Indonesia’s Sound Horeg Economy: Freedom of Expression Versus Public Health and Order
A'an Suryana
How do you solve a problem like loud music?

A'an Suryana
How do you solve a problem like loud music?
Kornphanat Tungkeunkunt
The export of Chinese pop fiction has found ready markets in Southeast Asia such as Thailand. But some undesirable genres pose a dilemma for China’s soft power.
Kornphanat Tungkeunkunt
Chinese companies are producing C-Pop content outside China in a bid to circumvent controls at home.
Max Lane
Art has power to inspire activism and challenge political taboos. In Indonesia, a recent exhibition highlighted this dynamic.
Nguyen Thanh Giang
To truly win the hearts of its youthful population, Vietnam should properly invest in war movies instead of exploiting the short-lived online popularity of a domestic war romance film for propaganda purposes.
Taufiq Hanafi
Mr Hanafi is responding to Max Lane’s Fulcrum, published on 18 March 2024, on the success of “Eksil”, the documentary about ten exiled Indonesians discussing Suharto’s purge of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and the ensuing violence in the mid-1960s.
Max Lane
A popular documentary about ten exiles has had an extraordinary run in Indonesia, not least because it sings a different tune from the official historical narrative about the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and its supporters, perpetuated since the Suharto era.