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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Cecile Medail is a senior research officer at ANU’s Myanmar Research Centre. Her research interests include democratisation, identity politics and social movements, with a specific focus on Myanmar ...

Keith Barney is Associate Professor at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, where his research focuses on political ecology and natural resource policy across Southeast Asia. Rini Astuti is ...

Liam Gammon is the editor of New Mandala and Research Fellow at the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research at the Australian National University (ANU), where he also sits on the editorial board of ...

Dr Amrita Malhi is a historian at Flinders and The Australian National University; and a senior policy adviser in international development. Her previous writing on Malaysian politics for New Mandala ...

Greg Doyle is a PhD student in the School of Languages and Cultures at Sydney University. His research examines how the Australian art world understands and values Indonesian contemporary art.

Hosted by the Australian National University’s Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, New Mandala provides anecdote, analysis, and new perspectives on Southeast Asia. Online since June 2006.

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 ...