New Naratif's Southeast Asia Dispatches

To suppress speech and dissent regarding the cruelty of capital punishment, the Singaporean government has issued POFMAs on activists who dared to challenge their harsh authority. How do you make sure your voice is heard under such stringent measures then?

In part one of a two-part Southeast Asia Dispatches episode, we talk to Kokila Annamalai from the Transformative Justice Collective about abolishing the death penalty in Singapore, and the larger role that capital punishment plays in asserting control over Singaporean society.

The Social Media Licensing Framework is one of the ways that the Malaysian government is trying to control online interactions of its citizens. However, where did this licensing framework emerge from?

In this episode of Southeast Asia Dispatches, we talk to Khairil Yusof from the Sinar Project about the lessons we can learn from past actions of civil society, the government, and tech companies, alongside the factors that we need to be paying attention to this time around.

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Today we want to discuss a very particular kind of censorship. It’s a subtle kind of censorship, it materialises in behind the scenes, in everyday interactions between coworkers and editors. To some it won’t even be apparent that censorship is going on. Today I want to find out if media work has a masculinity problem, and just how deep does it run.

What does it mean to be invisible? Do you need to be completely hidden, or is it simply lacking a voice, or maybe having an uninterested audience? And once you’re hidden, how do you bridge that gap to be seen again?

In this episode we talk with Journalist S. Noina Supratya and examine how a legacy of Thai centrality erases the news from local and rural media outlets. We’ll also discuss the new and unexpected ways journalists can overcome this erasure.

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This episode was recorded in front of an online live audience as part of our Media Freedom Network Legal Briefing activity.

Transparency and accountability and historical awareness are some of the most important pillars of democracy. Historical revisionism is an affront to that democracy. And enforced disappearances, where the police or military or paramilitary forces knock on your door and kidnap you, has always been the bedrock of such revisionism.

In this episode with Wulan Kusuma Wardhani and Celia Sevilla, we will talk about the cases of enforced disappearance in Indonesia and the Philippines, mechanisms for dealing with enforced disappearances, and what kind of regional solidarity that we need to tackle this issue.

Editors Note: At 47:44, we mentioned "72 organisations" it is supposed to say "72 ratifications".

In this episode, Wai Liang Tham (New Naratif's Researcher) and Avon Ang (Altermidya's National Coordinator) will talk about the 2nd and the 3rd publication of New Naratif’s Media Freedom Insights series titled “Engendering Media Freedom”, the role of Altermidya, and what to expect from New Naratif’s 4th MFI publication.

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In this episode, Oktaria Asmarani (New Naratif's Researcher) and Thilaga Sulathireh (Justice for Sisters) will talk about the systemic and structural issues that hinder the practice of inclusive democracy in Southeast Asia, the cases in Malaysia, the role of research, and the importance of regional solidarity.

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