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  Special issue to commemorate the communist uprisings in Indonesia in 1926 [November?] 1976 [shelf mark: 84/ZS 1398]

  2022年10月20日

• API: An Indonesian Journal of the late 1960s–1970s from Albania
  The Library of Southeast Asian Studies at the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg in Frankfurt recently catalogued two Indonesian leftist journals both entitled “API – Api Pemuda Indonesia” (‘Flames of Indonesian Youth’) which were published in Tirana in Albania from the 1960s onwards. Actually, two different editions of API were issued, one in the Indonesian language, the other in English and/or French, both with differing contents and separate volume counting. Both magazines were closely related to the Indonesian Communist Party and its exiles in Albania.
  The 30 September Movement in 1965 marked the end for the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and at the same time saw the tragic decline of Soekarno’s power and influence and the rise of Suharto as the president of Indonesia. The alleged coup and the allegation of PKI’s involvement in it became Suharto’s means of strengthening his position as the commander in chief by ordering the disbandment of PKI, which soon was followed by one of the biggest genocides in modern history.

  2022年10月20日

• National University of Singapore

  2022年10月20日

• the Southeast Asia Library Group (SEALG) Newsletters

  2022年10月20日

• 密码保护：Southeast Asia collections – The British Library

  2022年10月20日

• 密码保护：The Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL)

  2022年10月20日

• 密码保护：DREAMSEA – Digitising Manuscripts Safeguarding Cultural Diversity

  2022年10月19日

• In the decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, much of Southeast Asia was under Western colonial dominance. Most of the region was divided among the British, French, Dutch, Spanish, and American powers, supplanted by a brief period of Japanese influence following the outbreak of World War II in Europe and the Pacific. The post-war era witnessed a series of revolutions as local leaders looked to regain independence from colonial powers. Decolonisation efforts and movements spread throughout the region, leaving the newly independent states in charge of their own political, economic, and social pathways for the first time in decades.
  The Southeast Asian Newspapers, an Open Access collection supported by the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions, chronicles the changes that took place throughout the region during this period, and the challenges of early statehood. Covering several countries from the region, including Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and featuring multiple languages such as Dutch, English, French, Javanese, Khmer, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese, the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection incorporates a wealth of coverage and perspectives on major regional and global events of the late nineteenth and twetieth centuries.
  To date, altogether 129 newspaper titles with a total of 67,762 issues dating from between 1839 to 1976 have been included: 57 from the Philippines, 37 from Vietnam, 24 from Indonesia, 5 from Thailand, 3 from Malaysia, 1 from Cambodia and 1 from Myanmar. Among the earliest printed newspapers in the collection are Tranh đ̂áu, a newspaper in Vietnamese language published in Saigon (33 issues from between 1839 to 1938, with gaps), and Nangsư̄ čhotmāihēt (หนังสือจดหมายเหตุ – Bangkok Recorder), a Thai newspaper published in Bangkok (11 issues from 1844 to 1845).
  The online collection provides free access to the fully digitised issues of the newspapers (altogether 463,246 pages). Search functions by newspaper title, free word search, date and map help locate information easily. One additional feature is “On this date in history”, which presents randomly selected articles from various newspapers published in different countries on the date in history of the visit of this collection.

  2022年10月19日

• ‘I can’t refuse what they offer’

  2022年10月19日

• “Before, if someone offered me K10,000 for sex, I’d hand it over to other sisters who couldn’t support their families,” said Ma Kyi Pyar*. “Now, I’ll take K5,000.”
  A thin woman in her late 30s, with dyed red hair and wrinkles that show through her heavy makeup, Kyi Pyar has been a sex worker in Yangon since 2016. She lives in a village in Hmawbi Township on Yangon’s outer northern fringes with her five children and mother-in-law. When her husband died seven years ago, Kyi Pyar suddenly had to provide for her young family.
  “I went to a relatives’ house and did whatever chores they wanted, but I couldn’t earn enough,” she recalled. “Then I went alone to Sule Pagoda Road in downtown Yangon and began making money as a sex worker.”
  “I had two or three customers a day and was earning about K50,000, which was enough to support my family.” But amid the economic turmoil that has followed the February 2021 military coup, customers are paying far less. “In the past the price was K20,000 but now customers don’t want to pay even K10,000,” she said, adding that she has debts worth over K300,000 (US$107 at market rates).
  “Sex workers have been having a hard time since the COVID-19 pandemic, and after the military seized power it got worse. [Some] commodity prices have tripled and they have families to support,” said a member of a Myanmar NGO that provides healthcare, legal education and livelihood support to women in the industry, but which does not wish to be named because of the sensitivity of its work.

  2022年10月19日