Corruption is a pervasive feature of Indonesia’s contemporary political economy. In-depth studies and cross-national surveys alike emphasise that illicit fees and bribery are widespread across the ...

This post is an abridged version of an article that appears in a forthcoming special edition of the Journal of Contemporary Asia, “Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar” (Vol 54:5). Apart from causing ...

Islamic schools have always been part and parcel of the Malay-Muslim communities, even long before the British came to shores of Malaya. The traditional Islamic schools are known as pondok and were ...

Caught between eviction and embrace, residents of Jakarta’s informal settlements are finding new ways to assert their rights and reshape their city from the ground up. “They treated us like animals!

John Paolo Roberto A. Villasor is the Dean of the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos School of Law in Bacolod City, Philippines, where he teaches Constitutional Law and Public International Law ...

Last year New Mandala was pleased to be able to introduce our Emerging Scholar Award, an initiative aimed at promoting the dissemination of outstanding PhD research on Southeast Asia to a global ...

Dr Zachary Abuza is a Professor at the National War College, in Washington, DC, where he focuses on Southeast Asian politics and security issues, including governance, insurgencies, democratisation ...

If the next redelineation exercise does not address malapportionment, it may be the end of reconciliation efforts ...

Some of the most important starting points in the study of Southeast Asia are those moments when significant recalibrations of economic or social policy occur. In Vietnam, back in 1986, the ruling ...

Chin Peng, born Ong Boon Hua, 21 October 1924 to 16 September 2013 The passing of Chin Peng in Bangkok on 16 September 2013 brings to an end one of the longest of Asian political biographies. Chin ...

Are Indonesia’s political parties all alike? Are some more in favour of political reform than others? Do some favour business interests while others see themselves as siding with the poor? And does it ...

The 10 th of August 2020 will be remembered as either a key date in Thailand’s transition to democracy or as a precursor to yet another coup carried out by a military pledging itself to the defence of ...