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In 1998, Indonesia exploded with both euphoria and violence after the fall of its longtime authoritarian ruler, Soeharto, and his New Order regime. Hope centered on establishing the rule of law, securing civilian control over the military, and ending corruption. Indonesia under Soeharto was a fundamentally insecure state. Shadowy organizations, masterminds, provocateurs, puppet masters, and other mysterious figures recalled the regime's inaugural massive anticommunist violence in 1965 and threatened to recreate those traumas in the present. Threats metamorphosed into deadly violence in a seemingly endless spiral. In Aceh province, the cycle spun out of control, and an imagined enemy came to ...
Javanese literature is one of the world’s richest and most unusual literary traditions yet it is little known today outside of Java, Indonesia, and a handful of western universities. With its more than a millennium of documented history, its complex interactions over the centuries with literature written in Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Malay and Dutch, its often symbiotic relationship with the performing arts of puppetry and dance, and its own immense creativity and insight, this vastly understudied literature offers a lens to understanding Java’s fascinating world as well as human ingenuity more broadly. The essays in this volume, Storied Island: New Explorations in Javanese Literature, take a fresh look at questions and themes pertaining to Java’s literature, employing new theoretical and methodological lenses.
This book offers a critical analysis on Indonesian education by drawing from various critical perspectives and theoretical frameworks to explore persistent challenges and social inequality problems in the education sector. Critical perspectives are important to reveal how education is not a neutral, mechanistic process of cultivating the knowledge and skills of future generation. Instead, it is a battleground in which competing visions, ideologies, discourses, religious values, and political interests struggle for dominance in a given society. In each of the sections, contributors draw upon specific case studies and employ critical theories to analyze power relations or to identify and desta...
Buku ini berisi biografi seorang tokoh yang bergerak dalam bidang seni, khususnya seni patung, yaitu Ida Bagus Nyana salah satu putera Indonesia kelahiran Bali. Beliau telah ditetapkan sebagai Tokoh dalam bidang seni sebagai "Pemahat yang kreatif' oleh Pemerintah Republik Indonesia dalam hal ini Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan dengan Surat Keputusan nomor 157/1971 tanggal 17 Agustus 1971.
Buku Ensiklopedi Tokoh Kebudayaan IV merupakan salah satu hasil pelaksanaan kegiatan Proyek Inventarisasi dan Dokumentasi Sejarah Nasional Direktorat Jenderal Kebudayaan Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Tahun 1999/2000. Penulisan riwayat hidup atau biografi para tokoh tersebut untuk menjadi sumber acuan dalam memahami karya serta peran tokoh tersebut dalam memajukan dan mengembangkan kebudayaan, baik lokal maupun nasional. Ensiklopedi ini masih jauh dari sempurna namun harapan kami dengan penerbitan yang keempat ini akan memperkaya khasanah kesejarahan dan memberi emaran yang memadai bagi masyarakat serta generasi muda pada umumnya.
Research of the classic literature of Indonesia; collection of abstracts.
Koran Sipatahoenan téh geus lila teu terbit, tapi ngaranna nepi ka ayeuna masih kénéh mindeng disebut-sebut. Naon sababna? Nurutkeun Syarif Amin, lantaran urang Sunda harita ngarasa Sipatahoenan téh jadi kalangkang dirina. Macaan tulisan Syarif Amin dina ieu buku, ngahudang deui kapanasaran ngeunaan “kalangkang dirina” urang Sunda mangsa ayeuna. Abdullah Mustappa Kabiruyungan milu macaan karangan-karangan nu di-sadapurankeun di dieu, kaasup panganteur tinu milihanana. Kayungyun boh ku nu ngaréka sastra jeung naratas jur-nalisme, boh ku nu mapay raratanana. Sumbangan nu pohara gedéna keur kaweruh balaréa, utamana tina perkara sajarah sastra jeung jurnalisme Sunda abad ka-20. Hawé Setiawan