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ISEAS Library Selects
Monthly Journal Articles on the
Southeast Asian Region
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 Cambodia
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An "Ironclad Friend": Explaining Cambodia's Bandwagoning Policy towards China: In this article, drawing from both interviews and secondary sources, we examine why Cambodia welcomes the rise of China when other states appear to be less enthusiastic. Despite the alarm in the region at China's assertiveness, Cambodia, unlike some other nation states, has chosen to bandwagon with China. While some states in the region are pursuing a mixed strategy of economic engagement with China on the one hand and security alignment with the United States on the other (i.e. hedging), which allows such states to be on good terms with both the United States and China, Cambodia has embraced China almost exclusively. Situating the issue within the IR literature of bandwagoning, balancing, and hedging, this article presents four variables explaining the motivations behind Cambodia's bandwagoning policy towards China. Towards the end, we offer some suggestions for Cambodia to move forward.
[21-page PDF document]
Sovinda Po, Christopher B. Primiano
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
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Energy Demand and Supply of Cambodia 2010-2018: This paper on the Energy Demand and Supply for Cambodia in 2010-2018 was prepared as an update of the Cambodia Energy Statistics 2018 publication. The paper was produced by the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Cambodia namely the Energy Development Department of the General Department of Energy and the Department of Petroleum Technology, Operation Supporting and Energy Security of the General Department of Petroleum through the energy internship programme held at the Economic Research Institute of ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) office in Jakarta, Indonesia from 22 July to 16 August 2019.
[26-page PDF document]
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
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Indonesia
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Ethical leadership is needed to restore the integrity of Indonesian SOEs: Thohir seems to be trying to imbue this concept in the SOE sector through his new appointments of commissioners in a number of state-owned companies. But finding leaders that have a clean record and free from controversy is not easy.
Iris van Eeden Jones, Research associate Brian Picot Chair in Ethical Leadership, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington; Dedy Eryanto, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington; Karin Lasthuizen, Professor, Brian Picot Chair in Ethical Leadership, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
Conversation
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Democracy in Indonesian Strategic Narratives. A New Framework of Coherence Analysis: The aim of this article is to broaden the debate by analysing the meaning of "democracy" in Indonesian narrative investigated from the perspective of the strategic narratives concept and to propose a new framework for the assessment of narrative based on its coherence. Therefore, the research question is - Are the strategic narratives of democracy articulated by Indonesia coherent? The analysis shows, and it is an argument, that with some exceptions strategic narratives are incoherent and this incoherence has two dimensions: intra- and inter-incoherence. The argument is substantiated by an analysis of Indonesian foreign policy strategies and political speeches.
[20-page PDF document]
Anna Grzywacz
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
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Strengthening Disaster Preparedness in Indonesia: The idea of having a specific disaster research unit emerged several days after the Palu-Donggala catastrophic disasters back in September 2018. CSIS Executive Director Dr. Philips J. Vermonte subsequently deemed natural disasters a pressing matter for consideration by the institution as such catastrophes caused more victims than do conventional wars. In accordance with its founding values, CSIS feels responsible to share knowledge to strengthen disaster management in Indonesia.
[contains 59-page PDF document]
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
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Changing Patterns of Factionalism in Indonesia: From Principle to Patronage: Party politics in Indonesia's current democratic regime takes place within the parameters of a heavily fragmented multi-party system. Factionalism exists in most parties, but the influence of factions on internal party dynamics is only weak to moderate. Where factions exist, they are usually driven by clientelism and patronage rather than the representation of social cleavages, ideological differences, or regional affiliations, although traces of programmatically infused factionalism do persist in some parties.
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Ulla Fionna, Dirk Tomsa
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
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Study shows Village Forests in Indonesia can protect the environment and reduce poverty: We found poverty and deforestation rates fell in more than half of the 41 Village Forests (51%) we surveyed. However, the Village Forests showing both declining poverty and deforestation rates are only 18% of the total - 13% of the Village Forests only managed to curb deforestation in their areas.
Truly Santika, Adjunct Research Fellow, The University of Queensland; Matthew Struebig, Reader in Conservation Science, University of Kent; Sugeng Budiharta, Researcher in Conservation Biology and Restoration Ecology, Purwodadi Botanic Garden, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)
Conversation
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Give Me Religion that Does Not Polarize Society: Since the beginning of the Reform Era in 1998, Indonesian Muslims have become more and more conservative, abiding by (mis)interpretations of text rather than going by the spirit of Islam that embodies peace, mutual respect, and love. But now, over 20 years into the Reform Era, I reckon we are now in jahilliyah (age of ignorance) of Islam in Indonesia, which thrives on hypocrisy, greed and ego and power-driven motives.
Julia Suryakusuma
Geopolitical Monitor
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How the world failed West Papua in its campaign for independence: At the UN, West Papuan activists sought the support of African delegates who they believed were likely allies. They argued West Papua and Africa shared a history of racial oppression and a desire to see the end of colonialism in all its forms. While African leaders were sympathetic to the cause of West Papuan activists, they were already committed to the Non-Aligned Movement led by Indonesia.
Emma Kluge, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Sydney
Conversation
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The US-Iran conflict and what it means for Indonesia: As tensions rise between the US and Iran, Indonesia, with the world's largest Muslim population, is expected to face no political impacts from this conflict due to its minimal involvement in the region. However, Indonesia needs to be prepared for the conflict's impacts on oil prices and the national macro economy.
Mohamad Rezky Utama, Lecturer, Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII)
Conversation
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Effects of the Pesantren Law on Indonesia's Education System - A Projection
[32-page discussion paper]
Nadia Fairuza Azzahra
Center for Indonesian Policy Studies
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Political Economy of Rice Policy in Indonesia: A Perspective on the ASEAN Economic Opportunity
[56-page discussion paper]
Arianto Patunru & Assyifa Szami Ilman
Center for Indonesian Policy Studies
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Laos
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Energy Demand and Supply of the Lao People's Democratic Republic 2010-2018: This paper on the Energy Demand and Supply for Cambodia in 2010-2018 was prepared as an update of the Cambodia Energy Statistics 2018 publication. The paper was produced by the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Cambodia namely the Energy Development Department of the General Department of Energy and the Department of Petroleum Technology, Operation Supporting and Energy Security of the General Department of Petroleum through the energy internship programme held at the Economic Research Institute of ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) office in Jakarta, Indonesia from 22 July to 16 August 2019.
[26-page PDF document]
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
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Lao PDR Energy Outlook 2020: The Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) has been assisting the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM), Lao PDR to produce Lao PDR Energy Statistics since 2017 with the analysis of the historical energy demand and supply situation. In response to MEM's request to ERIA to provide an analysis of the future energy demand supply situation of Lao PDR, ERIA dispatched a technical team to support the Ministry in the development of the Lao PDR Energy Outlook 2019. The Energy Outlook adopts an econometric approach to estimating future energy demand in Lao PDR.
[94-page PDF document]
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
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Malaysia
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Are Digital Disruptions Laying the Foundations for Holistic Education in the 21st Century? The situation facing the education industry in Malaysia today is that we are pincered in thinking and structure on two fronts - by post-industrial dynamics and the post-colonial (or nationalistic) agenda. What we tend to look at is the former - post-industrial dynamics. This is partly because these dynamics apply generally to most countries throughout the world, and partly because they best explain the problems facing the developed countries. Developing countries have it worse in the 21st century. They must also face the long-term effects of the early nation-building period when policymaking was subordinate to the larger and exaggerated goal of creating a political entity with common goals, common behaviour and common loyalties.
Ooi Kee Beng
Penang Monthly
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Creative Industries in Numbers: Malaysia's National Creative Industry Policy (DIKN) which draws on DCMS's definition of creative industries identifies 14 sub-sectors, dividing them into three distinct categories: Multimedia, Cultural Arts and Cultural Heritage. In 2017 a total of RM22.3bil value of gross output was generated from the arts, entertainment and recreation services in Malaysia, with an annual growth rate of 5.7% per annum within the period of two years.
Negin Vaghefi
Penang Monthly
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Projek Pantau Report Card No. 3: ...achieving meaningful reform is never easy, and progress is being made in a number of areas. While the government's focus on delivering its promises must not falter, equally important is a coordinated communications strategy that ensures successes are made known to the Malaysian public.
[88-page pdf report]
Faiz Zaidi, Ewanina Effandie, James Chin.
Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS)
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Myanmar
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Three Faces of Party Organisation in the National League for Democracy: This article argues that the structure of the NLD is the product of the dynamics that governed the formation and development of the party under authoritarian rule. Fears of a partial authoritarian resurgence at the hands of Myanmar's armed forces (Tatmadaw) and the perception that its authoritarian structures constitute a competitive advantage within Myanmar's hybrid regime inform the NLD's decision to refrain from reforming and democratising its structure. Yet, leaving the party's structure unchanged stands to negatively impact the party's political profile and its role in Myanmar's political transformation process. In the long term, it might endanger the party's stability and contravene the party's political principles. The article draws on interviews with NLD politicians conducted during an extensive research stay in Myanmar from 2018 to 2019.
[21-page PDF document]
Richard Roewer
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
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Mapping the Rohingya Diaspora: Lessons from the Camps: Since 2016, a violent campaign of persecution has driven an exodus of Myanmar's predominantly Muslim Rohingya minority from their homes in the northern state of Rakhine into neighboring countries. Bangladesh, by far the predominant destination of this diaspora, is now the reluctant host to over a million Rohingya refugees in the world's largest refugee settlement, near the seaside city of Cox's Bazar in southeastern Bangladesh.
Kawsher Ahamed & Rezaun Nahid Mercy
Asia Foundation
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Myanmar in China's Embrace: Southeast Asia sits like a southern portico-a potential bridge between interior/southern China and the tropical seas along the equator. For China, the attraction of Southeast Asia is obvious. It is a region rich in natural resources with relatively prosperous and small states that can be natural trade and investment assets for China. Moreover, there are large, relatively prosperous, primarily urban, ethnic Chinese populations throughout the region thanks to two centuries of prior migration.
Marvin C. Ott is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Foreign Policy Research Institute
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Myanmar's Transition without Justice: Myanmar's transition towards a limited form of constitutional democracy is taking place in the absence of national measures to deal with the legacy of massive human rights abuses: without criminal prosecutions for historical crimes; without the establishment of institutions for truth-telling; without reparations. This article considers the escalation of violence against ethnic minorities during the early period of Myanmar's democratic transition in the context of the claim that transitional justice has the potential to deter future atrocities.
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Catherine Renshaw
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
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Political Representation by Ethnic Parties? Electoral Performance and Party-Building Processes among Ethnic Parties in Myanmar: The present article examines this question through a contextual case study of ethnic parties in Myanmar - a state that is characterised by unresolved ethnic grievances and conflicts; a political transition that has created new opportunities for ethnic representation; and multiple ethnic parties making representative claims on behalf of ethnic groups. Based on a mixed methods approach, the article documents that ethnic parties have been relatively ineffective in ensuring formal and descriptive representation and have had limited possibilities for substantive representation of ethnic interests.
[30-page PDF document]
Kristian Stokke
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
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LESS THAN THE COST OF A CUP OF TEA: HOW LOW PROPERTY TAXES ARE STILL HOLDING BACK CITIES ACROSS MYANMAR: ...in January 2020, the cost of a cup of tea (and the cost of delivering city services) has gone up, a cup of tea now costs closer to 500 MMK. However, property taxes are still very low. In Yangon, although YCDC is raising more property tax each year (total property tax revenue is estimated to reach 16bn kyat in 2017-18 compared to 13bn kyat the year before (YCDC estimate)) ordinary residential households are still paying the equivalent of just a couple of cups of tea in property taxes each year.
Renaissance Institute
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Philippines
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ASEAN+3 Multi-Currency Bond Issuance Framework: Implementation Guidelines for the Philippines
[47-page PDF document]
Asian Development Bank
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Timor-Leste (East Timor)
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Party Systems and Factionalism in Timor-Leste: This study identifies and explains the factors that have shaped the evolution of the competitive political party system in East Timor from its beginnings in the 1970s to the difficult and sometimes violent transition since independence in 2002 towards a semi-developed competitive party system. It reviews the organizational character of the two major Parties: FRETILIN and the CNRT and the minor parties in the national parliament and the nature of intra-party factionalism in contemporary politics in what is an under-institutionalized and a predominantly personalistic system.
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Dennis Shoesmith
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
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Vietnam
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The Effects of the Temporary Protection on Firm Performances: Evidence from the Steel Industry in Viet Nam: Using panel Vietnamese enterprise surveys from 2010 to 2017, this paper examines whether temporary trade protection has a significant impact on the steel sector and downstream users of steel. We find that, during the trade protection period for the steel sector, this policy increased sales of protected firms but hurt downstream firms. In particular, trade protection has significant impacts on the sales, profit, and productivity of downstream firms in sectors that use steel intensively as their inputs. Additionally, these adverse effects of protection are more severe for small downstream firms.
[27-page PDF document]
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
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"My Teacher Said I Had a Disease": Barriers to the Right to Education for LGBT Youth in Vietnat
[74-page PDF document]
Human Rights Watch
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State-Owned Enterprise Reform in Viet Nam: Progress and Challenges
[25-page PDF document]
Le Ngoc Dang, Dinh Dung Nguyen, and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary
Asian Development Bank Institute
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Viet Nam: Technical and Vocational Education and Training Sector Assessment
[192-page PDF document]
Asian Development Bank
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ASEAN/Southeast Asia
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The Economic Fallout of the Coronavirus in Southeast Asia: The coronavirus has taken a devastating toll on its victims in China and elsewhere. But the epidemic has also exposed the downsides of leaning too heavily on China to power neighboring economies.
Trinh Nguyen
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Unlocking the Potential of Private Financing for Low-carbon Energy Transition: Ideas and Solutions from ASEAN Markets: This paper, based on a market survey, which aimed to identify barriers and risks that private sectors face in accelerating the low-carbon investments. The survey respondents are divided into two categories, Lenders and Borrowers. Analysing 110 total respondents helped to identify the perceived and actual barriers as well as risks underlying to the access to financing and generated potential solution for policymakers to overcome these barriers. The survey results indicate that the main obstacles faced by private sectors are incoherent policies that created a high-risk environment for investment, a lack of access to de-risking mechanisms, and insufficient capacity to communicate the opportunities amongst financial institutions and project developers. To bare these risks, this paper suggests four interdependent solutions - establishment of a low-carbon transition fund, government warranty programme, broadening of de-risking mechanisms, and capacity building programme to accelerate the low-carbon energy transition across ASEAN.
[68-page PDF document]
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
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Southeast Asia in 2020: Issues to Watch, Part 1: In this two-part series, Dr. Amy Searight, senior adviser and director of the CSIS Southeast Asia Program, previews five key issues to watch in Southeast Asia in 2020. This installment addresses U.S.-ASEAN relations, climate change and the imperiled Mekong, and domestic politics. The next installment will cover economic trends and developments in the digital space.
Amy Searight
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
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Asia Pacific
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Moon's Foreign Policy Priorities in Words and Deeds: In September 2019, President Moon fulfilled his pledge to visit all ten ASEAN member states. Given that neither Presidents Lee and Park have visited all ten countries during their presidency, this act alone illustrates the seriousness of the current administration's interest in NSP. Part of the reason for this push towards South and Southeast Asia is also linked to Washington's call for South Korea's participation in the Indo-Pacific strategy. President Moon obliged by announcing in June 2019 South Korea's interest in looking for "harmonious cooperation" between NSP and the Indo-Pacific strategy. As the first step in this direction, South Korea and the US issued a "Fact Sheet" in November 2019 to outline areas of complementarity between NSP and the Indo-Pacific strategy.
J. James Kim and Hong Sanghwa
ASAN Institute for Policy Studies
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Innovative Approaches for the Management of Labor Migration in Asia: The report also looks forward to new approaches, examining the concept of skills mobility partnerships and how existing migration channels in Asia could be innovated using this concept.
[contains link to 132-page PDF main document or individual chapters]
Asian Development Bank
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Multilateral Matters - January 2020
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Featured Article: RCEP: The Deal That Cannot Fail
Other Content: Vietnam's Experience: Two Decades of Membership in ASEAN
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Singapore Trade Policy Forum
[6-page PDF document]
Amalina Anuar, Nazia Hussain
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
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Enhancing the Transparency and Accountability of State-Owned Enterprises
[20-page PDF document]
Chung-a Park
Asian Development Bank Institute
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East/South China Sea
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Rapidly Rising Power China Has Been Put on Notice Over Contested Waters: China's new assertiveness, which further accelerated under President Xi Jinping, rattled and intimidated rivals and near neighbors, especially smaller claimant states in Southeast Asia. Even worse, Beijing managed to, in the words prominent Chinese scholar Yan Xuetong, effectively "purchase" silence and acquiescence among poorer and weaker neighbors to the south.
Richard Javad Heydarian is a Manila-based academic and author.
National Interest
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International Relations
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Shifting geopolitical sands: competition, cooperation or conflict?
[78-page PDF document]
World Economic Forum
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