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The Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC) is Australia’s premier centre of interdisciplinary academic excellence relevant to Southeast Asia.
With more than 500 academics across all faculties and schools at the University, SSEAC:
- supports research excellence
- encourages a new generation of Southeast Asia experts
- brings students from different disciplines together to learn from the region and its people
- partners with government, business and civil society to address real-world issues
For more details see the SSEAC website.
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A borderlander’s reckoning
Published 2026“The mountains are high and the emperor far away.” Reckonings from a borderland—on walls, my friend J, and choosing a life in diaspora.EmbargoedArticle -
An uphill battle: A case example of government policy and activist dissent on the death penalty for drug-related offences in Indonesia
Published 2021In 2014, newly-elected President Joko Widodo announced that Indonesia was facing a national ‘emergency’ due to high levels of drug use that necessitated harsh criminal justice responses, including the ultimate punishment ...Open AccessArticle -
COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Implications for workers and unions
Published 2021The labour market effects in Southeast Asia of the COVID-19 pandemic have attracted considerable analysis from both scholars and practitioners. However, much less attention has been paid to the pandemic’s impact on legal ...Article -
The illegal as mundane
Published 2019-10-28Ways of studying illegal behaviour are important in the context of Indonesia, a country well known for its failure to deal adequately with the corruption that permeates every level of society. They are perhaps even more ...Open AccessArticle -
Asia’s Labor Migration and Employment Relations Regimes
Published 2019-01-01What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, ...Open AccessBook chapter