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Dairi Storytelling And Stories In The Batak Reader Of Herman Neubronner Van Der Tuuk, Clara Brakel Papenhuyzen Oct 2016

Dairi Storytelling And Stories In The Batak Reader Of Herman Neubronner Van Der Tuuk, Clara Brakel Papenhuyzen

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

In this article I first discuss how texts of Dairi stories collected in the nineteenth century by Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk relate to storytelling, and question whether the development of written versions of stories necessarily endangers the practice of storytelling. Then I investigate how written versions of Dairi stories in Van der Tuuk's Batak Reader relate to each other and to the printed text, based on texts in manuscripts collected by Van der Tuuk. In conclusion I discuss the possible aim of Van der Tuuk's Batak Reader, focussing on the Dairi section, which has not been dealt with in …


Moens'written Transmission Of Dalang Lore, Victoria M. Clara Van Groenendael Oct 2016

Moens'written Transmission Of Dalang Lore, Victoria M. Clara Van Groenendael

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Much of the storytelling in Java is the profession of the puppeteers (dalang; also spelled dhalang) who perform and direct shadow theatre plays (wayang). They improvise their stories in the context which their performance requires. Unless commissioned to do so by a patron, it is very unusual for a dalang to sit down and actually write out a story (lakon). In the early decades of the twentieth century in the area of Yogyakarta, a kind of storytelling mini-industry arose at the instigation of some western scholarly patrons and laymen interested in Javanese popular culture. One such patron was Ir. J.L. …


The Pig Story "Tiboi Sakkoko"; Storytelling Of Kinship, Memories Of The Past, And Rights To Plots Of Ancestral Land In Mentawai, Juniator Tulius Oct 2016

The Pig Story "Tiboi Sakkoko"; Storytelling Of Kinship, Memories Of The Past, And Rights To Plots Of Ancestral Land In Mentawai, Juniator Tulius

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This paper examines some significant elements of the pig story (tiboi sakkoko). This tale contains crucial information about the collective identity, ancestors and historical events affecting particular Mentawai kin-groups. As families do not preserve their culture and traditions in written form, storytellers of kin-groups have narrated the pig story from generation to generation so as to preserve it carefully. In the course of time, storytellers establish particular ways of telling their stories so as to remember the content and plot of the stories easily. Through the pig story, members of kin groups also recollect their ancestral place of origin and …


Telling And Selling; Literary Fiction In Early Malay Language Newspapers In Colonial Indonesia, Joachim Nieβ Oct 2016

Telling And Selling; Literary Fiction In Early Malay Language Newspapers In Colonial Indonesia, Joachim Nieβ

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

When newspapers in the colloquial Malay language appeared in the Dutch East Indies in the middle of the nineteenth century, they did more than just publish news reports and advertisements. They also created a new platform for the telling and distribution of literary fiction. In effect, literary texts soon played an important role in the vernacular print media. The first part of this article analyses the attraction of newspaper literature from the perspective of both the reader and the editor in general and gives a survey of the various forms of literary genres which can be found in newspapers in …


The Installation Of Prince Mangkubumi; Performing Javanese History, Els Bogaerts Oct 2016

The Installation Of Prince Mangkubumi; Performing Javanese History, Els Bogaerts

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Representation of Javanese history in performance plays an important role in the self-characterization of the Special Region of Yogyakarta. It legitimizes the power of the rulers and strengthens the identity of the city and its inhabitants. The audiences know the stories and this is part of the fun. In the study of oral traditions it is essential to take these performances into account. In the stories featuring famous political figures from the history of Mataram and Yogyakarta, there is an intricate relationship between the written and the spoken word: all are based on both oral and written traditions and are …


Some Notes On The "Pantun" Storytelling Of The Baduy Minority Group Its Written And Audiovisual Documentation, Wim Van Zanten Oct 2016

Some Notes On The "Pantun" Storytelling Of The Baduy Minority Group Its Written And Audiovisual Documentation, Wim Van Zanten

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Baduy pantun stories are part of the larger Sundanese oral tradition of pantun storytelling in west Java. The stories recount the deeds of the nobility of such old Sundanese kingdoms as Pajajaran and Galuh. Although the Baduy still recite the pantun stories in their rituals, in the larger cities to the east of the Baduy village Kan k s pantun recitation almost disappeared. On the basis of short periods of fieldwork in and around Kan k s village between 1976 and 2014, in this essay I shall discuss Baduy pantun storytelling. I shall summarize earlier major publications and analyse some …


Why Do They (Still) Sing Stories? Singing Narratives In Tanjung Bunga (Eastern Flores, Lamaholot, Indonesia), Dana Rappoport Oct 2016

Why Do They (Still) Sing Stories? Singing Narratives In Tanjung Bunga (Eastern Flores, Lamaholot, Indonesia), Dana Rappoport

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

In eastern Flores, on the Tanjung Bunga peninsula (among Western Lamaholot speakers), several times a year, ritual narratives (opak) are performed on a square dancing area, where all the clans of the same ceremonial land meet. Three types of narrative are sung, according to three kinds of rituals. The article explains the context, content and performance details of these stories, performed all night long. Why do the various clans continue to sing all these narrative? What values do these long poems have for people who sing them? Until now, studies on this subject have been remarkably few, and not even …


Images Of God In Toba Batak Storytelling, Johann Angerler Oct 2016

Images Of God In Toba Batak Storytelling, Johann Angerler

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This paper examines the ways in which God the Creator, the High God, is described in Toba Batak folk-tales. The sources for this investigation are stories recorded in pre-colonial (around 1850), colonial and post-colonial times (up to 2014). In different stories the High God can appear under various names, forms and gender, and resides in various places never inhabited by humans. Unlike a Deus otiosus, the Toba Batak High God is not "inactive" after creation, but continues to be involved in the life of mankind through local or supra-local manifestations. Although he rules the realm of death, he is nevertheless …


The Diversity Of Fisheries Based Livelihoods In The Berau Delta, East Kalimantan, Bambang Indratno Gunawan Apr 2016

The Diversity Of Fisheries Based Livelihoods In The Berau Delta, East Kalimantan, Bambang Indratno Gunawan

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Fisheries based livelihoods in the Berau Delta are diverse. The everyday life of small-scale fishers shows that gear diversification, changing fishing gear over a lifetime and practical knowledge to access good fishing grounds in the rich coastal waters are the main livelihood strategies developed by fishers. Fishing practices in the coastal frontier of Berau are influenced by the Bugis habitus of patronage networks between the punggawa and the dependent fishers. An essential element in the decision making of fishers is their embeddedness in political-economic patronage networks as the result of values, interests and knowledge contestations. Livelihood trajectories of different fishers …


The Intangible Legacy Of The Indonesian Bajo, Chandra Nuraini Apr 2016

The Intangible Legacy Of The Indonesian Bajo, Chandra Nuraini

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The Sama-Bajau, or Bajo diaspora, extends from the southern Philippines and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) to the eastern part of Indonesia. The Indonesian Bajo, now scattered along the coasts of Sulawesi (Celebes) and East Kalimantan, the Eastern Lesser Sunda Islands and Maluku, were once mostly nomadic fishermen of the sea or ocean freight carriers. Today, the Bajo are almost all fishermen and settled. Their former and present ways of life made them favour intangible forms of culture: it is impossible to transport bulky artefacts when moving frequently by boat, or when living in stilt houses, very close to the sea or …


In Memoriam Benedict Anderson Kunming, Melani Budianta Apr 2016

In Memoriam Benedict Anderson Kunming, Melani Budianta

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

No abstract provided.


Maritime Indonesia And The Archipelagic Outlook; Some Reflections From A Multidisciplinary Perspective On Old Port Cities In Java, Multamia Rmt Lauder, Allan F. Lauder Apr 2016

Maritime Indonesia And The Archipelagic Outlook; Some Reflections From A Multidisciplinary Perspective On Old Port Cities In Java, Multamia Rmt Lauder, Allan F. Lauder

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The present paper reflects on Indonesia's status as an archipelagic state and a maritime nation from a historical perspective. It explores the background of a multi-year research project into Indonesia's maritime past currently being undertaken at the Humanities Faculty of Universitas Indonesia. The multidisciplinary research uses toponymy, epigraphy, philology, and linguistic lines of analysis in examining old inscriptions and manuscripts and also includes site visits to a number of old port cities across the archipelago. We present here some of the core concepts behind the research such as the importance of the ancient port cities in a network of maritime …


Binongko People's Life In Coral Island, Abd. Rahman Hamid Apr 2016

Binongko People's Life In Coral Island, Abd. Rahman Hamid

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This article looks at the life of Binongko people. The word "Binongko" is well known as a Buton migrant's identity from Southeast Sulawesi in Maluku. In fact, it is a name of a rock island in Wakatobi district. Few people know about this fact. Binongko people built their world through the myth of La Patua Sakti and Putri Bidadari. Since the environment did not support farming activities, most of the people's needs were supplied by the sea through sailing. This activity was as old as their history in this island. The people also developed their skills as blacksmiths, which supported …


An Account Of The Loss Of The Country Ship Forbes And Frazer Sinclair, Her Late Commander, Horst H. Liebner, David Van Dyke Apr 2016

An Account Of The Loss Of The Country Ship Forbes And Frazer Sinclair, Her Late Commander, Horst H. Liebner, David Van Dyke

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This paper reports on the life of the English Country trader Captain Frazer Sinclair leading up to and following the loss of the Forbes in the Karimata Strait in 1806. It examines the adventure and tenuous times of trading around the Indonesian archipelago after the fall of the VOC and subsequent transfer to the British. Included are the details of Captain Sinclair's trading history, multiple prizes as a privateer, and shipwrecks.


Language, Culture, And Social Cognition, Setiawati Darmojuwono Apr 2016

Language, Culture, And Social Cognition, Setiawati Darmojuwono

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

No abstract provided.


Networks And Knowledge At The Interface; Governing The Coast Of East Kalimantan, Rini Kusumawati Apr 2016

Networks And Knowledge At The Interface; Governing The Coast Of East Kalimantan, Rini Kusumawati

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The thesis explores the actual processes of interaction between global and local actors regarding marine conservation and aquaculture development. The objective of the thesis is to analyse the collaboration, friction, and the cultural-historical, social, political, and economic contestations of the value and meaning of conservation from the perspectives of the district governmental agencies, the district head, local entrepreneurs and industry, and the international NGO. Concentrating on the dynamics of this global-local interface this thesis adds to existing literature because it helps us to understand why global environmental networks often face contention and even fail to be effective in their attempts …


Willem Bobi, Meregenerasi Manusia Asmat. Nabire: Lembaga Pendidikan Papua, 2014, Xvi + 355 Pp. Isbn 978-602-96659-4-9. Price: Idr 85.000, (Soft Cover)., Solita Sarwono Apr 2016

Willem Bobi, Meregenerasi Manusia Asmat. Nabire: Lembaga Pendidikan Papua, 2014, Xvi + 355 Pp. Isbn 978-602-96659-4-9. Price: Idr 85.000, (Soft Cover)., Solita Sarwono

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

No abstract provided.


R. Cecep Eka Permana, Gambar Tangan Gua-Gua Prasejarah; Pangkep-Maros-Sulawesi Selatan. Jakarta: Wedatama Widya Sastra, 2014, Xvii + 318 Pp. Isbn 978-602-273-003-3. Price: Idr 55.250 (Paperback)., Anggraeni Anggraeni Apr 2016

R. Cecep Eka Permana, Gambar Tangan Gua-Gua Prasejarah; Pangkep-Maros-Sulawesi Selatan. Jakarta: Wedatama Widya Sastra, 2014, Xvii + 318 Pp. Isbn 978-602-273-003-3. Price: Idr 55.250 (Paperback)., Anggraeni Anggraeni

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

No abstract provided.


Tracing The Linguistic Crossroads Between Malay And Tamil, Tom G. Hoogervorst Jul 2015

Tracing The Linguistic Crossroads Between Malay And Tamil, Tom G. Hoogervorst

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Speakers of Malay and Tamil have been in intermittent contact for roughly two millennia, yet extant academic work on the resultant processes of contact, lexical borrowing, and language mixing at the interface of these two speech communities has only exposed the tip of the proverbial iceberg. This paper presents an historical overview of language contact between Malay and Tamil through time and across the Bay of Bengal. It concludes with a call for future studies on the lexicology, dialectology, and use of colloquial language of both Malay and Tamil varieties.


A Linguistic Kaleidoscope Of The Malay Letter; The Case Of The Eighteenth Century Official Letters From The Sultanate Of Buton, S. Suryadi Jul 2015

A Linguistic Kaleidoscope Of The Malay Letter; The Case Of The Eighteenth Century Official Letters From The Sultanate Of Buton, S. Suryadi

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The Malay letters make up the largest category of documents among the Malay manuscripts preserved at Leiden University Library, the Netherlands. The corpus represents the scope of the territories under Dutch East Indies authority during the colonial era. In fact, they are authentic documents which denote not only political contact between the local kingdoms in the Archipelago (Nusantara) with the Dutch East Indies government in Batavia during colonial times but also constitute an important source for the study of the historical development of the Malay language. This essay looks at the language characters of such letters which came from the …


The Acquisition Of Stylistic Variation By Jakarta Indonesian Children, Bernadette Kushartanti Jul 2015

The Acquisition Of Stylistic Variation By Jakarta Indonesian Children, Bernadette Kushartanti

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

No abstract provided.


Phrasal Alternation In The Pondok Tinggi Dialect Of Kerinci; An Intergenerational Analysis, Ernanda Ernanda Jul 2015

Phrasal Alternation In The Pondok Tinggi Dialect Of Kerinci; An Intergenerational Analysis, Ernanda Ernanda

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This paper examines the implications of language contact in a Malay sub-variety known as Pondok Tinggi, spoken in Sumatra. My focus is on the grammatical phenomenon of phrasal alternation. Phrasal alternation is characterized by the presence of two distinct forms for nearly all lexical items, whose final syllables differ in shape. These are termed absolute and oblique (Steinhauer and Usman 1978: 485). The intergenerational transmission of this uncommon feature offers a way to measure the degree of contact-induced language change in Pondok Tinggi. An experiment was conducted to elicit the usage of the absolute and the oblique forms in order …


Islamic Learning In Arabic-Afrikaans Between Malay Model And Ottoman Reform, Kees Versteegh Jul 2015

Islamic Learning In Arabic-Afrikaans Between Malay Model And Ottoman Reform, Kees Versteegh

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Through the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century the Muslim community of Cape Town produced a large number of texts in various fields of Islamic learning, written in Afrikaans, a creolized variety of the language the Dutch traders had brought to South Africa. The Cape Muslim community had its origin in South Asia and Southeast Asia; most of its founding members had been transported by force by the Dutch colonial authorities. Malay was the language in which they had been educated, and for some time it remained in use as the written language. …


The Languages And Peoples Of The MüLler Mountains; A Contribution To The Study Of The Origins Of Borneo's Nomads And Their Languages, Bernard Sellato, Antonia Soriente Jul 2015

The Languages And Peoples Of The MüLler Mountains; A Contribution To The Study Of The Origins Of Borneo's Nomads And Their Languages, Bernard Sellato, Antonia Soriente

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The M ller and northern Schwaner mountain ranges are home to a handful of tiny, isolated groups (Aoheng, Hovongan, Kereho, Semukung, Seputan), altogether totaling about 5,000 persons, which are believed to have been forest hunter-gatherers in a distant or recent past. Linguistic data were collected among these groups and other neighbouring groups between 1975 and 2010, leading to the delineation of two distinct clusters of languages of nomadic or formerly nomadic groups, which are called MSP (M ller-Schwaner Punan) and BBL (Bukat-Beketan-Lisum) clusters. These languages also display lexical affinity to the languages of various major Bornean settled farming groups (Kayan, …


Ubiquitous Place Names; Standardization And Study In Indonesia, Allan F. Lauder, Multamia R.M.T. Lauder Jul 2015

Ubiquitous Place Names; Standardization And Study In Indonesia, Allan F. Lauder, Multamia R.M.T. Lauder

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Place names play a vital role in human society. Names exist in all languages and place names are an indispensible part of international communication. This has been acknowledged by the establishment of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN). One of UNGEGN's tasks is to coordinate international efforts on the proper use of place names. Indonesia supports this effort and through its National Geospatial Agency (BIG). Place names are also of interest as an object of study in themselves. Academic studies into place names are found in linguistics, onomastics, philosophy and a number of other academic disciplines. …


Enterprise Vocabulary Management; A Lexicographic View, Jan Voskuil Jul 2015

Enterprise Vocabulary Management; A Lexicographic View, Jan Voskuil

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The central theme in this paper is the problem of shifting from natural language descriptions, as in traditional dictionaries and thesauri, to working IT (Information Technology) systems that support people carrying out their administrative tasks. An explicit description of the specific language used in an organization is necessary to guarantee properly working IT systems and a healthy flow of information. Traditionally, there are different ways of capturing such a vocabulary. Different options are considered, arguing that the general form of a thesaurus offers the optimal solution for a broad range of cases. Various requirements for such a thesaurus are examined. …


The Esperanto Movement In The Dutch East Indies And Indonesia, Heidi Goes Jul 2015

The Esperanto Movement In The Dutch East Indies And Indonesia, Heidi Goes

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The Esperanto movement in Indonesia has grown in the past five years from being almost non-existent to having a national association with several clubs. One might therefore assume that the Esperanto movement in Indonesia is a totally recent phenomenon. However, already at the beginning of the twentieth century there were Esperantists in the territory of today's Indonesia. Between the two World Wars the movement was active: periodicals and books were published, courses held, and clubs and associations established. As a result of the Second World War this vigorous movement collapsed, but following independence the movement reflourished under the guidance of …


The Recording Industry And "Regional" Culture In Indonesia; The Case Of Minangkabau, S. Suryadi Jul 2015

The Recording Industry And "Regional" Culture In Indonesia; The Case Of Minangkabau, S. Suryadi

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

No abstract provided.


Dewi Anggreini, Tragedi Mei 1998 Dan Lahirnya Komnas Perempuan. Jakarta: Penerbit Buku Kompas, 2014, 214 Pp. Isbn: 978-979-709-809-4. Price: Idr 63,000 (Soft Cover)., Linawati Sidarto Jul 2015

Dewi Anggreini, Tragedi Mei 1998 Dan Lahirnya Komnas Perempuan. Jakarta: Penerbit Buku Kompas, 2014, 214 Pp. Isbn: 978-979-709-809-4. Price: Idr 63,000 (Soft Cover)., Linawati Sidarto

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

No abstract provided.


Grammatical Relations And Grammatical Categories In Malay; The Indonesian Prefix "Men-" Revisited, Johnny Tjia Apr 2015

Grammatical Relations And Grammatical Categories In Malay; The Indonesian Prefix "Men-" Revisited, Johnny Tjia

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The lexical roots of Malay are flexible with regard to their grammatical categories, which presents a problem in providing grammatical evidence for their category determination. This paper attempts to propose the use of affixes as one way to deal with the issue. Data from Indonesian and Ambon (Malay) language are among others given for clarification. The grammatical evidence from Indonesian active meN-, together with other affixes, are revisited as they can contribute to our understanding of the matter.