1 Southeast Asia Tuesday, May 25 GEOG 1982 Lecture Outline • Lecture themes: Division • Burma & Thailand • Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, & The Mekong River • Island & Peninsular Southeast Asia – Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei • Indonesia • The Philippines • Green Revolution Burma (Myanmar) • Military regime, rural, poor population – 100,000 Burmese living in refugee camps in Thailand & Bangladesh – Multi-ethnic – Largely Buddhist Shwezigon Pagoda Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon
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Southeast Asia
Tuesday, May 25 GEOG 1982
Lecture Outline
• Lecture themes: Division • Burma & Thailand • Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, & The Mekong River • Island & Peninsular Southeast Asia
– Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei • Indonesia • The Philippines • Green Revolution
Burma (Myanmar) • Military regime, rural, poor
population – 100,000 Burmese living in
refugee camps in Thailand & Bangladesh
– Multi-ethnic – Largely Buddhist
Shwezigon Pagoda
Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon
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Thailand • “Little Tiger” of 1990s
– TNCs • King Bhumibol Adulyadej
Bangkok, Thailand: Protests – Military coup Sep 2006 ousted Thaksin Shinawatra – 2008 Abhisit Vejjajiva – 2010 United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship
(anti-government) want Thaksin back in office (‘red shirts’)
Indonesia • 17,000 islands; Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, West
Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste • High population (4th most populous country in the world) • Dutch colony, Sukarno (1945-68), Suharto (1968-98) • Deforestation (international logging companies) (pp. 438-9)
Strengthening Indonesian Democracy http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=FEEDROOM197164
Singapore (pp. 463-4)
• Economically successful; wealthy • Highly planned • State control • 75% Chinese
Philippines • Roman Catholic,
Spanish speaking • Mount Pinatubo
(1991) • Ferdinand Marcos
dictator 1965-1986 • Wealthy Chinese-
Filipino minority
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Green Revolution (p. 463)
• Scientifically developed high yield seeds – Wheat, rice, corn
• Most effective with use of fertilizers, pesticides, & farm machinery
• Dramatic increase in crop yields • Reorganized agriculture