ACE Regional Newsletter: South-East Asia, April 2008

Apr 16, 2008

ACE Regional Newsletter: South-East Asia

April 2008

Upcoming Elections:

Cambodia Parliamentary, July 27

Upcoming Events:

The 8th ASEAN Inter-University Conference On Social Development will be held on 28-31 May, 2008
in Century Park Hotel, Manila, Philippines. The theme of the papers is ASEAN as a Community: Solidarity in a Globalizing World.

The Seventh Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) will be held in Beijing, China on 13-17 October 2008. The purpose of the AEPF is to contribute to the realization of a world based on the principles of peace, participatory democracy, social justice, human rights, food sovereignty, sustainability and people’s rights to self-determination.

Feature Articles

Participation of Youth in Elections: This article by COMFREL describes the limited attention paid to youth and youth influence in the Cambodian election process... find more election related information on Cambodia here.

Discussing the Performance of National Election Commission' (KPU)'s Selection Committee: This article describes the selection process for the National Election Commission member in Indonesia for the future 2009 election... read more here.

What's New on ACE

Electoral Materials pages. Find new materials, such as ballot papers, posters, statistics, election calendars, constitutions etc. for the Southeast Asia Region … search for electoral materials »

South-East Asia Regional Centre page. This page works as a regional node, collecting information about the countries of South-East Asia… read more »

Malaysia country page. Malaysia recently held general elections on March 8, 2008. At the Malaysian country page you will find more information and news articles… read more »

Information Resources

Election Campaigning in East and Southeast Asia: Globalization of political marketing examines the various changes in election campaigning in East and Southeast Asia. See the Malaysia and Philippines election campaigning chapter.

Voting from Abroad: The International IDEA Handbook examines the concept of external voting, existing practices and the challenges that surround this issue. See the case study on first time experience of overseas voting in the Philippines and a long established system for external voting at diplomatic missions in Indonesia.

This newsletter is provided by the ACE Regional Centre of South-East Asia. The activities of the Regional Centres are funded by EU and UNDEF.

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