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

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 ...

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

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

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

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has welcomed the appointment of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) leader ...

Former President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s decision not to run for the chairmanship of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) means his youngest child Kaesang Pangarep will remain in the political ...

Minister Fadli Zon sparks outrage after calling 1998 riot rapes “rumors”; officials, activists push back against erasing victims’ voices.

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 ...