We live in a dynamic world where borders and frontiers are changing, not only internationally but also nationally. Indonesia used to have 27 provinces, now there are 33. New lines divining local goverment administration territories are generated and new zones of juridictions are born... God might not bless the maps men have created-- that is why new border lines keep creeping up on world maps... ... Negotiating martime boundries is by no means easy. With ten maritime neightbors - India, ...

is book explores the lives of prominent expatriates working in varying fi elds and aims to understand why they were drawn to Indonesia and examines their diverse, but valuable contributions to Indonesia and its way of life. In doing so, it will facilitate a better understanding for readers in the East and the West regarding the contributions of prominent expatriates to Indonesia and their feelings towards a country which in many cases, may have become their ...

This book examines the legal accountability associated with government policies in the Indonesian legal system. It explores legal issues with regard to law making and law enforcement, specifically the events that resulted in the unjust charges leveled against several government officials in the aftermath of the 1997 economic meltdown. Using a comparative study of central bank responses during financial crises in Malaysia, the United Kingdom, the United States of ...

Sex, Power and Nation, brings together for the first time Julia Suryakusuma's essays spanning 24 years of writing, applying her analysis to Suharto's regime and that of Indonesia's fledgling democratic politicians.Divided into three parts: "Building a New Nation?", "Sex and Power", and "Literature: Exploration and Boundaries" the book explores the characteristics, hypocrisy, sex manipulations of the New Order regime in the great nation through the eyes of a feminist ...

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 ...

Saat ini orang berpikir serba kritis, termasuk di dunia medis. Pasien tidak lagi dijadikan sebagai objek dalam tindakan medis. Dalam kondisi yang demikian, dunia medis dituntut untuk lebih meningkatkan profesionalitas, kualitas, keterbukaan, yang mengarah kepada pelayanan prima. Tuntutan Hukum Malpraktik Medis memberikan sumbang saran terhadap tindakan medis, agar terhindar dari tindakan malpraktik dan sekaligus memberi infromasi kepada semua pihak baik masyarakat yang berperan sebagai pasien ...

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. ...