IKMAS SEMINAR SERIES NO. 7/2018

SECURITIZING BERSIH 2.0 : THE POLICING OF THE BERSIH PROTESTS IN KUALA LUMPUR (2011-2016)

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ANALYSIS ON HUMAN RIGHTS FOR CHILDREN IN DETENTION : MALAYSIA & INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Wednesday 25 July 2018 | 3.00-4.30pm | IKMAS Seminar Room

SECURITIZING BERSIH 2.0 : THE POLICING OF THE BERSIH PROTESTS IN KUALA LUMPUR (2011-2016)

Abstract
Based on the findings of his PhD research, the researcher will briefly discuss the change in forms of coercion and control in the policing of street protests in Malaysia, since the watershed event of Bersih 2.0, on July 9, 2011. By looking at how the actors (the police and protesters) interacted on the ground (during the protests of Bersih 2,3, 4 and 5), an ethnographic and genealogical account of these practices of policing and protest allows for the construction of a “history of the present”, how public order is maintained by the Malaysian police today. The presentation will conclude by contextualizing the “Malaysian case” within the globalizing trends in security and neoliberal development in the 21st century.

About The Speaker
Employing an interdisciplinary and participatory area studies approach, Dr. Boon Kia Meng researches on regimes of security and policing in Southeast Asia and Japan. He is currently an Affiliated Researcher at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan, working on the book publication of his doctoral dissertation, based largely on the fieldwork conducted during his PhD candidature (graduated in March 2018 from the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan).

ANALYSIS ON HUMAN RIGHTS FOR CHILDREN IN DETENTION: MALAYSIA AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

Abstract
This seminar will analyse the human right aspects relating to children in custody from two different perspectives i.e. Malaysia and international context. While the international convention recognises certain rights vested upon a child in contact with the law enforcement, some countries including Malaysia still have reservation on certain clauses in the convention due to the domestic legal constraint. This seminar will critically discuss the need for Malaysia to review its decision hence uplifting such reservation to enable the domestic law to be in conformity with the international standards. At the same time, the seminar will explore the ‘diversion’ of juvenile delinquent in international practice as an alternative recourse from the current judicial system and the possibility of adopting such mechanism to our local legal regime. It is important to recognise these rights on the children as its omission is a non-adherence to the basic principle of sentencing for children that is to rehabilitate rather than to punish.

About The Speaker
Noorfajri joined the Faculty of Laws, UKM in July 2007 in which he then pursued his Masters of Laws (LL.M) at UKM and PhD at University of Malaya (UM). Noorfajri was called to the Bar in the year 2008 with the Certificate from the Attorney General of Malaysia. In 2009, Noorfajri was attached to the coroner’s practice of the Manchester Coroner’s Court, UK and Magistrate Court in Kuala Lumpur a year after. Noorfajri’s Doctorate thesis on ‘The Conduct of Death Inquest by the Coroner in Malaysia: A Legal Review’ led to his areas of interest mainly on Coroner’s Death
Investigation and Inquest law. Noorfajri is also an Accredited Construction Adjudicator and Panel of Adjudicators of Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) (formerly known as KLRCA)
and has been appointed by the Director of AIAC pursuant to section 23 of Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 (Act 746) in a few cases that relates to construction payment disputes. Noorfajri has published numerous articles on his research area, including criminal justice, public health and forensic expert evidential aspects.