Corruption The role of money in Southeast Asian politics August 1, 2019 0 Written by Andreas Ufen. Image Credit: Jokowi by Eduardo M.C./Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Parties and candidates in many Southeast Asian countries need enormous amounts of…
Civil Society The Islamist threat and democratic deconsolidation in Indonesia May 9, 2019 0 Written by Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir. Indonesia has witnessed a rise in Islamic conservatism over the last three decades. This is reflected not only in the…
Civil society Indonesian society and Islam: Identity politics and the making of a majority May 6, 2019 1 Written by Kikue Hamayotsu. Muslim demands and movements calling for the elevation of sharia within the state legal structure, along with numerous mass mobilisations targeting…
Activism Are social media destroying democracy in Southeast Asia? March 14, 2019 0 Written by Ross Tapsell. Recent literature has argued that social media use encourages authoritarianism. Ronald J. Deibert’s January 2019 article in Journal of Democracy argues…
Uncategorized Southeast Asia’s Democratic Regression is Getting Worse October 3, 2017 1 Written by Joshua Kurlantzick. Over the past five years, as I have documented in a number of books, articles, and policy papers, Southeast Asia, once…
Islam What Explains Rising Islamism in Indonesia? August 1, 2017 2 Written by Alexander R Arifianto. The Defending Islam protests, organized by Islamist groups such as the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), recently led to former Jakarta…
ASEAN Indonesia, the Philippines, Migrant Workers, and Drugs June 30, 2017 0 Written by Linda Quayle. Indonesia and the Philippines share much more than a convoluted archipelagic geography. In the context of the community-building plans put forward…
