Event Highlights

Webinar on “Youth in Myanmar’s 2020 Elections”

 

This webinar by Alex Aung Khant, Executive Director of Urbanize, a local policy institute on urban and regional planning, and former independent candidate for the 2019 Yangon municipal elections, discussed the topic of youth and elections in Myanmar.

 

 

ISEAS-SPF Webinar on “The Future of Responsible Business in Southeast Asia”

 

This webinar discussed how governments, businesses, NGOs, and other stakeholders can respond to the challenges facing responsible business, and what will be needed to prepare for a post-Covid future that can benefit disadvantaged individuals, societies, and the environment.

 

 

Webinar on “Climate Change and Indonesia’s Sustainable Palm Oil Production”

 

In this webinar, Fitrian Ardiansyah shares the latest lessons learnt and business models that will lead to sustainable palm oil in Indonesia. He discusses new challenges and the innovation needed to ensure that sustainability really provides the positive economic, environmental and social outcomes at the local level.

 

 

Webinar on “Malaysia and the Youths: MUDA’s Mobilisation Efforts”

 

In this webinar, YB Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman presented on issues such as corruption, lack of equal access to education, job loss and furloughed employees, human rights issues, and the clashes between liberalism and conservatism that continue to haunt Malaysia and his motivations for starting MUDA.

 

 

Webinar on “Resistive Identity and Radical Ideology Claims in Cyberspace”

 

This webinar examined through various cases in which differences of race, ideology and religion may become organising principles in resistive identity and radical ideology claims in cyberspace.

 

 

Webinar on “Sabah’s September 2020 State Elections: What Just Happened?”

 

In this webinar, Dr Arnold Puyok and Dr Anantha Raman Govindasamy reflect on the results of the freshly concluded polls of the Sabah state election. They unpack the wins and losses, the main factors that played out, and the implications of this historic moment.

 

 

Webinar Series on “Southeast Asian Countries’ Updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs): Spotlight on Cambodia and Vietnam”

 

In this webinar, the second of an ongoing series, Dr Hak Mao and Dr Chu Thi Thanh Huong provided updates on the key features of Cambodia’s and Vietnam’s 2020 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) respectively.

 

 

ISEAS-SPF Webinar on “Business Imperatives of Environmental Protection”

 

This webinar discussed the current status of environmental protection and sustainable investments into Southeast Asia, and how future sustainability projects can be financially optimised.

 

 

Webinar on “Old Politics, New Technologies: Social Media in the Democratic Process”

 

This second webinar of the webinar series on Digital Technologies and Democracy in Southeast Asia discussed various ways in which digital technologies can be opportunities or weapons in institutional politics, and the transformative or detrimental effects these may have on the democratic process.