The ASEAN Roundtable 2017, organised by the ASEAN Studies Centre of ISEAS Yusof-Ishak Institute was held in Raffles City Convention Centre with the theme “ASEAN at 50: Charting the Future Together”.
ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute’s Journal of Southeast Asian Economies (JSEAE), a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal focusing on economic issues in Southeast Asia, has been accepted for inclusion in the SCOPUS index, right on the back of its recent admission into the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)!
Tan Sri Sheriff Kassim, a Malaysian former civil servant and an active member of the G-25, offered some riveting insights on two timely aspects of constitutional democracy in Malaysia – first, the administration of Islam; and second, the system of governance in the public sector.
To enhance the understanding of dynamic economic, social, and political developments in Indonesia, in May 2017, the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute commissioned a nationwide survey in Indonesia, called the Indonesia National Survey Project (INSP).
Interesting insights by Mr Yoshitaka Ishii on the Japanese National Railways (JNR) presented at a seminar at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.
Dr Andrea Acri, Associate Fellow at the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre (NSC) and Maître de conférences at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), discussed the important socio-religious phenomenon of tantrism and state-formation processes in premodern Southeast Asia.
A collection of commentaries and analyses by ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute researchers and other experts on 50 years of ASEAN.
Based on her analysis of the various factors which could impact the Malaysian GE-14 election, Dr Bridget Welsh concluded that the electoral outcome is uncertain unlike previous general elections.