EVENT [RESOURCES]: Policy Forum on Resource Politics and the Public Sphere In Southeast Asia: Deliberation, Accountability and Alternatives [Bangkok, 13 December 2018]

Program and List of Panelists:

08.15 - 09.00  Registration

09.00 - 09.15  Welcome remarks by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pandit Chanrojanakit, Deputy Dean for Research Department, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

09.15 - 10.30  Panel 1: Resource Politics and the Public Sphere in Southeast Asia: Trends, Opportunities, Challenges

Chair: Jakkrit Sangkamanee, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

• ‘How has the public sphere shaped Thailand’s resource politics, and implications for Southeast Asia’ by Naruemon Thabchumpon, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

• ‘Trends, opportunities and challenges in legal approaches to accountability in Indonesia: The role of the public sphere’ by Asfinawati, Executive Director, Indonesia Legal Aid Foundation

• ‘From local to transnational public spheres and public action: Reflecting on Singapore’s experience of haze’ by Benjamin Tay, President, People’s Movement to Stop Haze (PM Haze)

• ‘Trends, opportunities and challenges of environmental reporting in Southeast Asia: Whose voice is heard?‘ by Mong Palatino, Regional Editor for Southeast Asia, GlobalVoices

10.30 - 11.00  Coffee break

11.00 - 12.30  Panel 2: Transboundary accountability mechanisms and the public sphere

Chair: Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

• ‘Land and livelihoods in Cambodia: Lessons learned from the civil society’ by Eang Vuthy, Executive Director, Equitable Cambodia

• ‘Transboundary responsibility and accountability in Laos’ Hydropower projects’ by Premrudee Daoroung, Lao Dams Investment Monitor

• ‘Hard-law and soft-Law transnational accountability mechanisms and the public sphere in Southeast Asia’ by Carl Middleton, Center for Social Development Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

• ‘Rights to Development‘ by Commissioner Edmund Bon, Malaysia Representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights

12.30 - 13.30  Lunch

13.30 - 15.00  Panel 3: Protecting local commons and community livelihoods: Role of public spaces, mass media and social media

Chair: Chiranuch Premchaiporn, Foundation for Community Educational Media

• ‘Opportunities and challenges of the public sphere: Lessons learned from the Kendeng Movement to protect the land from mining industry’ by Mokh Sobirin, Kendeng Movement to protect the land from mining industry

• ‘Access to electricity in Dawei City: Implication of a transforming public sphere in Myanmar’ by Tay Zar Myo Win, Independent Researcher

• ‘Holding industrial pollution accountable in Vietnam: The role of social media and cyberactivism’ by Tran Vi, Co-founder and consultant , Luatkhoa.org

• ‘Multi-pronged approach: reflecting the anti-dam protest movement in Baram’ by Vincy Usun, Baram Kini

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee Break

15.30 - 16.45 Panel 4: Deliberating alternatives: Spaces for counter discourses

Chair: Srijula Yongstar, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Southeast Asia Regional Office

• ‘Towards A Green Energy Vision in Shan State: A case of Community-Owned Management on Energy, Water and Forest in Danu self-administrative area in Southern Shan’ by Kyi Phyo, Mekong Energy and Ecology Network (MEENet) and Aung Myint Tun, Green Rights Organization

• ‘Access to land for livelihoods in Southern Thailand’ by Charoenkwan Chuntarawichit, Youth member, Southern Peasants Federation of Thailand (SPFT)

• ‘Why Irrawaddy dolphins and sida birds live together: People’s stories as alter-narratives’ by Toshi Doi, Senior Advisor, Mekong Watch

• ‘The role of media in exploring alternatives in Southeast Asia’ by Kirsten Han, New Naratif

16.45 - 17.00  Closing Reflections

• Mr. Manfred Hornung, Director, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Southeast Asia Regional Office

• Professor Surichai Wun’gaeo, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Chulalongkorn University