In "Memory Complex", an empty Bangkok shophouse becomes home to artworks that provide a potent reminder of the sacrifices ...

Growing competition and disparity The customary rules governing bagang and serobila fishing traps in South Sulawesi served as precursors to claims over sea space for seaweed farming. Though access was ...

Another label commonly used by both sides of the political divide (including in popular culture, like songs and movies) is thit sar phauk, literally someone who breaks a legal promise (of allegiance), ...

Finally, within the category of Buddhist Ideology of Order, we also identify the idea of the Obedient Majority, who are conceived of giving their support in multiple ways to the status quo—for example ...

Many ethnic nationalities have resisted institutional discrimination for decades, including by taking up arms against the central state. The military has responded with waging war against them, ...

In a speech delivered at the ANU’s Centre for Asian-Australian Leadership on 19 August, Foreign Minster Penny Wong announced changes to the Australian Government’s New Colombo Plan (NCP). The ...

On 13 June 2024, a nickel smelting furnace at the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) in Central Sulawesi caught fire and exploded, sending two workers to hospital. A year earlier, on 24 ...

From welfare good to wealth building asset The PAP government’s intention of selling rather than renting public housing flats was already scripted into the 1959 Housing and Development Act.

When I arrived in Thailand in the 1990s and told people I worked in psychology, I was often asked the same questions a fortune teller would be asked. Today, both knowledge and acceptance of psychology ...

This year sees the publication of the fourth edition of the book, A History of Thailand (Cambridge UP, 2022), by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit. Remarkably, the Thai language translation of the ...

Versi Bahasa Indonesia bisa dibaca disini. Conflict, disappointment and fear have followed the opening of the major quinquennial art exhibition Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany on 18 June, as ...

More than 70% of the population in Indonesia live within 100km of one or more of the country’s 130 active volcanoes—that’s a staggering 175 million people. 8.6 million Indonesians live within 10km of ...