Dr Katewadee Kulabkaew’s seminar addressed the enduring but complicated role of Buddhism in Thai politics.
This seminar is the first in the series of seminars on Industry 4.0 policies in Southeast Asia.
Social media is increasingly playing a vital role in Indonesia’s 2019 Presidential Campaign. Two prominent experts in the field, Mr Yose Rizal, founder of PoliticaWave.com, and Dr Ross Tapsell, senior lecturer and researcher at Australia National University, were at ISEAS to discuss the impact of social media on the election.
Dr Prajak Kongkirati, Assistant Professor, Head of the Department of Government and Associate Dean for Research and Academic Services in the Faculty of Political Science at Thammasat University Bangkok, delivered a highly engaging seminar on Thailand’s elections scheduled for 24 March 2019.
23 Niigata University students visited ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for their Spring Seminar this year, under the ISEAS’s Outreach Programme for University Students (OPUS).
Organised by ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute in partnership with Temasek Foundation Connects, this 3-day seminar took place at the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre Meeting Hall in Naypyidaw, Myanmar.
Three experts from Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, shared their perspectives on the similarities and differences on China’s renowned Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in terms of its impact on Southeast Asia and Central Eastern Europe (CEE).
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute invited two young Indonesian politicians, Mr Rian Ernest from Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) and Mr Faldo Maldini from National Mandate Party (PAN), to share their economic perspectives as millennials as well as their views on challenges to attract millennials voters.
Marking the sixth instalment in the special series of lectures commemorating Singapore’s bicentennial anniversary “1819 and Before: Singapore’s Pasts” is the lecture on the mysterious Malay Jong and Other Temasek Shipping. The lecture was attended by an audience of 60 people.
Ibu Yenny Wahid, a social and political activist in Nahdlatul Ulama, delivered a talk on the role of the Indonesia’s largest Islamic organisation in the country’s politics and her observation on ideological cleavage and other issues in the 2019 elections.