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Across the world, digital products and services are transforming work and lifestyles. Also in Southeast Asia, there is much talk of a digital society, in which individuals can access and interact with public and private services and information channels via digital technologies. These developments are expected to increase efficiencies, enrich lives and foster progress. At the same time however, awareness is rising that digital spread is not necessarily inclusive and may reinforce pre-existing divides, as not all groups and countries…

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 24 October at 6.30PM, SEA Junction will screen THE STAGING POST, a real-time, real-life multi-platform documentary released in June 2017. Filmed by 17 year-old refugee Khadim Dai and directed and produced by Australian filmmaker Jolyon Hoff, the film follows Afghan Hazara refugees, Muzafar, Khadim and Tahira. Stranded in Indonesia after Australia 'stopped the boats' and facing many years in limbo, they built a community and started the Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre. This refugee-run school has been operating over four year…

In a roundup of state executions in 2017, Amnesty International expressed concern for the high level of mandatory death sentences and the use of the death penalty for drug-related offenses in Southeast Asia. Executions continue to be carried out in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore and extrajudicial killings are staggering in the Philippines. If in 2002, Thailand’s harsh crackdown on drugs  led to 2,700 deaths, today the Philippines is being brought to the International Criminal Court for the ten-times higher figure…

Writer and film maker Lawan Jirasuradej will give a public lecture at SEA Junction on 27 October 2018 at 5PM focusing on contemporary sounds of traditional music in Southeast Asia. Her talk is based on her research and writing for the recently published book New Voices in Southeast Asia (2018, Sugree Charoensook, ed.). The book, in Thai, explores music scenes in Thailand and neighboring countries, namely Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Vietnam, as a preparatory step leading to the establishment…

“Lima” (“Five”) is an innovative Indonesian film that has been released on 31 May 2018 to reflect on Pancasila (national ideology) Day. Differently from other films on the same topic, Lima refrains from being propagandistic and instead probes the depth of the five principles of Pancasila, questioning what it really means to be a tolerant, pluralist, just, consultative and inclusive society. The plot of the movie centers on three siblings who struggle to cope with the death of their mother…

Thailand’s impressive biodiversity greatly contributes to its attractiveness. The wet, tropical climate enables the growth of a vast array of native flora, still largely undocumented. In this workshop with artist Kwanpoom Vilaiwan, participants will learn about Thai flowers, by painting them with watercolors on large greeting cards. They will be guided in a step by step process, first drawing selected Thai flowers and then coloring them. As the realist flowers’ patterns are very detailed, each participant will choose and focus…

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…