Pattani Province Research Articles

Participation process of a Muslim community for improving oral health care of children aged 0-3 years; a case study in Yaring district, Pattani province

Participation process of a Muslim community for improving oral health care of children aged 0-3 years; a case study in Yaring district, Pattani province

Relationship between Type of Risks and Income of the Rural Households in the Pattani Province of Thailand

This study examines the relationship between type of risks and income of the rural households in Pattani province,Thailand using the standard multiple regression analysis.A multi-stage sampling technique is employed to select 600 households of 12 districts in the rural Pattani province and a structured questionnaire is used for data collection.Evidences from descriptive analysis show that the type of risks faced by households in rural Pattani province are job loss,reduction of salary,household member died,household members who work have accident,marital problem and infection of crops or livestock.In addition,result from the regression analysis suggests that job loss,household member died and marital problem have significant negative effects on the households income.The result suggests that job loss has adverse impact on households income.

Conditions and Problems in the Promotion of Youth’s Behaviors in Accordance with the Islamic Way of Life by Muslim Leaders of Ban Sarong, Khao Tum Sub-district, Yarang District, Pattani Province

The purpose of this research was to investigate conditions and problems in promoting youth’s behaviors in accordance with the Islamic way of life by Muslim leaders of Ban Sarong, Khao Tum Sub-district, Yarang District, Pattani Province. The data were collected through a knowledge management discussion forum with 10 religious leaders, 10 local leaders, 10 core youth leaders, and 10 parents and guardians. Content analysis was conducted using logical comparisons of concepts, theories, and research reports coupled with contexts. The research findings revealed that Muslim leaders realized, gave importance to, and were determined to promote youth’s behaviors in accordance with the Islamic way of life; however, they still lacked knowledge, understanding, skills and experience in promoting youth to have behaviors in accordance with the Islamic way of life. Moreover, it was found that Muslim leaders lacked social relationships with youth while youth did not give importance to, did not realize, and did not pay attention to activities that were to promote behaviors according to the Muslim way of life organized for them by Muslim leaders. As a result, the promotion of behaviors in accordance with the Islamic way of life was not yet successful.

An Empirical Study on Risk Assessment and Household Characteristics in Thailand.pdf

This study identifies the type of risks experienced by rural households and examines their relationships with the socio-economic characteristics of the households in rural Pattani province, Thailand. A multi-stage sampling technique is used to select 600 households, which are divided into 12 districts in Pattani province. Structured questionnaire is developed to collect information from the respondents. Data is analyzed using descriptive statistics and Logistic regression model. Evidences from descriptive analysis indicate that the major risks faced by the households in the rural area of Pattani province include job loss, flooding and household member sick or crippled. Furthermore, the results of logistic regression suggest that gender of household heads, household size and location of houses significantly influence exposure to risks, whereas education level of household heads is found to be insignificant in affecting exposure to risks by the rural households.

The Effect of the Internet Use on High School Students: A Case Study of Pattani Province of Thailand

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The Rehabilitation of the Widows in Pattani Province, Thailand

The purpose of the research aimed to 1) Investigate the rehabilitation of the widows affected by the violence in the Province Pattani, Thailand. 2) Provide the guideline for the government and institutions to find ways to rehabilitate the widows affected the violence in the Province Pattani, Thailand. The findings of the research were summarized: There are increasing the widows drastically because of the violence crisis for a long time since 2004. The government has the policy to rehabilitate the widows affected by the violence. Ministry of Human Security and Social Development helps the budget per month for the widows. In the Deep South has the Center for rehabilitation the populations and the widows affected by the violence i.e. South Coordination Center, that coordinate with Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus and the office of Human Security and Social Development in the Province Pattani and specifically it has the group of the widows “We Peace” for empowerment the widows and the Center of the Health care. Some opinions suggest the activities to collaborate with the widows, the training career for the widows and it must have the community for watching the strangers every village and the government should construct the conciliation in the Deep South of Thailand for conducting “the Social Well- Being”.

Family and Upbringing Background of Students with Bullying Behavior in Islamic Private Schools, Pattani Province, Southern Thailand

The purpose of this research is to investigate family and upbringing background of students with bullying behavior in Islamic private schools in Pattani Province, Southern Thailand. The data for this qualitative study were collected through in-depth interviews with 15 teachers and school personnel, 15 bullying students, 15 bullied students, and 15 parents and guardians. Content analysis was performed with the data using logics, concepts, theories, research reports along with the context, and grounded theory method.The results of the study revealed that family and upbringing background had effects on students’ behavior. Upbringing characterized children’s behavior, especially children who were faced with domestic violence such as parents’ quarrels, and children being severely punished, etc. that might result in children absorption and imitation of such violence. The results of this study are beneficial directly to personnel and organizations related to children in policy making and measure taking in order to provide help and improve the problem of bullying so as to make students behave appropriately, and to prevent students from behaving more violently.

Factors Associated with Bullying Behavior in Islamic Private Schools, Pattani Province, Southern Thailand

The purpose of this research was to investigate the associations between students’ bullying behaviors in Islamic private schools, Pattani province and classroom management factors (democracy, authoritarian, and permissive classroom management), family upbringing factors (strict, permissive, and democracy upbringing), environment violence factors (influence of peers violence, community violence, and parents violence), and to identify risk factors for bullying behaviors. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 1,500 students were interviewed to collect relevant data by using a screening inventory for students at risk of exposure to bullying behavior in Islamic private schools (Laeheem & Sungkharat, 2012). Pearson Product-moment correlation test was used to analyze the associations between bullying outcome and various determinants linked to classroom management factors, family upbringing factors, and environment violence factors. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to identify risk factors for bullying. The study indicated that there were significant associations between bullying behavior and authoritarian classroom management, strict upbringing, influence of peers violence, and influence of parents violence. The influence of parents violence was clearly the most strongly associated predictors in explaining the students bullying behavior (Beta value= 2.26). The strict upbringing, authoritarian classroom management, and influence of peers violence were also made some contribution in explaining the variance in the students bullying behavior (Beta value= 1.93, 0.23, and -3.27), respectively.

Barriers Toward Peace in Southern Thailand

Since January 2004, over 5,000 people have been killed in Thailand's three most southern provinces of Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat. The three ethnic-Malay majority provinces and certain districts ...

Education that Leads to Nowhere: Thailand’s Education Policy for Children of Migrants

In July 2005, the Thai cabinet passed the resolution that allows migrant children access to free public education. This paper uncovers education experiences of children of migrant workers who study in Thai public schools, concentrating on the Thai government’s education policy towards these children. Data are drawn from an ethnographic study conducted between 2010 and 2011 in two provinces of Thailand—Ranong Province and Pattani Province. Qualitative research methods such as interview, observation and document examination are used to obtain data. School practices such as the admission process, the placement of children into classes, classroom instruction, and supporting systems are examined. Interactions between teachers and migrant children as well as between migrant children and local children are observed. The results show that while allowing migrant children to access public education, the Thai government does not have a policy to promote or to persuade migrant parents to bring their children to schools. A policy to follow up on children of migrants who drop out also does not exist. Additionally, school practices and curricula do not match the circumstances of the children. This article argues that Thailand’s current education policy allows children of migrants to access public education, but does not help them to proceed to higher levels of education.<br />

Demographic Discriminators of Service Quality in Local Government

Few services, if any, will have customers who all have exactly the same needs and who use the services in exactly the same way. Rather, services will face distinct and different customer segments. This study aimed to discriminate on key demographic variables to determine which dimensions of service quality in local government are most important to different demographic segments. The data were collected by means of a self-administered questionnaire survey conducted among residents of Khok Pho municipality in Pattani Province, southern Thailand. Four separate discriminant analysis were performed to ascertain which dimensions of service quality are potentially more important to different demographic groups. Results indicated that three discriminant functions – gender, age, and education – were statistically significant. Strategic issues in managing service quality within the local government context are identified and discussed.

The prevalence of chronic kidney disease among gout patients in Nongjik hospital, Pattani province

The prevalence of chronic kidney disease among gout patients in Nongjik hospital, Pattani province

Municipal Service Quality and Citizen Satisfaction in Southern Thailand

The objectives of the research are two-folds: (1) to examine the quality of municipal services provided by local government in southern Thailand; and (2) to identify the most important service quality dimensions that determine citizen satisfaction. The questionnaires were distributed to 234 respondents in Tambon Khok Pho, a subdistrict of Khok Pho in Pattani Province of southern Thailand. Descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, Pearson correlation and stepwise multiple regression were conducted to analyze the data. Results indicate that (1) the five dimensions of SERVQUAL represent a valid instrument to measure municipal service quality in Thai setting; and (2) four service quality dimensions, namely tangibility, empathy, assurance and responsiveness significantly predicted citizen satisfaction, with an adjusted R2 of 0.5. The findings can be used as a guide for municipal officials to improve the crucial quality attributes and enhance citizen satisfaction.

A Riot Problem in Three Southern Frontier Province: A Cultural Management Model by Means of Peace

Problem statement: It was evident that a riot problem in Three Southern Frontier Provinces of Thailand resulted from many factors such as an economic factor, a social factor, a political factor, an educational factor, a religious factor, a cultural factor, a traditional factor, including a geographical location. These factors linked one another to affect systematically a riot problem in Three Southern Frontier Provinces and the centre of the problem was a religious factor. The purposes of this research were these: (1) to investigate the background of a riot problem in Three Southern Frontier Provinces, (2) to investigate cultural dimensions used for solving a riot problem in Three Southern Frontier Provinces and (3) to investigate a cultural management model by means of peace for solving a riot problem in Three Southern Frontier Provinces. Approach: Research areas consisted of 7 villages in Narathiwas Province, 6 villages in Pattani Province and 5 villages in Yala Province. These are crisis areas and there are some youth who had ever participated in “San Jai Thai Su Jai Tai” Project (a project for supporting people who affected by the riot) have lived in. A population was people in 18 villages of Three Southern Frontier Province. A sample was selected by means of a purposive sampling consisted of 54 key informants, 108 casual informants and 108 general informants. Research instruments used for collecting data were a survey, an observation, an interview, a focus group interview and a workshop. A triangulation technique was used for examining data and research results were presented by means of a descriptive analysis. Results: A riot problem in Three Southern Frontier Provinces results from the differences of culture and ways of life between the Buddhist-Thai people and the Islamic-Thai people. The majority of local population are Muslims, they have their own cultural identity so these differences cause many problems such as a problem of cultural misunderstanding, problem of beliefs misunderstanding, a problem of way of life misunderstanding and a problem of traditional misunderstanding. A Peaceful Cultural Model (P.C. Model) was developed within real cultural context or real life of people according to determined successful condition. Conclusion/Recommendation: The result of this research revealed that solving a riot problem in Three Southern Frontier Province must need an understanding of basic needs, collective consciousness and collective cause of most local people; including respecting liberty and cultural identity of one another.

Autonomy for Southern Thailand: Thinking the Unthinkable?

A series of recent developments suggest that reformed governance arrangements for Thailand’s troubled Southern border provinces are becoming more thinkable, though they have yet to gain strong political traction. While autonomy arrangements of various kinds have been adopted elsewhere in the region, including in Indonesia, notably in Aceh, and the Philippines, the Thai authorities have been extremely reluctant to explore such options.2 This article examines the background to the debate, recent developments that imply the beginnings of a shift in approach and some options for new forms of governance in the region. The southern border provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat have experienced a simmering violent insurgency for many decades, one that the security forces have persistently failed to suppress.3 Violence emerged with a renewed intensity in late 2001, and became a major focus of domestic and international

The development of supervision for total quality management in basic education institutions in the three southern border provinces

This study aimed to construct media for the development of a system of supervisory operation for total quality management of basic education institutions in the three southern border provinces to correspond to and be appropriate for the context of an educational institution, as well as to develop educational institutions as models of supervisory development of total quality management of the said educational institutions.The research population consisted of the educational institutions under the Offices of Educational Zones in the three southern border provinces. As the research operation focused on a sample to be drawn from the three southern provinces of Yala, Narathiwat, and Pattani, the researcher selected 30 appropriate and ready educational institutions willing to cooperate, along with nine supervisors from each of the nine Educational Zones.

Armed Conflict and Resolutions in Southern Thailand

Since January 2004, southern Thailand has grabbed news headlines as a violent conflict zone, where the insurgency movement has taken the lives of more than 3,500 people. Stemming from various factors ranging from historical resistance to the Thai government to human rights abuses and socioeconomic marginalization, the shadowy movement has managed to infiltrate and gain sympathy among local communities; however, the majority of the local population remains resistant and resentful toward the perpetrators. This article aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the upsurge and dynamics of the violence in southern Thailand in a two-part process. First, through focusing on the evidence obtained during my three-year stay in the Pattani province, I demonstrate how geopolitical dimensions intensified the separatist sentiments in the region. In the second section, I propose a proactive and preemptive set of resolutions as a roadmap to avoid further conflict and bloodshed.

The Thai Muslims and Participation in the Democratic Process: The Case of 2007 Elections

Thailand is a country where Buddhist political culture forms and shapes all activities in the country. This is reflected in the functioning of the Thai polity where the administrative structure functions in a secular pattern while the ideological dimension of the state is rooted in a religious/Buddhist political culture. Non-Buddhist minorities in Thailand such as Muslims and others are allowed free space to practice, express and make religious demands in the political arena of the country. The semi-secular and semi-democratic model of Thai political system has allowed the Thai Muslim minority to define, shape and build their own communal development within Thai polity. Hence, the social-political relations of mutual religious coexistence between the Thai Muslims and Thai Buddhists. The Thai Muslim community is a varied one. Broadly, there are two types of Muslims in Thailand: the Thai-speaking integrated Muslims found in the upper South, Central, North and northeastern parts of Thailand and the unintegrated Malay-speaking Muslims of the deep southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat. Yet they all have engaged in the democratization process of Thailand since it is becoming a constitutional monarchy in 1932. This paper looks into how the Thai Muslim minority had engaged in Thai democracy from the point of view of their religious identity in a Buddhist majority country.

Living Conditions and the Path to Healing Victim’s Families after Violence in Southern Thailand: A Case Study in Pattani Province

This study aimed to investigate the living conditions of victims’ families from the unrest in Pattani, Thailand, and to evaluate the success of the “healing victims’ project”. A total of 284 victim families in Pattani province were interviewed during January to October 2007. The informants were most commonly the victims’ wife (73%), were on average 42.2±12.8 years of age. The majority of victims were male (95.8%), were the head of the family (84.5%), of working age (45.9 ± 12.4). 51.4% were Muslim. Most were married (85.9%) and 88.5% of the victims had children. The most common educational level was primary (48.8%) and the most common occupation was agriculture (19%). Most were shot (88%) and 65.1% died. Of all victims, 19.4% incurred asset damage. There were a median of 3 (0 - 9) dependents per family. Aspects of family life that deteriorated most severely after the assault were their sense of personal security and total value of their assets (70.4%) followed by stress (66.6%) and financial problems (65.9%). Aid was received from either government or private sectors by 96.5% of families but 64.1% reported that it fell short of needs. The most urgent need for aid was financial (40.6%), scholarship for children (22.6%) and personal security and assets (16.6%). In practice the most frequent aid received was financial (92.7%). There were 732 children from 284 victim families. The average age was 17.1 ± 10.4 years and 54.2 % were female. Although most of victims’ families received some aid, there is a need to monitor system and comprehensive and swift assistance for those affected.

Religious Education and Reformist Islam in Thailand's Southern Border Provinces: The Roles of Haji Sulong Abdul Kadir and Ismail Lutfi Japakiya

Scholarship about Muslims in Thailand has rightly maintained that Thai Islam has enjoyed a long and vibrant tradition, and that the country has been home to a wide variety of representations of Muslim identity. Predictably, Muslim heterogeneity has also generated multifarious patterns of dissonance and contestations. While differences between the state and Muslim society, as well as between Malay and Thai identities, have sparked considerable press and academic coverage of late, this paper focuses on contestations within Thailand's Malay minority community as it seeks to negotiate identity and authenticity in the southern provinces of Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat.