This issue opens with Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan’s article ‘How to read a chronicle: the Pararaton as a conglomerate text’, winner of Indonesia and the Malay World’s Young Scholars Prize 2019. The article takes an innovative approach to understanding a key Javanese chronicle which has already received considerable scholarly attention. The methodology proposes new ways of thinking about chronicles and histories from the region more generally. As such, the article is in the best tradition of Indonesia and the Malay World, taking a fresh and dynamic approach to textual sources. We received more than 30 entries for the 2019 edition of the prize, and several other excellent articles will be published in upcoming issues of Indonesia and the Malay World. The overall quality of the articles submitted, across the range of disciplines within the journal’s remit, is evidence of the academic calibre of a new generation of scholars engaging with the region. I am grateful to our reviewers and members of the Editorial Board who were engaged in reading and evaluating the articles. Details for the next round of this biennial competition will be announced shortly.

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本期以 Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan 的文章“如何阅读编年史：作为综合文本的 Pararaton”开始，该文章是 2019 年印度尼西亚和马来世界青年学者奖的获得者。该文章采用创新的方法来理解一部重要的爪哇编年史。受到了学术界的广泛关注。该方法论提出了更广泛地思考该地区编年史和历史的新方法。因此，这篇文章继承了印度尼西亚和马来世界的最佳传统，对文本来源采取了新鲜和动态的方法。我们收到了 2019 年版奖项的 30 多篇参赛作品，其他几篇优秀文章将在即将出版的印度尼西亚和马来世界杂志上发表。提交的文章的整体质量，跨越期刊范围内的学科范围，是与该地区交往的新一代学者的学术水平的证据。我感谢我们的审稿人和编辑委员会成员参与阅读和评估文章。本次两年一度的下一轮比赛的详细信息将很快公布。