Indonesian Studies

The dislocated, deterritorialized discourse produced by repatriates from formerly European colonies has remained overlooked in academic scholarship. One such group is the Eurasian “Indo” community that has its roots in the former Dutch East Indies, today’s Indonesia. This article focuses on Tjalie Robinson, the intellectual leader of this community from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. The son of a Dutch father and a British-Javanese mother, Robinson became the leading voice of the diasporic Indo community in the Netherlands and later also in the United States. His engagement resulted in the foundation of the Indo magazine Tong Tong and the annual Pasar Malam Besar, what was to become the world’s biggest Eurasian festival. Robinson played an essential role in the cultural awareness and self-pride of the eventually global Indo community through his elaboration of a hybrid and transnational identity concept. By placing his focus “tussen twee werelden” (in-between two worlds) and identifying “mixties-schap” (mestizaje) as the essential characteristic of Indo identity, Robinson anticipated debates on hybridity, transnationalism, and creolism that only much later would draw attention from scholars in the field of postcolonial studies. This article highlights Robinson’s pioneering role in framing a deterritorialized hybrid alternative to nationalist essentialism in the postcolonial era.

Abstraksi: Krisis solidaritas di satu sisi dan politik identitas yang menyangkal kebhinekaan di sisi lain merupakan persoalan besar yang tengah mendera bangsa Indonesia. Persoalan ini coba dibaca dalam kaca mata diskursus filosofis seputar liberalisme versus komunitarisme. Perdebatan antara dua mazhap filsafat ini dapat ditarik relevansinya untuk konteks Indonesia. Di sini Pancasila menempati posisi khusus.

The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific: Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, 3rd Edition
©2017 Routledge: London & New York. 341pp. + x. Link: https://www.routledge.com/The-New-Global-Politics-of-the-Asia-Pacific-Conflict-and-Cooperation-in/Connors-Davison-Dosch/p/book/9781138647022

Now in its new and fully updated third edition, The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific continues to provide a compelling analysis of a region undergoing dramatic changes. Based on new research and offering fresh interpretation, this edition evaluates the prospects for continuing US dominance in the ‘Asian Century’. Whilst presenting evidence for a multifaceted ‘Beijing Strategy’, which aims to counter the US by building an alternative regional order, it also explains Japan’s definitive departure from its limited military role. Key content includes:
- Intra-regional conflicts in the South China Sea and the Korean peninsula,
- The different responses within the Asia Pacific to globalisation and western ideas of democracy and political economy,
- The underappreciated success of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in building a regional identity
- The European Union’s soft power in the region.
A highly topical account, which offers an overview of the main actors, institutions and contemporary issues in the Asia Pacific, the book will be essential reading for students of Asian Studies, International Politics, and anyone interested in the region.

Michael K. Connors teaches at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus and is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University. He is the co-editor of Thai Politics in Translation: Monarchy, Democracy, Constitution (forthcoming).
Remy Davison holds the Jean Monnet Chair in Politics and Economics at Monash University. He is the author of The Political Economy of Single Market Europe (2011).
Jörn Dosch is Professor of International Politics and Development Cooperation at the University of Rostock, Germany, and Adjunct Professor at Monash University Malaysia. His recent publications include Malaysia Post-Mahathir: A Decade of Change (2015).

This book analyzes comparatively the dynamics of the state-scholar relations during the Marcos and Suharto years in the Philippines and Indonesia as evident in two official history-writing projects: Marcos's Tadhana project and  Suharto regime's Sejarah Nasional Indonesia (SNI). It demonstrates a nuanced characterization of the relationship between scholars and state operatives. Rather than the usual approach that regards scholars in such a project as manipulated or co-opted, they are shown in this book as, among other possibilities, possessing and exercising their own power that even the most powerful dictators do not have, and which they need or desire. Instead of taking such projects as aberration, which is in line with the popular liberalist critique of “intellectual prostitution” or “treason of intellectuals”, this book argues that the participation of scholars in these projects merely formalizes and renders explicit the transactional encounters happening on daily basis between knowledge of any ideological disposition, type or level of accuracy, on the one hand, and their respective consumers, on the other. The logistics of power relations in these transactions vary considerably but the underlying logic is fundamentally the same. The implications are singularly important: the widely held liberal assumption that good, rigorous scholarship is corrective or antithetical to the political needs to be re-thought as it unwittingly undermines the very progressive vision upon which much of critical and well-meaning scholarship is built. This happens as this liberal assumption nurtures the myth that it is just a matter of getting things right—empirically, methodologically, theoretically, conceptually—in  order  to neutralize the political. It is a myth because, as I show in this book, (1) it is more the context of the actual knowledge use, rather than the content or authorial intention, that ultimately decides the political (say, a patently progressive knowledge can be used for  conservatives purpose in a particular context, or vice versa); and (2) the strength of politics precisely lies in at least the appearance of accuracy or objectivity of knowledge. The potency of, say, Trump's use/misuse of "fake news" depends on the idea of objective or impartial knowledge.  People support him because they believe in the correctness (or objectivity) of his claims. In other words, the liberal/progressive roots of the idea of objectivity/impartiality of knowledge has long been, or perhaps from the beginning, usurped by conservative interests, of which Trump is just the latest among the most glaring examples. Fact-checking him may not be enough as it may be likened to preaching to the choir or the already converted. The solution seems to lie not mainly in more rigor or accuracy of critical scholarship, for accurate or not, it is how knowledge is actually understood, used and misused on the ground (and in digital world) that determines the material impact on the people. Progressive or pro-people scholarship, so I suggest, needs to be reoriented to go beyond critique, to what may be termed as cartography of power/knowledge. Critique can only affirm one elite (or elite-wannabe) politics over another, and this includes intellectual elites, whereas cartography serves the interests of the public. In brief, cartography of power/knowledge entails a full mapping out of all sources and types of power, including power of scholars and scholarship, that enable knowledge production, consumption and distribution. By laying transparent these networks of power relations, progressive scholarship will be in better position to help common people decide for themselves which knowledge may be useful or detrimental for them at a particular context. Doing so makes knowing more truly empowering, rather than a shackle, for people who progressive scholarship expressly wishes to help.

Buckley C (2017) Looms, Weaving and the Austronesian Expansion. In: Cultural Exchanges in Monsoon Asia:  Andrea Acri , Roger Blench  and Alexandra Landmann (eds), ISEAS, Singapore.

Weaving plays an important role in Asian cultures, both in the practical and symbolic spheres. In this paper I trace the weaving technologies of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) to their origins on the Asian mainland. A distinctive suite of technologies, including the body-tensioned loom, warp ikat and the tubular sarong, is found across a wide area. In ISEA it is associated with Austronesian speakers, and remnants of it are found on the mainland amongst Daic and Austroasiatic speakers. Significantly, it is absent on Taiwan, which (together with Hainan and parts of Laos and Vietnam) preserve an older form of the loom. I conclude that the weaving traditions of ISEA came directly from the mainland, rather than via Taiwan.

I am Hariyanto, Principal of SMA Negeri 6 Malang
Worksheet xi semester 1 is worksheet of chemistry for x degree that I wrote when I taught chemistry at SMA Negeri 3 Malang.
I hope it can help chemistry teacher to write Unit of Self Activities and Learning (Unit Kegiatan Belajar Mandiri)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the short-run and the long-run relationships between Islamic banking development and economic growth in the case of Indonesia.

Design/methodology/approach – Using quarterly data (2003:1-2010:2), this paper utilizes the bound testing approach of cointegration and error correction models, developed within an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) framework.

Findings – The results demonstrate a significant relationship in short-run and long-run periods between Islamic financial development and economic growth. The relationship, however, is neither Schumpeter's supply-leading nor Robinson's demand-following. It appears to be bi-directional relationship.

Originality/value – This paper uses empirical evidence to show the role of Islamic banks' financing towards economic performance of a country. To the best of the authors' knowledge, the study on the role of Islamic banking development towards economic growth is limited, particularly in the context of Indonesia.

The anthropological literature on gender relations in Pacific Asia has tended to group ideas of menstrual pollution with sexual antagonism and the use of poisons and witchcraft by women against men in Melanesia, while the apparent absence of menstrual taboos, ...

It is generally assumed that wage-labour is the most efficient and productive form of work. A well functioning labour-market is seen as a guarantee of achieving economic growth. In Indonesia, however, most work is still organised as selfemployment and as unpaid family labour in the informal sector, or as household work in subsistence production for self-consumption (Evers 1992).

Indonesia's private television industry blossomed into a powerful source of national, mass culture production in the 1990's and early 2000's. This essay examines the ways in which producers' subject position, in relation to global media form and narrative, is transformed, through production processes and conventions, into a distinctive 'way of looking'. By focusing on the example of a travel program, issues related to the representation of elements classified as 'traditional' or 'ethnic' is explored. Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork among the country's TV producers, programmers and station executives, the essay puts forward the notion that the use of global forms and narratives leads to the encoding of a particular 'gaze' in popular programming, which positions viewers as foreign to symbols of traditional culture.

Tulisan ini memberikan apresiasi sekaligus catatan atau masukan atas draft RUU Perlindungan Data Pribadi. Catatan difokuskan dari perspektif kelembagaan; membadankan kewenangan pengawasan kepada independent administrative body yang dalam hal ini adalah Komisi Informasi Publik (KIP). Catatan ini juga mengingatkan bahwa rumusan norma sanksi masih bersifat pidana sentris, padahal itu berbahaya dan masih belum berkarakter keadilan restoratif.

On Wednesday, 4 March 2020, the Ethnographic Museum (Museum Volkenkunde) in Leiden announced that it had discovered the Indonesian freedom fighter, Prince Diponegoro's (1785-1855), long lost heirloom dagger (keris), Kangjeng Kiai Nogosiluman (His Highness the Unseen King of the Snakes). It is being given back this week in the context of a rare royal visit to Indonesia by King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima (11-13 March), which in turn is being preceded (8-13 March) by one of the largest trade and technical missions sent by the Netherlands to their former colony. So what is going on? Has this fortuitous location of the Javanese freedom fighter's keris a political agenda? The present paper (in Dutch) explains some of the background.

This thesis concerns the existence of runaway migrant workers in Taiwan, mainly Indonesian. Despite well-publicized horrifying accounts of abuse, exploitation, rape, forced confinements, and executions without trial, Indonesia migrant workers appear to remain hopeful in their decision to migrate. To most

An 8 Richter Scale (RS) earthquake struck West Sumatra on Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 17.16 pm which led to huge number of landslides. Hence a comprehensive landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) should be produced in order to reduce the damages to people and infrastructures. In the international landslide literature, various statistical methods such as frequency ratio (FR) and logistic regression (LR) have been widely used individually for LSM, but they have some weaknesses. FR which is able to perform bivariate statistical analysis (BSA) assesses the influence of classes of each conditioning factor on landslide occurrence. However, the correlation between the factors is mostly neglected. On the other hand, LR is able to analyze the relationship among the factors while it is not capable to evaluate the classes of each landslide conditioning factor. This paper aims to propose an ensemble method of FR and LR in order to overcome their weak points. For LSM, a landslide inventory map with a total of 87 landslide locations was extracted from various sources. Then the landslide inventory was randomly divided into two datasets 70% for training the models and the remaining 30% was used for validation purpose. The landslide conditioning factors consist of: altitude, curvature, river, SPI, rainfall, soil type, soil texture, land use/cover (LULC), peak ground acceleration (PGA), geology, slope, aspect, lineament and topographic wetness index (TWI). Four PGA of 7.5, 8, 8.6 and 9 were acquired and PGA 8 which was related to the 2009 earthquake was used to generate the model. Finally, the produced landslide susceptibility maps were validated using an area under the (ROC) curve method. For the model which was derived by PGA 8, the validation results showed 84% and 78% success and prediction rates respectively. Furthermore, the prediction rates for the models made by PGA 7.2, 8.6 and 9 are 79%, 78% and 81% respectively. The result proved the reasonable efficiency of the proposed method for earthquake induced landslide susceptibility mapping. Also the proposed ensemble method can be used in other hazard studies as it is capable to produce rapid and accurate assessment for disaster management and decision making.

This book focuses on the ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary films, poetry and performance, museums and monuments, music, dance, image, law, memory narratives, spiritual bonds, and ruins are translated and take place as translations of acts of genocide. It shows how genocide-related modes of representation are acts of translation which displace and produce memory and acts of remembrance of genocidal violence as inheritance of the past in a future present. Thus, the possibility of representation is examined in light of what remains in the aftermath where the past and the future are inseparable companions and we find the idea of the untranslatability in acts of genocide. By opening up both the past and lived experiences of genocidal violence as and through multiple acts of translation, this volume marks a heterogeneous turn towards the future, and one which will be of interest to all scholars and students of memory and genocide studies, transitional justice, sociology, psychology, and social anthropology.

Guna mencari kesegaran di sela karya dan mengenal budaya Indonesia, pada 5-7 Agustus 2013 dua staf Puspita (penulis dan direktur Puspita, P. Budi Go SJ) mengadakan lawatan budaya ke kota Lasem. Tujuan utama kami ialah berekreasi sekaligus mengenal jejak awal imigran China di Jawa, yakni di Lasem. Perjalanan dilakukan ala backpacker, menggunakan kendaraan umum, dan kemudian mengambil tempat istirahat di Panti Asuhan Marganingsih. Panti asuhan ini dikelola oleh Suster SND. Kami tinggal di bangunan Belanda yang dibangun kurun 1930-an di kompleks panti asuhan. Tapi, sebelum ceritanya dilanjutkan m0hon tidak salah tafsir dahulu. Ko Budi Go mencari jejak China di Lasem karena merasa galau dengan etnisitasnya (yang sering diakui sendiri 'China murtad': tidak punya toko, pun tidak bisa main badminton..). Demikian pula bukan karena penulis beratus kali mengelak disebut Pranowo (pranakan cino jowo), swear...saya bukan China.

In memory of Bruno Latour who responded quickly to this paper upon its publication////
This is an experimental essay to reconsider the meaning of animism in the time of science and technology studies when the boundary between human and non-human entities is being redrawn. Referring to  various sources from my earlier research on Javanese animism and peasant movements such as Saminism to the recent social studies of life sciences that are related to such issues as artificial life and so forth, this article tries to redefine what is animism in the contemporary techno-cultural landscape.  This is related to the exhibition of Animism curated by Anselm Franke.

This study aimed to examine the effect of Composite Stock Price Index (Composite Stock Price Index (CSPI)), the exchange rate, and interest rates on stock prices of mining companies listed in Indonesia stock Exchange. This research is associative with quantitative approach. Data were analyzed using panel data regression. The data used is secondary data such as financial data, and the percentage of monthly interest rates over the last three years. The collection of data taken with documentation techniques derived from published reports of Bank Indonesia and the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Sampling was done by purposive sampling with the number nine companies.  The results showed that the CSPI and interest rates but not significant positive effect on stock prices. The rupiah exchange rate and significant negative effect on stock prices. Simultaneously the composite stock price index, the rupiah exchange rate, and interest rates have a significant effect on stock prices of mining compani...

Research is a form of 'translation process' that aims to translate systems of meaning through mutual engagement between the researcher and the researched in the field. In observing, engaging, experiencing, living and subsequently writing the stories of the informants, the researcher also inadvertently rediscovers and renegotiates their own identity. This chapter is a critical reflection on my professional practice in doing ethnographic fieldwork with the Christian communities in Indonesia over the past decade. While my subject position as a middle-class, Western-educated, Asian, Christian, male researcher has given me rare access into various Christian sites, including clandestine seminaries, my ability to gather data is contingent upon the amount of 'investment' that I committed to the sites and to my informants. As there are no hard and fast rules about how much a researcher should invest in the field, my experience demonstrates how a researcher might reflexively negotiate between engaging the field and distancing from it in order to maintain intellectual objectivity, moral boundaries and emotional hygiene. This chapter takes a reflexive approach in interrogating the epistemological dichotomies of researcher/researched, self/other, insider/ outsider and native/foreign. It challenges the fixity of these categories and sheds light on how they are constructed and shaped by specific temporal and spatial contexts, and are always shifting.

Racial Difference and the Colonial Wars of 19th Century Southeast Asia. Eds. Farish A. Noor and Peter Carey. Amsterdam: AUP, 15 January 2021.

The colonisation of Southeast Asia was a long and often violent process where numerous military campaigns were waged by the colonial powers across the region. The notion of racial difference was crucial in many of
these wars, as native Southeast Asian societies were often framed in negative terms as 'savage' and 'backward' communities that needed to be subdued and 'civilised'. This collection of critical essays focuses on the colonial construction of race and looks at how the colonial wars in 19th-century Southeast Asia were rationalised via recourse to theories of racial difference, making race a significant factor in the wars of Empire. Looking at the colonial wars in Java, Borneo, Siam, the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula and other parts of Southeast Asia, the essays examine the manner in which the idea of racial difference was weaponised by the colonising powers and how forms of local resistance often worked through such colonial structures of identity politics.

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The Guerilla Star and campaign medals of Indonesia: history and symbolism of early Indonesian awards = Bintang Gerilya dan Satyalancana-Satyalancana Peristiwa: sejarah dan simbolisme tanda-tanda kehormatan bungar
The paper traces the history of the first Indonesian military award - The Guerilla Star, or Bintang Gerilya. The paper also examines the picture of Indonesian awards published on Wikipedia https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Indonesian_Military_Honour.jpg . The medal bar includes the Guerilla Star and seven medals. These medals are for the Independence Wars against the Dutch and for suppressions of several uprisings since the Madiun Affair as well as for the annexation of West Irian and Confrontation with Malaysia.

The Dutch scholar Karel Steenbrink, Professor Emeritus of Intercultural Theology at Utrecht University, published three volumes on Catholics in Indonesia. A documented history. The first volume appeared in 2003 and treats the period from 1808 to 1903. The second volume of K. Steenbrink was written with the cooperation of his wife Paule Maas, and is entitled Catholics in Indonesia, 1808-1942,  Volume 2, The spectacular growth of a self-confident minority, 1903-1942: a documented history. In 2015 Steenbrink came out with his third volume with the significant title Catholics in Independent Indonesia: 1945-2010.Karel Steenbrink’s effort to write the first comprehensive history of the Catholic Church in Indonesia in three volumes, based on years of intensive research, deserves high recognition and praise. His publications are not only a great service to the Catholic Church in Indonesia, but also the whole of Indonesian society and for the history of Christianity in Asia.

Sebagai salah satu perusahaan asuransi terbaik dan tertua di Indonesia, PT Malacca Trust Wuwungan Insurance menyediakan beragam produk asuransi umum terlengkap untuk memenuhi kebutuhan bisnis dan perorangan di Indonesia, yang terdiri dari:asuransi mobil, asuransi properti, asuransi pengangkutan, asuransi perjalanan, asuransi kecelakaan diri dan asuransi kesehatan.

Television has been considered one of the most popular media in Indonesia with national television programs as the most dominant for local audiences. Even though imported programs also have been introduced from the early periods of national broadcasting, media regulations in this country tend to limit foreign contents so it does not exceed national contents. However, in recent years national television’s popularity is being challenged not only by global media contents but also by the presence newer media platforms like the Internet. In addition, global media contents are also becoming available through pirated media, such as via VCD, DVD, MP3, and P2P, which are easy to access in many Asian countries due to ineffective regulations against piracy. This study proposes a research question: what are the current media regulations in Indonesia in the discourse of global flows of media contents through the Internet and piracy media? The data gathered mainly from academic literatures, news articles, legislation documents, and online media obtained from Lexis Nexis Academic database The study found that since media regulations in Indonesia mainly focus only in print media and broadcasting, there are few regulations that discuss the threat of global media contents that are mainly accessed through newer media such as the Internet and pirate media outlets. Additionally, lack of socialization of intellectual property rights remains as one of the biggest factors that made any regulations ineffective to overcome media piracy.

Religious sentiment is often called as primary factor behind the many cases of violent conflict in Indonesia. Nevertheless, many contemporary studies on conflict and peace showed that trigger variables of conflict are not only varied but also layered and unique. This article reveals about the relational model and management between JAI (Jemaat Ahmadiyah Indonesia/Indonesian Ahmadiyya Community) and non-JAI in the rural Manislor. By phenomenology, this study looked at the depth of relations, perceptions, and conceptions of both groups; and by genetic structuralism of Bourdieu, this study revealed the relationships that unite and integrate of these two groups. Some of the findings appeared that besides the theological factor, the variables such as group sentiments, space separation, identity polemic, economical jealousy, political jealousy and elite interference, contribute to the segregation and conflict between them. Thus, this is the the strengthening of social bonding such as local habituations and local wisdoms is an urgent matter to build a suistainable peace. As well as the agents of civil society, with their own way, must be readily to care and control the mechanisms of conflict resolution.

Although the Talang Sari tragedy as a part of the representation of Indonesian Muslim oppression during the authoritarian regime, it is relatively lesser known for Indonesian public. The avoidance of the most Indonesian Muslim who did not support it is one of those facts. Indeed, they did a less attention to talk and to articulate the case to the public. This paper intends to revisit the case of the Talang Sari as one of the unsolved human rights violation during the authoritarian regime. It is not only exploring the case and also examining the context of violence, but also tracing dynamic of the case during and post of authoritarian regime by the emergence of Islah agreement as cultural impunity to forget the past for many victims. The questions deals with in this paper are following: what kind of conditions that made the Talang Sari was happening in East Lampung in 1989, South Sumatra during the Suharto presidency? How did the Suharto regime control the discourse of the tragedy in Indonesian public that eventually encourage most Indonesian Muslim did not ac

INDONESIAN: Buku ini berisikan data tentang berbagai spesies tumbuhan liar maupun yang dibudidayakan dan terkategori asli atau endemik yang bernilai guna dalam kehidupan sosial, budaya, ekonomi dan religius masyarakat suku Marori. Pengkajian dilakukan dengan melibatkan tokoh tokoh kunci atau tetua adat suku Marori yang masih memelihara pengetahuan tentang tumbuh-tumbuhan dan pemanfaatannya secara tradisional di dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Oleh karenanya, di dalam buku ini banyak terdapat istilah-istilah dalam bahasa Marori mulai dari penamaan tumbuh-tumbuhan sampai pemanfaatannya sebagai wujud kepedulian kami atas kelestarian pengetahuan tradisional itu.
ENGLISH: This book contains data about various species of wild plants as well as those which are cultivated and categorized as native/endemic, which are of high social, cultural, economic and religious values in the lives of the Marori people. The documentation research was undertaken with information collected from key traditional elders and leaders of the Marori tribe who still maintain deep knowledge of plants and their traditional use in daily life. This book contains many terms in the local Marori language, and rich information of different kinds reflecting the local concerns for the sustainability of traditional knowledge.