Ethnics and Ethics in Southeast Asia

Dentan, Robert Knox

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“…Third, the significant role of MSMEs in ASEAN presents another area of potential optimization. Southeast Asia alone houses a staggering 71 million MSMEs, accounting for 97% of all businesses in the region (Tan 2022). Despite their abundance, MSMEs in the region contribute an average of 40.5% to each country's gross domestic product (GDP) and 19.2% to the total export value in 2020.…”

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“…This situation creates an opportunity for digital platforms to foster the growth of MSMEs by enhancing operational efficiency, expanding customer reach, and facilitating access to finance. Digital technologies have been suggested to streamline processes, support data-driven decision making, and automate routine tasks, while the internet has significantly reduced the costs associated with service delivery, marketing, ordering, and payment for MSMEs (Beschorner 2019;Tan 2022).…”

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Transforming ASEAN: Strategies for Achieving Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

2024

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he year 2023 has again been a momentous year for Indonesia. Indonesia reaffirmed its significance in the global community this year by assuming the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Chair, after its successful Presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20) in 2022. Highlighting the region as an "epicenter of growth," Indonesia supported work to promote sustainable growth and development in the region while securing food security, managing energy transition, and strengthening cross-border connectivity and regional cooperation.These priorities are particularly critical as ASEAN continues to face many challenges 3 years after the global pandemic. Following the region's 5.6% growth in 2022, growth is now expected to slow to 4.6% this year and 4.8% next year. This is slightly below ASEAN's long-term average growth, with the region facing many global headwinds, as described by Adam Tooze as a "polycrisis." Inflation has jumped due to supply chain disruptions resulting from the pandemic and policy responses to the pandemic, as well as higher food and fuel prices resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Geopolitical tensions have risen, financial volatility has increased-and climate change looms ever larger.To surmount the "polycrisis," the global community will need to adopt well-calibrated and wellharmonized policies. Under Indonesia's 2022 chairmanship, the G20 Summit in Bali made several commitments toward this end: staying agile and flexible in macroeconomic policy, protecting macroeconomic and financial stability, promoting food and energy security, unlocking further investments to help developing countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and recommitting to accelerate the achievement of the SDGs.Thus, this book is extremely useful as it examines some of these critical themes, focusing on ASEAN's low-carbon transition, the food security agenda, and the role of the G20 and ASEAN to in supporting ASEAN in the global economy. This publication is practical as it distills both regional and countrylevel knowledge and experience, facilitates the sharing of lessons and best practices, and helps policy makers design better policies, solutions, and recommendations for the region.Going forward, medium-term risks and uncertainties remain but the prospects are also encouraging. It is my hope that this book will help policy makers prepare effective strategies to build on recent economic gains, transform the growth prospects, and help build a more inclusive and sustainable growth path for ASEAN. As we actively engage with stakeholders across Indonesia to identify areas where knowledge and partnerships can foster progress, this publication will also inform the Asian Development Bank's operations and strategy in Indonesia.I thank the Asian Development Bank Institute and all stakeholders and contributors who helped make this publication possible.

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“…It is interesting that this subject has not received the attention it deserves in Southeast Asia given the legacy of a prominent social scientist of Southeast Asia, Benedict Anderson and his concept of the construction and 'imagination' of the nation (1991). In other words, though nation-states usually present identities as homogeneous, unified, bounded and fixed, or in Geertzian terms 'primordial' (Geertz, 1963), they are in fact heterogeneous, fluid, changing, contingent, instrumental and used strategically and in role-playing (Dentan, 1975(Dentan, , 1976Leach, 1954;Nagata, 1974Nagata, , 1975Nagata, , 1979and see Featherstone, 2000;Kahn, 1992, p. 170-171;Mackerras, 2003, p. 12).They are always in the process of 'becoming', invariably located in a world of competing and interacting identities made more intense by the impacts of globalization and media technology, nation-building, and transnational movements and encounters, including those generated by tourism. In this connection Kessler has argued, following Hobsbawm (1983;Hobsbawm and Ranger, 1983), that in a fast-changing and modernizing present, 'tradition' or 'the past', rather than 'an unchanged residue… becomes a resource now capable of being consciously used to fashion and legitimate a form of life that exists only in a problematic and contingent present ' (1992, p. 134-135).…”

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Ethnicity and Tourism in Southeast Asia: Culture on the Move

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2016

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This paper focuses on the relationship between ethnicity and tourism and explores the wider field of cultural identity. The concern is to pursue a conceptual exploration of ethnicity, locating this exercise within a comparative regional context and in relation to tourism development. It then adopts a more applied position with regard to Iban sacred cloths in Sarawak, Malaysia, which have been transformed by tourism and other processes of globalization. It argues for the importance of advocacy and persuading governments to take ethnic identities seriously, acknowledging the role that emblems of identity play in building self-confidence and self-respect and ensuring that traditional knowledge and skills are sustained and that they are deployed in the development of local livelihoods and identities.

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Genetic Structure of the Semai

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Current Developments in Anthropological Genetics

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Ethnics and Ethics in Southeast Asia

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Transforming ASEAN: Strategies for Achieving Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

Transforming ASEAN: Strategies for Achieving Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

Ethnicity and Tourism in Southeast Asia: Culture on the Move

Genetic Structure of the Semai

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