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This paper examine the existence of separatism in Southeast Asia, specifically, the interactions between state approaches in dealing with nationalist movements. The question is on how the identity of the Pattani Southern Thailand, Acehnese in Indonesia and Moro in the Philippines created and how state approaches contend with the movements. The aims of this paper are explaining these movements identity creation through historical experiences over centuries, and state approaches challenge the movements. The result shows that Moros and Acehnese identity formed through their conflicting historical journeys with kolonialists. However, Pattani identity constructed through history of Buddist rulers that also full of conflicts with Thai Muslim society. The values that referred on these three communities basically are ethno-nationalist shared with Islamic values. These communities are facing state repressions through military and bureaucracy policies, which only meet dead ends by the existence of conflicts. Pattani movement oppressed by Budhist Thailand acted discriminatively on Muslim community because of politics of differences of ethno-religion. The Thai rulers label Pattani as Islamic terrorist group. Likewise, the Philippines governerment fuels conflicts by demonizing Moros as same as Abu Sayyaf terrorist group. The Indonesian government did on the other side of the coin, which is not to demonize Acehnese as terrorist group when they have chance to did so and even after tsunami in 2004, they manage Helsinki agreement in 2005. It suggested that these three governments use multicultural nation approaches in dealing with the movements, which accommodate pluralist and multicultural identities on a more equal position.

"Over the past twenty years, there is a growing debate about the role of entrepreneurship in regional development and competitiveness. Innovation and entrepreneurship have become core concepts in the strategic planning of organizations as means of achieving long-term growth and competitive advantages. There is growing consensus that entrepreneurship involves the way individuals and organizations create and implement new ideas by responding to their environment, participating in processes of change and complexity. In this context, the present book examines the dynamics of entrepreneurial innovation in the challenging region of Southeast Asia, which requires companies and governments to respond to change with adaptability in order to benefit from these shifts. Southeast Asia includes various religions and border conflicts between neighboring countries are still unresolved. Nevertheless, with the Asian Economic Community on the horizon, Southeast Asia will become the largest free trade zone in the world. The book is organized in five theme sections, which portray the diverse perspectives on innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development in Southeast Asia and beyond. Most of the countries, apart from Singapore and Hong Kong, have often been neglected in the scholarly community. Case studies and empirical research are relatively rare, especially compared to the western hemisphere as well as to India, China, and Japan. The present book provides a unique view on how these differences create opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs, examining the ways by which cross-border collaborations and different government interventions enable or prohibit the growth of the region"--

"This book examines the evolution of fiscal capacity in the context of colonial state formation and the changing world order between 1850 and 1960. Until the early nineteenth century, European colonial control over Asia and Africa was largely confined to coastal and island settlements, which functioned as little more than trading posts. The officials running these settlements had neither the resources nor the need to develop new fiscal instruments. With the expansion of imperialism, the costs of maintaining colonies rose. Home governments, reluctant to place the financial burden of imperial expansion on metropolitan taxpayers, pressed colonial governments to become fiscally self-supporting. A team of leading historians provides a comparative overview of how colonial states set up their administrative systems and how these regimes involved local people and elites. They shed new light on the political economy of colonial state formation and the institutional legacies they left behind at independence."

This paper seeks to explore the impact of digital technologies upon the material, conceptual and ideological premises of the colonial archive in the digital era. This analysis is pursued though a discussion of creative work produced in the context of an international, multidisciplinary artist workshop in Yogyakarta, Indonesia that used digital material from colonial archives to critically investigate the ways national, transnational and personal (hi)stories in the former colonies have been informed and shaped by the colonial past. The analysis focuses on how the artists' use of digital media contests and reconfigures the use, truth value and power of the colonial archive as an entity and institution. Case studies include: Thai photographer Dow Wasiksiri, who questions the archive's mnemonic function by substituting early twentieth-century handcrafted association techniques with digital manipulation; Malaysian artist Yee I-Lann, who compresses onto the same picture plane different historical moments and colonial narratives; and Indonesian photographer Agan Harahap, who recomposes archival photographs into unlikely juxtapositions disseminated through social media. By repurposing colonial archival material and circulating their work online such a re-imag(in)ing of South East Asia not only challenges the notions of originality, authenticity, ownership and control associated with the colonial archive, but also reclaims colonial (hi)stories making them part of a democratic, expanding, postcolonial archive.

Selection of papers presented at an international conference held in Perth in December 1993

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