Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia Issue 41
September 1, 2025
https://kyotoreview.org/

Special feature “History with Documents: New Research on the Indonesian Left,” edited by Thiti Jamkajornkeiat, Assistant Professor at Victoria University, includes five articles. Full texts are available on our website in eight languages: English, Thai, Indonesian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Burmese, Japanese, and, new this issue, Khmer. We also include five book reviews, as well as the monthly column “Trendsetters,” in English.

Contents

Special Issue “History with Documents: New Research on the Indonesian Left”
Guest Editor: Thiti Jamkajornkeiat

Reclaiming the City: Revisiting the Urban Politics of the Indonesian Left
Andi Achdian

When Women Lead: ‘Perempoean Kromo’ in the Red Movement
Rianne Subijanto

Between Sartre and Suharto: The Misadventures of Existentialism in Indonesia
Windu Jusuf

Conjunctures of Turbulence: Reflections on the 15th January Incident (Malari)
Sylvia Tiwon

Fighting Back and Building Strength: Reflecting on Indonesia’s Labor Movement
Intan Suwandi

Book Reviews

Ricardo Roque and Warwick Anderson (eds.). Imagined Racial Laboratories: Colonial and National Racialisations in Southeast Asia. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
Mesrob Vartavarian

Yves Goudineau and Vanina Bouté (eds.). From Tribalism to Nationalism: The Anthropological Turn in Laos — A Tribute to Grant Evans. NIAS Press, 2022.
Simon Rowedder

Sarah Turner, Annuska Derks, and Jean-François Rousseau (eds.). Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2022.
Liam C. Kelly

Helen Ting M. H. and Donald L. Horowitz (eds.). Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia. NIAS Press, 2023.
Hai Hong Nguyen

Seb Rumsby. Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023.
Kirsten W. Endres

Trendsetters

Exploring the Role of Contextual Evidence in Understanding the Myanmar-Yunnan (China) Birder from a Microeconomic Perspective
Yalei Zhai