Siti Munirah is a Social Research Officer at the Centre for ASEAN Regionalism University of Malaya (CARUM). She graduated from department of Southeast Asian Studies, UM with a Bachelor of Arts in 2007 and Master of Arts from the same department in 2014 by focusing her research on socio-cultural community in Thailand. Her research interests include ethnic minorities across borders, identity, culture change, and religious practices. Her current research interest is comparative religion and culture regionalism in Southeast Asia.