Internet Resources V: Government, Law, and Politics

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Amnesty International

http://www.amnesty.org/
Contains useful information on human rights issues, full-text articles, policy papers and links to related sites.

Library of Congress Country Studies

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
The LC Country Studies series, written by a team academics, provides a broad overview of the history and the contemporary political and social conditions of numerous countries around the world, including those that constitute Southeast Asia.

ASEAN Web

http://www.aseansec.org/home.htm The official homepage of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), ASEAN Web contains brief information on the current political and economic state of all its member states.

Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/welcome.html
Contains more than 5,000 pages of documentation, including full-text journal articles and scholarly books, on the history of political violence in the 20th century (i.e. genocide, politicide, and democide). This site, created by R. J. Rummel, who has written more than two dozen books and 100 professional articles on the question of collective violence and war, includes a wealth of secondary source materials on the history of democide-cum-genocide in Nazi Germany, the former U.S.S.R., China, Rwanda, Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia, East Timor, and the Philippines, among others. In addition, it contains several hundred journal articles on the question of conflict resolution.

Brunei

The Government of Brunei Darussalam

http://www.brunei.gov.bn/index.htm
As the official webpage of the government of Brunei, this site provides brief descriptions of Brunei's system of government, information about its various ministries and departments, as well as its national policies.

Burma (Myanmar)

Aung San Suu Kyi

http://www.ibiblio.org/freeburma/assk/assk.html
Details the political life and activities of world-famous human rights activist and pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Cambodia

Cambodia E-Gov

http://www.cambodia.gov.kh/unisql1/egov/english/home.view.html
Official website of the government of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

Beauty and Darkness: Cambodia in Modern History

http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/
Provides fairly extensive information on modern Cambodian history, particularly the Pol Pot era. The Beauty and Darkness project was organized by volunteers associated with the Mekong Network. Included in this collection are scholarly and semi-scholarly articles on recent Cambodian history, oral histories from the Democratic Kampuchea period, biographical essays, photographs, and facts and figures related to the study of the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Revolution.

Cambodian Genocide Project

http://www.yale.edu/cgp/
Provides online access to searchable databases containing bibliographic citations, full-text articles, English translations of key historical documents, and photographic archives documenting the Cambodian Revolution and the Democratic Kampuchea regime (1975-1979).
The Cambodian Genocide Project, founded and directed by the renowned Genocide Studies Program at the Yale Center for International Studies, has collected and digitized a substantial body of primary and secondary source materials on the history of the Cambodian Revolution and Democratic Kampuchea (DK). Included in this searchable database are a 100,000-page archive of DK's security apparatus, the Santebal, over twenty-thousand biographic and bibliographic records, and well over 6,000 photographs, documents, translations, and maps. In addition, the site includes full-text newspaper articles and essays on the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal, the historic role of the United States in Cambodia (especially during the years 1975-79), and the state of contemporary Cambodian politics. By virtually any standards, the Cambodian Genocide Project is an impressive resource.

The Digital Archive of Cambodian Holocaust Survivors

http://www.cybercambodia.com/dachs/
Includes short historical sketches, survivor stories, profiles, a digital archive, which incorporates a collection of rare photographs and other images, of both the Democratic Kampuchea era and contemporary Cambodia.

From Slideshow to Genocide: Stories of the Cambodian Holocaust

http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/index.html
Provides full-text articles, short historical sketches, photographs, and biographical accounts of the survivors of the Pol Pot era (1975-1979). Andy Carvin, the website's creator, is a Senior Associate at the Benton Foundation in Washington D.C. and a member of the board of directors for the Asia-Pacific Center for Justice and Peace. The texts, written in a semi-scholarly, journalistic style, provide a basic introduction to the history of the Cambodian Revolution.

Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam)

http://www.dccam.org/
Contains extensive documentation on the Khmer Rouge, including biographies of cadres and victims, confessions, and execution logs (presently being loaded), digital maps, identifying Khmer Rouge prisons burial sites, and present-day genocide memorials in Cambodia, documented interviews and survivor stories, photographs and exhibitions, Khmer Rouge sayings and revolutionary songs, and many other primary source materials.

Indonesia

Indonesian Government Websites

http://indonesia.elga.net.id/govweb.html
Includes an extensive list of Indonesian government websites.

Building Human Security in Indonesia

http://www.preventconflict.org/portal/main/portalhome.php
Launched by the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University, Building Human Security in Indonesia provides indepth analysis and detailed information on Indonesian society, particularly as it relates to the history of upheaval and violence in Indonesia and the important question of conflict resolution.

INCORE--Guide to Internet Resources on Conflict and Ethnicity in Indonesia

http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/services/cds/countries/indonesia.html
Organized by International Conflict Research group, a joint project involving the United Nations University and the University of Ulster, INCORE provides a wealth of information on the question of conflict resolution in Indonesia. The site also includes a guide to internet resources pertaining to the study of conflict in Indonesia.

Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

http://www.csis.or.id/
CSIS, based in Jakarta, is an independent, non-profit organization which focusses on policy-oriented studies in the field of international and domestic affairs. It provides full-text working papers, news about ongoing research, and other useful information pertaining to the study of Indonesia and, more generally, Southeast Asia.

Tapol--The Indonesian Human Rights Campaign

http://tapol.gn.apc.org/
Contains news, full-text articles and policy papers on the human rights situtation in Indonesia and East Timor.

Malaysia

Malaysia Governmental Department Links

http://e-directory.com.my/gov-department.htm Includes an extensive index of Malaysian government websites.

Philippines

Singapore

Singapore Government (SINGOV) Internet Site

http://www.gov.sg/
SINGOV is the official website of the government of Singapore.

Thailand

Complete Royal Thai Government Web Sites Directory

http://www.eppo.go.th/index_thaigov.html
Includes a comprehensive index of Thai government web sites.

6 Tula 2519

http://www.2519.net/
6 Tula 2519 provides in-depth, scholarly information, mainly in Thai, on the history of the 6 October 1976 massacre at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. 6 Tula 2519 incorporates a wide range of primary and secondary source materials on the 6 October 1976 incident. Included in this collection are full-text articles by noted historians Charnvit Kasetsiri, Thongchai Winichakul, and Nidhi Aeusrivongse, among others. It also includes an extensive collection of rare photographs, a chronology of events, letters and other personal documents related to the history of 6 October. Lastly, 6 Tula 2519 has a Thai-language "electronic blackboard" for posting questions and comments on modern Thai politics.