After weeks of unconfirmed rumors and government denials, President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, officially announced on March 2, 2020, the arrival of COVID-19 in Indonesia.
The Small Grants Program “Staying Resilient Amidst the Multiple Crises in Southeast Asia,” managed by SEA Junction with the support of CMB Foundation, received an overwhelming response, with a total of 209 proposals submitted.
Having a chance to meet with my son is a blessing in disguise compared to those who died during revolution. I will have to keep on living for the sake of my son.
Phyo Wai Hlaing, a 21-year-old wi-fi technician, had been missing for a week in July 2021 when his father received an anonymous phone call telling him to go to a bridge far from his neighbourhood in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon.
ชุมทางอุษาคเนย์ (SEA-Junction) ร่วมกับ องค์การนิรโทษกรรมสากล ประเทศไทย( Amnesty International Thailand), เครือข่ายสนับสนุนสันติภาพกะเหรี่ยง (Karen Peace Support Network), ALTSEAN-Burma (Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma)
As we find ourselves in the middle of June, we embrace yet another month of significance. World Refugee Day, observed annually on 20 June, calls for solidarity with refugees worldwide.
วิกฤตโควิด-19 อาจมิได้เป็นเพียงแค่ปัญหาสุขภาพ แต่ยังครอบคลุมปัญหาเชิงโครงสร้าง และกระทบสู่ปัญหาอื่นๆ ที่ยังคงฝังรากลึกจนทวีความรุนแรงเป็นวงกว้าง สร้างผลกระทบที่รุนแรงต่อกลุ่มเปราะบางและคนชายขอบ
เมื่อพูดถึงการบริจาคเพื่อการกุศลแล้ว คนไทยนับว่าไม่แพ้ใคร ส่วนหนึ่งอาจเป็นเพราะจารีตของ “การให้” ที่ฝังรากลึกอยู่ในพุทธศาสนาแบบเถรวาท
In this commentary, Ben Harkins expresses his view on how the Book “Who Cares?” highlights the existing structural inequality of Southeast Asia societies, and how the coverage of the social protections in the region is defined by ‘deservedness’ rather than ‘universality’. Leaving the marginalized groups and the informal sector workers become the most painful victims of the crisis, as always.
The education we have been receiving is designed by the military dictatorship to spawn slaves to the military itself. Its under-democratic nature and the intermingled existence of distorted “facts” and discrimination within it have pushed us to boycott this military slave education. One more reason we are boycotting it is that the military dictatorship has murdered thousands of students and teachers and then has reopened schools and universities to make the wheels of their bureaucracy turn. We will not be going to school through the very doors open by bloodstained hands.
