Among Jokowi’s legacies for Prabowo is a nearly opposition-free elite landscape, now that Anies Baswedan—the most popular politician not aligned with the Widodo–Prabowo coalition—has had his comeback ...

In the days following his inauguration on 20 October, President Prabowo Subianto moved quickly to appoint a total of 136 coordinating ministers, ministers and their deputies, agency chiefs and their ...

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 ...

One of the legacies Joko Widodo leaves Indonesia is a dramatically changed relationship between government and civil society. For the first decade and a half of the post-Suharto period, pro-democracy ...

On 25 October 2004, during the holy month of Ramadan, more than 2,000 Malay Muslim protesters gathered outside the Tak Bai police station in Thailand’s Narathiwat Province to demand the release of six ...

For Timor-Leste, the 20th century was a century of repeated mass violence. While the Manufahi Rebellion of 1911–1912 is celebrated by East Timorese as the last great uprising against Portuguese rule, ...

Edward Aspinall is Professor at the ANU’s Department of Political and Social Change, where his research and teaching focus on the politics of contemporary Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia. Fauziah ...

Jacqui Baker is a Lecturer in Southeast Asian Politics and a Senior Fellow at Murdoch University’s Indo-Pacific Research Centre where her research focuses on the political economy of development in ...

Liam Gammon is the editor of New Mandala and Research Fellow at the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research at the Australian National University (ANU), where he also sits on the editorial board of ...

James Buchanan is a PhD candidate at Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong. His writing on politics and youth culture in Thailand has appeared in The Guardian and ...

New Mandala provides anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on Southeast Asia. It devotes its attention to the politics and societies of Southeast Asian countries, and their connections with one ...