Mafia” A look at the rise of banker and investor technocrats in Indonesia—and how they’ve eclipsed academic economists as a key source of influence over the direction of economic ...

Art in a time of democratic abeyance in Thailand In "Memory Complex", an empty Bangkok shophouse becomes home to artworks that provide a potent reminder of the sacrifices made for the possiblity of ...

Indonesia’s democracy is becoming reactive. Is that good? Elites in Indonesia increasingly treat social media as a proxy for the popular will—and live in fear of its wrath. On the one hand, that ...

Extracting value, losing ground: the critical minerals boom in Palawan Despite a 2025 moratorium on mining that halts new permits to mine ‘critical’ minerals in the island province, local Indigenous ...

Sea space, conflict and state building in Sulawesi In Indonesia, a boom in demand for seaweed from largely China-based industry has transformed seaweed farmers’ relationships with the sea and each ...

Name-calling in Myanmar: on people Honorifics, nicknames and pseudonyms for prominent Myanmar figures have been a mainstay of Myanmar public life, with the subtleties of their use often lost on many ...

Jokowi broke the ‘Reformasi coalition’ Repression and harassment have played a part in the political marginalisation of reformist civil society. But that marginalisation is also deeply linked to ...

A new direction for the New Colombo Plan. Maybe. Changes to the decade-old program seek to extend the length of time Australian students spend studying in Asia and the Pacific, but universities ...

Forgotten war in Burma, ignored war in Myanmar Western media outlets’ resort to the cliché of Myanmar as a “forgotten” country is not only self-incriminating—it risks becoming a self-fulfilling ...

The workers paying the price for Indonesia’s nickel boom Critical minerals producers are lauded by the government for creating jobs and generating revenue, and they market themselves as socially ...