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Foreword To The International Edition, Don Faust, Judith Puncochar

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This book is an important collection of essays on the rich mosaic of contemporary challenges faced by Indonesia. A. Chaedar Alwasilah, Ph.D., is a professor of education at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (Indonesian University of Education) and a social philosopher in the tradition of such as Josef Popper-Lynkeus (1838-1921) of Austria. Both the Indonesian and non-Indonesian reader will find amply witnessed in these essays the importance of his work and will relish and benefit from a resulting essential interaction of close observation, local wisdom, and help for Indonesia. Professor Alwasilah’s embeddedness, as an Indonesian himself, shines through in each essay …