The Asian region is passing through a period of unprecedented social and economic change, and digital transaction platforms operate at the centre of these processes. Transaction platforms take a number of forms, including point of sale payment apps, money transfer services, trading platforms, micro credit apps and the multi-faceted exchange mechanisms built into retail, service and social media platforms. Together, they constitute a larger ecology of digital exchange that has enabled the rapid growth of online commerce, network economies and e governance across the varied political, cultural and economic geography of the region.

As mobile internet emerges as the primary mediating technology within South East Asia, new modes of currency, commodity and exchange are transforming our everyday experience of markets across the region. The rise of online shopping is re-ordering space and socialities within neighbourhoods and cities, and transforming intra-regional trade and power relations. New entertainment economies, their associated contents and user behaviours are engendering new modes of popular culture. Emerging platform economies initiate novel opportunities and contestations within the international division of labour. The affordances of digital technologies lend new forms of visibility to struggles for human and citizen rights, as well as enabling transactional forms of politics and religion. This conference considers the instances and processes through which new sets of social, economic and political transactions are being established between markets and publics, citizens and states, cultures and commodities in a Digital Asia.

The reconfiguration of social, cultural, economic and political relationships in parallel with the pervasive application of digital technologies has been regarded as an epochal shift in the Western world. In contemporary Asia, the breathtaking rapidity and scale of digitisation provides us with an even greater remaking and reinvigorating of human relationships. This is an era where rapid commercial growth across the region proceeds in tandem with the spread of digital media devices. For ordinary people, social media platforms offer new economic opportunities along with the monetisation of the personal and the everyday. In the public domain, Asian state systems are having to contend with explosions of popular expression, public debate and political mobilisation, even as these activities are highly contested and contestable. Asian markets are increasingly determined by flows of virtual capital, information commodities, consumers and labour. In this context, it is increasingly evident that the rise of a Digital Asia is accompanied by new aspirations and understandings of modernisation, participation and development. As mobile internet emerges as the primary mediating technology within South East Asia, new modes of currency, commodity and exchange are transforming our everyday experience of markets across the region. The rise of online shopping is reordering space and socialities within neighbourhoods and cities, and transforming intra-regional trade and power relations. New entertainment economies, their associated contents and user behaviours are engendering new modes of popular culture. Emerging platform economies initiate novel opportunities and contestations within the international division of labour. The affordances of digital technologies lend new forms of visibility to struggles for human and citizen rights, as well as enabling transactional forms of politics and religion. This conference considers the instances and processes through which new sets of social, economic and political transactions are being established between markets and publics, citizens and states, cultures and commodities in a Digital Asia. Format Our 2019 conference will include two full days of presentations for a public audience 20-21st November 2019, followed by a research workshop on 22nd November. Following the format of previous events, we will present a day of presentations from across Asia, followed by a day of presentations focused upon our host region of South East Asia. Paper presenters will join a third day of workshops on critical methodological, theoretical and logistical issues for Digital Asia researchers.

In adopting digital systems, local communities and users adapt transactional affordances in line with their own environments, means and norms. As a consequence, the embedding and acculturation of digital transactions is a critical factor in the digital transformation in Asian societies, making culture a key determinant of transactional relationships. In our first post-COVID physical conference, Digital Transactions in Asia V seeks to take stock of the acceleration of digital transactions during and after the pandemic, exploring the many ways in which everyday fintech has made lasting changes to the social, cultural and economic landscapes of Asia. We invite paper submissions from researchers across all disciplines working on the past, present and future of Digital Transactions in Asia.

The Asian region is passing through a period of unprecedented social and economic change, and digital transaction platforms operate at the centre of these processes. Transaction platforms take a number of forms, including point of sale payment apps, money transfer services, trading platforms, micro credit apps and the multi-faceted exchange mechanisms built into retail, service and social media platforms. The capture of transactional processes within platform ecosystems actively converges social, economic, and cultural exchanges in novel ways. Transactional cultures are thus a fundamental building block in the transformation of Asian societies since, in adopting digital systems, localised communities adapt their transactional cultures in line with their own environments, means and norms.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of transactional forms of the digital across Asia by studying the platforms and infrastructures that shape the digital experience. It provides a definitive account of the core features of the ways the digital economy in Asia is transforming everyday lives. Transactional relations between digital media platforms and new forms of sociability are remediating social relationships for the digital age. In capturing the digital revolution through case studies from across the larger Asian region, the book offers a richly contextualised and comparative account that firmly situates the frontiers of the digital within the Asian experience.

This article is devoted to the issues of legal regulation and enforcement in the field of digital transactions and electronic commerce. Legislative acts at the international and national level are considered, the main ideas of the development of legislation and the field of legal regulation of electronic commerce, signs of a digital transaction, and problems of law enforcement are identified.

Digital payments are proliferating along with a massive and rapid digital transformation. However, the characteristics of transactions using digital payments, which are real-time, not face-to-face, and borderless create potential risks for financial crimes, including, Money Laundering and Funding Terrorism. The potential for abuse occurs in the registered and licensed digital payments sector and illegal digital payments that are not registered with the Bank Indonesia. Undoubtedly, this condition can threaten economic stability and financial system integrity. This article seeks to identify the potential for digital payment use for financial crime and construct a legal framework to prevent the misuse of FinTech for financial crime in Indonesia. This type of research is legal research. The research method used was a statutory comparative approach. The legal materials used were primary and secondary legal materials. The findings have been analyzed using qualitative data analysis techniq...