Southeast Asia
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The CIA's Perspective: Find information about the countries of Southeast Asia by clicking on the country name below.

Burma | Laos | Thailand | Cambodia | Vietnam
Brunei | Indonesia | Malaysia | Philippines | Singapore

GENERAL INFORMATION ON SOUTHEAST ASIA

Southeast Asia, country by country:

Brunei | Cambodia | East Timor | Indonesia | Laos
Malaysia | Myanmar (Burma)
Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Vietnam

ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS (ASEAN)
HOME PAGE

STRATFOR ASIA INTELLIGENCE CENTER: Analyses and breaking news from all over Asia

Features

EGGI'S VILLAGE:Life among the matriarchal society of the Minangkabau of Indonesia. A photographic essay by anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday of the University of Pennsylvania.

Beautiful Patterns Common Threads: Avi Black's Travels of a teacher in Southeast Asia 1998-1999. Interested students should visit this site and browse through the pages for a very rewarding experience.

HISTORY, DESTINY, BALLOTS: INDONESIA AND EAST TIMOR: An important paper by Theodore Friend, Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and former President of Swarthmore College.

The Philippines

NATIONALISM AND GLOBALIZATION: Who needs the nation state? We all do--to reconcile the priorities of global markets with social cohesion and sound ecosystems. By Fidel Ramos, President of the Philippines.

Special Reports on Southeast Asia
from the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Indonesia at the Crossroads: a View from the Hill, by Peter Brookes, Senior Political Advisor for East Asian Affairs with the Republican Staff of the Committee on International Affairs in the House of Representatives.

East Timorese Independence: Getting from Here to There, by Donald K. Emmerson, Political Science Professor a the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Editor of Indonesia beyond Suharto (forthcoming).

ASEAN's Challenges for its Future, by Jusuf Wanandi, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the CSIS in Jakarta.

International Crisis Group (ICG) Report on 
Indonesia & East Timor
Reprinted with the permission of ICG.

Indonesia
The past two years has been a highly turbulent period for Indonesia. Since the political uprising of early 1998, President Habibie has struggled in the face of continuing economic problems, a suspicious military and an anxious elite. The loss of East Timor and international condemnation of the behaviour of Indonesian troops in the province has dealt a blow to national morale and triggered a wave of nationalism that could yet have destructive consequences. The election of a new government presents Indonesians and the international community alike with a window of opportunity to address these problems head on and thereby prevent Indonesia from turning into a major new zone of instability and conflict.

ICG's first Indonesian report, Indonesia's Shaky Transition, examines the background to Indonesia's current situation, going on to make recommendations for reform of the military, a crack-down on corruption, and the diffusion of local tensions, as well as warning that unless these steps are taken, the International Community's current financial sympathy for Indonesia will soon expire.

East Timor
The pillaging of East Timor by forces loyal to Jakarta in the wake of the 30 August popular vote for independence has left an utterly ravaged landscape and a displaced and traumatised population. The number of dead is unknown; some 240,000 East Timorese are believed to be in West Timor, many in overcrowded camps run by Indonesian military, police, and militia forces and to which, until now, relief agencies have had virtually no access. Untold numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons have reportedly been forcibly resettled by Jakarta's Ministry of Transmigration to such farflung parts of the Indonesian archipelago as Java, Bali, Irian Jaya, Flores, Alor, Sumatra, and Sulawesi.

ICG's first East Timor Briefing surveys the extent of the ongoing humanitarian crisis, making recommendations for the reconstruction of the territory in the wake of the war crimes committed by the pro-Indonesian anti-independence movement.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, World Report 1999
HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS

Burma (Myanmar) | Cambodia | Indonesia and East Timor | 
Malaysia | Philippines | Thailand | Vietnam

SOUTH ASIA NEEDS A PEACE PROCESS, by Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution.

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