Politics & Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia
By Dewi Candraningrum
This study will focus on the Indonesian jilbab, an ubiquitous piece of cloth that covers the hair and neck of women tightly, leaving no skin unconcealed. Achievement and role of jilbab after the authoritarian regime of Soeharto in 1998 is hardly known.
The author examines women perception but also the Sharia Ordinances and the narratives of censorship. Voices of both women and sexual minorities (transgenders, gays, (...)

On the occasion of the release of the book Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma, by Renaud Egreteau and Larry Jagan, published by the University Press of Singapore, a lunchtime talk will first be organised at the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy, in the presence of François Robinne, Director of IRASEC. The official launch of the book, accompanied by a seminar with the two authors, will take place at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs in the evening of the same day.
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The Illegal Trade in Arms, Drugs, People, Counterfeit Goods and Natural Resources in Mainland Southeast Asia
Edited by Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the world’s key regions for trafficking of illegal goods. It is home to an international trade in small arms, nuclear smuggling rings, human trafficking, contraband and counterfeit goods, illicit currency and smuggled medicinal drugs. The scope and mechanisms of such trafficking, however, are far from understood. “An (...)