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The Indonesian newspaper published an article talking about the research cooperation of the universities of Freiburg and Yogyakarta.

The interdisciplinary conference on "Methodology in Southeast Asian Studies: Grounding Research - Mixing Methods" was held from the 29 May until the 31 May 2012 at the University of Freiburg.

Krisztina Kis-Katos held a lecture on Globalization and the poor at a TEDx Conference in Stuttgart in which she challenges conventional wisdom on the relationship between Globalization and the poor.

The TEMPO magazine on the role of foreign researchers in Indonesian history quotes Jürgen Rüland and refers to Freiburg University as an important site for research on Indonesia in Germany.

In a guest article Prof. Rüland explains that the existing Asian Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) is merely "a façade of legitimacy" vested with very few rights and meeting only once a year. He argues that ASEAN's decision impact a large part of the Southeast Asian population and therefore the organization needs to "become more inclusive and accountable". In his opinion, one way to achieve this would be a reform of AIPA that would make the parliament more representative and powerful.