Tag: Southeast Asian Studies
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KBA13 Insight Regional Update: Southeast Asia Under Pressure (Hormuz Shock, ASEAN Crisis, Myanmar, Indonesia, and the South China Sea in 2026)
Southeast Asia enters May 2026 under simultaneous strategic pressure: the Hormuz energy shock, ASEAN’s institutional fragility, Myanmar’s deepening crisis, the Philippines’ domestic political rupture, Indonesia’s multi-alignment gamble, and the unresolved confrontation in the South China Sea. This KBA13 Insight Update reads the region not as a collection of separate national crises, but as a single…
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Acehnology as an Intellectual Journey: Aceh, Islam, Southeast Asia, and the Malay World
Acehnology is more than the study of Aceh as a historical region. It is a civilizational project that gathers scattered knowledge about Aceh into a disciplined, interdisciplinary, and globally relevant field of inquiry. This essay traces an intellectual journey from Yogyakarta to Malaysia and back to Aceh, showing how Acehnese scholarship must move beyond local…