Being anything other than ordinary has never crossed Maliha’s wildest imagination, after living for 15 years as a normal human she had thrown the idea of being different out of her mindset, aiming to live a normal, mundane human life. That is until this strange man appeared before her and gave her a letter to attend this unknown school where the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet. Without any detailed explanation of what’s happening, she was sent far away from her family to a new ...

The core argument of this book is that citizenship is produced and practiced through movements against injustice. These take the shape of struggles—by people at the grass-roots level and middle classes and their representing organisations and activists—for cultural recognition, social and economic justice, and popular representation. Such popular struggles in Indonesia have largely ended up engaging with the state through both discursive and non-discursive processes. While the state ...

From the beginning Agung Rai was aware that reality is not slogan, and that slogan is not reality. Here is the place of in Bali with its highest awareness of uniqueness and the needs to preserve it. Also seeing Tri Hita Karana on trap of asphalt, concrete and kind of chemical poisons, but from twenty years ago, he made a tangible garden to meet Tri Hita Karana and it works: Nature, Sang Hyang Widhi and human made. Place where paintings made by maestro are shown, also gamelan (local instrument) ...

This book examines the development of Indonesia nationalism from the viewpoint of minority-the urban Cristian elite. Placed between the Indonesian nationalist promise of freedom and the (equally Christian) Dutch colonial promise of modernity, their experience of late colonialism was filled with dilemma and ambiguity. ...

Cultural travel and migrancy examines how people in West Java use modern media such radio, television, and cassettes to give expression to their thoughts and feelings about problems of contemporary life. It describes artistic approaches to globalization, one of the problems that as been felt most pressing during the late New Order and early Reformation. Situating itself at this remarkable turning-point in Indonesian history, its-ows that local artists have not been mere victims or products ...

The dutch colonial power in Indonesia in the nineteenth century needed to clarify its understanding of legal values and conventions of the peoples whom it claimed to rule. Dutch colonial lawyers tended to rationalize this legal culture, lumping together all kind of indigenous legal customs fro different areas as manifestations of adatrecllt, or costomary law. The status of this legal system vi-a-vis Dutch colonial law was a source of continual debate and disagreement. The champions af ...

In 1940, a Dutch colonial officer named Louis Fontijne (1902-1968) was commissioned to conduct an investigation of indigenous land tenure and leadership in the Residency of Timor and Depedencies. Dealing speccifically with Kelimado , a region included in the Nage district of central Flores, its main product was a remarkable study of society and culture and the effects of over three decades of Dutch administration and Cristian proselytizing. In regard to ethnographic detail and analytical ...

Pura Besakih is the paramount Hindu temple on Bali Located high on the slopes of the volcano Mt Agung, it has developed over more than thousand years into great complex of 22 separate temples, the largest and central being Pura Penataran Agung. The annual cycle of more than seventy rituals, which symbolically link the temples into a whole, culminates in the hundred-year ceremony called Ekadasa Rudra (last held in 1979). The temple complex, state-supported at least since the fifteenth ...

The vernacular architecture of the Minangkabau in Sumatra constitutes one of the most popular and well-known building traditions in contemporary Indonesia. Yet, despite its fame, Minangkabau architecture has received remarkably little scholarly attention. What is known about the building tradition does not go beyond the romanticized popular image (of high-rising roof spires, floor elevations,ad colourful woodcarvings) promoted by the government, the tourist industry,and the media. This image ...

This book is written for Indonesian policy analyssts and policy makers and for students and practitioners of agricultural policy in Indonesian universitics. The purpose is to introduce a method of economic analysis to evaluate public invesment project and public policies in the agricultural sector. An approach called the policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) is designed to serve that purpose. ...

Wilayah Asia-Pasifik tidak setenang nama yang diembannya. Meskipun risiko konflik antar negara telah banyak berkurang dalam beberpa tahun terakhir ini, namun satu dekade terakhir telah memperlihatkan mening-katnya konflik kekerasan internal. ...