The RH Bill Story: Contentions and Compromise
Thank you very much to everybody for coming here. Thank you very much to Lia Sciortino and SEA Junction for organizing this forum.
BKKY: Youth Sexuality Without Labels in Bangkok
“It’s having sex, not making love, so we’re afraid that’s it’s temporary” this sentence
Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Gender in Contemporary Indonesia
There has been a great transformation in the post-authoritarian era of Indonesian political life. Since the fall of Soeharto’s presidency in 1998
Strengthening Survivors, Moving Towards Accountability in Asia
Blog about panel discussion held at SEA Junction on 11 September 2018 by AJAR
What If Street Food Disappears?
Bangkok is famously known among tourists for its street food. Yet in an attempt to clear some tourist-congested areas
Wielding the Purse Strings of Southeast Asian Civil Society
As democracy experiences a global decline, and Southeast Asia oscillates between authoritarian endurance and democratic rollback, civil society in the region is facing a bleak future.
Developed and Displaced in Southeast Asia
Families moved to distant, poorly equipped resettlement areas to make way for railways in the Philippines. Villagers still dealing with the loss of access to livelihood resources decades after dam construction in Thailand.
For Urban Asylum Seekers, Uncertainty is the Certainty
Waiting, perhaps for something, perhaps for nothing much, perhaps tomorrow, or perhaps never. Being in a permanent state of uncertainty may well be what life is for many urban asylum seekers in Bangkok and other cities in Southeast Asia.
Looking for ‘Asean way’ in Rohingya crisis
Article by Johanna Son originally published in The Bangkok Post on 26 March 2018 In Asean’s search for a role in the maze that is the political and humanitarian disaster unfolding from Myanmar’s Rakhine crisis, it is finding that some paths are closed off, a few remain passable despite barriers — and others are clear…
Scapegoating the “Other” in Southeast Asia
There is much talk in Southeast Asia about the rise of authoritarianism and the retrenchment of democracyhere intended not only as an electoral system, but most importantly as a governance structure that trusts in the impartial rule of law, encourages stakeholders’ participation in decision-making, respects alternative views and provides protection for minority interests.
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