Observers in the West have largely interpreted the devastating violence that has engulfed Myanmar following the February 2021 military coup as a “battle between democracy and authoritarianism”. This ...

On 17 August 2024, Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, travelled to the still-under-construction new capital, Nusantara, to celebrate Independence Day. The presence of both the president and his ...

The motivations behind these reforms—the renewed emphasis on language learning, a desire to see more Australian students up in the Indo-Pacific for longer duration experiences, and a rebalancing of ...

On 28 July 2024 Muhammadiyah, Indonesia’s second largest Islamic organisation, officially announced that it would accept an offer of mining concessions from President Joko Widodo’s government. This ...

Ask anyone from Myanmar where they were and what they thought when they learnt of the 1 February 2021 military coup and it is likely they can recall in detail. As word of the takeover spread, it broke ...

Liam Prince is the Director of the Australian Consortium for ‘In-Country’ Indonesian Studies (ACICIS) based at The University of Western Australia.

Lezhi Wang is a PhD candidate at the Department of History, National University of Singapore. He is currently writing a dissertation on the intellectual and ecological history of Indonesian Borneo ...