(Jérôme Samuel, director and researcher at IRASEC)
This research project seeks to further the understanding of Malay languages’ regional dimension in the present day. As we know, “Malay” refers to a cluster of closely related languages spoken in six Southeast Asian countries by approximately 300 million speakers. Its two standard variants, Indonesian (bahasa Indonesia) and Malaysian (bahasa Malaysia often called bahasa Melayu), are recognized as official languages in four countries in the (...)

(Jérôme Samuel, director and researcher at IRASEC)
This ongoing long-term project began in the early 2000s. It aims to inventory, describe and analyse Indonesian reverse glass painting over 150 years, through a database which currently includes 2,200 items and will, in time, be accessible online.
The art of reverse glass painting consists of painting or reproducing an image on the back of a sheet of glass, the image being viewed through the glass itself. It was introduced in Indonesia as (...)

(Research project of Elisabeth LUQUIN, affiliated researcher at IRASEC)
Christian religious facts in the Philippines, more particularly on
the independent Christian worships (especially the Iglesia Mistica Filipina) and the place of women.
While studies on Philippine Catholicism and Evangelisms are relatively numerous, few focus on the various local churches — except from the Rizalist churches (which transformed the national hero José Rizal, among others — into a deity or a saint, and (...)

(Research project of Gabriel FACAL, Deputy director and researcher at IRASEC)
In the last decade, civil society organizations (CBOs, NGOs, foundations, think tanks, social enterprises and consulting firms in development research and training) have seen their funding melting (Sciortino 2018). Moreover, several southeast Asian countries have moved up from poor to (higher) middle income countries, so they don’t qualify anymore for certain forms of funding, while inequalities in growth have (...)

(Research project of Loïs BASTIDE, affiliated researcher at IRASEC)
In Southeast Asia, millions of foreign workers from the region (Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia) occupy the lower strata of domestic labour markets in Malaysia, Thailand, or Singapore. This transnational labour system plays a structuring economic role within ASEAN, in destination as much as in labour-exporting countries. These migrations also have a profound social and political impact across the region. (...)

(Research project of Nicolas SALEM-GERVAIS, affiliated researcher at IRASEC)
This research project, conducted with an international team of experts, aims at analyzing the consequences of the 2021 military coup on the education sector in Burma/Myanmar.
The realm of education has indeed continuously been at the heart of the great political, ideological and identity issues and battles underpinning the country’s history, throughout its successive eras : monarchic (pre-colonial) period, (...)