Asian Studies and History

Examine how Indonesian political dynasties systematically manipulated democratic institutions from 2014-2024 while preserving electoral legitimacy through adaptive mechanisms and constitutional.

Validates an Indonesian-language Doomscrolling Scale measuring compulsive social media news consumption, demonstrating strong reliability for assessing behavior in Indonesian-speaking populations.

Explore how Macassan Muslim traders introduced Islam to Aboriginal Australians centuries before British colonisation, examining cultural syncretism and selective religious adoption among Yolŋu.

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.

Examination of how autocratic cooptation of majority religious clergy incentivizes religious nationalist mobilization against minorities during democratization transitions

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.

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.

Examination of Indonesia's death penalty for drug offences as necropolitical state violence, arguing judicial and extrajudicial punishment operate within the same continuum.

Mixed-methods study reveals distinct radicalization pathways in Indonesian terrorist groups, showing how personal crises and identity fusion drive violent activism differently across organizations.

Analysis of Yogyakarta's waste crisis explores how urban centers externalize garbage to peripheral zones, revealing systemic inequality and slow violence affecting informal workers.

Study of how Indonesian village heads use government assistance to maintain power and influence elections during the country's democratic transition period.

Ethnographic study exploring how spiritual legitimacy functions as symbolic infrastructure organizing maternal health decisions among the Akit Indigenous community in Indonesia, challenging.

Examine how social media framing and agenda-setting shaped the August 2025 Indonesian protests, analyzing hashtags, organizational actors, and institutional responses.

Ecospiritual poetic monologue examining tropical rainforest commodification within capitalist ecotourism, employing Kahyangan cosmology and decolonial critique.

Examines how Indonesia's fragmented labor movement achieved electoral success in Bekasi's 2019 legislative election through cross-union cooperation despite structural divisions and institutional.

Analyzes Muslim Nesan newspaper's role in catalyzing social, educational, and religious reform among Tamil-speaking Muslims in colonial Ceylon from 1882 to 1889.

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.

Analysis of organizational crisis in West Kalimantan legal aid movement, examining how NGOization and technocratic governance undermine emancipatory praxis and advocacy autonomy.

Explore Ngaji Filsafat, a mosque-based philosophical study movement among young Muslims in Yogyakarta that challenges conventional Islamic engagement through reflective inquiry and intellectual.

Explore how Aceh's Tamiang people preserve and transform the Majapahit narrative of Patih Gajah Mada through oral tradition, challenging Javanese-centered historical accounts with locally grounded.