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International Field Study (IFS) 2019 is a one-month learning program for students of the Faculty of Public Health, University of Muhammadiyah, Jakarta in Bangkok, Thailand. This program aims to provide to the students experience in another country to compare and understand the importance of contextualizing health problems and approaches to resolve them. At the same time, it provides opportunities for interaction and networking with the wider and diverse community. Students will learn from Faculty of Public Health Mahidol University, College…

The LGBTQI community in Laos could be described as “invisible”. Sexual diversity is not criminalized in the country, but it is far from being fully accepted. At the recent Luang Prabang Film Festival a short documentary was presented that aims to expand public discussion on what is like being LGBTQI in Laos and question societal attitudes towards them. “LET's LOVE”, the 30-minutes documentary that will be screened at SEA Junction at 5.30PM on 9 February 2019, tells the sentimental life…

On 24 January 2019, the UN Thematic Working Group on Migration – comprised of 16 UN agencies and chaired by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) – launched the Thailand Migration Report 2019 at the UNESCO office in Bangkok. This report detailing the situation of migrants in Thailand is the latest in a series published on a regular basis by the Working Group since 2005. This attention is warranted as Thailand is a key country of origin, transit and destination…

While there is much talk of the shrinking of civic space in Southeast Asia (and the world), public discussion rarely touches on how this also affects (and is affected by) the availability of funding for civil society organizations, in particular those that advocate for human rights. With this event on 15 February 2019, focusing on the funding challenges experienced by civil society in the region, we are launching a series of events and publications entitled “Wielding the funding strings of…

GET A BOOK, SUPPORT SEA JUNCTION! Once a month, SEA Junction holds a mini book fair focusing on Southeast Asia. Three kinds of books are displayed: New books given in consignment from recognized publishers with an interest in the countries of Southeast Asia including Silkworm Books from Thailand, ISEAS from Singapore and Yayasan Pustaka Obor from Indonesia. New and used books that are double to those of SEA Junction’s Library. They include books in Thai, English and Indonesian on various…

On August 2017, SEA Junction held a well-attended workshop by former stylist and Thai art designer Kwanpoom Vilaival on silk-screen printing created from Ayutthaya Stencil patterns. On 23 February 2019 at 1.30PM there will be another occasion for both adolescents and adults, to learn how to apply the traditional motifs of the late Ayutthaya period to modern cotton products, in this case lunch bags.  This is the start of a long-term collaboration with the artist consisting of bi-monthly workshops to…

This Learning Exchange is a program of the Forum for Family Planning and Development, Inc of the Philippines. It consists of a week study tour intended to provide a group of Pilipino local policy makers, service providers and CSOs including youth leaders from five provinces in the Philippines an opportunity to come together in order to learn about effective strategies and good practices in implementing sexual and reproductive health programs in Thailand and more generally Southeast Asia. The various activities…

On 19-31 March, SEA Junction in collaboration with TIFA Foundation will hold the exhibition “Inside Out; Bodimaps of Bangkok Refugees” on the curve wall of the 4th floor of the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC) exposing paintings done by urban refugees living in Bangkok. The so-called “bodymap” paintings are self-representations of each painter. They were made starting with the drawing of a real-life outline of the artist’s body. Then memories, and hopes were painted onto the paper and the bodymap…