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Di sản Chiến tranh Lạnh ở Malaysia

Chiến tranh Lạnh đã để lại một dấu ấn kịch tính vào nền chính trị và xã hội Malaysia. Chiến tranh Khẩn cấp (Emergency) chống cộng năm 1948-1960 đã chứng minh quãng thời gian mà […]

Ang mga Pamana ng Cold War sa Malaysia

Nag-iwan ng dramatikong marka ang Cold War sa pulitika at lipunan ng Malaysia. Ipinakita ng anti-komunistang Emergency noong 1948–60 kung gaano kahanda ang una’y mga mananakop na Briton, kasunod ay mga lokal na elit, na […]

Crime Trends and Patterns in Malaysia

This article provides a brief overview of the crime trends and patterns in Malaysia with an emphasis on the states of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor between the years 2010-2017. The purpose of this paper is […]

Moderate-radical Coalition in the Name of Islam: Conservative Islamism in Indonesia and Malaysia

The rising trend of religious conservatism and intolerance across Southeast Asia has attracted extensive media and scholarly attention since the late 2000s. In the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, massive street demonstrations involving as many as […]

Modalities of Salafi Transnationalism in Southeast Asia

Policy papers and journalistic accounts often consider Salafism in Southeast Asia as the standard bearers of extremism and the Trojan horses of Saudi “imperialism”. They often give the impression that Salafi groups only exist in […]

Constitutionalizing and Politicizing Religion in Contemporary Malaysia

In 2016, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) opposition party leader introduced a bill seeking to expand the power of the Syariah courts in Malaysia to impose more severe penalties. The proposals attracted strenuous objections from […]

The Malaysian Ethnic Politics and the Ghost of Communism Past

Title: Absent Without Leave, Director: Lau Kek Huat Hummingbird Productions, 2016 In February 2017, a documentary film titled Absent Without Leave that featured former members of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) as its main subject, was […]

Gender, Sexuality and ‘Songsang’: Freedom of Expression for LGBT Malaysians?

“As a democratic country, we have the right to voice things out.” Azmi Sharom, 2014. During one of my lectures at Monash University Malaysia, my Malaysian and non-Malaysian students and I looked at challenges in […]

Political Economy of Affordable Housing in Malaysia

The fourteenth Malaysian General Election is scheduled to be called on or before 24 August 2018. The election campaigns from both the ruling and opposition parties have virtually started. The clear election agendas so far […]

Reluctant Islamists: Rules and Incentives in the Malay World

Something is brewing in the state of Nusantara. Primarily centred in Malaysia and Indonesia, the Malay world often swings between moderation and fundamentalism, with a fierce contest of the interpretation of legalistic Islam. But it […]

REVIEW— Mata Hati Kita, The Eyes of Our Hearts

Mata Hati Kita, The Eyes of Our HeartsCompiled by: Angela M. Kuga Thas and Jac SM Kee Petaling Jaya: Gerakbudaya Enterprise, 2016, 142 pages The recent widespread impression that religion, especially Islam, is to blame […]

Film Review: Kuala Lumpur SDN. BHD.

Kuala Lumpur Sdn. Bhd.Director: Andrew Ng Yew Han Kuala Lumpur Sdn. Bhd., a documentary film by indie filmmaker, Andrew Han, premiered in October 2015 as part of the annual KL Eco Film Festival, now in […]

Uncertainties for Malaysia’s Opposition after Nik Aziz’s death

On Friday 13th January 2015, thousands gathered at the Pulau Melaka Mosque to pay their last respects for Tok Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat. The Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) spiritual leader, who was also Kelantan […]

Mobilizing around Inequality in Malaysia and Singapore

Survey data and pundits alike located the root of pivotal opposition gains in the most recent elections in Singapore (2011) and Malaysia (2013) in economics—specifically, rising costs of living, fear of declining opportunities, and awareness […]

Masa depan kerajaan Malaysia: Perjuangan untuk legitimasi

Masa depan kerajaan Malaysia: Perjuangan untuk legitimasi
Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia. Issue 13 (March 2013). Monarchies in Southeast Asia […]

The Monarchy in Malaysia: Struggling for Legitimacy

The Monarchy in Malaysia: Struggling for Legitimacy Lately, there has been a resurgence of scholarly interest in the political role of the monarchy in Malaysia, as manifested by the publications of recent studies by Kobkua […]

Review: An Uncommon Hero. M.K. Rajakumarin Politics and Medicine

An Uncommon Hero: M.K. Rajakumarin Politics and Medicine Tan Pek Leng (editor). Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, 2011, pp. 451. The use of repressive laws to suppress contenders for power in Malaya/Malaysia and Singapore […]

Singing Islamic Modernity: Recreating Nasyid in Malaysia

Since the opposition Party Islam Se Malaysia (PAS, Islamic Party of Malaysia) took over the state government in Kelantan in 1990, it has deemed as un-Islamic and banned public performances of traditional theater such […]

A Choice to Review: Encountering Krishen Jit in Talking Drama with Utih

So it goes, our theatre, from one new thing to another. What else is ahead of us? It is difficult to say, since our playwrights, once freed of many of the rules that existed […]

Book Review: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Sarawak 1940-1990

The Rise and Fall of Communism in Sarawak 1940-1990V.L. PorrittMelbourne / Monash Asia Institute / 2004 As recent as two years ago, communism was a dirty word in Malaysia’s political vocabulary. All changed with the […]

Vigilantes and Gangsters in the Borderland of West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Persons who find it politic to hurriedly shift from one side of the border to the other can hardly be considered as valuable citizens of either State. Borderlands have long been the sites of violence, […]

Re-Opening the Debate on Malaysian Elections

The following essays are based on the analyses and findings of the IKMAS Electoral System Research Project (Phase I) and the Phase II survey of “Voters’s Perceptions on National Issues, Economic Optimism, Education Corruption and […]

Francis Loh Kok Wah on Malaysia

Thank you Mr. Chairman, Acharn Giles. Friends, I have always been studying the people on the sides rather than the leaders. I started studying the coolies in the tin mines, and then I started looking […]

Book Review: Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Comparing Indonesia and Malaysia

Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Comparing Indonesia and MalaysiaAriel Heryanto and Sumit K. Mandal, editorsLondon and New York / RoutledgeCurzon / 2003 To reach the true value of this book, the reader might skim the […]

Mapping the Terrain: Politics and Cultures of Islamization of Knowledge in Malaysia

Georg StauthPolitics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia in the Nineteen-ninetiesBielefeld / Transcript Verlag / 2002 Mona AbazaDebates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt: Shifting WorldsLondon / Routledge […]

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