A Green Future for Southeast Asia?
On 16th August 2019, 40 people concerned about the future of our world gathered at SEA Junction to attend the Panel Discussion “A Green Future for Southeast Asia?”
Information Wars in Southeast Asia
This event was inspired by Janjira Sombatpoonsiri’s article on “Fake News and Thailand’s Information Wars: How Politicizing Fake News Consolidates Thailand’s Authoritarian Rule”
The Fabric of Being: Textiles, Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Textiles are inextricably linked to our lives, essential to our survival and powerful signifiers of our existence.
Southeast Asia’s Pledge to end Statelessness Gathers Steam
A firm promise to grant citizenship to all born in a country is crucial to halt the cycle of displacement, writes Adam Bemma.
No Evidence of Any ARSA Links to ISIS: Terrorism Expert
Interview of Sidney Jones after her talk on 30 May at SEA Junction on pro-ISIS networks in Southeast Asia by Nyein Nyein and published in the Irrawaddy on 4 June 2019
ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR): Still ‘toothless’ after 10 years? Is there a way forward?
Opinion piece by Charles Hector* shared in the panel on “AICHR @10: A Better Future for Human Rights in ASEAN?” held on 30 April 2019 at SEA Junction
Indonesian voters celebrate democracy in Bangkok
Overseas voters were the first to cast their ballots, between April 7 and 14, in Indonesia’s first-ever simultaneous presidential and legislative elections, which are set for April 17.
The Unspoken Challenges of ASEAN
According to the alphabetic rules set for the annual rotation of the Chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN), Thailand will be stewarding the grouping through 2019 in between Singapore and Vietnam. One year is short for any country to leave a mark and produce significant impacts, especially when the institution in question is a regional body known to many as slow in taking action.
Excluded in Indonesia, Feeling at Home in Paris
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people often experience discrimination in Indonesia. A certain degree of tolerance is there as long as they are ‘discreet’ and do not ‘come out’ or manifest themselves in public. They remain, however, an easy scapegoat for politicians in search of popular vote and ultraconservative religious groups, with few willing to defend them.