Political Regimes Cartography of Southeast Asia in Last Decade (original) (raw)

Southeast Asia is Asia sub region, consisting of the countries south of China, east of India, and north of Australia. Southeast Asia consists of two major geographic land, the mainland peninsula in which Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. While Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Timor Leste, and Brunei as a part of the island arcs or well known as maritime countries. However, even Southeast Asia geographically divided into two big groups, all countries become one as ASEAN (Except Timor Leste). ASEAN is inter-governmental organization in which all the members agree on one vision and mission even they have a different political regimes and values of system. When we turn out to Southeast Asia political regimes, we could see the fails correspondence between politics and others element (economic, security, social, and culture) within the system. Indeed, politics in Southeast Asia confounds almost all attempts at generalization. It contains an unusual diversity of regime types, ranging from nominally Communist one-party states in Vietnam and Laos, dominant-party autocracies in Cambodia, quasi-democracies in Malaysia and Singapore, a military in Thailand, an absolute monarchy in Brunei, the transitional but still military-dominated case of Myanmar, and finally three cases of multi-party democracy, with varying degrees of effectiveness, in Indonesia, the Philippines and Timor Leste. By this article the authors would like to give an overview of the political values to each country in Southeast Asia, as well as the reason, background, and history behind it. We also tried to analyze each country one by one to proof that the Southeast Asia has their own style of political regimes compare to western style.