Here you will find a wide range of on-line materials in varying formats for educators and community people interested in Southeast Asia. We welcome your use of these materials.

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Tsunami Teacher is an information and resource toolkit for building global capacity to respond to and mitigate tsunamis developed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Orgnization and its Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. It was prepared under the supervision of the IOC’s International Tsunami Centre in Hawaii.

UNESCO hosts a continually reviewed and updated on-line version of Tsunami Teacher. The base language of Tsunami Teacher is English and but translations into Bahasa Indonesia, Bangladeshi, Bangla, French, Spanish and Thai are coming.

This documentary by University of Hawaii Asian Studies Master’s student Sapril Akhmady, available for download or streaming, begins at a time when the Ammatoa people of Sulawesi in Indonesia are feeling deeply disturbed about ongoing changes in their community. They feel as if they are facing currents of transformation that will fundamentally affect their culture and their traditional way of life. The system of agriculture has been changed; machines for activities like paddy pounding have been introduced, modern roads have been built around villages, and customary land has been taken away. Underlying all of these changes is the fact that traditional knowledge has been lost and that the younger generation is less concerned about retaining this knowledge.

Sapril Akhmady also wrote an article on the Ammatoa available for download.

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