Edoardo Siani is an anthropologist who writes about Buddhist cosmology and power in contemporary Thailand. Based in Bangkok since 2002, he received his PhD in anthropology and sociology from SOAS, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who can submit to New Mandala? We seek contributions from academics, students, journalists, activists, professionals and anybody with expertise and interesting opinions on the politics, culture, ...

Khin Zaw Win is currently the Director of the Tampadipa Institute, working on policy advocacy and capacity building since 2006. His current engagement includes communal issues, nationalism and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...