SOUTHEAST ASIA ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
A great deal of information about Southeast Asia can be gleaned from the World Wide
Web, much of it from sites in Southeast Asia itself. A particularly useful
site is Southeast Asia Web: Internet Resources
for Scholars, Researchers and Friends of Southeast Asian Studies. The following
sites have been recommended by students in my Southeast Asia classes in the summer of 1998
and 1997.
Summer 1998 Class: Selected Topics
Current News (Robb Giordano)
The Star On-line (Malaysia)
Indonesia in Transition
The Straits Times (Singapore)
Bangkok Post (Thailand)
Internet Vietnam
Dance (Samir Hasan)
Vietnamese Dances
Galak Tika Balinese Dance Group at MIT
Dance, Music and Theatres of Bali
Cambodian Classical Dance
Homepage of Gay Asian Dance Club in Southern
California
Family (Jennifer Riddell)
Growing Up in War-torn
Cambodia
Family Planning, Family
Welfare and Women's Activities in Indonesia
Child Labor in the
Philippines
Food (Jennifer Nguyen)
Asian Cuisines
Malaysian Food and Restaurants
Ethnic Cuisines (click on Southeast
Asian countries)
Music (Michael Creech)
Traditional Music of Mainland
Southeast Asia
History of Musical Instruments and
Styles
Vietnamese Musical Styles and
Instruments
Musical Styles of Malaysia
Public Holidays (Edward Nahm)
Vietnamese Holidays
Festivals of Southeast Asian Countries
Religion (Joana Aikins)
Religion in Bali
Javanese Mystical Movements
Religion in
Indonesia
Theatre (Jennifer Newsome)
Javanese Wayang: Historical
Influences and the Dalang
Malaysian Theatre
Masks in Javanese Theatre
Wayang Museum in Jakarta,
Indonesia
Summer 1997 Class: Countries
Cambodia (Jon Palombi)
Cambodian Cultural Profile
(very useful, detailed survey)
Cambodian Information Center Homepage
(links to all sorts of sites about Cambodia and Cambodian refugees)
Beauty and Darkness: The Odyssey of the
Khmer People (a striking site about the modern history of Cambodians)
Cambodian Government Homepage
(useful statistics and descriptive detail)
WWW Virtual
Library Cambodia Page (includes links to different social science
disciplines)
Indonesia (Scott Downing)
Art and Culture of Indonesia
(many links on arts, crafts, architecture,
dance, music and more)
Films of Indonesia
(the collection of the National Library of Australia)
Art and Culture links (includes
clips of gamelan and contemporary popular music)
Indonesian Government
(links to ministries and agencies)
Islands of
Indonesia (click-on map with links to cultural information)
Indonesia: Bali (Ilene Vermes)
Music and Dance
(description and schedule of dances in Bali)
Culture and Customs
(brief descriptions of key rituals)
Balinese
Hot Spot (description of a Balinese cremation)
Calendar of Events in Bali
(with information about the indigenous 210-day calendar)
Food and Restaurants in Bali
(what and where to eat)
Indonesia: Java (Nicholas Diamantis)
Javanese Mystical Movements
(excellent site on key Javanese concepts)
Welcome to Yogyakarta
(links to tourist sites)
Javanese
Masks (great pictures)
Sites of East Java
(tourist-oriented information)
Laos (John Johnson)
Discovering Laos
(general background and survey of Laos' twelve provinces,
plus nice picture postcards)
Celebrations and
Holidays (with links to sound and video clips)
Destination Laos
(background and travel information, including travellers' reports)
Consular Information Sheet
(official information on travel to Laos)
Laos Human Rights Practices
(U.S. State Department annual reports)
Malaysia Gary Bruff
Malaysia Home Page
(links to information on a variety of topics)
Homepage of SCM
(postings to Soc.Culture Malaysia newsgroup)
Young Buddhist Association of Malaysia
(information on Chinese Buddhism in Malaysia)
Malaysian Recipes
(information on Malaysian cooking)
Myanmar (Burma) Jonathan Wells
Welcome to Myanmar
(a government site that offers a range of useful
information on history and culture, as well as other topics)
Burma Human
Rights Practices, 1995 (U.S. State Department review)
Free Burma Website
(opposition site about the real situation in Myanmar)
Teak and Deforestation
(government complicity in environmental degradation along the Thai border)
The Philippines (Brian Mikulka)
Philippines Home Page of De La Salle University
(links about languages,
culture, government, maps, and much more)
Philippine
History (overview with additional links)
Regional Varieties of
Filipino Folkdancing (regional folkdances reflect differences in culture and
history)
The Rice Terraces of
Northern Luzon (the "Eighth Wonder of the World")
San Agustin
Church (located in Manila, it reflects the importance of Roman Catholicism in
the Philippines)
Popular Culture
(a fun site on various "Filipino Firsts")
Singapore (Lana Garris)
Information Technology in Singapore
(general information about Singapore)
Architectural
Development in Singapore (from the Raffles period through the 1990s)
Singapore Kendo
Club (Japanese swordfighting in Singapore)
Sin Hua Gallery
(Chinese paintings)
Thailand (Lisa D'Angelo)
Welcome to Thailand
(govenment site with links to a variety of subjects)
The
Cultures of Thailand (historical overview of the four major cultural areas of
Thailand)
A Look at Thailand from a
Westerner's Point of View (dispels some misconceptions about Thailand)
A Dynamic Economy
(brief overview of Thailand's rapid economic growth)
About Thailand
(a variety of useful links, including several about Thai food)
Vietnam (Lien Hoang)
Vietnamese Culture and Community
(helpful for understanding Vietnam
through its history)
Vietnam Information
(links to information on many aspects of Vietnam)
Vietnamese Links
(includes sources about the Vietnamese-American community)
Viet Link (websites directory
for the Vietnamese-American community)
Buddhism in Vietnam
(its history from its origins)
Updated 7/20/98