This post appears as part of New Mandala’s ARTSEA series on art, design and architecture in Southeast Asia. In Singapore, renewal is not merely an urban strategy; it is a moral and temporal ...

On 31 March 2026, the Dutch Director-General for Culture and Media and the Indonesian Ambassador to the Netherlands signed ...

State intervention in Indonesia’s productive sectors has a case behind it, and it is not manufactured. It draws on a history ...

From September to November 2025, severe flooding inundated large parts of both rural and urban Indonesia, especially on the islands of Sumatra and Bali. This disruption affected livelihoods, damaged ...

We gathered on the annual International Day of Action for Rivers (or International Rivers Day), a global day of action to protect rivers and oppose destructive developments. Activities have been held ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto surprised many on 11 June 2025 when he mentioned in a speech at the Indo Defence Expo & Forum that according to a study purportedly published a few weeks earlier, ...

A textbook might define anarchism s a political philosophy that rejects hierarchies of domination, especially the state and capitalism. Anarchists, accordingly, advocate for horizontal forms of social ...

Floramante SJ Ponce merges various anthropological and sociological theories and methods to understand Southeast Asia’s economic, political, and sociocultural dynamics, particularly those of Laos and ...

Siraphop Phumpuengphut, known by his nickname “Khanun”, which means jackfruit in Thai, is a political prisoner currently serving a two-year sentence in the Bangkok Remand Prison. Khanun was convicted ...

As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, patterns of resource extraction and violence are intensifying globally amid skyrocketing demand for the “critical minerals”—including cobalt, lithium, ...

Open your fridge, pantry, or bathroom cabinet, and you’re likely to find a product containing carrageenan, a gelling substance derived from red seaweed. It is an essential part of modern daily life, ...