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 ...

Aqida Salma is a PhD candidate in political science and Southeast Asian studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, and a visiting fellow at Cornell University through the AIFIS–Henry Luce Foundation and ...

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 ...

Amrih Widodo retired from the Australian National University in 2017 after a career lecturing in Indonesian language and cultures, performing arts, media and popular cultures in universities in ...

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 ...

Fragile paradise: Bali and volcanic threats to our region The destruction of centuries past should focus the region on preparing for Indonesia’s next mega-eruption.

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 ...

Dorothy Mason is a political ecologist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her research examines the politics of land, enclosure and resource extraction in the Asia-Pacific. Wolfram Dressler is a professor ...