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ISEAS Library Selects
Monthly Journal Articles on the
Southeast Asian Region
Extracted from Internet Sources
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Greetings
This issue of Monthly Article Alert includes one article by
Dr Ooi Kee Beng, Visiting Senior Fellow,
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute. You can click on his name to go to the article directly.
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Country Studies
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Southeast Asia Countries
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Brunei Darussalam
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Cambodia
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Laos
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Singapore
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Timor-Leste (East Timor)
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Region
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East/South China Sea
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Special Interests (A-Z)
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Indonesia
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Fighting Covid-19 in Indonesia: What Needs to be Done: This Commentaries outlines some deep challenges that Indonesia is currently facing in dealing with the pandemic Covid-19. The author suggests four points to ponder in effectively dealing with the pandemic, ranging from local and international resource mobilizations. While the author is of the opinion that lockdown is not a necessary option at this point, he set outs benchmarks that are needed in order to eventually fully consider the option.
[5-page PDF document]
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
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How to communicate COVID-19 risk without fuelling anti-Chinese sentiment in Indonesia: Researchers have already suggested this misinformation has complicated efforts to communicate the risks associated with COVID-19. For example, misinformation has amplified the fears of the virus outbreak in Indonesia as online hoaxes about COVID-19 lead to racist responses towards the Indonesian Chinese community.
Rifka Sibarani, PhD Candidate, Charles Darwin University;
Birut Zemits, Assistant Dean Research, College of Education, Charles Darwin University; Stephen Miller, Lecturer in Indonesian Studies, University of the Sunshine Coast
Conversation
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Why Indonesia's wealth isn't translating into jobs for women: Several factors are preventing women from working in Indonesia. One is urbanisation as jobs are shifting out of the agricultural sector to manufacturing and services. Agriculture is one of the biggest sources of employment for women in Indonesia, so this shift means fewer jobs are available for them.
Diana Contreras Suárez, Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne; Lisa Cameron, Professorial Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne
Conversation
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Poor Indonesian families are more likely to send their daughters to cheap Islamic schools: Although thousands of schools - madrasas or otherwise - are providing access to education for both genders, there is still an unexplained phenomenon: girls are significantly more likely to be in madrasas. Sons, on the on the hand, enjoy a higher probability of enrolment in non-madrasa schools.
M Niaz Asadullah, Professor of Development Economics, University of Malaya
Conversation
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How the daily lives of Indonesian youth can tell us why they become more conservative: The government believes a tolerant society comes from decades-long teaching of tolerance from the New Order regime. This teaching forbids debates on religions, races and tribes among its citizens to avoid conflicts. Yet although young people are conditioned to avoid discussing religions in public, my research shows everyday experiences of religious diversity influence their views.
Ben K. C. Laksana, Dosen, International University Liaison Indonesia
Conversation
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Learning From Extremists in West Sumatra: A study of extremists in West Sumatra shows how a decade of exposure to radical preachers turned neighborhood study groups into pro-ISIS cells, with members in Syria and Afghanistan. It suggests that locally tailored interventions remain the best basis of effective prevention strategies, based on knowledge of how leaders emerged, how new members were drawn in, why leadership splinters took place and how departures to Syria changed group dynamics.
[17-page PDF document]
Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict
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Malaysia
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How Laws Interact with Policies: PENANG INSTITUTE'S PERSONNEL were given some pieces of good advice on February 18, 2020 concerning the relationship between the letter of the law and policy-thinking, policy-making and policy implementation. Penang State's Legal Advisor Datuk Norazmi Mohd Narawi gave a lecture at the Institute as part of its "Agents of Change" seminar series.
Ooi Kee Beng
Penang Monthly
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How Wuhan Affects Our Economy: The effect of this epidemic, coupled with the 25% tariff placed on the $200bil worth of Chinese exports to the US under the US/Chinese 1st phase trade agreement, can be expected to affect Malaysia in the following manner...
Lee Kah Choon
Penang Monthly
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Penang's Manufacturing Sector in Numbers: The manufacturing sector remains a key economic driver in Penang, contributing about 43% to Penang's economy, and consistently making up about 13% of the sector's GDP of Malaysia.
Penang Monthly
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Malaysia's Northern States: Improving Competitive Advantages and Industrial Growth
[16-page PDF document]
Lee Siu Ming
Penang Institute
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Myanmar
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TURNING TRAFFIC INTO TAXES: WHY WHEEL TAXES MAKE SO MUCH SENSE FOR MYANMAR'S CITIES: Although wheel taxes are relatively high in the urban centres of Yangon and Mandalay, wheel taxes are far lower elsewhere. Myanmar is far from alone in collecting low revenues from wheel tax, however the significant revenue generated from wheel taxes internationally confirms that there is surely an opportunity here for Myanmar's cities.
Renaissance Institute
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The International Politics of the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar: China, Japan, and the United States
[54-page PDF document]
Aung Aung
Kyoto University Center for Southeast Asian Studies
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Myanmar's Economic Governance Actors: This report examines the actors engaged in economic governance in Myanmar, the factors that shape their authority, and the ways they can contribute to improved economic governance outcomes. It connects the MBEI, which focuses on the views and experiences of Myanmar businesses, with The Asia Foundation's work on governance, particularly reports such as State and Region Governments in Myanmar. In this report, we lay a foundation for further research into best practices in economic governance in Myanmar. This future research will outline actionable strategies that can be adopted by subnational levels of government to improve economic governance outcomes.
[56-page PDF document]
Asia Foundation
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Philippines
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After Duterte Scraps VFA, What's Next for the US-Philippine Alliance? The VFA, in allowing the permanent presence of US troops, has ensured a base from which the US can project power and launch freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea.
Michael Hart
Geopolitical Monitor
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Smeared and Vilified by Duterte, Activists in the Philippines are Fighting Back: ...more countries-especially those in Southeast Asia-need to speak out and demand accountability against the brutal crimes of the Duterte regime. Despite the fightback by human rights defenders, the situation remains extremely grave for many activists on the ground and a climate of impunity prevails. Failure to act will put many more activists at risk.
Josef Benedict is a researcher for the CIVICUS Monitor, covering Asia and the Pacific.
New Naratif
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Making Agricultural Land More Bankable and Tradeable: In February 2019, President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law the Agricultural Free Patent Reform Act. This new law allows patent holders to sell or use their land as collateral and frees up some 2.5 million agricultural land titles. This publication traces the journey of Philippine leaders, the Foundation for Economic Freedom, and Coalitions for Change in bringing about a reform that has the potential to improve productivity and income for Philippine agriculture in the years to come.
[7-page PDF document]
Asia Foundation
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Over Land and Over Sea: Domestic Trade Frictions in the Philippines
[37-page PDF document]
Eugenia Go
Asian Development Bank
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The Fate of Job Creation in the Philippines Amid the Automation Revolution: A Firm-Level Analysis
[22-page PDF document]
Raymond Gaspar and Nicholas Harris
Asian Development Bank Institute
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Thailand
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Identity in Isan and the Return of the Redshirts in the 2019 Elections and Beyond
SAOWANEE T. ALEXANDER
Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia
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Integration despite Exclusion: Thai National Identity among Isan People
JACOB I. RICKS
Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia
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Islam and Yawi Language: Domains for Expression and Promotion of Malay Identity in the Deep South of Thailand
AJIRAPA PIENKHUNTOD
Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia
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Thai National Identity and Lanna Identity in Northern Thailand
JOEL SAWAT SELWAY
Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia
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Vietnam
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Green Climate Fund approves USD30.2 million towards climate-resilient development in Viet Nam: Led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) the new six-year initiative will directly benefit more than 222,400 people in the provinces of Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Binh Thuan, Ninh Thuan and Khanh Hoa - around 10% of the population of the target provinces - with modernized irrigation systems, improved water security and livelihood options, increased knowledge of climate risks and resilient agricultural techniques, and access to localised climate advisories and market information. More than 335,000 people are expected to indirectly benefit from improved institutional capacities through training and technical assistance, enhanced access to climate risk information, and widespread dissemination of best practices in climate-resilient agriculture.
United Nations Development Programme in Viet Nam
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Made in Vietnam Energy Plan 2.0: This Made in Vietnam Energy Plan (MVEP 2.0) updates the previous report and has been developed during a time of fast-paced transition in global and local energy markets. The sustainable energy technologies of the future, such as solar, wind, and lithium-ion battery storage - once thought only to become economically feasible by the late 2020s or 2030s - have drastically decreased in cost and subsequently accelerated in scale. Today, they are now frequently out-competing unsubsidized fossil-fuel-based power technologies across the world. Coal power plants that were once highly bankable and the lowest-cost option for rapidly developing economies are now harder to finance as investors see a trend in concerns over health and environmental degradation, the deterioration of plant load factors, and early plant retirements.
[44-page PDF document]
Asia Foundation
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ASEAN/Southeast Asia
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Co-chairing the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting-Plus: The Case of the ASEAN Center of Military Medicine (ACMM): This policy report examines the roles of co-chairs in shaping international cooperation under the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting-Plus (ADMMPlus) framework. It analyses the process leading to the establishment of the ASEAN Center of Military Medicine to demonstrate how co-chairs can influence collaboration to their advantage. The report also offers practical policy recommendations that could be useful to policymakers in the area of defence diplomacy and security governance in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.
[18-page PDF document]
Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
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Digital Economy for ASEAN Economic Integration
[23-page PDF document]
Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Muthurangam Subramanian, Natarajan Panchanatham, Niki Naderi, and Alan Myrold
Asian Development Bank Institute
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Regional Institutions in Europe and Southeast Asia: Lessons for Economic Integration in South Asia
[23-page PDF document]
Falendra Kumar Sudan
Asian Development Bank Institute
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The Future of Work Across ASEAN: The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) presents a variety of opportunities and challenges for the ASEAN region. With support from Microsoft, The Asia Foundation led a regional research program examining the challenges confronting ASEAN policymakers in the face of 4IR transformations and provided recommendations for how stakeholders can work together to promote prosperity, jobs, and inclusive growth.
[128-page PDF document]
Asia Foundation
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ASEAN Online Business Code of Conduct: The ASEAN Online Business Code of Conduct is a straightforward statement of 15 core commitments towards consumers that can be easily applied and adapted in different country or company contexts. As such, it is particularly directed at smaller and emerging online businesses in the ASEAN region. This Code of Conduct is in line with ASEAN's High-Level Principles on Consumer Protection.
[22-page PDF document]
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
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The Future Prospects of the Mekong River
[212-page PDF document]
Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace
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Asia Pacific
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The "Indo-Pacific" Concept: Geographical Adjustments and their Implications: The United States, Australia, Japan, India, France, the United Kingdom, Indonesia and ASEAN have adopted the term "Indo-Pacific" as a policy symbol of regional engagement. However, less attention has been given to the change in the geographical definition of the "Indo-Pacific". This study examines how these countries have adjusted the geographical scope of "Indo-Pacific" to understand how they conceptualise the region. It finds that the inherent core area of the "Indo-Pacific" is from India to the Southeast Asian countries and the seas from the eastern Indian Ocean to the South China Sea, and that the "Indo-Pacific" has converged eastwards and diverged westwards through the geographical adjustment process. It also found that some of the geographical definitions have an additional function of conveying diplomatic messages. These findings will help us understand how the concept of "Indo-Pacific" as conceptualised by various countries develops.
[27-page PDF document]
Wada Haruko
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
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What Role for Taiwan in Act East 2.0? Ashutosh Nagda recommends an actualisation of the India-Taiwan relationship's under-explored economic potential within the ambit of their Act East and New Southbound Policies
Ashutosh Nagda
Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies (IPCS)
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What the Coronavirus Means for China's Foreign Policy: As the coronavirus has spread, mistrust between the United States and China has hampered the global coordination such a crisis requires. Both countries share responsibility for failing to cooperate. Beijing's lack of transparency about the true extent of the outbreak, due to political imperatives and economic concerns, fueled suspicions from the outset.
Paul Haenle
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Handbook on High-Speed Rail and Quality of Life
[566-page PDF document]
Asian Development Bank
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The Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Developing Asia
[contains link to dataset and 14-page PDF document]
Asian Development Bank
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Mystery Math: The U.S.-China Phase-1 Purchase Figures Do Not Add Up: The U.S.-China Phase-1 commercial agreement brought to a close, at least temporarily, a bitter trade war that witnessed a series of tariff hikes and increasingly hostile rhetoric. A central component of the deal is China's commitment to expand purchases of American goods and services by over $200 billion by 2021, a massive and unprecedented increase in just two years. Although seemingly a major American victory, an examination of the details reveals some serious weaknesses with this part of the deal. The baseline figures appear to be artificial constructs of the negotiating parties, and the growth targets are not realistic - even before the slowdown resulting from the coronavirus outbreak. The purchase agreement has three other problematic elements: its details are secret, implementation will require extensive government micromanagement, and enforcement very well could be arbitrary. The policy community needs to closely monitor this deal and use it as a benchmark to evaluate the Trump administration's overall approach toward the global trading system.
[5-page PDF document]
Scott Kennedy
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
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The Belt and Road Initiative: Formation, Development, and Digression: this report was designed to review the entire history of the BRI and provide a plain illustration regarding the policy formation and the actual development of this grand project.
[82-page PDF document]
Yu (Tony) Pan, Chan Kung
ANBOUND Malaysia
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