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20 years ago today New Mandala published for the first time. Here, the site's current and former editors reflect on what it has achieved, and offer their thanks to those who have had a hand in bringing it to this very special milestone. newmandala.org/20-years-of-n…
NEW 🇮🇩 Two decades on, former Free Aceh Movement leaders and their children in Sweden still reject the Helsinki peace deal. Cut Maya Aprita Sari reads their quixotic advocacy through Benedict Anderson’s “long-distance nationalism”. newmandala.org/free-aceh-liv…
NEW 🇮🇩 In Indonesia, reporting on mines, plantations and Strategic National Projects now brings the same risks activists face. Birgit Bräuchler on how environmental journalists became environmental defenders: newmandala.org/when-environm…
NEW 🇻🇳 With Vietnam’s labour press shut down and Saudi labour reforms existing mostly on paper, Vietnamese domestic workers and their families are turning to social media to find help and seek justice, though to little practical effect. newmandala.org/online-mutual…
NEW at ARTSEA: Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier on Colin Grafton's photos of wartime Phnom Penh: street vendors, dancers, students, and the everyday life of a country falling to pieces amid the 1970–75 civil war. newmandala.org/before-year-z…
NEW in ARTSEA: Reviewing Roger Nelson's new book, Brian Curtin finds Southeast Asian artists like Thao Nguyen Phan, Ho Tzu Nyen and Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook doing the work of art historians, and turning decolonisation into a creative act. newmandala.org/artists-write…
NEW 📚: Indonesia's new Agrarian Reform Law expands land rights on paper. Can it overcome the elite collusion that renders them ineffective? Annisa Sabrina Hartoto on the analysis of palm oil, land grabs and postcolonial citizenship in Rightless Resistance newmandala.org/rightlessness…
NEW via @acadsingapore: Is an elite school a microcosm of Singapore's meritocracy? Drawing on his work at Raffles Institution, Luke Lu listens to top students talk mobility, scholarships and belonging, and what success means to them. newmandala.org/a-microcosm-o…
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NEW 🇸🇬 Sold-out Teochew screenings of "Dear You" reveal deep attachments to dialects that decades of state policy have pushed out of everyday life. New rules for dialect media respect that sentiment while keeping faith with LKY's Speak Mandarin Campaign. newmandala.org/watch-teochew…
NEW 🇸🇬 Sold-out Teochew screenings of "Dear You" reveal deep attachments to dialects that decades of state policy have pushed out of everyday life. New rules for dialect media respect that sentiment while keeping faith with LKY's Speak Mandarin Campaign. newmandala.org/watch-teochew…
NEW 🇵🇭 “The Bangsamoro’s Unfinished Peace” newmandala.org/the-bangsamor…
NEW 🇵🇭 A recent public debate hinted that the BARMM electoral system design may be having its intended effect in encouraging competition based on parties rather than personalities. But whether this can survive the realities of governing is another question newmandala.org/bangsamoro-is…
NEW 🇮🇩🇲🇾🇸🇬 Engku Puteri Raja Hamidah and Khatijah Sidek's lives show how precolonial Malay political lives—especially women's—fit awkwardly into national histories written from the perspectives of the postcolonial states lying across older political units. newmandala.org/herstory-betw…
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NEW 🇮🇩 Travelling through rural Java and Sulawesi, Jeff Neilson finds Prabowo’s signature "Red and White" village cooperatives program struggling to justify its own existence in the eyes of the communities it’s supposed to support. newmandala.org/murni-top-dow…
NEW 🇮🇩 Travelling through rural Java and Sulawesi, Jeff Neilson finds Prabowo’s signature "Red and White" village cooperatives program struggling to justify its own existence in the eyes of the communities it’s supposed to support. newmandala.org/murni-top-dow…
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NEW 🇲🇾 Meredith Weiss reviews Ngu Ik Tien's new history of ethnic Chinese politics in Sarawak, highlighting how the co-evolution of natural resource industries and social institutions under colonialism help us understand the shape of the state's politics. newmandala.org/timber-tycoon…
NEW 🇲🇾 Meredith Weiss reviews Ngu Ik Tien's new history of ethnic Chinese politics in Sarawak, highlighting how the co-evolution of natural resource industries and social institutions under colonialism help us understand the shape of the state's politics. newmandala.org/timber-tycoon…
NEW 🇦🇺🇮🇩 "Asia literacy has been increasingly linked to economic dividends: for Australian individuals and the Australian nation...this broader context helps to highlight just how unique the conceptualisation of ACICIS was in Australia in the early 1990s" newmandala.org/acicis-place-…
NEW 🇦🇺🇮🇩 "With the decline of Indonesian language education in our schools, and of Indonesian studies in our universities, the structural foundation that ACICIS was built to complement has weakened dramatically." newmandala.org/acicis-from-t…
NEW 🇻🇳 After 51 years in print, Vietnam's Người Lao động newspaper has closed—a casualty of state media recentralisation and the party-state's determination to assert political control as it pursues a new phase of private sector-led growth. newmandala.org/the-end-of-an…
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@DrAlexArifianto and I ask: how did NU’s religious diplomacy backfired against its leaders? In this new piece, we explore the origins of NU’s Humanitarian Islam and how it attracted questionable foreign partners. Happy reading!
NEW 🇮🇩 "Balancing the interests of a domestic constituency against the ideologies of foreign partners is the challenge the moderate Islam project has consistently failed to meet." @DrAlexArifianto @GRamadhito newmandala.org/the-backlash-…
