In "Memory Complex", an empty Bangkok shophouse becomes home to artworks that provide a potent reminder of the sacrifices ...

Anthony John Stanhope Reid—known to friends, students, and colleagues simply as Tony—passed away on Sunday, 8 June 2025, in Canberra. It was a quiet Sunday, typically devoted to church and reflection ...

Laikang is a Makassarese village located along an 8-kilometre coastline facing the Flores Sea. Until the 1990s, most households there relied on farming, with coastal residents balancing farming and ...

On 12 November 1994, a group of 29 young Timorese men gathered to protest outside the US embassy in Jakarta. They were there to make sure the world did not forget what happened at the Santa Cruz ...

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 ...

These results raise further questions about political representation in contemporary Indonesia. For example: do voters themselves differentiate between parties in the same way, and organise their ...

The last week has seen a wave of huge protests around Indonesia against the new so-called omnibus law—a massive law that amends 79 existing statutes and is touted by the government as easing ...

With over 2.8 million confirmed cases and 50,341 deaths from COVID-19, the Philippines is suffering one of the worst outbreaks in Southeast Asia. However, despite its dire situation, the country has ...

This piece is co-published with AcademiaSG, a scholarly site promoting scholarship of/by/for Singapore.. Singapore’s public housing program is sui generis, un-replicable in its entirety anywhere..

Mobilising the military. Concerns have grown during Jokowi’s presidency about the re-emergence of a “dual function” philosophy within the military, including through the consolidation of its ...

Is religion still a polarising factor, as it was in the 2017 Jakarta election? Vedi Hadiz sensibly argued. in the aftermath of Jakarta’s 2017 election that Indonesia was seeing the emergence of two ...

Photo courtesy of Akshay Mahajan (Creative Commons licence) After a long period of relative silence, the most tragic period in Cambodia’s history has experienced a renaissance of interest. Spurred by ...