Dynamics of Interface Societies in Maritime Southeast Asia: An Approach from Area Infomatics

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The project aimed at examining dynamics of interface societies through an approach from Area Infomatics in order to establish, based on the present attempt, Southeast Asian Maritime Infomatics in near future. It focused on the Sama-Bajau as maritime folks and their population flow, resource exploitation and inter-ethnic relations.In the project, members 1) systematically collected and integrated data such as demographic censuses or geographic information of the maritime folks in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, 2) compiled database and case studies on the interface societies formed by the maritime folks 3) made a foundation of methodological approaches of Southeast Asian Maritime Infomatics, and 4) showed the ethnographic products using the data of the informatics.