Ideology

Ideology • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 21, 2017 • 7 min read

Thailand How tech reshapes ancient animist beliefs

By David Hutt • Feb 21, 2017
Mass urbanisation and an increasingly interconnected world are pushing animism to embrace the 21st century

Ideology • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 09, 2017 • 3 min read

Indonesia Learning to teach

By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Feb 09, 2017
Southeast Asia Globe explores the austere conditions of Pondok Pesantren Lirboyo, where 6,000 male pupils ages five to 40 study to become religious teachers

Ideology • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 01, 2017 • 9 min read

Buddhism Pagoda problems

By Euan Black • Feb 01, 2017
As Cambodia modernises and sex and drug scandals rock the monkhood, the famed saffron robes no longer command the respect they once did

Ideology • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 20, 2016 • 10 min read

Cambodia's Khmer Rouge The genocide question

By George Wright • Jun 20, 2016
The Khmer Rouge, responsible for the deaths of millions of Cambodians in the 1970s, has long been synonymous with the "crime of all crimes". Yet some are questioning whether Pol Pot’s regime is guilty of genocide in all its cruel persecutions

Ideology • Feb 11, 2016 • 12 min read
Thailand

Nationalism and the rise of Buddhist extremism

As a campaign to make Buddhism the state religion of Thailand ramps up, concerns about radicalism have come to the fore, along with concern over how this renewed religiosity could be used in an already divided country
By David Hutt

Ideology • Jan 22, 2016 • 9 min read
Military bootcamp

Thailand’s humiliating hazing rituals

At universities and colleges across Thailand a dangerous tradition of hazing through initiation rites is leaving students exposed to injuries and damaging democratic values
By David Hutt