Upcoming Events
The Cleaners, A film by Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block
Call for Papers: The 3rd SEAMEO SPAFA International Conference on Southeast Asian Archaeology
Vietnam & China in the Longue Durée
Public-Private Partnerships In Real Estate: Singapore's Model For Success In Urban Development
Megaprojects and National Development Models in Timor-Leste
Call for Applications: SEARC's Leadership & Advocacy Training 2019
Junior Resident Fellows Program in Siem Reap, Cambodia
PhD Scholarship, Southeast Asian Politics, Griffith University
Call for Papers: The 7th International Symposium of Journal Antropologi Indonesia
Opportunity: CKS Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship 2019
Disinformation Crisis and Southeast Asian Elections: Behind the Scenes of Fake News Production and Fact-Check Interventions
Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam: Challenges in the 21st Century
Conformities and Interruptions in Southeast Asia - Cornell Southeast Asia Program's 21st Graduate Student Conference
Call for Submissions: The Stilt House Zine, Genealogy Stories
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network: A Discussion Among Writers
Thailand Update 2019: Making Sense of the Elections
Art in Contested Political and Cultural Terrains, Asia
Call for Proposals: Of Peninsula and Archipelago, The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia
Call for Submissions: 2019 Conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies
Infrastructure as Asset or Public Good: Who Gives a Dam? Financing Development and Development Finance Along the Mekong and Ayeyarwaddy
Job Vacancy: Instructor for Junior Resident Fellows Program in Cambodia
New & Noteworthy
JASSBetween a Rock and a Hard Place: Women, Power, and Change in Southeast Asia
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Women, Power, and Change in Southeast Asia
A vital part of this report about the current context in Southeast Asia involves showing the ways that ordinary people, activists, human rights defenders, and social movements are organizing to protect their communities from destruction and injustice, even in extremely precarious and dangerous situations. Some of the most vocal and active participants in progressive movements for change and transformation are women from the most affected communities in the region.
The Interpreter Letter from Dili: languid days, broken barracks, and a surprise
Letter from Dili: languid days, broken barracks, and a surprise
There has always been something of a ghost-like quality to languorous Dili, capital of Timor-Leste with its Portuguese-era buildings and statues from Indonesian times still standing.
Nowadays, it feels that there are new ghosts in the city: imprints of a once prominent international presence slipping from perceptible view. Between 1999-2012, the country was home to military peacekeepers, police from more than 50 nations, a legion of non-governmental organisations, an alphabet soup of programs, and enough characters to fill a shelf of Graham Greene novels.
National Public RadioAn Island Crusader Takes On The Big Brands Behind Plastic Waste
An Island Crusader Takes On The Big Brands Behind Plastic Waste
Plastic is to our time what wood was for millennia. But unlike wood, most plastic doesn't go away. It ends up as trash in streets, rivers, lakes and oceans. It breaks down into microplastic — particles a tenth of an inch or smaller — and gets into our food and water. The health effects are largely unknown.
What's the alternative? Is it feasible to persuade the wealthiest, most profitable corporations in the world to completely change the way they make plastic and package consumer goods?
The AtlanticCambodian Deportees Return to a 'Home' They've Never Known
Cambodian Deportees Return to a 'Home' They've Never Known
America is deporting Cambodian refugees convicted of crimes. Did the U.S. have a responsibility to help them when they first arrived as refugees? Charles Dunst writes for The Atlantic.
Council on Foreign RelationsSoutheast Asia Recap 2018: Democracy Continues to Suffer
Southeast Asia Recap 2018: Democracy Continues to Suffer
Council on Foreign Relation's Joshua Kurlantzick writes that democracy continued to suffer in Southeast Asia in 2018.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Philippine Politics Under Duterte: A Midterm Assessment
Philippine Politics Under Duterte: A Midterm Assessment
More than two years into Rodrigo Duterte's presidency, the record is mixed with change, continuity, and regression. This should prompt more robust U.S. support for democracy in the Philippines. David G. Timberman writes for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Council on Foreign RelationsCan Hun Sen Pass Power to His Children?
Can Hun Sen Pass Power to His Children?
Cambodia became a one-party state in late July, with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) taking 125 of the available 125 National Assembly seats in an election devoid of legitimate opposition, as the CPP-controlled Supreme Court had dissolved the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), the main opposition, in November 2017.
Dark LensDark Lens / Lente ng Karimlan: The Filipino Camera in Duterte’s Republic
Dark Lens / Lente ng Karimlan: The Filipino Camera in Duterte’s Republic
As an act of remembering the dead and this era of extrajudicial killings, killings that President Duterte refers to as “his only crime,” we turn to the camera as a way of capturing Filipino life under this regime. #DarkLensProject #LenteNgKarimlan is a digital art project, an online exhibition of Filipino photographs on the work of death.
Putting Rohingya Voices Back into the Rohingya Crisis
In the wake of the ethnic cleansing of more than 700,000 Rohingya from Myanmar, various debates have erupted: What do the Rohingya want (their own state, a safe return to Burma, relocation)? And who are they (an indigenous ethnic group, “Bengali" interlopers masquerading as Burmese autochthons, a religious minority)? Based on on-going research in refugee camps in Cox Bazaar and with members of the Rohingya diaspora, Dr.
Our Land is the Sea
As plant and animal diversity rapidly disappear, human cultures—and the long-cultivated knowledge they sustain—are disappearing too. Our Land is the Sea explores how these parallel trends are related through the diverse perspectives of members of a Bajau community grappling with coral reef extinction, economic change, ethnic discrimination, and changing practices of Islam in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Read more here.
South China Morning PostWas Cambodia’s US$300 million Khmer Rouge tribunal worth it?
Was Cambodia’s US$300 million Khmer Rouge tribunal worth it?
After spending nine years and more than US$300 million to prosecute the leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million of their countrymen, a United Nations-assisted tribunal has ended up convicting only three people for the communist group’s heinous actions.
Was it worth it?
The Massacres of 1965-66 in Indonesia: The Question of Responsibility
Watch Dr. John Roosa (UBC) and Dr. Geoffrey Robinson (UCLA) answer questions from the audience regarding the massacres that took place in Indonesia between 1965 and 1966.
New MandalaWatch the 2018 ANU Indonesia Update
2018 ANU Indonesia Update
Australian National University hosted an Indonesia Update last month. Video of all the lectures is available now on New Mandala.
Indonesian Foreign Policy: From "Free and Active" to Leadership in the "Indo-Pacific"
Shafiah Muhibat, Head of the Department of International Relations at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Indonesia, talks about Indonesia's approach to its foreign policy with "Indo-Pacific" being the geopolitical buzzword. She looks at how these latest developments shape Indonesia’s current foreign policy.
The Asia FoundationASEAN: Shaping the Future of Regional Development in Southeast Asia
ASEAN: Shaping the Future of Regional Development in Southeast Asia
Recent developments in the region indicate that governments are looking for new ways to shape development cooperation on a regional basis. The Asia Foundation’s recently released report ASEAN as the Architect for Regional Development Cooperation argues that countries in the region have the interest and capacity to more directly shape regional development in Southeast Asia, but they currently lack the mechanism to do it. Thomas Parks, the Asia Foundation’s country representative in Thailand, gives his analysis on the future of development in Southeast Asia.
New MandalaJokowi’s authoritarian turn
Jokowi’s authoritarian turn
Tom Power writes about Joko Widodo's shift to authoritarianism and the implications this has for Indonesian democracy.
