Between early 2003 and January 2025, 26 boats with about 3,342 Rohingya people fleeing either from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh or from Rakhine, Myanmar, arrived in Indonesia, mainly in provinces of Aceh ...

Dr Nicholas Farrelly is the co-founder of New Mandala. A graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Oxford, over the past 20 years he has undertaken research in Thailand, ...

This post is an adapted version of an article that appears in a special edition of the Journal of Contemporary Asia on “Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar” (Vol 54 No 5). Before the 2021 military ...

Amelie Katczynski is a PhD candidate at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, conducting anthropological research on the training of public health workers in Lao PDR.

I arrive at the office of Ajan Mala, a teacher at a Public Health School in southern Laos. We grab brooms, buckets, sponges and floor cleaner and she walks ahead of me towards the student dorm. As we ...

Indonesian Borneo has long been known for its gold mineral wealth—and its gold rushes. As Nancy Peluso has previously explored at New Mandala, not all of this gold mining occurs through large ...

Caitlin Hughes is a PhD Candidate in Art History and Curatorship at the University of Melbourne. She is interested in ideas of exchange and conversation in Australia-Southeast Asia art histories.

Christopher Choong Weng Wai is Deputy Director of Research at Khazanah Research Institute in Malaysia, and a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the International Inequalities ...

Franz Santos teaches History at the Ateneo de Manila University and Social Sciences at the Ateneo de Manila Senior High School. He is also a teacher-trainer for the Ateneo Center for Educational ...

Who can submit to New Mandala? We seek contributions from academics, students, journalists, activists, professionals and anybody with expertise and interesting opinions on the politics, culture, ...

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 ...

Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of sociopolitical ...