Indonesian Infrastructure in Politics By Lucky Agung Pratama Indonesians will go to the polls in April, bringing the contentious presidential campaign to an end, at least before the cycle repeats again in five years. During this race between incumbent president Joko Widodo and his opponent, Prabowo Subianto, both candidates have boasted about what they have

Please note that these translations from the original Indonesian were made by Southeast Asia Center staff for the educational benefit of our readers but without official approval from the news outlets.  The original articles, with attribution, are also included on this page.  While the translations were made by bilingual staff, thus minimizing the chance for

By Lucky Agung Pratama As one of the emerging countries, Indonesia has been undergoing rapid development in multiple sectors. Businesses are growing and the need for a better infrastructure is higher than ever. However, with the growth comes another issue: pollution. Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia that is still seeing growth in terms of both

By Lucky Agung Pratama                     Originally, Cham people inhabited what now is known as central Vietnam. In the seventeenth century, a number of Cham migrated to Cambodia and settled there.  But in the twentieth century, due to the political turmoil occurring in Cambodia in the 1970s,

By Lucky Agung Pratama The United Nations Development Program’s “Sustainable Development Goals” is a framework comprised of seventeen goals designed to safeguard and enhance societal well-being by ending poverty, protecting the environment, achieving gender equality, ensuring access to education, and other important objectives.  Although we hear little about this set of goals in the US,

  by Adrian Alarilla This year, the theme of the SEAxSEA Film Festival was “Connections,” engaging our filmmakers as well as the audience to find meaningful connections between us here in Seattle and Southeast Asia. For their part, our filmmakers met that challenge exceedingly well. Many of them made connections with the past, recalling traditions

Lucky Agung Pratama is in the PhD program in the Built Environment, received his MS at UW in Construction Management in 2015, and is the Southeast Asia Center’s Graduate Student Assistant this year.  Originally from Padang, Sumatera, over winter break, Lucky traveled back to Indonesia to get married.  Lucky’s new wife is from Central Java. 

This is the second year of the SEAxSEA Film Festival which Adrian Alarilla (MA, Southeast Asian Studies, 2018) conceived, organized, and programmed in connection with the Southeast Asia Center.  On January 10th and 11th, 2019, Adrian will take time away from his PhD program at the University of Hawai’i to run SEAxSEA II, the next

Andika Murandi is a Seattle-based architect. It was his love for drawings that drove him to pursue a degree in Architecture. After graduating from Parahyangan University in Bandung, Indonesia, he moved to Oregon to pursue a graduate degree in Architecture. Andika stayed in Eugene for several years before working for an architecture firm in downtown

By Yusri Supiyan, PhD Candidate in Political Science   On Tuesday, November 6, UW Emeritus Prof. Charles Hirschman, his wife Josephine, UW MA student Choriun Nisa, and I drove up to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver to attend a seminar titled “Harapan: A New Page in Malaysian Politics?” UW alum Joe Kinzer also