SEA Chat (Southeast Asian Chat) is the monthly agenda of Center for Southeast Asian Social Studies which invites students to discuss about countries in Southeast Asia region. It is expected to provide a clear picture of the state of the country, share information, and be a way to understand each other. On Monday (24/07/2017) at 15:00 at the CESASS Library, SEA Chat was again held for the fifth time. With the theme “Unstereotyping Southeast Asia”, this time SEA Chat invited Gibson Haynes, an American Southeast Asia researcher from John Hopkins University. read more

Southeast Asia is a very diverse and multi-layered sub-region in Asia which consists of different nations with different ethnicities, languages, cultures, and societies. Besides, Southeast Asian nations considerably share distinctive socio-cultural features, in terms of language spoken, ethnicities, religion, culture, and society which differed from one to another. Specifically, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore are highly considered as Southeast Asian diverse nations, ethnically, linguistically, religiously, culturally, socially, and politically. But they are diverse in different ways and cope with diversity in different ways (Ali, 2011). read more

The forms of corruption occurring in the private sector include licensing, procurement, money politics, bribery and stealth. Stealth article is the articles in the Draft Law which is included in the text of the role of private parties. In addition, this kind of article can even appear in the legal products under such as Ministerial Regulation. This was stated by Dr. Rimawan Pradiptyo, lecturer of Economic Department, Faculty of Economics and Business UGM, in the regular discussion of SEA-Talks # 15 (15/06/17). read more