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04 Sep, 2024. Jokowi broke the ‘Reformasi coalition’ about 2 weeks ago. The outgoing president transformed the relationship between government and civil society in his decade in power. Clerics to coal miners: the decline of Indonesia’s Islamic civil society about 2 months ago. Indonesia’s biggest Islamic organisations have dealt away ...
Remembering martial law in the Philippines: Education and media
Remembering Martial Law in the Philippines has always been a challenge. There are many reasons for this, with the late Jesuit sociologist Fr. John Carroll, S.J noting the Philippine’s lack of collective conscience and the solidarity of the elite, to which Marcos and his cronies belonged. On my part though, I will focus on a couple of factors ...
Timor-Leste’s deep politics and the enigma of Xanana Gusmao
May 20, 2022 · Timor-Leste turns 20 on the 20 th of May 2022. It has a freshly minted new (and former) president, Dr Jose Ramos Horta who will be sworn into power on the same day. Fresh parliamentary elections await a date to be fixed sometime over the next 12 months. Xanana Gusmao paces in the wings. After his party was unexpectedly out-manoeuvered by his ...
Policy Briefing – SEARBO - JUNE 2021 Introduction Myanmar is still in turmoil with more than eight hundred civilian deaths and five thousand imprisoned since the military (Tatmadaw) overthrew a democratically elected government
Review of The Art of Not Being Governed - New Mandala
Jul 5, 2010 · The fourth chapter of The Art of Not Being Governed, “Civilization and the Unruly,” offers a thought-provoking and potentially incendiary commentary on the ways in which state formations create, indeed depend upon, “barbarian” frontiers (p. 99). Specific administrative markers denoted “hilliness,” such as the Sino-Vietnamese term ...
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Antoni Saputra 15 Jun, 2020. “For hundreds of years, we’ve been practising so-called self-quarantine. Long before the recent COVID-19 outbreak. We called it besesandingon.”. Jokowi broke the ‘Reformasi coalition’. Clerics to coal miners: the decline of …
The Centrality of the Civil Disobedience Movement in Myanmar’s …
Anonymous - 19 Oct, 2021. Emerging as the first act of defiance after the military coup on 1 February 2021, the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) is a general strike mobilisation spearheaded by hundreds of thousands of civil servants. The CDM has become the centre of focus for all parties involved in the post-coup era in Myanmar.
Addressing food security in Indonesia - New Mandala
Dec 8, 2021 · In June 2020, the Indonesian government responded to fears of a COVID-19 food crisis by establishing a new plan.At first, the program aimed to develop new food estates in peatlands, where President Soeharto had carved out the one million hectares PLG Food Estate Program in 1996. Suharto’s PLG program aimed to produce large quantities of rice, increasing Indonesia’s self-sufficiency, but ...
Mental health as public health in Thailand - New Mandala
Jun 9, 2023 · The number of people in Thailand suffering from mental health-related problems rose from 1.3 million in 2015 to 2.3 million in 2021. Unsurprisingly, the number of suicides is also increasing. A multi-country survey conducted during the height of the pandemic indicated that 21% of Thai respondents reported mild to extreme depression, 22% ...
Australia’s Malay history & heritage: Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Oct 4, 2023 · The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are part of Australia’s Indian Ocean territories. They consist of two atolls as island groups. North Keeling Island is an uninhabited designated national park. 27 kms to the south lie the Cocos Islands. They are comprised of 27 or so islands on the main atoll, only two of which are inhabited.