Since the end of the Sino–Vietnamese War (part of the Third Indochina War) in 1989, the Vietnamese government has directed its attention towards development in northern border regions to strengthen ...

Nguyễn Thị Thu Huyền is an independent researcher based in Japan, with an academic background in history and anthropology. Huyền previously worked at VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities, ...

The nature of interactions between citizens and individual police officers make these officers the ultimate “street-level ...

Bavo Stevens is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science at McGill University and a Visiting Researcher at the ...

In August 2014, I helped organise a national seminar in Magelang, Central Java, that celebrated the 200 th anniversary of the supposed “discovery” of the temple of Borobudur by the then British ...

Panggah Ardiyansyah is a Research Associate at the Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield. He completed his PhD in the Department of History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS University of ...

Pierre van der Eng is Associate Professor at the Research School of Management at the Australian National University’s College of Business and Economics. His research focuses include economic and ...

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, ...

On 29 September 2025 a multi-story musala (prayer space) collapsed at Pesantren Al-Khoziny in Sidoarjo, East Java, killing at least 61 people. A similar tragedy occurred again about a month later on ...