Institute of South East Asian Studies

Established	1968
Chairman	Prof Wang Gungwu
Formerly called	Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Location	Singapore
Address	30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119614
Website	www.iseas.edu.sg

The ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute [尤索夫伊萨东南亚研究院], an autonomous organization established by an Act of Parliament in 1968, was renamed ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute in August 2015 in honour of Singapore's first President.

Its primary objectives are:

The Institute conducts a range of research programmes; holds conferences, workshops, lectures and seminars; publishes briefs, research journals and books; and generally provides a range of research support facilities, including a large library collection.

The country-focus programmes are meant to complement the Institute’s three basic disciplinary programmes, with the cross-affiliation of researchers between the two sets of programmes helping to encourage research projects which are more comparative in nature and are conceptually bolder.

The five Country Studies Programmes are Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam (including Indochina).

An established academic press which has produced more than 2,000 titles, consisting of books and journals, since the early 1970s. ISEAS Publishing is the largest scholarly publisher of research about Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific from within the region and works with many other academic and trade publishers and distributors to disseminate important research and analyses from and about Southeast Asia to the rest of the world. In recent years, ISEAS has published an average of 50 new titles a year. Some of ISEAS books were adopted as Texts by universities around the world.

In addition, ISEAS Publishing issues the institute's three tri-annual academic journals - Journal of Southeast Asian Economies; SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia; and Contemporary Southeast Asia, as well as the annual Southeast Asian Affairs.

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