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A forum for anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on Southeast Asia since 2006. Want to contribute? See: https://www.newmandala.org/contributing-to-nm/
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · 15d
NEW 🇮🇩 Caught between eviction and embrace, residents of Jakarta’s informal settlements are finding new ways to assert their rights and reshape their city from the ground up. Part of a series supported by @anu-asiapacific.bsky.social www.newmandala.org/insurgent-pl...
Insurgent planning versus discretionary urbanism in Jakarta - New Mandala
Jakarta’s informal settlements are finding new ways to assert their rights and reshape their city
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · 12d
NEW 🇮🇩 Indonesia’s small but active anarchist community has become the go-to bogeyman for governments seeking to justify crackdowns. The scapegoating of anarchists has meanwhile undermined the unity and political impact of anti-oligarchic protest movements. www.newmandala.org/whos-afraid-...
Who’s afraid of a little anarchy? - New Mandala
On the makings of Indonesia’s new protest scapegoat
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · 12d
NEW 🇮🇩 Indonesia’s small but active anarchist community has become the go-to bogeyman for governments seeking to justify crackdowns. The scapegoating of anarchists has meanwhile undermined the unity and political impact of anti-oligarchic protest movements. www.newmandala.org/whos-afraid-...
Who’s afraid of a little anarchy? - New Mandala
On the makings of Indonesia’s new protest scapegoat
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · 15d
NEW 🇮🇩 Caught between eviction and embrace, residents of Jakarta’s informal settlements are finding new ways to assert their rights and reshape their city from the ground up. Part of a series supported by @anu-asiapacific.bsky.social www.newmandala.org/insurgent-pl...
Insurgent planning versus discretionary urbanism in Jakarta - New Mandala
Jakarta’s informal settlements are finding new ways to assert their rights and reshape their city
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · 17d
NEW 🇮🇩 With the destruction of landmark Dutch-era buildings in August's protests, Indonesians have lost sites where they have for generations re-signified colonial remains into something simultaneously inherited and all their own, writes Noandha Dhegaska. www.newmandala.org/indonesias-h...
Indonesia’s heritage in flames - New Mandala
August’s protests destroyed beloved colonial-era buildings
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · 17d
NEW 🇮🇩 With the destruction of landmark Dutch-era buildings in August's protests, Indonesians have lost sites where they have for generations re-signified colonial remains into something simultaneously inherited and all their own, writes Noandha Dhegaska. www.newmandala.org/indonesias-h...
Indonesia’s heritage in flames - New Mandala
August’s protests destroyed beloved colonial-era buildings
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Sep 5
NEW 🇲🇲 The post-coup conflict has repeatedly confounded bold predictions of both swift regime collapse and decisive opposition victory. For now, the grinding reality points less to liberation than to a bloody stalemate, writes Andrew Selth. www.newmandala.org/myanmar-and-...
Myanmar and the perils of prediction - New Mandala
Sound analysis requires looking the conflict’s grim realities in the face
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Sep 5
NEW 🇲🇲 The post-coup conflict has repeatedly confounded bold predictions of both swift regime collapse and decisive opposition victory. For now, the grinding reality points less to liberation than to a bloody stalemate, writes Andrew Selth. www.newmandala.org/myanmar-and-...
Myanmar and the perils of prediction - New Mandala
Sound analysis requires looking the conflict’s grim realities in the face
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Ward Berenschot @wardb.bsky.social · Sep 3
Great piece by Edward Aspinall discussing the ongoing protests in Indonesia (and why they are likely to keep resurfacing).

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Mass protest and the two worlds of Indonesian politics - New Mandala
A subculture of street protest survives beyond Jokowi
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Sep 2
NEW 🇮🇩 @edwardaspinall.bsky.social on how "August’s anti-government protests highlight the growth of a subculture of street protest in Indonesia in ways that that echo the anti-Suharto activism of the 1990s" www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...
Mass protest and the two worlds of Indonesian politics - New Mandala
A subculture of opposition survives the post-Jokowi politics
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Hunter Marston @hmarston.bsky.social · Sep 2
"The recent protests can thus be understood as product of a clash between two worlds of Indonesian politics: the world of official representative politics and the subculture of youth protest that rejects it." NB @edwardaspinall.bsky.social on #Indonesia protests: www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...
Mass protest and the two worlds of Indonesian politics - New Mandala
A subculture of street protest survives beyond Jokowi
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Edward Aspinall @edwardaspinall.bsky.social · Sep 2
My take on the recent protests in Indonesia

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Mass protest and the two worlds of Indonesian politics - New Mandala
A subculture of opposition survives beyond Jokowi
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Sep 2
NEW 🇮🇩 "What [the protesters] really stand for, above all, is rejection of the entire ruling elite. And the entire ruling elite, more or less, stands united against them." @edwardaspinall.bsky.social on last week's protests and the limits of comparisons with 1998 www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...
Mass protest and the two worlds of Indonesian politics - New Mandala
A subculture of opposition survives beyond Jokowi
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Sep 2
NEW 🇮🇩 "What [the protesters] really stand for, above all, is rejection of the entire ruling elite. And the entire ruling elite, more or less, stands united against them." @edwardaspinall.bsky.social on last week's protests and the limits of comparisons with 1998 www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...
Mass protest and the two worlds of Indonesian politics - New Mandala
A subculture of opposition survives beyond Jokowi
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Sep 2
NEW 🇮🇩 @edwardaspinall.bsky.social on how "August’s anti-government protests highlight the growth of a subculture of street protest in Indonesia in ways that that echo the anti-Suharto activism of the 1990s" www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...
Mass protest and the two worlds of Indonesian politics - New Mandala
A subculture of opposition survives the post-Jokowi politics
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Aug 12
NEW 🇮🇩 "In Surabaya, the ghosts of the Dutch East Indies have not merely lingered; they have been revived through commodification in tourism...a certain narrative is quietly whispered: the colonial past was not only orderly and elegant, but perhaps even desirable" www.newmandala.org/instagrammin...
Instagramming colonialism in Surabaya - New Mandala
On what’s lost when the Dutch East Indies is recalled as a time of picturesque sophistication
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Aug 12
REVIEW: Brian Curtin reviews "Iola Lenzi’s Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970". www.newmandala.org/review-power...
Review: "Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970" - New Mandala
Iola Lenzi’s Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970 (Lund Humprhies, 2024, 240 pages) is the latest addition to a narrow but deep bibliography aiming to account ...
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Colum Graham @clmgrhm.bsky.social · Aug 12
Interesting post on @newmandala.bsky.social www.newmandala.org/instagrammin...
Instagramming colonialism in Surabaya - New Mandala
On what’s lost when the Dutch East Indies is recalled as a time of picturesque sophistication
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Aug 12
NEW 🇮🇩 "In Surabaya, the ghosts of the Dutch East Indies have not merely lingered; they have been revived through commodification in tourism...a certain narrative is quietly whispered: the colonial past was not only orderly and elegant, but perhaps even desirable" www.newmandala.org/instagrammin...
Instagramming colonialism in Surabaya - New Mandala
On what’s lost when the Dutch East Indies is recalled as a time of picturesque sophistication
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Aug 12
REVIEW: Brian Curtin reviews "Iola Lenzi’s Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970". www.newmandala.org/review-power...
Review: "Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970" - New Mandala
Iola Lenzi’s Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970 (Lund Humprhies, 2024, 240 pages) is the latest addition to a narrow but deep bibliography aiming to account ...
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Jul 18
NEW 🇮🇩🇯🇵 Right-wingers are scapegoating foreigners as part of their campaign for Japan's upper house elections, creating new anxieties for the local Indonesian community—and distracting political attention from the need for reforms to protect migrant worker rights. www.newmandala.org/japanese-fir...
“Japanese First” politics creates fears for Indonesians - New Mandala
Caught in the middle of a new politicisation of Japan’s migration program
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Jul 18
NEW 🇮🇩🇯🇵 Right-wingers are scapegoating foreigners as part of their campaign for Japan's upper house elections, creating new anxieties for the local Indonesian community—and distracting political attention from the need for reforms to protect migrant worker rights. www.newmandala.org/japanese-fir...
“Japanese First” politics creates fears for Indonesians - New Mandala
Caught in the middle of a new politicisation of Japan’s migration program
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Jul 18
NEW 🇮🇩🇯🇵 Right-wingers are scapegoating foreigners as part of their campaign for Japan's upper house elections, creating new anxieties for the local Indonesian community—and distracting political attention from the need for reforms to protect migrant worker rights. www.newmandala.org/japanese-fir...
“Japanese First” politics creates fears for Indonesians - New Mandala
Caught in the middle of a new politicisation of Japan’s migration program
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Jul 17
NEW 🇲🇾 Putrayaja is taking Malaysia’s universities down the sorry path tread by many other governments towards commercialisation—and the declining research and teaching quality that come along with that. www.newmandala.org/rescuing-mal...
Rescuing Malaysian higher education from neoliberalism - New Mandala
Failing to learn the lessons from failures abroad
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social · Jul 17
NEW 🇲🇾 Putrayaja is taking Malaysia’s universities down the sorry path tread by many other governments towards commercialisation—and the declining research and teaching quality that come along with that. www.newmandala.org/rescuing-mal...
Rescuing Malaysian higher education from neoliberalism - New Mandala
Failing to learn the lessons from failures abroad
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