On 12 November 1994, a group of 29 young Timorese men gathered to protest outside the US embassy in Jakarta. They were there to make sure the world did not forget what happened at the Santa Cruz ...

For Timor-Leste, the 20th century was a century of repeated mass violence. While the Manufahi Rebellion of 1911–1912 is celebrated by East Timorese as the last great uprising against Portuguese rule, ...

On 25 October 2004, during the holy month of Ramadan, more than 2,000 Malay Muslim protesters gathered outside the Tak Bai police station in Thailand’s Narathiwat Province to demand the release of six ...

One of the legacies Joko Widodo leaves Indonesia is a dramatically changed relationship between government and civil society. For the first decade and a half of the post-Suharto period, pro-democracy ...

Edward Aspinall is Professor at the ANU’s Department of Political and Social Change, where his research and teaching focus on the politics of contemporary Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia. Fauziah ...