State and Digital Governance in Southeast Asia

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This important volume offers a critical examination of how Southeast Asian states utilise digital governance to improve public services, democracy, and service delivery, while maintaining control over their populations through, among others, digital surveillance and internet control.

This important volume offers a critical examination of how Southeast Asian states utilise digital governance to improve public services, democracy, and service delivery, while maintaining control over their populations through, among other methods, digital surveillance and internet control.

Through a series of case studies, the book explores key themes such as regulatory frameworks, state strategies, and societal responses to digital governance. It examines Malaysia’s balancing act between regulation and repression, Singapore’s Smart Nation vision, and Indonesia’s ambitious yet authoritarian e-democracy initiatives. The book also delves into the challenges faced by countries such as Brunei and Cambodia, where digital governance is used by the respective regimes to manage misinformation and dissent. Employing diverse methodologies, including content analysis, elite interviews, and social network analysis, the chapters provide a nuanced understanding of how digital governance shapes political, social, and economic landscapes in the region. Truly comprehensive in its approach, the book covers contexts and circumstances present in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, and Myanmar.

This book will be essential for scholars and postgraduate students studying the overlap between politics and technology, digital governance, Southeast Asian studies, and authoritarianism more broadly. Public policy students looking to understand the implications of digital governance for democracy and internet freedom will also benefit from the book.

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Part 1. State Strategies and the Dilemma between Internet Control and Democracy

Chapter 1. Introduction: The State, Internet Control and Democracy in Southeast Asia: Conceptual Foundations

Chapter 2. Internet Control and Democracy in Vietnam: From Deterrence to Dilution

Chapter 3. Digital Dreams, Democratic Dilemmas: Indonesia's Uncertain Path Between Liberation and Control

Chapter 4. Social Media Governance in Brunei Darussalam: Challenges and Implications

Chapter 5. AI and Digital Governance in Singapore: Be(com)ing Smart

Chapter 6. Challenges and Implications for Digital Democracy in Thailand: Response to Disinformation

Part 2. Regulatory Framework

Chapter 7. Malaysia’s Digital Governance Framework in the Era of Emerging Technologies: Control or Protection?

Chapter 8. Digital Governance in the Philippines: Empowering and Silencing

Part 3. The State and Digital Sovereignty

Chapter 9. Contested Digital Sovereignty in Conflict-Torn Myanmar

Chapter 10. Digital Sovereignty and Social Media Governance in the Global South: A Content Analysis

Part 4. Society Response to Digital Governance and Society Abuse of Digital Platforms

Chapter 11. Political Change, Social Media, and Everyday Resistance in Cambodia

Chapter 12. New Election, Old Affective Polarization: Comparing Cyber Troop Operations in Indonesia's 2019 and 2024 Presidential Elections

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