Tag: Asian Studies and History
Indonesia’s dynastic politics coincided with democratic decline
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Examine how Indonesian political dynasties systematically manipulated democratic institutions from 2014-2024 while preserving electoral legitimacy through adaptive mechanisms and constitutional.
Macassan encounters shaped Aboriginal Islamic contact in northern Australia
Explore how Macassan Muslim traders introduced Islam to Aboriginal Australians centuries before British colonisation, examining cultural syncretism and selective religious adoption among Yolŋu.
Singapore frames Latin America as a trade-friendly partner
Study examines Singapore’s free trade negotiations with Latin America as part of its hedging strategy to maintain rules-based economic order amid geopolitical uncertainty.
Myanmar case links democratization to religious nationalist mobilization
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Examination of how autocratic cooptation of majority religious clergy incentivizes religious nationalist mobilization against minorities during democratization transitions
Wartime disrupted Indonesian staple food prices and urban nutrition
Analysis of 8,600+ staple food prices across Indonesia (1945-49) shows severe wartime inflation and subsistence-level nutrition for urban laborers, reshaping understanding of conflict dynamics.
Teras Cihempelas shows the tensions of formalising street vending
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Study of Teras Cihempelas elevated walkway in Bandung, Indonesia examining design politics and impacts of integrating informal street vending into formal urban infrastructure over a decade.
Indonesia drug death penalty framed as state violence
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in LawExamination of Indonesia’s death penalty for drug offences as necropolitical state violence, arguing judicial and extrajudicial punishment operate within the same continuum.
Spiritual legitimacy shaped maternal referral decisions in the Akit community
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in AnthropologyEthnographic study exploring how spiritual legitimacy functions as symbolic infrastructure organizing maternal health decisions among the Akit Indigenous community in Indonesia, challenging.
Social media helped shape Indonesian protest agendas
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Examine how social media framing and agenda-setting shaped the August 2025 Indonesian protests, analyzing hashtags, organizational actors, and institutional responses.
Negara kesatuan is framed as rooted in folk religious sensibility
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Analysis of negara kesatuan as a unitary state concept grounded in Indonesian folk religious theology rather than Western political theory, centered on the mystical metaphor of divine-human unity.
