Ideology

Ideology • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 11, 2017 • 5 min read

Opinion The ruthless truth behind Vietnam’s corruption crackdown

By Calvin Godfrey • Oct 11, 2017
The anti-corruption campaigns of Vietnam’s Communist party always feel like inscrutable performance pieces – symposiums on the merits of female modesty held in strip clubs. They just don’t make sense, given the business model.  Even as the party oversaw decades of massive economic growth, it…

Ideology • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 06, 2017 • 8 min read

Indonesia The good jihadi

By Gabrielle Lipton • Oct 06, 2017
In North Sumatra, a former Indonesian radical has opened a boarding school for the children of terrorists to prevent their futures from looking like his own past

Ideology • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 27, 2017 • 11 min read

Cambodia Pay and divide

By Paul Millar • Feb 27, 2017
Islamic organisations from the Middle East are pouring money into Cambodia’s Cham Muslim communities, spreading hardline teachings and threatening to drive a wedge between the Muslim minority and their Buddhist neighbours

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 • Feb 09, 2017 • 3 min read
Indonesia

Learning to teach

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
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Feb 09, 2017

Ideology • Feb 01, 2017 • 9 min read
Buddhism

Pagoda problems

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

Ideology • Jun 20, 2016 • 10 min read
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge

The genocide question

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
By George Wright • Jun 20, 2016

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 • Feb 11, 2016

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 • Jan 22, 2016

Ideology • Jan 07, 2015 • 7 min read
Vietnam

Custody battle

Within the police force, communist ideals trump education and inflicting pain is the preferred interrogation technique, adding up to a deadly environment inside the nation’s prisons
By Laila Drake • Jan 07, 2015

Ideology • Mar 03, 2014 • 6 min read
Shan Army

Partying for Panglong

Celebrating Shan National Day at the mountaintop headquarters of the Shan State Army-South
By Daniel Otis • Mar 03, 2014

Ideology • Aug 06, 2013 • 9 min read
Buddhist extremism

The number of the beast

The anti-Muslim 969 movement is fuelling the fire of religious discontent in Myanmar
By Carlos Sardiña Galache • Aug 06, 2013