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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.

The Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Yogakarta, Indonesia, and the university of Freiburg have agreed to extend their research cooperation that already exists since 2004.

Lukas Maximilian Müller reports on the proceedings of the workshop which focused on Asian civil society.

The workshop was held on 11 July 2011 at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Singapore University. The workshop participants from Freiburg University were Jürgen Rüland and Paruedee Nguitragool.

Interview with Stefan Rother on migration policies: