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Issue 3, 2008
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Notes from the Region
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Update from the CHINA Sexuality
Resource Centre
The China Sexuality Resource Centre (CSRC) was
established in 2005 and is directed by Prof. Pan Suiming. It
is affiliated to the Institute of Sexuality and Gender (ISG),
Renmin University of China. CSRC will start a new round
of programmes on sexualities from 2008-2010 supported
by the Ford Foundation. The programme will focus on
the sustainable development of the field of sexuality and
aims to mainstream sexuality in China. It will be based
on individual and institutional capacity building and
networking, strengthening the work of the CSRC, further
improving the research and activities within the Chinese
context with a human-rights oriented perspective, and
facilitating the dialogue in the nation and internationally.
Activities under the new round of programmes include:
- Lobbying with the University authorities to
provide resource support to CSRC for sustainable
development of the sexuality field.
- Organising national and international conferences
on sexualities in China to strengthen the networks
between different disciplines.
- Continually editing, publishing and disseminating
Chinese newsletters and books nationwide.
- Continually providing grants and awards to encourage
young scholars to be involved in sexuality research
and set up courses in the universities.
- Translating English materials into Chinese and vicé
versa.
- Being more actively involved in practices or
facilitating practices by organising training workshops
or seminars and providing lectures for different
parties and organizations such as family planning
association, disease control centres, media, and other
related NGOS.
- Facilitating more effective dialogue between
different parts of China, China and the region, and
the international world by sharing information,
exchanges, visits, participating and organising panels
in international conferences and e-communications.
Update from Gaya Nusantara on
the Indonesian Sexuality Forum
The current public discourse on sexuality and sexual and
reproductive health and rights in Indonesia, as represented
in emotional media debates and proposed legislations tabled
by conservatives on polygamy, adultery, pornography and
erotic dancing, to mention but a few phenomena, shows a
lack of thorough understanding of the complex issues.
On the other hand, a small but significant critical mass
of Indonesians have been educated in various sexuality
institutes using a critical and emancipative approach to
the subject, to the extent that a well-thought-out response
needs to be constructed. At the same time, the fact that
most sexuality institutes are held in the English language
has meant that more people who could enroll in them
otherwise have been barred due to a mere lack of language
proficiency.
Realizing all that, a group of Indonesian non-governmental
and community-based organizations came together to put
our expertise and skills together to educate each others’
constituencies, namely married couples of reproductive
age, midwives and health providers, religious leaders, young
people, LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered,
intersexed and queer and questioning) people and
people with different abilities, about sexuality and sexual
and reproductive health and rights using a critical and
emancipative approach.
In this pilot program, called the Indonesian Sexuality
Forum, which can be expanded and replicated in other
communities after appropriate monitoring and evaluation
and later revisions and adaptations, a core module has
been composed to be used by trainers, hailing from the
different organisations in the Forum, in training the various
constituencies. In addition, community-specific modules
will also be developed.
The Forum dovetails with the work of the South and
Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality in that GAYa
NUSANTARA Foundation, a member of the Forum, is
the liaison between it and the Resource Centre. News and
other pieces from the work of the Forum will be translated
into English and included in the Resource Centre website
and In Plainspeak, and the other way around. The program
will also identify potential participants from Indonesia
in Resource Centre activities. It is envisioned that this
collaboration will inform the region about Indonesia and
vicé versa.
Update from the Institute For
Social Development Studies in
vietnam
Under the Ford Foundation’s support, the Institute for
Social Development Studies (ISDS) set up a Resource
Centre on Sexuality and Sexual Health in 2002. The Centre
has been known by researchers, practitioners, lecturers
and students, not only because of its wide and multi-
format collection of national and international teaching
and reference materials in the field, but also because of
its informative and user-friendly website. The Centre has
also conducted a series of seminars, which is perceived as a
forum for those researchers who want to come and share,
seeking ideas for their work.
Set up subsequently, JVNet, a bilingual English-Vietnamese
listserve and newsletter on HIV/AIDS has up to now had
more than 2000 subscribers. More recently, the newsletter
Living with HIV, a forum for and by People Living with
AIDS (PLWA), has been warmly received by not only the
PLWA network but also by many authorities and functional
organisations and agencies at all levels. The circulation of
the second issue was 2000 copies, double that of the first.
Currently, the Centre continues to excel in its mission to
serve readers by maintaining the websites and seminars,
producing more publications and, probably more
importantly, opening up linkages with universities and
research institutes and with international and regional
centres such as the South and Southeast Asia Resource
Centre on Sexuality in India, and The National Sexuality
Resource Centre (NSRC) in the United States.
In 2007, the Ford Foundation and UNFPA charged ISDS
with the responsibility to conduct a National Survey on
Sexuality and Sexual Health in Vietnam. This project
is intended to run for over three years and will set the
standard for research of this type in the near future.
The overall objective of this project is to produce an
empirical foundation for a comprehensive understanding
of the key issues of sexuality and sexual health in Vietnam
and the promotion of sexual well-being, sexual rights and
gender equality as indispensable factors for socio-economic
and human development in Vietnam.
To this end, the project aims to:
- Explore and map present knowledge, perceptions,
attitudes and practices (KPAP) towards sexuality of
a nationally-representative sample of the Vietnamese
people.
- Identify parameters/boundaries and determinants of
Vietnamese sexuality.
- Trace changes in sexuality KPAP over the past 50
years and the relation between these changes with
human development in Vietnam.
- Identify major sexual health issues and their
relationship to people’s sexuality KPAP.
We are currently in the process of revising the questionnaires
after the consultation meeting. Also, as this is the very
first survey of this nature in Vietnam, omission is almost
inevitable and therefore any feedback or recommendations
for inclusion at the later date would be gratefully received.
Please find us at isds@isds.org.vn.
We thank Pan Suiming in China, Dede Oetomo in
Indonesia, and Khuat Thu Hong in Vietnam for preparing
these updates.
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