Regional Cybersecurity Policy Developments in Southeast Asia and the Wider Asia Pacific

2016 ◽  
pp. 233-245
Author(s):  
Caitríona Heinl
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Asia Pacific

The Global Environmental Agenda of 2021 and the tasks of sustainable energy-ecological development and cooperation between Japan and countries Southeast Asia

2021 ◽  
pp. 951-965
Author(s):  
Yana Vadimovna Mishchenko
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

The article discusses the main results of two major international summits held in October-November 2021, the key topics of which were the issues of the global fight against climate change and environmental protection. The decisions taken at these conferences, with the broad participation of world leaders, reflect the fundamental trends of the global environmental agenda. Within the framework of this agenda, Japan and the countries of Southeast Asia are building their modern energy and environmental cooperation. In this context, the article examines the main urgent tasks of energy-environmental interaction and sustainable development of Japan and the states of Southeast Asia. These countries are located in the Asia-Pacific region, which remains until now the main emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. However, the indicators of environmental pollution by Japan and the Southeast Asian countries are relatively not so high, compared to some other states in the region and the world. The article discusses the most relevant and significant examples of bilateral and multilateral cooperation between these countries in areas related to curbing global warming and climate protection. It has been revealed that with all the efforts made, since the 1990s, the indicators of reducing harmful emissions into the atmosphere in Japan remain modest and even lag behind some of the Western countries. The Southeast Asian countries show a serious attitude to the development of renewable energy, but their intention to abandon coal still raises some doubts about the methods of implementing this ambitious plan. In particular, it is currently not entirely clear whether these countries are preparing to make a full-fledged "energy transition" in the coming decades, or whether they just intend to replace their coal-fired thermal power plants with gas ones.

Enhancing Employee Stress Resilience (Wellness): A Study of Women Leaders in Asia Pacific

2020 ◽  
pp. 263145412097351
Author(s):  
Subba Vaidyanathan ◽  
Gopal Mahapatra
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Women Leaders ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Work And Life

We live in an era of globalisation where technology, automation and digital networks drive disruptions in various spheres of life, work, family, health and society. They have increased productivity, ease of working and material comfort for humans worldwide, along with accelerating the pace of work and life. With the continued growth of technology, we are on the verge of Industry 4.0. The implications are changing at a fast pace and are associated with negative impact on health and wellness, as employees struggle to cope. In the last two decades, there has appeared a growing awareness of the need for total wellness, with implications for employee engagement and productivity. In the recent months, COVID-19 has caused further pressure on mental health, with employees struggling with anxiety, stress and depression, when organisations need them to be fully engaged, focused and making critical decisions. In this article, the authors highlight the need to equip employees with tools to build total resilience: physical, mental and spiritual. They propose a toolbox called ‘R-box’ (resilience box) to enhance employees’ ability to perform under stress. The toolkit is developed from the perspective that employees and leaders see themselves as corporate athletes ( Loehr & Schwartz, 2001 ) and train themselves as athletes do, so as to sustain high levels of performance and, in the process, achieve high personal growth. Considering time as a major resource constraint for low adoption, R-box uses a range of mini-interventions, focused on the four areas of ‘run’ (body movement), ‘refresh’ (nutrition), ‘restore’ (sleep) and ‘rebalance’ (mind-related). Being Strong is a programme for leaders who have been running for a few years in Asia-Pacific (APAC). ‘R-box’ is central to this programme. An exploratory study was conducted with women leaders in Southeast Asia, especially from Malaysia and Indonesia, who were a part of the Being Strong programme. In the study, the authors try to find out how the R-box toolkit, practised by the participants over 12 weeks, has impacted their ability to deal with stress and grow their resilience. This article elaborates the findings of the survey conducted in 2020, 90 days after the programme. The survey showed over 80 per cent adoption by the participants. Further, over 85 per cent of those who adopted the toolkit saw an improvement in their ability to deal with stress with enhanced resilience. This appears to demonstrate the usefulness of R-box as a powerful toolkit for enhancing resilience. Based on the above, the authors propose the study to be extended to a larger audience in Southeast Asia and beyond. They also recommend HR to play a lead role in bringing wellness, as a driver of employee engagement and productivity. This has implications for the immediate situation of COVID-19 pandemic-impacted work and life, and the future of work too.

Introduction to the Symposium on Localising and Globalising Patterns in Natural Resource Use in Southeast Asia

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fadzilah Majid Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Market Production ◽  
Sites Of Action

Focusing on land, forests and coastal resources of Southeast Asia, this collection of articles explores an emerging interest in exploring local development and change in national, regional (Asia Pacific) and global terms. Specifically, the authors are interested in steering clear of viewing ‘global’ forces (of market production and environmentalism) as the privileged sites of action with the ‘local’ relegated to a ‘mediating’ role vis–à–vis these larger influences. On the contrary, the articles suggest that local groups actively engage in reshaping discourses and practices of the global (Majid Cooke, Tomforde). Local groups grow crops, often changing from subsistence to cash-producing ones or from one cash crop to another for a complexity of reasons – often not of their own choosing – which reflect local, regional, national and global power differentials (Majid Cooke, McKay, Sato).

scholarly journals POLITIK HUKUM PEMBENTUKAN BADAN KEAMANAN LAUT DALAM MENJAGA KEAMANAN MARITIM DI INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rafi Darajati ◽  
Muhammad Syafei
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Maritime Security ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Advantageous Position ◽  
Sea Area

As the largest archipelagic state in the world, Indonesia has a very wide sea area. Indonesia has a natural resources which are very plentiful. These are certainly advantageous position for Indonesia as the main strength both in the Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific if we capable to exploiting it. Those conditions also can be a boost for the whole layer components of the nation to increase the possessed capability to establish itself as a maritime nation. However the current maritime security in Indonesia still vulnerable due to high levels of violations there. It happens because there are certain parties who enter Indonesia wanting to exploit the national resources illegally. Based on the various problem that often occur, the effort to protect and ensure the security of the country by seas in an absolute must. Authors use juridical normative research method with literature studies. The result of this research shows that Indonesia government’s strong desire to bring Indonesia into a maritime nations which one of the issues is related to the maritime security is by establishing the Indonesia Coast Guard. As for the legal policy formation Indonesia Coast Guard is to synergy the various agencies in securing the Indonesia’s sea because there will not be a sectoral ego either in institutions or governments which is connected so the maritime security will be run effectively.  

scholarly journals Perubahan Jalur Pelayaran Terhadap Peta Perekonomian Asia Tenggara Dampak Pembangunan Terusan Kra Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
Aninditya Gita Kireina Persada ◽  
Lazarus Tri Setyawanta
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Impact

Terusan Kra merupakan kanal yang telah direncanakan pembangunannya oleh Thailand sejak abad ke-17. Dengan dibangunnya terusan Kra yang dimungkinkan berhasil memberi efisiensi terhadap penyingkatan waktu pelayaran di daerah Asia Pasifik tentu akan memberi dampak kerugian yang signifikan pada terusan Malaka yang telah terlebih dahulu dibuat. Dampak pembangunan tersebut akan mempengaruhi perubahan jalur pelayaran serta merubah peta perekonomian Asia Tenggara secara makro. Tujuan dari tulisan ini ada untuk mengetahui dampak dan perubahan signifikan terhadap pembangunan terusan Kra di masa depan. Metode yang digunakan merupakan pendekatan yuridis normatif yang menggunakan data sekunder melalui penelitian kepustakaan dan studi dokumen. Adanya terusan Kra akan merubah neraca ekspor dan impor secara signifikan serta akan memberikan perubahan besar ke beberapa negara-negara di Asia Pasifik. Hingga saat ini mulai banyak negara-negara di Asia Tenggara yang mulai merencanakan dan membangun kawasan pantainya agar dapat bersaing saat nantinya Terusan Kra dibuka. The Kra Canal is a canal that Thailand has planned to build since the 17th century. With the construction of the Kra canal, which is possible to provide efficiency in reducing shipping time in the Asia Pacific region, it will certainly have a significant impact on the Malacca canal that was previously built. This development impact will affect changes in shipping lanes and change the economic map of Southeast Asia at a macro level. The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact and significant changes to the development of the Kra canal in the future. The method used is a normative juridical approach that uses secondary data through library research and document study. The existence of the Kra canal will change the export and import balance significantly and will provide big changes for several countries in Asia Pacific. Until now, many countries in Southeast Asia have started planning and building their coastal areas so that they can compete when the Kra Canal opens.

scholarly journals Skills Development in The Asia-Pacific Maritime World: A Comparative Study of Vocational Education in Malaysia and Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33
Author(s):  
Ramlee Mustapha
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Technical And Vocational Education ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
The Impact

This region of Southeast Asia shares more social and cultural ties with other Austronesian peoples in the Pacific than with the peoples of mainland Southeast Asia. Contemporarily, Asia Pacific is still the fastest growing economic region in the world despite economic turbulence and uncertainties in recent years due to the global economic slow-down.  As one of centres of economic power, the region could hardly remain immune to the globalizing impact of economic and technological change. The purpose of this study was to explore the development of Technical and Vocational education in Malaysia and Indonesia by analyzing the history, policies, and its direction. In Malaya, the Technical and Vocational education prior to independence had projected the images of “colonial apprenticeship” with the emphasis on manual agricultural and crafts, which aimed at training the Malay students to fill positions in the Railway department under the Federated Malay States. After independence, Technical and Vocational education in Malaysia continued to grow, and some reforms have been implemented to improve the image of Technical and Vocational education itself.  In Indonesia, a similar development occurred but the difference is in terms of Technical and Vocational education funding at the secondary level where there are many private Technical and Vocational schools as compared to Malaysia.  There are new concepts introduced in Technical and Vocational education, such as the Tech-Prep, Time Sector Privatization and Vocational Colleges in Malaysia and Link and Match, Dual System, Product-based Curriculum, and Total Performance Management (TPM) in Indonesia, but the concepts are yet to be carried out optimally due of some constraints.  The implications of this study are to identify the human capital development in the maritime Archipelago countries from the perspectives of the competitiveness and the preparation for dealing with the impact of globalization.

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