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The Calling of the Church in Times of Polarization
In many societies all over the world, an increasing polarization between contrasting groups can be observed. Polarization arises when a fear born of difference turns into ‘us-versus-them’ thinking and rules out any form of compromise. This volume addresses polarizations within societies as well as within churches, and asks the question: given these dynamics, what may be the calling of the church? The authors offer new approaches to polarizing debates on topics such as racism, social justice, sexuality and gender, euthanasia, and ecology and agriculture in various contexts. They engage in profound theological and ecclesiological reflection, in particular from the Reformed tradition. Contributors to this volume are: Najib George Awad, Henk van den Belt, Nadine Bowers Du Toit, Jaeseung Cha, David Daniels, David Fergusson, Jan Jorrit Hasselaar, Jozef Hehanussa, Allan Janssen, Klaas-Willem de Jong, Viktória Kóczián, Philipp Pattberg, Louise Prideaux, Emanuel Gerrit Singgih, Peter-Ben Smit, Thandi Soko-de Jong, Wim van Vlastuin, Jan Dirk Wassenaar, Elizabeth Welch, Annemarieke van der Woude, and Heleen Zorgdrager.
Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia
Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world’s third-largest democracy is as complex and enigmatic as ever. The country has achieved a successful transition to democracy and yet Indonesian democracy continues to be flawed, illiberal, and predatory. This book suggests that this and other paradoxes of democracy in Indonesia often assume occult forms in the Indonesian political imagination, and that the spirit-like character of democracy and corruption traverses into the national media and the political elite. Through a series of biographical accounts of political entrepreneurs, all of whom employ spirits in various, but always...
Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia
Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia explores gender, sexuality and religion in contemporary Indonesia. It is the first book-length analysis of the experiences of queer Muslims in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country and the world’s fourth most populous nation, as well as the first monograph exploring the voices of their allies vis-à-vis the role of Indonesian progressive Islam and Islam Nusantara. An ethnographic study based on semi-structured in-depth interviews, participant observation and media analysis, the book analyses how queer Indonesian Muslims come to, and navigate, their gender, sexual and religious subjectivities and subject positions, beliefs and practices....
Democracy for Sale
Democracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations. Edward Aspinall and Ward Berenschot assess the informal networks and political strategies that shape access to power and privilege in the messy political environment of contemporary Indonesia. In post-Suharto Indonesian politics the exchange of patronage for political support is commonplace. Clientelism, argue the authors, saturates the political system, and in Democracy for Sale they reveal the everyday practices of vote buying, influence peddling, manipulating government programs, and skimming money from government projects. In doing so, Aspinall and ...
In Search of Local Regime In Indonesia
Democracy is frequently considered a single (and thus uniform) national programme. However, political structures and opportunities differ clearly in various contexts, and as such they have their own influences and consequences. The study of democracy and democratisation must be reinforced with research that emphasises local perspective over national ones, for it is at the local level that different centres of power interact and understandings of genuine democratic practices are created. It is in this spirit that this book attempts to examine the diverse problem of democracy and democratisation in various Indonesian localities, while also underscoring the importance of considering asymmetrica...
Regions of Memory
“Regions of memory” are a scale of social and cultural memory that reaches above the national, yet remains narrower than the global or universal. The chapters of this volume analyze transnational constellations of memory across and between several geographical areas, exploring historical, political and cultural interactions between societies. Such a perspective enables a more diverse field of possible comparisons in memory studies, studying a variety of global memory regions in parallel. Moreover, it reveals lesser-known vectors and mechanisms of memory travel, such as across Cold War battle lines, across the Indian Ocean, or between Southeast Asia and western Europe. Chapters 1 and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Intoleransi dalam Buku Pendidikan Islam?
Buku ini merupakan hasil penelitian tentang buku ajar PAI. Buku ini menyajikan tiga topik pokok terkait masalah munculnya muatan radikal dan intoleran dalam buku ajar PAI. Pertama, buku ini menyajikan hasil studi lapangan terhadap daerah-daerah (Jombang, Bandung, Jakarta, dan Depok) yang sebagian masyarakatnya mempersoalkan materi-materi tersebut. Kedua, studi ini melakukan analisis konten (content analysis) terhadap materi-materi dalam buku ajar PAI mulai dari tingkat sekolah dasar (SD) sampai sekolah menengah atas (SMA) untuk melihat sejauh mana buku ajar tersebut memuat materi-materi yang mengandung ajaran radikal dan intoleran. Ketiga, buku ini juga mendiskusikan kebijakan politik produksi buku ajar PAI untuk melihat mengapa materi-materi radikal dan intoleran bisa muncul dalam buku terbitan pemerintah. Buku persembahan penerbit Prenada Media Group.
A Political Biography of the Indonesian Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Movement
"In this book the history of the LBT movement is charted, from invisibility, to visibility and now again to hiding. The author explores the persistence of the butch/femme model of relationships; the proliferations of identities, family violence and conversion therapy, and religion. The anti-LGBT campaign is also extensively analysed. In its insistence on the local dynamics of this movement, the book aims to debunk the idea that homosexuality is a Western import. It is also a contribution to the growing literature on decolonization studies in pointing out that its dynamics, its historical course and its present condition, different as they are from the dominant Western view on a global LGBT movement, needs to be taken as valuable as accounts of Western LGBT histories are"--
TIONGHOA MERAJUT KEINDONESIAAN Persembahan 80 Tahun Leo Suryadinata
Siapapun yang meneliti etnik Tionghoa Indonesia, dipastikan pernah membaca karya-karya Leo Suryadinata, setidaknya mengenal namanya. Dengan publikasinya dalam berbagai bahasa, pria kelahiran Jakarta ini telah memberikan pengetahuan mengenai etnik Tionghoa dalam berbagai aspeknya. Terlebih di masa Orde Baru, tulisan Leo berkontribusi memberikan perspektif yang berbeda dari versi penguasa. Pada 2021, peneliti senior ISEAS Singapura ini merayakan ulang tahunnya ke-80. Keluarga besar NGGOTIO (Nggosipin Tionghoa, Yuk!) tidak mau melewatkan momen istimewa ini. Hasilnya adalah festschrift yang berisi persembahan dari 12 penulis sebagai bukti penghormatan untuk Leo Suryadinata.
Activists in Transition
Activists in Transition examines the relationship between social movements and democratization in Indonesia. Collectively, progressive social movements have played a critical role over in ensuring that different groups of citizens can engage directly in—and benefit from—the political process in a way that was not possible under authoritarianism. However, their individual roles have been different, with some playing a decisive role in the destabilization of the regime and others serving as bell-weathers of the advancement, or otherwise, of Indonesia's democracy in the decades since. Equally important, democratization has affected social movements differently depending on the form taken by each movement during the New Order period. The book assesses the contribution that nine progressive social movements have made to the democratization of Indonesia since the late 1980s, and how, in turn, each of those movements has been influenced by democratization.
