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Melbourne Asia Review is an initiative of the Asia Institute. Any inquiries about Melbourne Asia Review should be directed to the Managing Editor, Cathy Harper.

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Rethinking civil society in Afghanistan

  • Dr Salim Lakha,

Western donors and others have not given enough attention to strengthening local civil society actors.

Scholars in Indonesia who speak about the government “will be either co-opted or persecuted.”

  • Cathy Harper,

Is critical academia in Indonesia being undermined?

Taiwan’s first woman president: The paradox of Tsai Ing-wen

  • Professor Antonia Finnane,

Tsai is a symbol of what Taiwan has become: a flourishing democracy that has shown itself capable of electing a woman as president.

INTERVIEW: The revival of indigenous culture and language in Taiwan: An indigenous leader’s perspective

  • Akawyan Pakawyan (林清美),

‘How am I going to face our ancestors who might ask why our culture disappeared? It is a fear that my own ethnicity will cease to exist.’

Indigeneity, Localism, Sinophobia and the Politics of Apology in Taiwan, Hawai’i and Aotearoa New Zealand

  • Dr Lewis Mayo,

The similarities and contrasts of lands where Austronesian peoples have been subordinated to outsiders who have sought to localise themselves.