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Development, Social Change and Environmental Sustainability
Nowadays, the concept of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) is starting to replace the concept of MDGs (Millennium Developmental Goals). It is a global goal adopted by all United Nations member states. It emphasizes the idea that the development of every country can only be achieved by balancing other factors such as social, economic, and environmental sustainability. It is already clear how sustainable development works with environmental ethics and management. However, there are still issues regarding the sustainable development and human well-being. Sustainable development should focus on finding a way for society to meet their present needs for the long term without sacrificing the abi...
The Army and the Indonesian Genocide
For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous uprising. This formulation not only denied military agency behind the killings, it also denied that the killings could ever be understood as a centralised, nation-wide campaign. Using documents from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency’s archives in Banda Aceh this book shatters the Indonesian government’s official propaganda account of the mass killings and proves the military’s agency behind those events. This book tells the story of the 3,000 pages of top-secret documents that comprise ...
End of Innocence?
Long cited as a model of harmonious cohabitation between different religions, the most populous Muslim country in the world until recently occupied a special place in the Western imagination.Indonesia, home to a peaceful version of Islam, offered a reassuring counter-model to a rowdy and accusatory Arab Islam. Since 1999, however, confrontations between Christians and Muslims in the Moluccas, excesses of vigilantism in Sulawesi, and especially the Bali and Jakarta bombings have shattered these simplistic stereotypes. For many terrorism experts - often self-proclaimed - Indonesia's mutation confirmed the hackneyed thesis that equated obscurantism with Islam, and saw violent outbreaks as an inevitable consequence.
The Social World of Batavia
In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Indonesian site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the next three centuries, the flourishing economic and political nucleus of the Dutch Asian Empire. In this pioneering study, Jean Gelman Taylor offers a comprehensive analysis of Batavia’s extraordinary social world—its marriage patterns, religious and social organizations, economic interests, and sexual roles. With an emphasis on the urban ruling elite, she argues that Europeans and Asians alike were profoundly altered by their merging, resulting in a distinctive hybrid, Indo-Dutch culture. Original in its focus on gender and use of varied sources—travelers’ accounts, newspapers, legal codes, genealogical data, photograph albums, paintings, and ceramics—The Social World of Batavia, first published in 1983, forged new paths in the study of colonial society. In this second edition, Gelman offers a new preface as well as an additional chapter tracing the development of these themes by a new generation of scholars.
Sosio-historisitas Godlob dan Rintrik-nya Danarto:Kajian Historisisme Baru
Buku ini membicarakan dua cerita pendek karya Danarto, Godlob dan Rintrik, dalam konteks sosio-historisitas akhir tahun 1960-an dengan menerapkan perspektif historisisme baru. Pelibatan konteks sosio-historis dalam pembicaraan dua cerita pendek tersebut selama ini belum pernah dilakukan, padahal keduanya tercipta di sekitar terjadinya geger besar di Indonesia. Hasilnya, Godlob dan Rintrik terbaca sebagai dua karya sastra yang lahir berkat pengaruh kejadian-kejadian sosial politik pada akhir tahun 1960-an. Dalam pada itu, cerita pendek Godlob bisa dianggap sebagai satu karya yang turut melahirkan energi sosial di dalam masyarakat untuk menerima ‘pembunuhan’ terhadap kekuasaan Presiden Sukarno. Adapun Rintrik, bisa dilihat sebagai satu cerita pendek yang menggambarkan pembunuhan kepada orang yang tidak bersalah, satu hal yang masih terkait dengan keadaan yang terjadi saat itu, dan depiksi dari tidak selamatnya bayi-bayi revolusi sesudah kegagalan Gestapu atau G30S.
Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans
How do we understand the roots of modern identities and subjectivities (citizen, labour migrant, artist, member of a global faith community) and the cosmopolitan imaginaries and practices embraced and generated in the Asia Pacific region? Writing from a range of disciplines, and diverse sites, the authors explore the ways in which identities are recognized and contested, subjectivities dislodged and reconstituted in the contemporary world, and the role of dialogic scholarly practices in engaging, stimulating and promoting emergent subjectivities and identities.
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