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Alunaza, Hardi, Arni Nur Sukma Pertiwi, and Adityo Darmawan Sudagung. "THE IMPACT OF SINGAPORE COASTAL RECLAMATION AGAINST MARITIME BOUNDARIES AND TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY OF INDONESIA-SINGAPORE." Jurnal Asia Pacific Studies 2, no. 2 (November 30, 2018): 132. http://dx.doi.org/10.33541/japs.v2i2.792.
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Singapore has undertaken coastal reclamation activities since 1976 in the southwest of Singapore's main island bordering the Nipa Island, Riau Archipelago, Indonesia. In reclamation, Singapore took sand from Nipa Island Indonesia bounded by the sea with Singapore. This reclamation will have an impact on several things that is the maritime boundaries and the territorial sovereignty of both countries. This article is attempted to describe how the impact of Singapore coastal reclamation against the maritime boundary and territorial sovereignty of Indonesia-Singapore. The author is using the concept of State Sovereigntynd the International Maritime Law in UNCLOS 1982. Furthermore, this paper is using the descriptive method with the qualitative approach. The data collection technique is literature study consisting of books, journals, and including data from the reliable website in supporting the explanation of this paper. Based on the provisions of UNCLOS 1982, it can be concluded that Singapore's coastal reclamation has no effect on the maritime boundary between Indonesia and Singapore, where maritime boundaries remain at baseline before Singapore reclamates. However, Singapore's coastal reclamation could threaten Indonesia's territorial sovereignty as the mainland of Singapore approaching Nipa Island Indonesia can assume that Singapore wants to take control of Nipa Island, especially the Nipa Island region is strategically located because of its near to the Singapore Strait which is an international shipping line.
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Singapura telah melakukan kegiatan reklamasi pantai sejak 1976 di barat daya pulau utama Singapura yang berbatasan dengan Pulau Nipa, Kepulauan Riau, Indonesia. Dalam reklamasi, Singapura mengambil pasir dari Pulau Nipa Indonesia yang dibatasi langsung oleh laut dengan Singapura. Reklamasi ini akan berdampak pada beberapa hal, yaitu batas maritim dan kedaulatan teritorial kedua negara. Tulisan ini memaparkan bagaimana dampak reklamasi pantai Singapura terhadap batas maritim dan kedaulatan teritorial Indonesia-Singapura. Dalam tulisan ini, penulis menggunakan konsep Kedaulatan Negara dan Hukum Laut Internasional UNCLOS 1982. Dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif dan pendekatan kualitatif, data yang disajikan dalam artikel ini bersumber dari studi pustaka, baik buku, jurnal, serta data dari website guna mendukung penjelasan akhir. Berdasarkan ketentuan UNCLOS 1982, dapat disimpulkan bahwa reklamasi pantai Singapura tidak berpengaruh pada batas maritim antara Indonesia dan Singapura, di mana batas-batas maritim tetap pada kesepakatan awal sebelum Singapura melakukan reklamasi. Namun, reklamasi pantai Singapura dapat mengancam kedaulatan teritorial Indonesia karena daratan Singapura yang mendekati Pulau Nipa Indonesia dapat diasumsikan bahwa Singapura ingin menguasai Pulau Nipa, terutama wilayah Pulau Nipa yang strategis karena letaknya yang dekat dengan Selat Singapura yang merupakan jalur pelayaran internasional.
Kata kunci:Batas Maritim; Kedaulatan Teritorial; Reklamasi Pantai
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Anshori, Muhammad Fikry, and Rizki Ananda Ramadhan. "Kepentingan Singapura pada Keamanan Siber di Asia Tenggara dalam Singapore International Cyber Week." Padjadjaran Journal of International Relations 1, no. 1 (June 17, 2019): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.24198/padjir.v1i1.21591.
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This article describes the interest of Singapore in the cybersecurity of Southeast Asia by organizing Singapore International Cyber Week. This article uses the concept of interest based on constructivism. This article uses interpretive qualitative method. This article finds that Singapore interprets itself as “smart nation” and “cyberattack target” in Southeast Asia; Singapore’s objective interests are capacity building, awareness building, and norm formation on cybersecurity of Southeast Asia; and Singapore’s subjective interest is involving Southeast Asia nations in cybersecurity issue by organizing ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Cybersecurity, launching ASEAN Cyber Capacity Program, and initiating ASEAN-Singapore Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. Artikel ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan kepentingan yang dihadirkan ole Singapura pada keamanan siber di Asia Tenggara dengan menyelenggarakan Singapore International Cyber Week. Konsep yang digunakan adalah kepentingan berdasarkan konstruktivisme. Metode yang digunakan adalah kualitatif interpretatif. Artikel ini menemukan Singapura memaknai kondisi dirinya sebagai “smart nation” dan “target serangan siber” di Asia Tenggara; Singapura memiliki kepentingan objektif berupa pembangunan kapasitas, pembentukan kesadaran, dan pembentukan norma pada keamanan siber di Asia Tenggara; serta Singapura memiliki kepentingan subjektif berupa melibatkan negara-negara di Asia Tenggara dalam isu keamanan siber dengan penyelenggaraan ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Cybersecurity, peluncuran ASEAN Cyber Capacity Programme, dan penggagasan ASEAN-Singapore Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence.
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Hui, Lim Mah, and Teoh Kit Fong. "Singapore Corporations Go Transnational." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 17, no. 2 (September 1986): 336–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463400001090.
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The title of this paper is influenced by that of Lee Soo Ann's book, Singapore Goes Transnational. However, the subject matter of this paper though related, is quite different. By Singapore “going transnational”, Lee was referring to how Singapore's economy became dominated by foreign transnational corporations (TNCs). During that process and period, local Singaporean companies declined in importance. This paper deals with the resurgence of Singaporean companies to the extent that some have spread their operations to other countries and have attained the status of TNCs.
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Ginting, Ledy Mahara, Nafisah Ruhana, Nur Haziyah Haji Abdul Halim, and Salsabilla Terra Finieli. "Legal and Regulatory Framework of Islamic Banking and Finance: A Study in Singapore." International Journal of Management and Applied Research 6, no. 4 (November 1, 2019): 234–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.18646/2056.64.19-017.
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The aim of this paper is to examine the Islamic Banking and Finance (IBF) industry in Singapore. Singapore is known to be a global financial hub with a resilient economy for capital flow. As a Muslim minority country, the Islamic finance industry in Singapore is established and fairly stable. This study analyses Singapore’s legal and regulatory framework of IBF to review the legal and regulatory framework which promotes the development of Islamic finance in Singapore. IBF in Singapore has been treated equally as the conventional banking under the same regulatory framework, with little guidelines on Shariah governance in the country. This paper concludes that the Singaporean government adopts a flexible approach in regulating IBF in Singapore, with little interventions on Shariah matters.
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Rakhman, Akhmad Syaekhu, and Arief Hidayat. "Pembangunan Singapura Sebagai Pusat Perdagangan di Asia Tenggara Pada Masa Gubernur Jenderal Raffles 1819-1820." Fajar Historia: Jurnal Ilmu Sejarah dan Pendidikan 5, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.29408/fhs.v5i1.3173.
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Singapore in the period before Raffles' arrival was an area that was still covered in forests, mangroves, and mud. Raffles that who had renewed the agreement in 1785 with the Sultan of Johor then bought and built Singapore into a very strategic and bustling international port and trading city center. This study aims to explain Singapore's growth after Raffles' presence, explain Raffles' efforts in building Singapore, and explain Raffles' successful policy in building Singapore as a trading center. The research method used is the historical method through the stages, namely; heuristics, criticism, verification, interpretation and historiography. The results of this study provide information about the impact of the arrival of governor-general Raffles in the economy in Singapore, which can also affect progress in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Singapura pada masa sebelum kedatangan Raffles merupakan wilayah yang masih tertutup hutan, bakau, dan lumpur. Raffles yang telah memperbaharui persetujuan pada tahun 1785 dengan Sultan Johor kemudian membeli dan membangun Singapura menjadi pusat pelabuhan dan kota dagang internasional yang sangat strategis dan ramai. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan pertumbuhan Singapura setelah kehadiran Raffles, menjelaskan upaya Raffles dalam membangun Singapore, dan menjelaskan kebijakan Raffles yang sukses membangun Singapura selaku pusat perdagangan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode sejarah melalui tahapan yaitu; heuristik, kritik, verifikasi, interpretasi dan historiografi. Hasil penelitian ini memberikan sebuah informasi tentang dampak kedatangan gubernur jenderal Raffles dalam bidang perekonomian di Singapura yang dapat berpengaruh juga pada kemajuan di Indonesia dan Asia Tenggara.
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Teo, Peter, and Cui Ruiguo. "Imag(in)ing the Nation." Journal of Language and Politics 14, no. 5 (December 31, 2015): 645–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.14.5.02teo.
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This article focuses on the discursive construction of national identity through a National Day Rally speech delivered by Singapore’s Prime Minister in 2010. Inspired by the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis and using methods developed by Halliday and van Leeuwen, it offers a close analysis of the speech, which uncovers patterns related to the type, extent and effects of various agentive roles attributed to the country, government and people of Singapore. Macro-discursive strategies like the use of specific references and real-life anecdotes calculated to reify the success of the Singapore ‘brand’ and inspire Singaporeans are also discussed. Through this multi-layered analysis, the article demonstrates how discourse transforms an imagining of Singapore’s nationhood into a concrete image of what Singapore is and what being a Singaporean is all about.
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Fong, Siao Yuong, and How Wee Ng. "Unpacking the ‘Singapore New Wave’." Asian Cinema 31, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 3–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ac_00010_2.
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As the cinema of a small nation, Singapore cinema punches above its weight. The series of international film festival awards won by Singaporean filmmakers alongside the multiple books published on Singapore cinema since the 2010s seem to signal a revival of the industry. This editorial introduction unpacks the term ‘Singapore New Wave’ as a starting point for this Special Issue to raise questions about the changes that appear to be happening in Singapore’s film industry. By situating the ‘Singapore New Wave’ within global cinema, this article argues for the importance of considering the issue of survival in the cinema of a small nation, and for an expansion of ways in which film scholars can gain the critical insights traditionally obtained from conventional new wave films. More positively, this more expansive working definition adds to broader new wave literature by exploring unconventional ways in which films can constitute or contribute to a new wave beyond traditional genres, auteurs, styles or themes associated with new wave cinema.
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Csáki, György. "Közoktatás Szingapúrban = Public education in Singapore." Köz-gazdaság 16, no. 2 (June 20, 2021): 45–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.14267/retp2021.02.04.
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Az 1965-ben függetlenné vált Szingapúrban azonnal bevezették a 6 osztályos kötelező elemi iskolai oktatást – angol nyelven, ami akkor elsősorban az egységes szingapúri identitás megteremtésének eszköze volt. Az angol fokozatosan a teljes oktatási rendszer nyelvévé vált, s a közoktatás folyamatos bővítése mellett a fő hangsúlyt a matematika és a természettudományok oktatására helyezték. Szingapúr városállam, ahol a függetlenség elnyerése óta folyamatosan politikai egypárt-rendszer működik. Ebből adódóan az oktatási rendszer – a tanárképzéstől és -továbbképzéstől a tantervekig és az egyes tananyagokig – erősen centralizált. Mivel az oktatás tervezése a kezdetektől a makrogazdasági tervezés szerves része, a szingapúri oktatási rendszer rugalmasan illeszkedik a gazdasági stratégia változásaihoz. A szingapúri oktatási rendszer alapvetően angolszász típusú, s az ország gazdaságpolitikájának megfelelően folyamatosan igazodik a globális gazdasági és oktatási trendekhez. A szingapúri közoktatás nemzetközi összehasonlításban is különösen sikeres – ezt a továbbtanulási arányok és a PISA-felmérésekben elért kiemelkedő eredményei is tükrözik. = After its independence in 1965, Singapore immediately introduced six years long compulsory and free primary education in English. Teaching in English aimed creating a unified Singaporean identity. English gradually became the working language of the entire education system. Alongside a steady expansion of public education, the main emphasis was placed on mathematics and science. Singapore is a city-state, featuring a one-party political system since its independence. Consequently, its education system, including teacher training and in-service training to curricula and individual teaching materials, is highly centralised. Since education planning has been an integral part of macroeconomic planning, the education system in Singapore has been flexibly aligned to changes in economic strategy. Singapore's education system is essentially Anglo-Saxon and has been constantly adapted to global economic and educational trends just like the country's economic policy. Singapore's public education system is particularly successful by international standards, as reflected by the high share of students continuing studies in higher-level educational institutions as well as by Singapore’s outstanding rankings in the PISA surveys.
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Tien, Adrian. "Offensive language and sociocultural homogeneity in Singapore." International Journal of Language and Culture 2, no. 2 (December 7, 2015): 142–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijolc.2.2.01tie.
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Offensive language use in Singapore’s languacultures appears to be underpinned by cultural norms and values embraced by most if not all Singaporeans. Interviews with local informants and perusal of Singapore’s linguistic and cultural resources led to the identification of eight offensive words and phrases deemed representative of Singaporean coarseness. This set was narrowed down to a smaller set of common words and phrases, all Chinese Hokkien, all culturally laden. The finding that, although originally Hokkien, all of them are accessible not only to the Chinese-speaking population but also to speakers of Singapore Malay, Singapore Tamil, and Singapore English is compelling. The words and phrases studied in this paper are full-fledged members of the lexicon of these local non-Chinese languages, without loss or distortion of meaning. They are accepted as part of the local linguistic scene and of local cultural knowledge. At least in certain situations, people of different ethnic backgrounds who live and work together can rely on them as a testament of common identity which, in a curious way, gives voice to the sociocultural homogeneity this society unrelentingly pursues.
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Lee, Cher Leng, and Chiew Pheng Phua. "Singapore bilingual education." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 30, no. 1-2 (June 30, 2020): 90–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/japc.00046.lee.
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Abstract Bilingualism has always been emphasized in Singapore’s education system. Since 1959, Singapore government leaders have repeatedly stressed that bilingualism is the cornerstone of Singapore’s language policy. Scholars researching language policy and planning in Singapore have also assumed that Singapore has always maintained a consistent stand on bilingualism. This paper cites the case of Chinese language (Mandarin) education as evidence to show how “bilingual” education has undergone significant changes in Singapore by tracing the historical changes and examining how bilingual education has evolved since its implementation. The findings show that the once-compulsory bilingual requirements gave way to differentiated ones in the history of Singapore’s bilingual policy. This finding will help researchers have a better understanding of Singapore’s “bilingual education” today and its position compared to other bilingual education systems in the world.
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Muawwan, Muawwan. "Three Perspective Theory of Cyber Sovereignty dalam Strategi Keamanan Siber Singapura." Jurnal Kajian Ilmiah 21, no. 2 (May 27, 2021): 171–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.31599/jki.v21i2.562.
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The escalation of cyber threats in Singapore has prompted the country to intensify its cyberspace security protection. Singapore then implemented numerous strategies by collaborating across agencies and actors to obtain a protective cyberspace security system. This research aimed at figuring out Singapore Cyber Security Strategy (SCSS) documents comprehensively throughout textual analysis based on qualitative approach of an emerging-dominant elements in documents such as actor, instrument, politic, economy, research, and collaboration which were cooperated within actors. The author also fulfilled this analysis using qualitative approach to measure the data relation and the big picture of SCSS documents. Finally, the author found that Singapore’s strategy in applications and infrasctructure aspects, the government intervened them intensively. Singapore, one of the highest technological expertise countries in Southeast Asia, was fuflnerable getting the threats or attacks. So, this country was regulating an excellent cyber system and infrastructure to proctect their cyber management system secure. Meanwhile, Singapore’s policy in core aspects was a transfer due to the fact that Singapore was multi-ethnical and multi-culturalism country. Thus, Singapore’s strategy for ideological aspects was not regulated significantly in SCSS documents.
Keywords: Cyber Security Strategy, Data Relation, Sovereignty
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Eskalasi ancaman terhadap ruang siber yang terjadi di Singapura telah mendorong negara tersebut untuk meningkatkan proteksi keamanan ruang sibernya. Singapura kemudian menerapkan berbagai strategi dengan cara menjalin kerjasama lintas instansi dan aktor untuk memperoleh sistem keamanan ruang siber yang lebih protektif. Tulisan ini bermaksud untuk memahami dokumen Singapore Cyber Security Strategy (SCSS) secara komprehensif dengan melakukan analisis kontekstual berdasarkan pendekatan kualitatif terhadap sejumlah unsur yang dominan muncul di dalam dokumen seperti aktor, instrument, politik, ekonomi, penelitian, dan kolaborasi yang dibangun di antara para aktor. Penulis juga melengkapi analisis ini dengan pendekatan kuantitatif untuk mengukur relasi data dan kecenderungan yang tergambar dari dokumen SCSS tersebut. Hasilnya, penulis menemukan bahwa pada level strategi di sektor application dan infrastruktur, pemerintah Singapura memiliki intervensi penuh dalam mengatur seluruh aktivitas di kedua aspek tersebut. Sebagai salah satu negara yang cukup signifikan di dalam pengelolaan teknologinya di kawasan Asia Tenggara, maka Singapura secara eksklusif berupaya membangun sistem dan infrastruktur siber yang mumpuni untuk melindungi tata kelola ruang siber mereka dari berbagai ancaman. Berbeda pada aspek core yang bersifat lebih terbuka (transfer) lantaran banyak dipengaruhi oleh multietnis dan multikulturalisme. Sehingga proteksi terhadap hal-hal yang bersifat ideologis tidak banyak diatur di dalam dokumen SCSS.
Kata kunci: Kedaulatan, Relasi Data, Strategi Keamanan Siber
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Ye, Rebecca. "Transnational Higher Education Strategies into and out of Singapore: Commodification and Consecration." TRaNS: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 4, no. 1 (November 24, 2015): 85–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/trn.2015.14.
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AbstractThis article addresses transnational higher education strategies both to and from Singapore. It does so by focusing on outbound educational mobility from Singapore to the UK and inbound educational mobility from Vietnam to Singapore. Since the turn of the century, Singapore has pursued the agenda of developing itself as a regional hub for higher education, aspiring to be a Global Schoolhouse. Yet, while the number of international students grows in local universities, Singapore's academically brightest do not necessarily take advantage of higher educational opportunities within the shores of the city-state, with many traveling to universities overseas through a form of sponsored mobility. Using two case studies, I trace two logics of commodification and consecration as observed through the processes whereby individuals and institutions devise transnational higher education strategies into and out of Singapore. The first case study draws on interviews conducted with Singaporean undergraduates at Oxbridge while the second case focuses on Vietnamese students at two Singaporean universities. Together, the analysis from these cases uncovers the value for these Southeast Asian students in studying abroad and distinguishes between different types of routes that exist: one where students choose their own educational plans and another where students are chosen for a prestigious educational and occupational pathway. With increasing participation in mass higher education taking place across the region, the article outlines, through the site of Singapore, strategies of transnationalism employed by both individuals and institutions as a means of social differentiation.
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Alunaza SD, Hardi. "Singapore’s Foreign Policy: A Book Review." Indonesian Perspective 3, no. 2 (March 12, 2019): 181. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/ip.v3i2.22351.
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This book contains five chapter with a specific explain and contribution in every chapter. The first chapter is about Singapore’s foreign policy and explains about exceptional state. The second chapter is talking about the battle of sovereignty. The third is about transcending regional locale. The fourth explaining about Singapore and the power, and the last is about driving and suffering the region. The Island Republic of Singapore is the smallest state within South-East Asia and, indeed, within a wider East Asia. It also lacks natural resources, except for the human variety in limited numbers, and a harbor in an ideal location for servicing regional trade. In 1999, for the third year running, the Swiss based world economic forum ranked Singapore first among over fifty leading economies in its annual global competitiveness report. In its material accomplishments and attendant external recognition, Singapore is exceptional not only within its regional locale, but also globally among so called small states. The point has been well made that economic success is the main reason for Singapore’s high status and disproportionate influence in international affairs.Keywords: Singapore's foreign policy, sovereignty, small states
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Roberts, William Clifford. "Singapore and Singaporean cardiology." American Journal of Cardiology 67, no. 15 (June 1991): 1298–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0002-9149(91)90945-h.
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Hennida, Citra. "The Success of Handling COVID-19 in Singapore: The Case of the Migrant Worker Cluster and the Economic Recession." Jurnal Global & Strategis 14, no. 2 (November 30, 2020): 241. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jgs.14.2.2020.241-256.
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Artikel ini berfokus pada strategi penanganan COVID-19 di Singapura. Singapura adalah satu negara yang dianggap sukses dalam penanganan COVID-19. Dengan menggunakan analisis kapasitas kebijakan publik dan pegumpulan data selama Januari–Juli 2020, artikel ini menemukan bahwa ada tiga hal yang mendorong keberhasilan Singapura, yaitu: sistem mitigasi bencana kesehatan yang responsif dan efisien; legitimasi pemerintah yang tinggi; dan modal sosial di masyarakat yang pernah mengalami pandemi SARS. Artikel ini juga menemukan bahwa sistem mitigasi bencana kesehatan hanya berlaku maksimal untuk warga lokal, sedangkan warga asing khususnya para pekerja migran kerah biru tidak banyak dijangkau. Klaster asrama pekerja migran adalah klaster terbanyak ditemukan kasus COVID-19 dan lebih dari 90 persen kasus nasional berasal dari kelompok ini. Temuan lainnya adalah jatuhnya Singapura pada resesi dengan pertumbuhan minus 13,2 persen di kuartal kedua tahun 2020. Kebijakan stimulus fiskal dan moneter yang diberikan tidak mampu mendorong pertumbuhan karena ekonomi Singapura yang dependen terhadap ekonomi global; dominasi sektor transportasi, jasa, dan pariwisata Singapura adalah sektor-sektor yang paling terdampak akibat pandemi. Kata-kata kunci: COVID-19, mitigasi bencana kesehatan, pekerja migran, resesi, SingapuraThis article focuses on Singapore's strategies for dealing with COVID-19. Singapore is considered as a successful country in handling COVID-19. Using an analysis of public policy capacity and data collection within January-July 2020, this article finds three driving factors for Singapore's success: a responsive and efficient health disaster mitigation system; a high legitimacy in the government; and society's experience with the SARS epidemic. This article also finds that the health disaster mitigation system only applies optimally to permanent residents. While foreigners, mostly blue-collar migrant workers, are not widely reached. The migrant worker dormitory cluster is a cluster with the highest number of COVID-19 cases detected, which makes up to 90 percent of national cases. Other findings include Singapore's inevitable recession, with a minus 13.2 percent of the economic growth in the second quarter of 2020. The fiscal and monetary stimulus policies provided were not able to boost the economic growth because Singapore's economy depended on the global economy; the dominance of the transportation, service, and tourism sectors Singapore were most affected by the pandemic.Keywords: COVID-19, health disaster mitigation, migrant workers, recession, Singapore
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Maysami, Ramin Cooper, and Christopher Ziemnowicz. "Ethnicity, Gender and Entrepreneurial Tendencies: The Singapore Perspective." Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 25 (February 5, 2008): 74–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v25i0.1430.
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Creativity and risk-taking, widely accepted prerequisites for successful entrepreneurial behavior, were absent for a long time from Singaporean culture, where people were accustomed to well paying and readily available jobs in the public sector. As a result of the economic slowdown of the late 1990s, promoting entrepreneurial activities became a priority of the Singapore
government. This study analyzes the entrepreneurial characteristics of Singapore's multi-racial and multi-cultural society, and attempts to find if there are any reasons as to why some people are more readily willing to engage in entrepreneurial behavior, based on factors such as race, gender, and culture.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, culture, innovation, risk propensity, Singapore
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Alhayat, Aditya Paramita. "DAMPAK KEBIJAKAN KEMASAN ROKOK SINGAPURA TERHADAP EKSPOR ROKOK INDONESIA." Buletin Ilmiah Litbang Perdagangan 9, no. 2 (December 31, 2015): 241–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.30908/bilp.v9i2.10.
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Pemerintah Singapura telah melakukan beragam kebijakan pengendalian tembakau (tobacco control) untuk menekan jumlah perokok. Singapura termasuk salah satu negara di dunia yang menerapkan regulasi ketat dalam pengendalian produk tembakau. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperkirakan dampak penerapan kebijakan kemasan rokok Singapura terhadap ekspor rokok Indonesia. Kebijakan tersebut diasumsikan memiliki dampak sebagaimana kebijakan pengendalian konsumsi tembakau non-harga pada umumnya meskipun kebijakan tersebut belum diimplementasikan. Metode yang digunakan berupa analisis deskriptif yang dilengkapi dengan analisis ekonometri menggunakan Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) dengan sampel Triwulan III-2006 hingga Triwulan IV-2014. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa ekspor rokok Indonesia lebih dipengaruhi oleh re-ekspor Singapura dibandingkan dengan konsumsi domestiknya. Selain itu, kebijakan pengendalian tembakau non-harga secara statistik tidak berpengaruh terhadap konsumsi rokok di Singapura. Oleh sebab itu, Indonesia tidak perlu khawatir dengan rencana kebijakan kemasan rokok yang akan diterapkan. Pemerintah Indonesia harus aktif melakukan negosiasi apabila Singapura benar-benar menerapkan kebijakan kemasan rokok dalam rangka mendapatkan kompensasi perdagangan atas kebijakan tersebut. The government of Singapore has implemented various tobacco control policies to reduce the number of smoker. Singapore is one of the countries in the world that implemented a tight regulation to control tobacco products. This study aims to estimate the potential impacts of Singapore’s cigarette plain packaging policy on the Indonesian cigarettes exports. As this policy is not yet implemented, it is assumed that the policy will have the same impacts as the common tobacco control policy, especially for the non-price policy. The study used descriptive analysis supported by econometrics analysis using Two-Stage Least Squares method (2SLS) using quarterly data from III-2006 to IV-2014. The results showed that the Indonesian cigarettes export is much more influenced by the Singapore’s re-exports rather than by the domestic consumption. Moreover, the non-price tobacco control policies do not have statistically significant effect on the cigarette consumption in Singapore. Therefore, Indonesia should not be worried about the possible implementation of the plain packaging policy. Indonesian government must actively negotiate if Singapore finally implements the plain packaging policy to get a compensation trade from this policy.
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Han, Heejin. "Singapore, a Garden City." Journal of Environment & Development 26, no. 1 (December 8, 2016): 3–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1070496516677365.
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The rapid economic development of Singapore has been attributed to its plan-rational technocratic elite, according to the developmental state model. However, few studies have addressed the impacts of the country’s deeply entrenched developmental state tradition on its environment and environmental governance. This article establishes the nexus between these two by examining Singapore’s transition into a garden city. It demonstrates how the Singaporean government has maintained a top-down, nonparticipatory approach to policy making in line with the postulations of authoritarian environmentalism and how this mode of governance is related to the developmental state legacy. While Singapore’s environmental policy resulted in its international reputation as a model green city with a remarkable expansion of green spaces and infrastructure, these outputs signify the results of the developmental state’s deliberate planning and management based on a utilitarian view toward nature rather than on the outcomes of an organic and comprehensive transition to a green society.
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Lee, Terence, and David Birch. "Internet Regulation in Singapore: A Policy/Ing Discourse." Media International Australia 95, no. 1 (May 2000): 147–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0009500114.
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Little has been written critically about Singapore's approach towards Internet regulation and policy/ing. This paper therefore seeks to disambiguate the social, cultural and political aspects of Internet regulation in Singapore. We provide an analysis of Singapore's Internet content regulation, and an update of the information (technology) scene in Singapore, including its converging broadcasting, (tele)communications and media areas, all of which impact upon ‘Internet policy’. We begin with an introduction to Singapore's policy-making style and an up-to-date account of Singapore's information aims and agendas. We then explore the ideology behind Singapore's Internet policy, especially censorship of content, and examine what is known as the ‘light-touch’ regulatory framework. We conclude that media conservatism is likely to continue in Singapore despite recent moves that would appear to ‘open up’ Singapore society.
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Christensen, Søren. "Higher education and entrepreneurial citizenship in Singapore." Learning and Teaching 5, no. 3 (December 1, 2012): 39–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2012.050303.
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Focusing on Singapore's 'Global Schoolhouse' project, this article discusses how efforts to transform Singapore into a 'world class' knowledge economy entail changes to the status of citizenship in Singapore. The project of wooing top foreign universities to Singapore is permeated with an entrepreneurial ideal of Singapore as the 'Boston of the East'. Since Singaporeans tend to be viewed by the Singapore government as particularly risk averse compared to Westerners and other Asians, the government has increasingly relied on 'foreign talent' to provide entrepreneurial dynamism to Singapore. The expansion of high-quality university education in Singapore serves as a vehicle of this 'foreign talent' policy as much as it accommodates the needs of local students for higher education. The ensuing questions about citizenship in Singapore's knowledge economy are finally discussed in terms of a differentiated 'entrepreneurial citizenship'.
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Zhao, Shouhui, and Yongbing Liu. "Chinese education in Singapore." Language Problems and Language Planning 34, no. 3 (November 17, 2010): 236–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lplp.34.3.03zha.
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Bilingual policy in Singapore has been characterized by dynamic government interventions since the nation’s independence in 1965. The elevation of English to the medium of instruction in education has inevitably come into conflict with Chinese, the lingua franca of Singapore’s dominant ethnic group. Drawing upon a theoretical perspective of prestige language planning, we show that the Chinese language has gradually lost prestige in Singaporean society in general, and in particular it has lost ground to English in terms of linguistic capital. A succinct re-examination of Singapore’s language-in-education planning shows that education alone cannot arrest the declining status of the Chinese language, neither does any image-fostering. The study highlights the importance of prestige promotion for the future success of Chinese language maintenance. The rapid rise of China provides an enabling environment for prestige manipulation. However, the socio-political goals of the Singaporean bilingual policy restrain the government’s willingness to support the unrestricted growth of Mandarin in the official discourse. While it is not possible in this paper to provide solutions or to suggest specific directions for solving this problem, it is our hope that the analysis of the complex interplay of the official discourse on language issues and the surrounding socio-political variables can shed some fresh light on understanding the intricacies and difficulties of a bilingual policy in a multicultural society.
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LEWIS, PHILIP E. T. "SINGAPOREAN ENTREPRENEURS—THE AUSTRALIAN CONNECTION." Journal of Enterprising Culture 02, no. 02 (July 1994): 709–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218495894000227.
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This paper develops a framework for investigating the linkages between Singaporean entrepreneurs and Australia. The first link examined is through Singapore investment in Australia. There are about three thousand Singapore-based companies overseas with investments in a broad range of industries. Australia is among the top six investment host countries. One of the most important links is through Singaporean entrepreneurs sending their children to Australia to be educated. Educational services are provided to the next generation of entrepreneurs and also provide familiarity with the political and economic environment in which Singapore entrepreneurs can do business in Australia. Another important link is through migration of Singaporean entrepreneurs to Australia. Research shows that the flow of Singaporean students to Australia is a major factor in determining the flow of entrepreneurs to Australia. This flow is, however, also strongly influenced by the general economic conditions. The issues explored in this paper are major given the importance of Asian entrepreneurs to Australia’s economic strategy of incorporation into the markets of Asia. The drain of entrepreneurs to Australia may also be of concern to Singapore. On the other hand, the links created with Singapore firms may be of long term benefit to Singapore.
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Lundberg, Anita, and Jasmin Thamima Peer. "Singapore ‘A Land Imagined’: Rising Seas, Land Reclamation and the Tropical Film-Noir City." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics 19, no. 2 (December 21, 2020): 201–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.19.2.2020.3739.
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Sea level rise due to climate change is predicted to be higher in the Tropics. As a low-lying, highly urbanised island near the equator, Singapore is taking an active response to this problem, including through large land reclamation projects. Incorporating both environmental and aesthetic elements, these projects also serve to bolster Singapore’s reputation as a shining example of a global city, a leading arts centre in Southeast Asia, and an economic hub to the world. This paper draws attention to urban development through an ethnographic reading of Yeo Siew Hua’s film A Land Imagined. A Singaporean tropical-noir mystery thriller, the film follows the rhizomatic path of a police investigator and his partner as they attempt to solve the disappearance of two foreign labourers. Interwoven within the film is a critique of Singapore’s treatment of migrant workers as it constructs the imaginary of the ‘Singapore Dream’.
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Hoon, Chng Huang. "“You see me no up”." Language Problems and Language Planning 27, no. 1 (February 25, 2003): 45–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lplp.27.1.04hoo.
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Singlish, Singapore’s brand of colloquial English, is accepted by some as an essential marker of Singaporean identity but deplored by others as a variety of English that puts Singapore and Singaporeans at a disadvantage because of its lack of international intelligibility. For this reason, it has been argued that Singaporeans cannot afford to maintain Singlish as a viable linguistic resource. A campaign known as the “Speak Good English Movement” was established in 2000 to counter the ill effects of Singlish through the promotion of Standard English. This paper addresses the Singlish-Standard (Singaporean) English debate in terms of discourse resources and the politics of language planning in Singapore. It may be true that Singlish is not the most internationally intelligible of Englishes, but what is more interesting is the considerable disparity between the official concern over international intelligibility and the reality of life in Singapore, especially for the Singlish speaker. Such a disparity suggests differing notions of what constitutes an important linguistic resource for the nation as a whole and for specific speech communities. On another level, it provides insights into the politics of language management in Singapore. The Singlish-Standard English debate also provides clear evidence of struggles over the determination of the choice of a preferred variety of English and the control over linguistic resources. Through an examination of media reports, official statements, and letters to local newspapers, the author considers the implications of this debate for Singaporeans (especially Singlish speakers) and their participation within the society. In the process, the author also examines the power relations that are intertwined in this debate for determining the ideal Singaporean society.
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Gupta, Anthea Fraser. "Marketing the voice of authenticity: a comparison of Ming Cher and Rex Shelley." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 9, no. 2 (May 2000): 150–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096394700000900204.
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In 1995 two novels by Singaporean writers were published. Ming Cher’s Spider Boys, a first novel, was published by Penguin in New Zealand, while Rex Shelley’s Island in the Centre was published in Singapore by the regional publisher, Times Books. The marketing of both implied that they were authentic voices of Singapore. The varieties of English used and represented in the two novels are compared to the varieties of English attested in sociolinguistic studies of Singapore. Shelley’s novel represents Singapore English in a way that allows a readership familiar with Singapore to relate the characters to their sociolinguistic setting, and it has a Singaporean readership as its major target. Cher’s novel has a non-Singaporean readership as its primary target and is written throughout in a variety of English that results from Cher’s experiences as a learner of English, mediated by editors. The novels are used to illustrate concepts of authenticity in representation of language and in marketing strategies.
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Ortmann, Stephan. "Singapore: The Politics of Inventing National Identity." Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 28, no. 4 (December 2009): 23–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/186810340902800402.
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This study wants to shed new light on the politics of Singapore's national identity invention. Since independence in 1965, the Singaporean government has tried to generate a sense of national identity in Singapore. While at first, the priority was on pragmatic values to promote the economic development, this changed in the late 1980s when the government became concerned with the widespread materialism within the society. As an alternative, so-called Asian values sought to provide an ideological alternative and a new basis for a stronger national identity. At the same time, average Singaporeans have developed their own unique conceptions of the city-state's national identity, which sometimes contradict the official nation-building efforts and thus constitute a subtle form of opposition. Many Singaporeans demand greater participation in the negotiation of their Singaporean identity, which demonstrates the difficulty of constructing a sustainable authoritarian civic national identity.
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CHIA, NGEE CHOON. "UNIQUELY SINGAPORE'S BUDGETARY SYSTEM AND SOCIAL PROTECTION FINANCING SCHEMES." Singapore Economic Review 59, no. 03 (June 2014): 1450024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217590814500246.
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This paper examines Singapore's fiscal position and its unique way of financing targeted welfare programs. We examine how reserves are accumulated through fiscal discipline during times of phenomenal economic growth in Singapore and when Singapore was enjoying demographic dividend. The existence of the large accumulated reserves has resulted in particular features of the Singapore's budgetary process, such as fiscal rules, which govern the utilization of revenues from the reserves. Innovative budget implementation, such as Block Budgeting, has helped Singapore to ensure fiscal sustainability. The accumulation of reserves throughout its economic history has afforded Singapore a unique way to fund social protection through special transfers and funds, without having to raise taxes.
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Guan, Ang Cheng. "Singapore and the Vietnam war." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40, no. 2 (April 29, 2009): 353–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463409000186.
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This article attempts to fill two gaps in two sets of inter-related historiographies, that of the diplomatic history of Singapore and that of the Vietnam war. For a number of reasons, not much had been published about the foreign policy of Singapore from the historical perspective. The Southeast Asian dimension of the Vietnam war is also starkly missing from the voluminous literature on the war. This article thus tries to describe and explain Singapore's attitude towards the war as it evolved over the ten years — from 1965, when the war really began and which coincided with the year that Singapore became independent, to 1975, a period which overlaps with the first ten years of Singapore's independence. Hopefully, this study will provide an understanding of one aspect of Singapore's foreign policy in its first 10 years as well as offer one Southeast Asian perspective on the Vietnam war.
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WONG, YOKE WAI, UDITHA BALASOORIYA, and KHYE CHONG TAN. "A NOTE ON THE FUTURE POPULATION OF SINGAPORE RESIDENTS." Singapore Economic Review 50, no. 02 (October 2005): 269–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217590805002049.
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This paper examines the population trends in Singapore over the next 50 years. The component method is employed in the projection calculations. The aging of Singapore's resident population is well-known. The projections show that the Singaporean population will reach a maximum of about 3.63 million in the year 2025 before steadily declining to reach 3.32 million by the year 2050. The population projections were also done in terms of gender and ethnic groups. Dependency ratios, weighted and unweighted were also calculated assuming different retirement ages. Remarks on some policy implications of these projections are provided.
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Vincent, Lenouvel, Lafforgue Michel, Chevauché Catherine, and Rhétoré Pauline. "The energy cost of water independence: the case of Singapore." Water Science and Technology 70, no. 5 (June 26, 2014): 787–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2014.290.
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Finding alternative resources to secure or increase water availability is a key issue in most urban areas. This makes the research of alternative and local water resources of increasing importance. In the context of political tension with its main water provider (Malaysia), Singapore has been implementing a comprehensive water policy for some decades, which relies on water demand management and local water resource mobilisation in order to reach water self-sufficiency by 2060. The production of water from alternative resources through seawater desalination or water reclamation implies energy consumptive technologies such as reverse osmosis. In the context of increasing energy costs and high primary energy dependency, this water self-sufficiency objective is likely to be an important challenge for Singapore. The aim of this paper is to quantify the long-term impact of Singapore's water policy on the national electricity bill and to investigate the impact of Singapore's projects to reduce its water energy footprint. We estimate that 2.0% of the Singaporean electricity demand is already dedicated to water and wastewater treatment processes. If its water-energy footprint dramatically increases in the coming decades, ambitious research projects may buffer the energy cost of water self-sufficiency.
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Al Khairy Siregar, Khalish Arsy, and Deasy Nur Chairin Hanifa. "Contingency Plan: Comparison of Health Policies in Managing COVID-19 in Singapore and Indonesia." Journal of Public Health for Tropical and Coastal Region 4, no. 1 (April 30, 2021): 28–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/jphtcr.v4i1.10569.
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Introduction: Singapore is one of the countries with the lowest mortality rate and the best handling of COVID-19. Singapore can be an example for Indonesia on COVID 19 pandemic handling.Methods: The method used is a literature review from google platform with these keywords: “Singapore Health Policy in COVID-19, Indonesian Health Policy in COVID-19, Singapore's success in suppressing COVID-19”. The analysis was done by comparing the policies taken from the two countries in dealing with COVID-19.Results: Singapore and Indonesia did indeed have very big differences in terms of government and in broad areas, it cannot be denied that Indonesia can have the same opportunity as Singapore in providing a good health disaster mitigation system for the community. Three factors influence Singapore's success in dealing with COVID-19: 1) having a responsive and efficient health disaster mitigation system, 2) government legitimacy which is determined by the capacity of the state. Singapore has a semi-centralized government with high legitimacy the experience of dealing with pandemics in the past, 3) Singapore's experience with SARS in the past makes Singaporeans understand very well the impact of the pandemic on their economic activities and social life.Conclusion: Several things can be emulated from Singapore in handling COVID-19 was the transparency, strong communication between community and the government, prioritizing the benefit and safety of civil society and building obedience and awareness of Covid 19 prevention.
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Sari, Serli Retno. "Important Role of Civic Education in Multi-Ethnic Countries Malaysia and Singapore." Journal of Moral and Civic Education 2, no. 2 (December 12, 2018): 44–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/885141222201883.
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This article discusses about the role of citizenship education in multi-ethnic countries, namely in Malaysia and Singapore. Malaysia and Singapore are two former British colonies, and in the population, there are three main ethnic groups namely China, Malay and India. This article is study of literature by using the comparative method by analyzing 14 national and international journals related to citizenship and diversity education in Malaysia and Singapore. Based on the results of this research, there is a difference in the management of ethnic diversity in Malaysia and Singapore. However, both in Malaysia and Singapore, citizenship education equally play an important role in creating a harmonious society even in the diversity of cultures, languages, religions and customs.
Keywords: citizenship education, multi-ethnic, multicultural, Malaysia, Singapura
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Artikel ini membahas tentang peran pendidikan kewarganegaraan dalam menciptakan masyarakat yang harmonis di negara multietnik, yaitu di Malaysia dan Singapura. Malaysia dan Singapura adalah dua negara yang sama-sama bekas jajahan Inggris, dan dalam populasinya terdapat tiga etnis utama yaitu China, Melayu dan India. Tulisan ini merupakan studi literatur dengan menggunakan metode komparasi dengan menganalisis 14 jurnal nasional dan internasional terkait pendidikan kewarganegaraan dan keberagaman di Malaysia dan Singapura. Dari hasil penelitian dapat diketahui bahwa terdapat perbedaan dalam pengelolaan keberagaman etnis di Malaysia dan Singapura. Namun demikian baik di Malaysia maupun di Singapura, Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan sama-sama memegang peranan penting dalam menciptakan masyarakat yang harmonis walau dalam keberagaman budaya, bahasa, agama dan adat istiadat.
Kata Kunci: Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan, multietnik, multikultural, Malaysia, Singapura
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Teng, Yap Mui. "Brain Drain or Links to the World: Views on Emigrants from Singapore." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 3, no. 2-3 (June 1994): 411–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/011719689400300208.
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The changes in Singapore's recent policies toward emigration correspond with the growing importance given to Singaporean overseas business ventures. Moving from viewing emigration as brain drain and the decision to migrate as an act of disloyalty to the nation, recent statements by government officials have begun to identify the overseas community as a valuable link to the world economy. “Globalization” and more recently “regionalization” are the popular terms which indicate Singapore's current economic strategy of shifting from a focus on high technology, high value added industries to a program of building an external economy through overseas expansion and the promotion of offshore activities. The Singapore example suggests that, in an increasingly borderless world, the relationship between emigration, citizenship and national loyalty will require reconsideration.
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McCANN, GERARD. "Sikhs and the City: Sikh history and diasporic practice in Singapore." Modern Asian Studies 45, no. 6 (March 4, 2011): 1465–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x11000138.
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AbstractThe historiography of South Asian diaspora in colonial Southeast Asia has overwhelmingly focused on numerically dominant South Indian labourers at the expense of the small, but important, North Indian communities, of which the Sikhs were the most visually conspicuous and politically important. This paper will analyse the creation of various Sikh communities in one critical territory in British Asia—Singapore, and chart the development of the island's increasingly unified Sikh community into the post-colonial period. The paper will scrutinize colonial economic roles and socio-cultural formation, whilst links of Singaporean Sikhs to Punjab and their place within the post-colonial Singaporean state will preoccupy the latter portion of the paper. It will argue that more complicated notions of division relative to the social norms of Punjab must be acknowledged in this region of Sikh diaspora and indeed others. The final sections will assess the remarkable success of local Sikhs in utilizing statist policies of ‘domesticating difference’ towards altered ‘community’ ends. Such attachment to the state and the discursive parity of Singapore's Sikhs with official values, moreover, stymied the appeal of transnational Sikh militant movements that gained momentum in the West in the 1980s. The result has been the assertion of ‘model minority’ status for Singapore's Sikhs and notably successful socialization into Singaporean society.
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Sidhu, Ravinder. "Building a Global Schoolhouse: International Education in Singapore." Australian Journal of Education 49, no. 1 (April 2005): 46–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000494410504900103.
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This paper takes Singapore and the field of international education as focal points for exploring state-market relations under conditions of globalisation. It examines Singapore's ambitions to become an ‘education hub’ and a provider of international education through the Global Schoolhouse Project. Using an analytical approach from the governmentality school, the paper explores the types of hybrid formations and cosmopolitanism sensibilities arising from both the production and consumption of international education. These cosmopolitanisms and hybridities are read against the geopolitical rationalities that have shaped the Singaporean nation-state. An argument is made for further empirical work into understanding how notions of hybridity are deployed in governance under conditions of globalisation. The Global Schoolhouse Project illustrates the creative and imaginative ways in which the Singaporean nation-state is re-modelling itself in response to the new iterations of global capitalism. The paper highlights the importance of moving beyond zero-sum thinking about the effect of globalisation on the nation-state.
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Liew, Kai Khiun, and Crystal Abidin. "“Si Geena” (Brat): Un-Social Digital Juveniles’ Episodic Resistance in Singapore." Asiascape: Digital Asia 7, no. 1-2 (December 10, 2019): 122–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22142312-12340118.
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Abstract This paper explores episodes of provocative online articulations and the accompanying angry public reactions as part of the cultural politics of juvenile online resistance in contemporary Singapore. Rather than viewing such delinquency as ‘youth deficits’, this paper seeks a literary-culturalist standpoint in exploring the uninhibited audacity of these public online displays. We perceive such performances as reflecting the critical and socially unrestrained emotional subjectivities of ‘youth mirroring deficits’ of the ‘Emperor’s new clothes’. The authors propose to appropriate the colloquial Singaporean Chinese Hokkien term of Si Geena (brat), a label commonly used to describe these offending personalities, to frame the dynamics of youth resistance, and new media in Singapore. Si Geena are often un-social digital juvenile provocateurs baiting moral outrage and public indignation. In turn, societal responses to the Si Geena’s episodic resistance reveal the contradictions, insecurities, and volatility of Singapore’s reactive public.
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Lim, C. L. "THE SINGAPORE CONSTITUTION AND ITS CRITICS." Denning Law Journal 17, no. 1 (November 23, 2012): 63–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/dlj.v17i1.304.
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The latest book about governance in Singapore takes a different tack from recent works in the area; Professor Ho Khai Leong’s The Politics of Policy-Making in Singapore and, more recently, Professor Mauzy’s and Professor Milne’s impressive Singapore Politics under the People’s Action Party. Even should the scholars themselves have rather different views, these latter scholarly works describe the workings of Government in Singapore through a keen and informed engagement with Singapore’s current policies and institutional aspirations. Despite claiming close knowledge of the inner workings of Government,
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YIP, PAUL S. L. "A RE-STATEMENT OF SINGAPORE'S EXCHANGE RATE AND MONETARY POLICIES." Singapore Economic Review 48, no. 02 (October 2003): 201–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217590803000694.
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This policy note, which focuses on Singapore's monetary and exchange rate policies, has a number of objectives. First, it highlights the fact that the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is equipped with a powerful tool to target the exchange rate level it desires (within limits). Second, it reviews Singapore's exchange rate policy since 1980 and explains that the de facto policy is far more complicated and flexible than the simplistic but oft-noted description of the MAS pursuing a "strong Singapore dollar" policy. Specifically, the paper argues that Singapore's exchange rate regime is an ideal example of the monitoring band system favoured by John Williamson. Third, the paper contrasts the Singapore currency regime with the relatively more inflexible currency board arrangement (CBA) operated in Hong Kong. The relative advantages of Singapore's flexible monitoring band arrangement over Hong Kong's rigidly fixed CBA are highlighted.
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Li, Xiangyi, and Zhiting Wen. "The construction of Singapore's mainstream Chinese media on OBOR: based on a discourse analysis of Zaobao." Asian Education and Development Studies 10, no. 1 (September 7, 2020): 161–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aeds-10-2018-0162.
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PurposeSince One Belt One Road (OBOR) was proposed, Singaporean sides have reacted differently. Based on the case of Zaobao, the authors develop the theoretical frame including international relations, agenda setting and media framing, analyzing the construction of textual materials on OBOR and its influencing factors.Design/methodology/approachIn this sense, this paper attempts to use Zaobao's texts on OBOR from 2015 to 2017 as textual materials, by using the discourse analysis method and combining the theories of international relations, agenda setting and media framing, to explore the following two relevant questions: How does the mainstream Chinese media of Singapore construct OBOR issue? What factors influence this kind of construction?FindingsThe study finds that agendas setting on OBOR are diversified in the purpose of supporting official position and meeting audiences' expectations, which are constrained by the factors such as international situations, regional strategies, national interests and domestic politics. The authors learn more details about hidden and vague thoughts on OBOR from all sides in Singapore through this discourse analysis.Originality/valueIn summary, the academic community has a certain foundation for the study of the cognition of the “Belt and Road” initiative. However, compared with the other countries' research on the Belt and Road cognition, the research on Singapore is insufficient. Singapore is an important hub for the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. At the same time, as a leader of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), it has a strong appeal and influence in other ASEAN countries. It has also played a pivotal role in building the “Belt and Road”. However, the “Belt and Road” initiative has been proposed and implemented for five years. The research on Singapore's cognition and reaction of the “Belt and Road” initiative is still insufficient. Therefore, an in-depth study of Singapore's cognition of the ‘Belt and Road” initiative has significant academic and applied value. This paper attempts to explore the construction of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative by Singapore's official media to make up for the shortcomings of existing research.
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Wang, Jason H. J., and Henry Wai-Chung Yeung. "Strategies for Global Competition: Transnational Chemical Firms and Singapore's Chemical Cluster." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 32, no. 5 (May 2000): 847–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a32147.
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The strong performance of Singapore's chemical industry in recent years has increased public awareness about the importance of this obscure sector in the Singapore economy. In the public rhetoric, much of this robust growth is attributed to the industrial policies implemented by the Singapore government. However, the ultimate decision to built a multibillion dollar chemical-processing plant in resource-scarce Singapore still depends very much on the global strategies of transnational chemical firms (CTNCs). The authors propose a firm-level perspective to aid in understanding the development of Singapore's chemical industry. They argue that the global strategies of CTNCs have a vital role to play in promoting growth within the Singapore chemical industry cluster. Conceived under the 1991 Strategic Economic Plan, the idea of clustering represents a radically different approach to the development of the petroleum-refining, petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, and pharmaceutical industries where previously each was deemed a separate activity. Based on field research into over forty subsidiaries and local suppliers of CTNCs in Singapore, the authors highlight the importance of two major contextual influences on the global strategies of CTNCs: rising global competition and the huge market potential offered by developing countries. Given these circumstances, CTNCs have relied on their established capabilities to formulate spatial strategies for increasing global competitiveness. In Singapore, subsidiaries of CTNCs have tapped into cluster-based advantages to enhance their capabilities, thereby contributing to the further growth of Singapore's chemical industry cluster.
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Wong, Alvin K. "Queer vernacularism: Minor transnationalism across Hong Kong and Singapore." Cultural Dynamics 32, no. 1-2 (January 20, 2020): 49–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0921374019900698.
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This essay explores the queer literary modernism of Hong Kong and Singapore since the 1990s to make several interventions. While the two cities have been studied as exemplars of postcolonial state formation in which finance capitalism contributes to the rise of modernity, their queer modernism in the literary and cultural spheres has largely escaped comparative studies. To address this blind spot, I examine two literary texts of gay male urbanism, namely Bryan Yip’s 2003 Hong Kong queer novel, Suddenly Single and Johann S. Lee’s 1992 coming-of-age queer Singaporean novel, Peculiar Chris, as cases of “queer vernacularism.” Specifically, Yip and Lee’s queer vernacular modernism—especially their references to Hong Kong and Singaporean popular culture, urban space, and soundscapes of modernity—altogether exceeds the familiar boundary of queer transnationalism and actualizes other modes of minor transnational desire. This essay concludes with a brief analysis of Yonfan’s 1995 Hong Kong film Bugis Street, which visualizes the bygone past of Singapore’s 1950–1970s sexual utopia and transgender imaginary.
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Lee, Terence. "Towards a 'New Equilibrium': The Economics and Politics of the Creative Industries in Singapore." Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 24, no. 2 (April 10, 2006): 55–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v24i2.816.
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On 26 September 2002, as Singapore faced up to its worst economic year since attaining full political independence in 1965, the Creative Industries Working Group (CIWG) of the Economic Review Committee (ERC), a governmentappointed, high-level body tasked with identifying future economic growth sectors and opportunities for Singapore, unveiled its report entitled Creative Industries Development Strategy: Propelling Singapore's Creative Economy (CIWG, 2002). This was the first time the voguish concept of the 'creative industries' had been publicly acknowledged and embraced in Singapore. It is believed that the development of a 'creative cluster' – or a creative network comprising the arts and cultural sector, the design sector and the media industry – would propel Singapore's new innovation-driven economy by 'industrializing' the cultural (and culture-related) sectors in Singapore. Among other envisaged outcomes, this policy aims to encourage risk-taking and entrepreneurship and to attract creative 'talents' to locate in Singapore. Whilst the notion of the 'creative industries' has been objectively modelled after global trends and policies, its application in a society notorious for its censorious political and cultural climate is fraught with problems. This article offers a critical examination of this new creative industries policy direction spearheaded by the Singapore government, and considers the economics and politics of creativity in what is being presented as the 'new' Singapore of the twenty-first century.
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Poole, Colin M., and Chris R. Shepherd. "Shades of grey: the legal trade in CITES-listed birds in Singapore, notably the globally threatened African grey parrot Psittacus erithacus." Oryx 51, no. 3 (April 13, 2016): 411–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0030605314000234.
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AbstractThere are few published studies quantifying the volume of wildlife being traded through Singapore. We report on Singapore's involvement in the trade of avifauna listed on CITES based on government-reported data to CITES, with particular emphasis on Singapore's role in the trade of the globally threatened African grey parrot Psittacus erithacus. During 2005–2014 Singapore reported commercial import permits for 225,561 birds, from 35 countries, listed on CITES Appendices I and II, and the export of 136,912 similarly listed birds to 37 countries, highlighting the country's role as a major international transshipment hub for the global aviculture industry. Major exporters to Singapore included the Solomon Islands, the Netherlands, Taiwan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Africa. Major importers from Singapore included Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates and Japan. Singapore imported significant quantities of CITES-listed birds from African countries, including the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea and South Africa, a number of which have a history of abuse of CITES export permits, discrepancies in reported trade data, or an acknowledged lack of wildlife law enforcement capacity. Significant discrepancies were detected between import and export figures of CITES-listed avifauna reported by Singapore and its trading partners. Based on these findings we present three recommendations to improve the regulation and monitoring of the trade in CITES-listed bird species in Singapore.
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Muslim, Azis. "APAKAH SUNK COST ENTRY BERPENGARUH PADA EKSPOR INDONESIA KE SINGAPURA?: PENDEKATAN AGGREGATE." Buletin Ilmiah Litbang Perdagangan 11, no. 1 (July 31, 2017): 21–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.30908/bilp.v11i1.72.
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Bagi Indonesia, Singapura telah lama dikenal sebagai negara perantara (intermediary) perdagangan untuk ekspor maupun impor. Secara umum sunk cost entry to export merupakan pertimbangan untuk masuk ke pasar ekspor, namun dalam kondisi terdapatnya perantara perdagangan apakah sunk cost entry to export tidak menjadi pertimbangan untuk masuk ke pasar ekspor? Untuk mengetahui hal tersebut dilakukan penelitian dengan tujuan untuk menguji apakah sunk cost entry berpengaruh atau tidak untuk ekspor Indonesia ke Singapura. Model penelitian menggunakan model histerisis Baldwin-Krugman dengan pertimbangan penggunaan data aggregate dan lonjakan nilai tukar. Metode yang digunakan adalah perubahan koefisien pada saat structural break sedangkan nilainya diestimasi dengan model regresi Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa sunk cost entry tidak memengaruhi ekspor Indonesia ke Singapura atau dengan kata lain tidak menjadi pertimbangan memasuki pasar ekspor Singapura. Temuan tersebut bermanfaat bagi eksportir dengan modal terbatas untuk menggunakan Singapura sebagai intermediary. Pemerintah sebagai fasilitator dapat menyarankan kepada eksportir pemula terutama eksportir dengan modal terbatas untuk menjadikan Singapura sebagai perantara dalam perdagangan. Singapore has been known as an intermediary country for Indonesia’s export and import trade. Sunk cost entry is one of the exporter considerations to enter an export market. However, if there is an intermediary trade, does sunk cost still become a consideration? The purpose of this study is to examine whether the sunk cost entry affects Indonesian export to Singapore or not. This study uses Baldwin-Krugman’s Hysteresis model due to an aggregate data usage and a surge in the exchange rate. This study uses the coefficient changes method since structural break is happening and its value is estimated by the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) regression model. The result shows that sunk cost does not affect Indonesian exports to Singapore, or in another word it does not become a consideration to enter Singapore markets. It is important that the exporters with limited capital use Singapore as an intermediary. The Government should propose beginner exporters to choose Singapore as the intermediary country trade.
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Wulandari, Endang, and Annisa Retno Utami. "Pengaruh Harga, Promosi dan Atraksi Wisata terhadap Keputusan Pembelian Tiket Universal Studio Singapore." Management & Accounting Expose 2, no. 1 (February 17, 2021): 65–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.36441/mae.v2i1.98.
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Salah satu tempat favorit wisata di Singapura adalah Universal Studio Singapore (USS) yang dibangun sejak tahun 2010 di kawasan Pulau Sentosa. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menganalisis pengaruh harga, promosi, dan atraksi wisata terhadap keputusan pembelian tiket wahana permainan di Universal Studio Singapore (USS). Penelitian ini dilakukan pada wisatawan yang sudah pernah berkunjung ke Universal Studio Singapore (USS) dan berusia lebih dari tujuh belas tahun. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa harga, promosi dan atraksi wisata baik secara parsial maupun simultan berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian tiket wahana permainan di Universal Studio Singapore (USS). Promosi merupakan variabel yang paling kuat pengaruhnya terhadap keputusan pembelian tiket wahana permainan di Universal Studio Singapore (USS), sehingga direkomendasikan agar pengelola Universal Studio Singapore (USS) semakin meningkatkan promosinya untuk meningkatkan pembelian tiket permainan para wisatawan.
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Cavallaro, Francesco, Mark Fifer Seilhamer, Ho Yen Yee, and Ng Bee Chin. "Attitudes to Mandarin Chinese varieties in Singapore." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28, no. 2 (August 10, 2018): 195–225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/japc.00010.cav.
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Abstract This study aims to shed light on the attitudes of Chinese Singaporeans and Chinese nationals residing in Singapore to varieties of Mandarin Chinese. 64 Singaporean Chinese and Chinese national participants took matched and verbal-guise tests, evaluating recorded speakers of two varieties of Singapore Mandarin (standard and colloquial) and the variety spoken in the PRC on status and solidarity traits. These evaluations were followed by optional questionnaire items intended to probe for additional more insights into the participants’ attitudes and perceptions of one another. Both Singaporean Chinese and Chinese national participants assigned higher status to the PRC’s variety of Mandarin. Attitudes toward the two varieties of Singapore Mandarin, however, varied, with Singaporeans rating the standard variety higher than the colloquial variety on all traits and Chinese nationals favouring the colloquial variety. Interestingly, for all three varieties of Mandarin, solidarity traits were rated higher than status traits by all participants, suggesting that, in Singapore, Mandarin Chinese is now viewed more as a language of solidarity than status.
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Quah, Jon S. T. "Lee Kuan Yew’s enduring legacy of good governance in Singapore, 1959-2015." Asian Education and Development Studies 4, no. 4 (October 5, 2015): 374–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aeds-05-2015-0020.
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Purpose – Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister, who governed the country from 1959 to 1990, passed away on 23 March 2015 at the age of 91. The purpose of this paper is to assess his legacy of good governance in Singapore. Design/methodology/approach – The changes in Singapore’s policy context during 1959-2014 are described first before analyzing Lee’s legacy of good governance in Singapore by examining his books and major speeches. Findings – Lee Kuan Yew’s commitment to meritocracy, empowerment of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau to curb corruption effectively, reliance on competitive salaries to attract the “best and brightest” citizens to join the civil service, and maintenance of the rule of law, constitute his legacy of good governance in Singapore. Originality/value – This paper will be useful to policy-makers, scholars and readers who are interested in learning about Lee Kuan Yew’s contribution to good governance in Singapore.
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Magennis, Tina. "Health Information Management in Singapore." Health Information Management 27, no. 3 (September 1997): 124–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183335839702700307.
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This paper provides an overview of health information management practices in Singapore, based on personal observation and interviews with health information managers in five Singaporean hospitals. In Singapore borrowing a medical record often requires a formal request and a permanent tracer is maintained for each record. Medical officers generally have more responsibility than in Australia for coding, which is completed within three days of discharge. A Singapore-wide centralised patient database has been developed which is an important source of information about patient drug allergies. Record design and assembly, release of information and centralised registries are also described.
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Osman, Mohamed Nawab Mohamed, and Prashant Waikar. "The People’s Action Party and the Singapore Presidency in 2017." Asian Survey 59, no. 2 (March 2019): 382–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/as.2019.59.2.382.
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While the Singapore government has sought to construct the elected presidency as an institution critical to Singapore’s political system, the result in fact forces the institution to contradict itself. This paradox has important implications for politics in a post–Lee Hsien Loong Singapore.
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Rocha, Zarine L. "Multiplicity within Singularity: Racial Categorization and Recognizing “Mixed Race” in Singapore." Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 30, no. 3 (September 2011): 95–131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/186810341103000304.
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“Race” and racial categories play a significant role in everyday life and state organization in Singapore. While multiplicity and diversity are important characteristics of Singaporean society, Singapore's multiracial ideology is firmly based on separate, racialized groups, leaving little room for racial projects reflecting more complex identifications. This article explores national narratives of race, culture and belonging as they have developed over time, used as a tool for the state, and re-emerging in discourses of hybridity and “double-barrelled” racial identifications. Multiracialism, as a maintained structural feature of Singaporean society, is both challenged and reinforced by new understandings of hybridity and older conceptions of what it means to be “mixed race” in a (post-)colonial society. Tracing the temporal thread of racial categorization through a lens of mixedness, this article places the Singaporean case within emerging work on hybridity and recognition of “mixed race”. It illustrates how state-led understandings of race and “mixed race” describe processes of both continuity and change, with far-reaching practical and ideological impacts.