Penang Institute as NGO: Growing Beyond Research and Advocacy
By Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
June 2024 EDITORIAL
THE THEME FOR June 2024 is non-government organisations—NGOs. This allows for the publisher of this monthly, i.e. Penang Institute itself, to do some soul-searching and to locate itself within the NGO world in Penang, and even Malaysia, in terms of its functions and aspirations.Penang Institute is known in most circles as the Penang state government’s think tank. But since 2008, with the federal opposition taking power in the state, Penang has been seen as the place where people-centred policies would...
Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His recent books include The Eurasian Core and its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World (ISEAS 2016). Homepage: wikibeng.com
