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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has all the ingredients of a daytime soap. But Thailand’s political drama is no work of fiction and makes for troubling viewing.

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 ...

Eve Warburton is a postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. She received her PhD in 2018 from the Department of Political and Social Change, The Australian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Khin Khin Mra has more than 10 years of development experience, with extensive knowledge working in conflict affected areas and humanitarian settings. Her research interests include women's rights and ...

Craig J. Reynolds is a historian in the School of Culture, History, and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. His Power, Protection and Magic in Thailand: The ...