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The Act Of Killing - Review, Robert Cribb
The Act Of Killing - Review, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Critically reviews Joshua Oppenheimer's celebrated film The Act of Killing. Suggests that the film appears to have been staged in sigificant places and that it gives a misleading impression of the character of the 1965-66 killings, especially by downplaying the role of the military in order to emphasise the psychopathic character of Anwar Congo and his friends.
Does Education Empower The Indonesian Women?, Arif Rohman
Does Education Empower The Indonesian Women?, Arif Rohman
Arif Rohman
The second feminist wave in the 1960s has influenced feminists to increase their campaign against patriarchy in almost all areas. This campaign aims to achieve equal legal, political and social rights for women. In this context, they view education as a vehicle to empower women in societies. Using Javanese culture as an example, this article will examine whether education has much impact on it, and to identify factors which prevent education from empowering women in Indonesia. From the analysis, it has shown that educated women still faced many obstacles to participate in economical, political and social aspects.
Women And Leadership In Islam: A Case Study In Indonesia, Arif Rohman
Women And Leadership In Islam: A Case Study In Indonesia, Arif Rohman
Arif Rohman
Women in leadership positions is a sensitive issue in most Moslem societies. Even though reality has shown that women can compete with men, some people continue to use ‘religious reasons’ to block women’s advancement to leadership roles and maintain the status quo. This article will examine the conservative and liberal thinking about women as leaders in Muslim society especially in Indonesia.
Reinterpret Polygamy In Islam: A Case Study In Indonesia, Arif Rohman
Reinterpret Polygamy In Islam: A Case Study In Indonesia, Arif Rohman
Arif Rohman
It is the consensus of ulema (religious leader) in Indonesia that polygamy is allowed in Islam, while polyandry is prohibited. That is why even though that the practice of monogamy has negative impacts to women, some people still conduct it and believe that polygamy is sunnah (the manner or deeds of Muhammad) and part of syariah (Islamic law). This article will explore the perspective of fundamentalist and modernist about polygamy and how the modernist Muslim scholars in Indonesia fight for opposing polygamy.
The Incredible Shrinking Pancasila: Nationalist Propaganda And The Missing Ideological Legacy Of Suharto, Robert Cribb
The Incredible Shrinking Pancasila: Nationalist Propaganda And The Missing Ideological Legacy Of Suharto, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Although President Suharto dominated Indonesian politics for more than three decades, and although Indonesians spent millions of hours under his regime mastering the principles of the national ideology, Pancasila, remarkable little remains of his ideological legacy.
Genocide In Indonesia, 1965-1966, Robert Cribb
The Homo Floresiensis Controversy, Robert Cribb
The Homo Floresiensis Controversy, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
The 2004 announcement of the discovery of a new species of hominin in the form of sub-fossil remains from Liang Bua cave in Flores aroused immediate excitement and controversy. The discovery attracted sceptical attention from dissenting palaeontologists. The sometimes acrimonious debate addressed the relative importance of apparently archaic and apparently modern features of the remains.
Nature Conservation And Cultural Preservation In Convergence: Orang Pendek And Papuans In Colonial Indonesia, Robert Cribb
Nature Conservation And Cultural Preservation In Convergence: Orang Pendek And Papuans In Colonial Indonesia, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
No abstract provided.
A Genocide That Never Was: Explaining The Myth Of Anti-Chinese Massacres In Indonesia, 1965–66, Robert Cribb
A Genocide That Never Was: Explaining The Myth Of Anti-Chinese Massacres In Indonesia, 1965–66, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Many publications refer incorrectly to extensive massacres of Chinese in Indonesia in 1965–66. Approximately half a million people were killed in this period, but the victims wereoverwhelmingly members and associates of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). Chinese Indonesians experienced serious harassment but relatively few were killed. The persistence of this myth is attributed to a trope dating back to the seventeenth century which equates the social position of Chinese in Indonesia with that of Jews in Europe and which thus predicts periodic pogroms and attempts at genocide. The myth has survived partly because it inspires a sense of urgency in …
Constructing Indigenousness In The Late Modern World, Robert Cribb, Li Narangoa
Constructing Indigenousness In The Late Modern World, Robert Cribb, Li Narangoa
Robert Cribb
Examines changing meanings of the term 'indigenous" in relation to other ideas that have been valued in various (mainly Western) philosophical system, such as priority, attachment to the land, and technical knowledge.
Circles Of Esteem, Standard Works, And Euphoric Couplets: Dynamics Of Academic Life In Indonesian Studies, Robert Cribb
Circles Of Esteem, Standard Works, And Euphoric Couplets: Dynamics Of Academic Life In Indonesian Studies, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Indonesian Studies as a field is strongly influenced by its own social character as a community of competing and cooperating scholars. Outside individual universities, the dominant social form is not the powerful professor, but rather the “circle of esteem,” a cluster of scholars who respect each other, cite each other’s work, push each other’s ideas into the academic marketplace, and, occasionally, rise to each other’s defense. Circles of esteem arise because academic work has less to do with the industrial production of knowledge than with a constant search for novelty, which may arise from new sources or new uses of …
Genocide In The Non-Western World: Implications For Holocaust Studies, Robert Cribb
Genocide In The Non-Western World: Implications For Holocaust Studies, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
The example of the Holocaust has tended to dominate genocide studies, but the broader study of extreme violence makes it difficult to exclude the mass killing of indigenous peoples and mass killing on political grounds from the category of genocide.
Japan And Transformation Of National Identities In The Imperial Era, Li Narangoa, Robert Cribb
Japan And Transformation Of National Identities In The Imperial Era, Li Narangoa, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Japan's view of the nationality of its Asian neightbours took many forms during the imperial era. In some respects Japan asserted its superiority to those neighbours, in other respects saw them as nations with a standing equal to that of Japan. The working out of these two views reflected Japanese strategic interests.
Environmentalism In Indonesian Politics, Robert Cribb
Environmentalism In Indonesian Politics, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Environmential politics emerged in Indonesia during the autheoritarian Suharto era. Rather than being a reaction to Suharto's predatory approach to the environment, many environmental policies were closely tied to the managerial, technocratic and campaign-oriented approach of the New Order.
Remembering, Forgetting And Historical Injustice, Robert Cribb, Kenneth Christie
Remembering, Forgetting And Historical Injustice, Robert Cribb, Kenneth Christie
Robert Cribb
No abstract provided.
Military Strategy In The Indonesian Revolution: Nasution's 'Total People's War' In Theory And Practice, Robert Cribb
Military Strategy In The Indonesian Revolution: Nasution's 'Total People's War' In Theory And Practice, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Analyses the guerrilla strategy of General A.H. Nasution, architect of Indonesia's guerrilla resistance to the Dutch in the late 1940s and finds that his strategy, unlike that of Mao or Giap, involved keeping the mass of the poeple at arm's length from the guerrilla army.
Independence For Java? New National Projects For An Old Empire, Robert Cribb
Independence For Java? New National Projects For An Old Empire, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
In the context of speculation that outlying regions might break away from Indonesia, the chapter suggests that Java might be better off shorn of its Indonesian empire.
Political Structures And Chinese Business Connections In The Malay World: A Historical Perspective, Robert Cribb
Political Structures And Chinese Business Connections In The Malay World: A Historical Perspective, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
The prominence of ethnic Chinese among successful business owners in Southeast Asia is intriguing. Many have sought the secret of Chinese success in Chinese characteristics. This chapter suggests that Chinese success rests rather on the specific historical circumstances in Southeast Asia during the colonial period and after. A series of crony-like arrangements has been possible because political conditions permitted them,
More Smoke Than Fire: The 1997 'Haze' Crisis And Other Environmental Issues In Indonesia', Robert Cribb
More Smoke Than Fire: The 1997 'Haze' Crisis And Other Environmental Issues In Indonesia', Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Reports on the 1987 haze crisis, analyses the four explanations put forward for the crisis and speculates on political consequences for the Suharto government.
Birds Of Paradise And Environmental Politics In Colonial Indonesia, 1890-1931, Robert Cribb
Birds Of Paradise And Environmental Politics In Colonial Indonesia, 1890-1931, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Pressure to protect the bird of paradise, native to New Guinea and eastern Indonesia, began to develop in the late nineteenth century. Progress was slow, partly because lack of knowledge of the ecology of the birds made it difficult to assess the best way to provide protection, partly because of problems of enforcement, partly because of countervailing interests represented by the trade in pelts.
Democracy, Self-Determination And The Indonesian Revolution, Robert Cribb
Democracy, Self-Determination And The Indonesian Revolution, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
No abstract provided.
Indonesian Political Developments, 1989-1990, Robert Cribb
Indonesian Political Developments, 1989-1990, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Reviews the years 1989-90 in Indonesian politics, focussing on the politics of secession and the extent to which Indonesia was waiting for the departure of Suharto.
De Hamots Van Luitenant Koert Bavinck: Het Bendewezen Van Jakarta In Dienst Van Het Nederlands Gezag (1947-1949), Robert Cribb
De Hamots Van Luitenant Koert Bavinck: Het Bendewezen Van Jakarta In Dienst Van Het Nederlands Gezag (1947-1949), Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Article (in Dutch) describes the recruitment of an Indonesian nationalist irregular armed unit by a Dutch intelligence officer, Koert Bavinck, during the early revolution. The paper describes the social origins of the unit (especially its connection with the Jakarta underworld) and outlines its experiences under Dutch command.
History, Culture, And Problems Of Post-Revolutionary Identity In Contemporary Vietnam, Robert Cribb
History, Culture, And Problems Of Post-Revolutionary Identity In Contemporary Vietnam, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
The chapter explores similarities between Vietnam and Indonesia as post-revolutionary societies.
A Revolution Delayed: The Indonesian Republic And The Netherlands Indies, August-November 1945, Robert Cribb
A Revolution Delayed: The Indonesian Republic And The Netherlands Indies, August-November 1945, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Article discusses relations between the Indonesian Republic, the Netherlands and Great Britain in the months immediatelty after the Japanese surrender at the end of the Second World War. It argues that the strategies of all three sides were driven by their profound military weakness.
The Indonesian Marxist Tradition, Robert Cribb
The Indonesian Marxist Tradition, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Chapter examines the adaptation of Marist ideology by successive Indonesian communist thinkers. It emphasises the theoretical innovativeness of Indonesian Marxism, including a presaging of the Eurocommunist accommodation with parliamentary democracy.
The Nationalist World Of Occupied Jakarta, 1946-1949, Robert Cribb
The Nationalist World Of Occupied Jakarta, 1946-1949, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Describes the atmosphere in Jakarta during the Dutch occupation, 1946-1949.
Leadership In Asia: Indonesia, Robert Cribb
Leadership In Asia: Indonesia, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Suharto's style of leadership in Indonesia changed significantly over the course of his time in office. In its later stages it was marked by a striking self-effacement.
Jakarta: Cooperation And Resistance In An Occupied City, Robert Cribb
Jakarta: Cooperation And Resistance In An Occupied City, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Jakarta became Indonesia's capital upon the declaration of independence in August 1945, but the city was soon occupied by British forces, who permitted a gradual re-establishment of Dutch control. The city remained formally the capital, but the most administration moved to Yogyakarta. The Republican city hall, Balai Agung, attempted to maintain the Republic's presence. After the Dutch military action of July 1947, the Balai Agung was removed, but nationalists in Jakarta contrinued to make life difficult for Dutch authorities.
Elections In Jakarta, Robert Cribb