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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bunly Soeung serves as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Svay Rieng University. He is as a Research Fellow and core member of the Network of Friend of R2P-Cambodia at the Cambodian ...

Radio UNTAC was established in October 1992 to inform the Cambodian people about the peace process, democratic principles and human rights. It began broadcasting on 9 November 1992 and ended on 22 ...

Aim Sinpeng is a Lecturer at the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney, and is a co-founder of the Sydney Cyber Security Network and a Thailand country coordinator ...

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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 ...

Dr Rebecca Meckelburg is a research scholar and lecturer in the Development studies postgraduate program at the Interdisciplinary Faculty, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana. Her research interests ...

Dyah Ayu Kartika (Kathy) is an analyst for the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) Jakarta. Prior to that, she worked as researcher for The Center for The Study of Religion and Democracy ...