LuceSEA Webinar: “Changing Labor Relations in Southeast Asia”

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 from 3:00-4:30pm HST

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About

This webinar, LuceSEA Webinar Fall 2024 series, focuses on how the growing economy in southeast Asia changed the labor relations. The talk is looking at what kind of marginalization and who are marginalized amid the growing economy of southeast Asia. The changing labor issues in southeast Asia from the past to present will be discussed to predict what will happen in the future.

Speaker

• Dr. Hwok Aun Lee, Senior Fellow, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore
• Hindun Anisah MA, Special staff, Ministry of Manpower, Indonesia 
• Dr. Amporn Jirattikorn, Associate Professor, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Moderator

• Dr. Abdul Haque Chang, Assistant Professor, IBA Karachi, Pakistan

Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2024
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Venue: Zoom Register for here

Speakers’ Bio

• Dr. Hwok Aun Lee

Dr. Hwok Aun Lee is a Senior Fellow with the Malaysia Studies Programme and Regional Economic Studies Programme at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. He was previously Senior Lecturer in development studies at the University of Malaya. He authored Affirmative Action in Malaysia and South Africa: Preference for Parity (Routledge, 2021), co-edited The Defeat of Barisan Nasional: Missed Signs or Late Surge? (ISEAS, 2019) and have written various ISEAS Perspective and Trends articles on Malaysia’s affirmative action, inequality, education and labour. He led an unprecedented field experiment on hiring discrimination, published as “Discrimination of high degrees: Race and graduate hiring in Malaysia” (Journal of the Asia-Pacific Economy, 2016).

• Hindun Anisah MA

Hindun is a women’s rights activist. Her support for women’s rights, including the rights of female migrant workers, led to her appointment to the Presidential Task Force for the Handling of Indonesian Citizens Facing the Death Penalty Abroad in 2011-2012. Since 2019 Hindun has been a Special Staff Member to the Minister of Manpower of Indonesia. She also actively coordinates an annual interfaith dialogue program by bringing students from her pesantren Islamic boarding school to meet with leaders and other religious communities. In 2016, Hindun was invited by Drew University, New Jersey, United States to participate in the Summer Institute on Religion and Conflict Transformation, and in 2018 Hindun was invited as a facilitator for the Drew University Forum. She obtained a Master’s degree in Health Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam and a Bachelor’s degree in Islamic Law and Political Social Sciences. Currently, Hindun is completing her doctoral program at Nadhlatul Ulama University of Indonesia (UNUSIA) Jakarta, in the Islam Nusantara study program.

• Dr. Amporn Jirattikorn

Amporn Jirattikorn is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Science and Development at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She received her Ph.D in Anthropology from the University of Texas, Austin in 2008. She was a Harvard-Yenching Institute Scholar 2022-2023. Amporn’s research interests are in two areas of media flows and mobility of people across national boundaries. One area focuses particularly on the movement of Shan migrants from Myanmar into Thailand. Her publication has centered on the construction of migrant identities through media consumption, ethnic media production in Myanmar, and the formation of Shan migrant identity. The other area involves cross border flows of Thai television series to Asian countries and the audience reception of Thai popular culture. Her recent research involves the (re)construction of masculinity among Shan migrant men who engaged in sex work in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Moderator’s Bio

• Dr. Abdul Haque Chang

Dr. Abdul Haque Chang is an Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences and Liberal Arts Department at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi. Before joining IBA Karachi, Dr. Chang was a Sunan Kalijaga International Postdoctoral Fellow at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. His research interests include ethnomusicology, Sufi music and poetry, history, religion, and environmental anthropology in Pakistan.His doctoral research focuses on environmental issues in Pakistan, examining how national water governance has generated scarcity, which has had detrimental effects on the landscape, ecology, and social life of the Indus Delta. This research offers a theoretical and ethnographic concept of environmental martyrdom to define the larger issue of environmental degradation. In Indonesia, his research is focused on Javanese Sufism, Islam in Java, and emergent Indian religious movements and networks. His current publication is about Jathilan a traditional Javanese dance where he provides interesting ethnographic perspective on the syncretic connections of traditional Javanese religion, sprit possession and traditional performing arts. He also involved in advocacy on undocumented labor migration from Eastern Indonesia. Dr. Chang completed his doctoral studies from University of Texas at Austin in 2015.