Center for Southeast Asian Studies, NCCU, has long been devoted to research in Southeast Asia and has set up related courses, which gives the university the potential to enrich Southeast Asian research resources and integration. Due the departments and institutes, NCCU also develops research on indigenous peoples and sustainable development, indigenous peoples’ environmental governance, indigenous peoples’ land policies, traditional ecological knowledge, traditional territory surveys, land planning, and community participation (such as the social practice project carried out in Wulai) and has considerable experience and achievements.