There’s a notorious stretch of road in Indonesia, by the border of North Sumatra and Aceh provinces, that passes through kilometres and kilometres of oil palm plantations. There are few people there, ...

Louis Plottel is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. His current research looks at methamphetamine consumption among young men in Aceh, Indonesia, examining the impact of labour and economic ...

Defying expectations and previous patterns, in the midterm elections held on 12 May the Filipino electorate generated neither dominance to any single political bloc nor a clear two-way split between ...