A growing wave of international condemnation has poured in over the renewed effort to name late president Suharto (pic, left) as a national hero, with a coalition of global civic groups warning ...

Southeast Asia now finds itself caught in a middle-democracy trap where development sidelines democratic progress ...

The Indonesian government plans to revise the country’s official historical narrative by launching a new 10-volume series of ...

Love him, hate him — preferably the latter — but it is impossible to ignore our nation’s first Übermensch. Malaysians alive ...

While there are continued disputes about the compatibility of Islam and democracy, many Muslim-majority democracies exist.

Suharto receives legal notice to stop performing Arbovirus songs A legal notice has been issued to Suharto Sherif, guitarist of popular rock band Arbovirus.

His trips to hospital prompted predictions it might be curtains for the man who “put Malaysia on the map”. But comebacks are ...

Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto doesn’t do small. He wants economic growth to be faster than any other country and to ...

The Hawaii National Guard’s top officer was in the Philippines last week meeting with military officials in the country.

Witnesses have recalled a painful past after an Indonesian minister questioned whether mass rape occurred during 1998 riots ...

The US democracy sold as pure, moral and unprecedented is increasingly under lens.  Behind the facade of democratic virtue lies a history of conquest, slavery and imperialism; carefully constructed na ...