NEW 🇮🇩 The legacies of Jokowi’s demobilisation of Islamist civil society, combined with Prabowo’s own credibility with hardliners, have given the president extensive leeway to embrace a more even-handed approach to the Israel–Palestine conflict.

NEW 🇱🇦 The Lao state treats its public health workforce as a driver of socialist modernisation—but do those workers feel the same way? By Amelie Katczynski

NEW 🇮🇩 Too big to fail, and too big to succeed, Jokowi’s new capital city eventually came to be pushed forward by little more than the former president’s need to justify its existence, writes Anders Kirstein Moeller.

NEW 🇵🇭 The delay to the BARMM's landmark parliamentary elections set for October 2025 is the latest in a long line of mishaps and missed opportunities that undermine local confidence in Manila’s commitment to Bangsamoro autonomy.

NEW 🇵🇭 The delay to the BARMM's landmark parliamentary elections set for October 2025 is the latest in a long line of mishaps and missed opportunities that undermine local confidence in Manila’s commitment to Bangsamoro autonomy.

NEW 🇮🇩 Indonesia’s small but active anarchist community has become the go-to bogeyman for governments seeking to justify crackdowns. The scapegoating of anarchists has also undermined the unity and political impact of anti-oligarchic protest movements.

NEW 🇮🇩 Kadek Wara Urwasi's "Insurgent planning versus discretionary urbanism in Jakarta"—caught between eviction and embrace, residents of Jakarta’s informal settlements are finding new ways to assert their rights and reshape their city from the ground up

NEW 🇮🇩 With the destruction of landmark Dutch-era buildings in August's protests, Indonesians have lost sites where they have for generations re-signified colonial remains into something simultaneously inherited and all their own, writes Noandha Dhegaska.

NEW 🇮🇩 With the destruction of landmark Dutch-era buildings in August's protests, Indonesians have lost sites where they have for generations re-signified colonial remains into something simultaneously inherited and all their own, writes Noandha Dhegaska.

"Indonesia’s energy transition isn’t just about climate—it’s about health, economic opportunity, and national development", states Budy P. Resosudarmo, convenor of this years Indonesia Update conference, in his latest piece for @newmandala.

NEW 🇲🇲 The post-coup conflict has repeatedly confounded bold predictions of both swift regime collapse and decisive opposition victory. For now, the grinding reality points less to liberation than to a bloody stalemate, writes Andrew Selth.

NEW 🇮🇩 "What [the protesters] really stand for, above all, is rejection of the entire ruling elite. And the entire ruling elite, more or less, stands united against them." @EdwardAspinall on last week's protests and the limits of comparisons with 1998:

For those looking to understand protests in Indonesia , this reflective piece by Edward Aspinall is a must-read.

The protests are the clash between two worlds of Indonesian politics: the official representative politics and the subculture of youth protest. The protestors understand the world of the politicians quite well, the reverse seems not to be true https://t.co/IUNw5WAM1g

A thoughtful analysis of Indonesia's recent protests by @EdwardAspinall, informed by his decades of research on political activism, elections, and representation in Indonesia. This is a must read @newmandala 👇

NEW 🇮🇩 "What [the protesters] really stand for, above all, is rejection of the entire ruling elite. And the entire ruling elite, more or less, stands united against them." @EdwardAspinall on last week's protests and the limits of comparisons with 1998:

And this article with @KuipersNicholas shows the strong relationship between candidates' income and the probability of winning a legislative seat: https://t.co/Xk80Mccx7T

This article with @EdwardAspinall @BurhanMuhtadi and colleagues explores a desire for more working class legislators: https://t.co/8tANUX8472

NEW 🇮🇩 "In Surabaya, the ghosts of the Dutch East Indies have not merely lingered; they have been revived through commodification...a certain narrative is quietly whispered: the colonial past was not only orderly and elegant, but perhaps even desirable"

NEW 🇮🇩 "In Surabaya, the ghosts of the Dutch East Indies have not merely lingered; they have been revived through commodification...a certain narrative is quietly whispered: the colonial past was not only orderly and elegant, but perhaps even desirable"