20 years on, the massacre remains one of Thailand’s most tragic and controversial events, particularly for those affected by ...

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 ...

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 ...

This post is an abridged version of an article that appears in a special edition of the Journal of Contemporary Asia on “Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar” (Vol 54 No 5). Not surprisingly, ...

Phyo Wai is Associate Professor at the Department of English Related to Tipitaka, Mahavihara Dhamma-Vinaya University, Yangon. Dr Iselin Frydenlund is professor of the Study of Religion at the ...

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 ...

Gerard McCarthy is the Associate Director of the ANU Myanmar Research Centre. He completed his PhD thesis on distributive politics in post-reform Myanmar at the ANU’s Department of Political 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 ...

Clive Kessler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the author of Islam and Politics in a Malay State: Kelantan 1838-1969 (Cornell U.P ...