Upcoming Events
Policing the Poor in the World's Cities: Perspectives from the Philippines and Latin America
CMS Seminar: “Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance”
FX Harsono: NAMA
Indigenous Rights Defenders Under Attack: Challenges and Responses
Stunted Development, Labor Politics and Low-Value Added GPNs
The Fall of Saigon: Vietnamese People: Then and Now
Herstories and Healing: A Khmer Culinary and Literary Workshop
Last Night I Saw You Smiling - Yub Menh Bong Keunh Oun Nho Nhim
Trump’s Indo-Pacific Strategy & the ASEAN and Chinese Responses
Job Vacancy: Instructor for Junior Resident Fellows Program in Cambodia
Call for Papers: NYU Shanghai Global Asia Interdisciplinary Workshop on Port Cities in the Indian Ocean
Democracy at Risk in Indonesia: What the 2019 Elections Mean for the World’s Third-Largest Democracy
Call for Papers: Islam and Capitalism in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia
Call for Papers: Monash Herb Feith Centre Conference 2019: ‘Chinese Indonesians: Identities and Histories'
Call for Applications: AICEF Overseas Research Grant
Call for Applications: AIFIS/CAORC Grants For American Scholars
Call for Proposals: NYSEAN Partners Fund
Disinformation and Elections In East And Southeast Asia: Digital Futures And Fragile Democracies
New & Noteworthy
Margaret Scott's "Indonesia's New Islamist Politics" on Fareed Zakaria GPS
Fareed Zakaria GPS, the weekly international news program on CNN, featured a segment on Indonesia based on an article in The New York Review of Books by Margaret Scott, who is one of the founders of the New York Southeast Asia Network.
Scott's "Indonesia's New Islamist Politics" is available here.
OZYHow This Trans Politico Is Changing Indonesia From The Inside
How This Trans Politico Is Changing Indonesia From The Inside
Kety Haji Jalla serves her community as an educator, imparting life and job skills where a large portion of the economy is powered by low-paying agricultural work. A former politician from incumbent president Joko Widodo’s Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), she is supporting like-minded office seekers across eastern Indonesia as a respected matriarch. But since she is a transgender woman, Indonesia as a whole is debating her place in society as intolerant rhetoric and targeted violence is on the rise ahead of this week’s contentious elections.
Prachataiรายงานสัมมนา Thailand Update 2019 ถกผลเลือกตั้งกับระเบียบทางการเมืองใหม่
Thailand Update Conference 2019 Featured on Prachatai Website
This report is in Thai.
Disinformation Crisis and Southeast Asian Elections: Behind the Scenes of Fake News Production and Fact-Check Interventions
This talk explores the everyday digital labor of fake news production and the fact-check interventions that attempt to combat the disinformation crisis particularly in Southeast Asia.
The State of Human Rights in Southeast Asia: Q&A
Experts from Human Rights Watch and the Yale Law School answers questions from the audience as they give their assessments of the current state of human rights in the region.
The State of Human Rights in Southeast Asia: Regional Trends
Phil Robertson, Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division, gives a regional overview of the human rights situation in Southeast Asia.
The State of Human Rights in Southeast Asia: Indonesia
Andreas Harsono, Indonesia Researcher at Human Rights Watch, discusses the current human rights situation in Indonesia.
The State of Human Rights in Southeast Asia: Myanmar
Katherine Munyan, researcher at the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale University, discusses the current human rights situation in Myanmar.
The State of Human Rights in Southeast Asia: The Philippines
Carlos Conde, the Philippines researcher at Human Rights Watch, discusses the current human rights situation in the Philippines.
Islam, Identity and Populism in Indonesia
Andreas Harsono, Researcher at Human Rights Watch, discusses the role of Islam, identity, and populism in the 2019 presidential campaign season in Indonesia. This discussion will also preview his upcoming book, “Race, Islam, and Power: Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia.”
Fortify Rights"Sold like fish": Crimes against humanity, mass graves, and human trafficking from Myanmar and Bangladesh to Malaysia from 2012 to 2015
“Sold Like Fish”: Crimes Against Humanity, Mass Graves, and Human Trafficking from Myanmar and Bangladesh to Malaysia
The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) and Fortify Rights find reasonable grounds to believe that a human-trafficking syndicate committed crimes against humanity in Malaysia and Thailand against Rohingya men, women, and children from 2012 to 2015.
The FRONTLINE DispatchBlood and Power in the Philippines
Blood and Power in the Philippines
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte makes his own rules. His war on drugs has led to the deaths of thousands of alleged drug users and dealers. His violent rhetoric and rape jokes have shocked people around the world. Yet he’s hugely popular. Reporter Aurora Almendral delves into what made him the leader he is today. Her investigation starts in his hometown in the Philippines. The FRONTLINE Dispatch reports.
Columbia Journalism ReviewHow one election meant sweeping press freedoms in Malaysia
How one election meant sweeping press freedoms in Malaysia
Before 2018, journalism in Malaysia was a risky profession. But last year an election abruptly shifted the atmosphere, and brought unexpected freedoms, especially for the media. Nithin Coca writes for Columbia Journalism Review.
Lost World
A young Cambodian islander, Phalla Vy, has dedicated herself to monitoring and speaking out against the sand dredging. Kalyanee Mam’s exquisite short documentary, Lost World, co-produced by Emergence Magazine and Go Project Films, evokes the pain of losing one’s land—and way of life—through Vy’s eyes.
Council on Foreign RelationsThailand’s Election: What to Know
Thailand’s Election: What to Know
Thailand will go through the motions of free elections in March, but the likely result will be entrenched authoritarian rule and further instability. Joshua Kurlantzick writes for the Council on Foreign Relations.
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.
