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Reclaiming Southeast Asian Narratives: A Timely Wake Up, Gita Wirjawan

If you type "Southeast Asia" into the search bar of a big online bookstore like Amazon, the outcomes shall be revealing. The shelves are crammed with titles on history, culture and anthropology - a lot of them written by Western authors. The region is commonly portrayed through the eyes of an outsider, portrayed as exotic, diverse and sometimes enigmatic. In...