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 ...

Since the 2021 military coup, Myanmar’s economy has foundered. The number of tourists and other visitors has fallen dramatically. Most foreign residents have fled the ensuing civil war. Given the ...

Myra Mentari Abubakar is currently a Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media, Georg Eckert Institute, and a Research Affiliate at the International Centre for Aceh and Indian ...

On 31 March 2026, the Dutch Director-General for Culture and Media and the Indonesian Ambassador to the Netherlands signed the restitution of three objects from Amsterdam’s Wereldmuseum collections to ...

Recent years have seen the sad passing of leading lights in the study of Southeast Asia: James C. Scott in 2024, Anthony Reid in 2025, and now, most recently, Vicente—or Vince—Rafael in February 2026.