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 ...

An ethnography of rural electrification in LaosFrom flickers to full power: when reliable electricity arrived in Banmai Scholarship on the impacts of hydroelectricity often focuses on what it destroys ...

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 ...

Buddhist division and polarisation in Myanmar’s revolutionary situation While military co-optation strategies of the Sangha are an important dynamic, there is also significant monastic resistance to ...

Ethnonationalism and Myanmar’s future The crisis in Myanmar is a fundamental struggle over the identity and structure of the nation-state. Underpinning this conflict are ethnonational politics that ...

The growing contradictions of Singapore’s HDB scheme Singapore's lauded public housing scheme is more than a welfare program—it's a key political and economic institution. But its greatest irony is ...

Reversing reformasi The narrowing field of political contestation in Indonesia is not just being driven by presidential machinations and ruling-coalition infighting—but also the inescapable ...

After years of debate, protest, and delay, the Indonesian parliament passed a new criminal code (Undang Undang Kitab Hukum Pidana, or KUHP) that gives the state new tools to punish a wide range of ...

Most Vietnamese have put the Vietnam War behind them. But leaving the past behind does not mean forgetting it. As Madam Ton Nu Thi Ninh, a veteran Vietnamese diplomat actively engaged in US-Vietnam ...

In the aftermath of 2021 February military coup there are widespread calls from civil society in Myanmar to overcome previous ethnic, religious and class differences and to consolidate the national ...

More than 70% of the population in Indonesia live within 100km of one or more of the country’s 130 active volcanoes—that’s a staggering 175 million people. 8.6 million Indonesians live within 10km of ...