The Asia Leadership Fellow Program (ALFP), co-organized by the International House of Japan and the Japan Foundation, has launched an online magazine called Voices of Asia. Through this magazine, we hope to disseminate the thought of public intellectuals, mainly the ALFP fellows, working in civil society, as well as information directly from experts in their fields, including on the grassroots realities of Asia which the mainstream media do not always cover. Each issue will center on a theme pertinent to Asia and/or the world. The theme of the first issue is “democracy,” and the authors below share their thought and accounts on this theme with their own fresh perspectives.
ALFP e-magazine issue 1: Democracy
Guest Editor: Kunda Dixit (Editor and Publisher, Nepali Times / Nepal)
Articles contributed by:
- Kunda Dixit (Editor and Publisher, Nepali Times / Nepal)
- Goenawan Mohamad (Essayist; Playwright; Founder, Tempo / Indonesia)
- Chito Gascon (Chairperson, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines / Philippines)
- Ako Tomoko (Associate Professor, University of Tokyo; ALFP Advisory Committee Member / Japan)
- Mahendra Lama (Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University / India)
- Lee Taeho (Chair, Policy Committee of the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy / Korea)