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Party Funding and Money Politics in Malaysia and Indonesia: Different Solutions – The Same Dilemma

 

The latest instalment of the Malaysia Studies Programme Seminar series was delivered by Dr Wolfgang Sachsenröder at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute on 27 August 2018. Entitled, Party Funding and Money Politics in Malaysia and Indonesia, Different Solutions – The Same Dilemma, the lecture overviewed the entrenchment of money politics in the party financing systems of the two Southeast nations.

 

 

9th Outreach Programme for University Students (OPUS) Lecture Series with Syracuse University, 28 & 29 August 2018

 

Over two half-day sessions, our researchers shared with the students some of the current hot topics in Southeast Asia, including the Free and Open Indo-Pacific, Belt and Road Initiative in Vietnam, ASEAN and AEC. This is the 9th consecutive year that ISEAS has hosted the OPUS for Syracuse University.

 

 

UMNO: Looking Back and Looking Forward

 

To trace the organisation’s historical development as well as to analyse some proposed future reforms, ISEAS invited Dr Azeem Fazwan Ahmad Farouk from the Center for Policy Research and International Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia and Mr Zaidel Baharuddin, head of the UMNO Branch for Gombak, Selangor; to deliver a seminar as part of the “Malaysia in Transition Seminar Series”

 

 

The 18th ASEAN Lecture on “ASEAN: Securing Relevance Amidst Change”

 

The 18th ASEAN Lecture on “ASEAN: Securing Relevance Amidst Change” was organized by the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. The Lecture was delivered by H.E. Dr Marty Natalegawa who was Indonesia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 – 2014.

 

 

Buddhist Accounts of Maritime Crossings in the Southern Seas

 

Originally published in 1982, Anthony Milner’s Kerajaan: Malay Political Culture on the Eve of Colonial Rule has become one of the most frequently-cited works on Southeast Asian History. On November 8th, Professor Milner launched the second edition of Kerajaan at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.

 

 

Lecture on “10 Years of Archaeological Research in Indonesia”

 

Mr. Bambang Budi Utomo and Mr. Shinatria Adhityatama, archaeologists from the Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi Nasional (PUSLIT ARKENAS; National Archaeology Research Centre), gave a talk entitled “10 Years of Archaeological Research in Indonesia”.

 

 

Seminar on “Japanese Popular Cultural Narratives of the Shōnan-tō Experience”

 

Dr Eriko Ogihara-Schuck, Visiting Fellow at ISEAS and lecturer in American Studies at the Technical University of Dortmund, spoke at a Regional Social and Cultural Studies (RSCS) Programme seminar on Japanese popular cultural products, or cultural narratives, that emerged during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore.

 

 

The Orang Laut and the Realm of the Straits (Negara Selat)

 

Prof Leonard Andaya, the inaugural Yusof Ishak Chair in the Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore and Professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of Hawai’i, delivered a lecture titled “Orang Laut and the Realm of the Straits (Negara Selat)”. It was the second in the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre’s special series of lectures, “1819 and Before: Singapore’s Pasts”, to commemorate Singapore’s upcoming bicentennial anniversary.

 

 

Malaysia’s Unexpected Journey towards a New Politics and Foreign Policy

 

The events that unfolded following the historic 14th General Election (GE14) on 9 May 2018 ushered in a new era of politics that led to many analysts claiming the birth of a “new” Malaysia.

 

 

Seminar on “Connectivity between China and Southeast Asia: Mission Impossible?”

 

Professor Zha Daojiong spoke at the Regional Strategic and Political Studies (RSPS) Programme seminar on the connectivity between China and Southeast Asia with a focus on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Southeast Asia and how Southeast Asian countries are responding to this initiative.