Chontida Auikool, MA

Chontida Auikool is a PhD student at the centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden. 

She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Southeast Asian Studies and completed her Master’s Degree in International Relations from Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. Her research interests include Indonesia, Chinese Indonesian, Conflict and Violence, and Southeast Asian film. She published articles such as ”The voice of the silence: Indonesia’s and Thailand’s alternative memory and culture of impunity in films” as well as co-written with Chanintira na Thalang in two articles, ”The immobility paradox in Thailand’s southern border provinces” and ”Opportunities for inter-ethno-religious engagement in Thailand’s southern border provinces”.

Her doctoral research concerns the subject of ethnic Chinese living in Indonesia, particularly the Aceh-Chinese community.