The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality conducted its second annual Regional Institute, titled, Sexuality, Society, and Culture, from February 22 – March 2, 2005 in Surabaya, Indonesia. The Institute hosted 17 participants from nine countries in South and Southeast Asia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Thailand, The Philippines, and Vietnam. 

Participants

Ari Yuda Laksmana
Mitra Citra Remaja
Indonesia

Dwi Rubiyanti Kholifah
Rahima Foundation
Indonesia

Ha Thi hanh Do
Center for Public Opinion Research
Vietnam

Heni Mulyati
Indonesia

Irma Riyani
The State Institute for Islamic Studies
Indonesia

Khartini Bin Slamah
PT Foundation
Malaysia

Kulavir Prapapornpipat
Women’s Studies Center, Faculty of Social Sciences
Chiangmai University
Thailand

Maria Melinda Flores Ando
The Theia Initiative, Inc.
Philippines

Marlea Munez
WEDPRO, Inc.
Philippines

Muhammad Aslam Bajwa
Organization for Participatory Development (OPD)
Pakistan

Nasrin Siraj Annie
Nayantara Communications
Bangladesh

Nguyen Thu Huong
CARE International
Viet Nam

Pun Sok
CARE Cambodia
Cambodia

Srisuman Sartsara
UNESCO Bangkok
Thailand

Syed Asif Altaf Chowdhury
NSDP/CARE-Bangladesh
Bangladesh

Theresa Gustilo Gallardo
EnGendeRights, Inc.
Philippines

Thuy Thi Thanh Do
Faculty of Special Education
Hanoi University of Education
Vietnam

Yang Yang
Chi Heng Foundation
China

Faculty

Benedict Anderson is Emeritus Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor of International Studies at Cornell University USA. He is a specialist on the theory of nationalism, and on the politics and culture of SE Asia, especially Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, and author of ‘Imagined Communities’ and of ‘The Spectre of Comparisons’.

Radhika Chandiramani founded TARSHI. A clinical psychologist, she works and writes on issues of sexuality, focusing on young people, sexuality education, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. 

Geetanjali Misra is Executive Director, CREA, New Delhi. She has worked intensively at the activist, grant making and policy levels in the fields of sexuality, reproductive health and violence against women. She is also the co-founder of SAKHI for South Asian women in New York.

Dede Oetomo is a founding member and senior expert in the Research and Education Division of GAYa NUSANTARA Foundation, Surabaya, Indonesia, a community-based organization working on issues of diversity in sex, gender and sexuality.

Douglas Sanders is Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia; LL.M. Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. He has taught international human rights law, prepared expert background papers for UN human rights seminars, and written extensively on human rights issues relating to indigenous peoples and sexual and gender minorities.