The 2021 coup in Myanmar disrupted both trajectory and choices for K-12 and higher education in Myanmar. Pro-democracy stakeholders have been working on alternative education options in the post-coup environment, while structural inequalities continue to exist in Myanmar. Three speakers shared their research, policy, and practitioner insights, discussing past, present, and future challenges, and the importance of an inclusive education system that can meet the needs of the youth in a conflict-prone society.
In this webinar, Dr Daungyewa (Hong) Utarasint discussed the evolution of Wadah, from its beginnings as a political faction to its current status as the political party Prachachart. Her focus was on how Prachachart utilised ethnoreligious rhetoric to garner support from the Malay-Muslim majority in Thailand’s Deep South provinces during the 2023 Thai general elections, as well as an evaluation of the outcome of this strategy.
Myanmar continues to face daunting humanitarian challenges in 2023. The military coup in 2021 compounded humanitarian needs which arose prior to and during the pandemic. Cyclone Mocha in May 2023 added to mounting humanitarian needs. In this webinar, four speakers with policy and/or research experience shared their assessments of Myanmar’s humanitarian challenges and responses in 2023.
In this hybrid seminar, Dr Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti shared details about Indonesia’s new long-term development plan and elaborated on the country’s goals by 2045. Dr Agustinus Prasetyantoko evaluated the strategies put in place in the long-term development plan and discussed the potential challenges faced in the current policy planning for the new government.