Region | Indonesia and Southeast Asia

Map of Southeast Asia including Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Timor Leste and the Philippines.

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View our expert commentary and informed analysis on the latest developments in Southeast Asia.

Myanmar bibliographies and booklists

ANDREW SELTH  | Long-time Myanmar watcher Andrew Selth takes a look at early lists, popular titles and recommended reading on the Southeast Asian nation. Read More

Trump’s presidency and the Asia Pacific

DUNCAN MCDONNELL, STEPHEN MCCARTHY, LEONG LIEW, DIEGO FOSSATI, HUI FENG, YI WANG, KAI HE, HUIYUN FENG, DAVID SCHAK, ANDREW O’NEIL, MICHAEL HEAZLE,… Read More

How women’s silence secures the peace: analysing sexual and gender-based violence in a low-intensity conflict

SARA E DAVIES | This article examines the dynamics of conflict and peace in one case of a fragile and low-intensity conflict-affected area: Mindanao,… Read More

Myanmar, Myeik and mythmaking

ANDREW SELTH  | For most of the 20th century, the Myeik (formerly Mergui) Archipelago in Myanmar’s far south was rarely visited by foreigners. The… Read More

Indonesian language literacy: what Australia can learn from South Korea

In The Jakarta Post last month it was reported that over 1000 students in South Korea have enrolled to study the Indonesian language. It is… Read More

Lifting US sanctions: right or wrong?

Lee Morgenbesser looks at the case for and against dropping economic restrictions on Myanmar. Two weeks ago the Obama administration declared that it will drop… Read More

Journeys without maps in Myanmar

ANDREW SELTH  | More open politics and new technologies are putting much of the country back on the beaten path. When I lived… Read More

The water-energy-food nexus in the Mekong subregion: Uneven trade-offs

ANDREA HAEFNER | The Mekong River, flowing through Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, is the largest river in Southeast Asia. It… Read More

Rule of law in Cambodia – reflections from the field

Cambodia has regularly ranked very poorly on international rule of law indexes. In 2015, The World Justice Project ranked Cambodia 99th of 102 countries surveyed,… Read More

More name games in Burma/Myanmar

ANDREW SELTH  | Regular readers of The Interpreter will know that, over the past few years, this site has closely followed the Australian government’s… Read More