Nusantara: An International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (NIJHSS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal principally focusing on Indonesia and Southeast Asia. NIJHSS is based in Taiwan and the wider scope of the journal also includes the larger Austronesian world. NIJHSS publishes high-quality and peer-reviewed research papers in the academic disciplines of humanities and social sciences related to Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the Austronesian world. NIJHSS’s mission is to promote, advance and facilitate scholarship from both inside and outside the region of Southeast Asia by providing a combination of voices from senior academics to young potential researchers.