• Authors: M Rizal Abdi
• From: Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah Mada

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Along with the raise of middle class, religious community demand lighter and non-time consuming pilgrimage practice without losing the sacredness of the site. The more convenient site attracts more religious community to perform the pilgrimage. Thus, the pilgrimage site strives to dress up with modern and pleasure facilities or features. More visitors mean more money would be circulated around the region. Within this framework, we could see mutual relationship between tourism and religion through pilgrimage site’s existence. Yet the attractive and appealing features of pilgrimage site raise another issue on the boundaries between sacred and secular places as well as the ethics of visiting sacred spaces. The GMKA’s case is clearly depicted the complex and intermingled relation between sacred and secular. The holy devotions to Virgin Mary share its place with the lovey dovey couple activity and tourist sightseeing. Furthermore the establishment of the highest Maria statue in Southeast Asia at GMKA highly escalates the number, and also the diverse backgrounds, of visitors to the site which brings out an issue of ethical behavior in sacred place, especially when the sacred place also becomes the central point of secular practices. Furthermore, this phenomenon raise another question, how far the limit of dressing up facilities and features of sacred space’ Doesn’t it reduce the core value of pilgrimage itself? Does the site become more secular, or at least become less sacred, by the hipped of pilgrimage site to dress up? read more

• Authors: Gunawan, T.
• From: Magister of Environmental Management, Environment Study Program Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah Mada

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Environmental restoration of spring Catchment Area (CA) and groundwater Recharge Area (RA) was almost impossible to achieve without any integrated environmental management effort in a long term periode because it was related to various stakeholder’s interests. Protecting water resources policy in Southern part of Merapi Volcano Slope using CA and RA concepts became the ultimate goal of this study. Methods were used comprehensive and holistic environmental conservation approaches, involving abiotic, biotic, and cultural aspects to recover the environmental function through restoration of CA and RA areas. Spring CA and groundwater RA perimeter delineation were implemented as unit of study for recovery and enhancement of CA and RA land cover precentage as well as for increasing the spring discharge and groundwater volume. Increasing the spring’s discharge would lead to addition of paddy field areas that could be irrigated and enhancing the river discahrges to add up water availability of river region or watershed areas, while enhancement of CA and RA land cover precentage would result in increasing the infiltration capacity as well as groundwater storage including shallow and deep groundwater storages. Shortterm result of site visit showed there was a river infrastructure development (SABO Dam) for lahar retention underconstruction. Land cover enhancement was dominated by natural plant of Soga (Accasia Decurens) and man-planted Sengon (Albizia Falcataria). In between, mixed crops were also planted by local people thus the landuse was identified as mixed garden. For the time being, the land cover enhancement has not yet recover the hydrological condition in the study area, which should be indicated by emerging springs and increasing river discharges, thus water scarcity still became the main issue for some rivers whose upstream poured out from southern part of Merapi volcano slope, such as, Opak river and Sriwil river from Kinahrejo-Pangukrejo Villages, Opak river from Kepuharjo Village and Gendol river from Kalitengah and Srunen Villages. The waterflow of Opak river were contributed from Nduwet (Sanga) and Cakran springs in Kalisongo Village and the waterflow of Sriwil river were from Umbul Celeng spring. Meanwhile, the waterflow from those springs (Nduwet/Sanga, Umbul Sodokan, Cakran, Pandan, Umbul Celeng) were utilized by local people for paddy irrigation, fish ponds, and daily domestic needs. The depth of shallow groundwater in lahar-covered area was more than 20 m (sea level), such as, in Plosokerep (Kepuharjo), Karanggeneng (Umbulharjo), Jetisumur (Glagaharjo), Sidorejo (Hargibinangun), wonorejo (Purwobinangun), Bening and Kratuan (Girikerto), and Gondoarum (Turi). Special areas were villages of Cangkringan and part of Pakem Districts which then fulfilled the fresh water needs using artesian well whose depth was up to 150 m (sea level). The excessive flow from springs and groundwater would be stored in Opak, Sriwil, Tepus, and Gendol rivers. Different with cangkringan and Pakem Districts in Hargobinangun, Purwobinangun, Girikerto, and Turi Districts the waterflows was dominated by spring and seepages which is emerging in river banks and vallies, such as, Sidorejo, Wonorejo, Kratuan, pelem, Jineman, Kuncen and Gondoarum villages. Starting From Boyong, Tangkil, Degong, and Sempor river dams the waterflows were channelized as gravitation flowdown into lowland to create wetland rice is called “sawah”. Study on planning and designing the open channel flow from springs (Cangkringan and Pakem Districts) and rivers (Turi District) channelized to the channel network using site selection method to create a kind of Mataram Channel (from Progo to Opak rivers) would be the target of next study step. read more

• Authors: Sunarru Samsi Hariadi
• From: Development Communication and Extension Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University
  

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Agriculture is one of the development priorities in Indonesia as more than 92,910,219 people are involved. Government support the effort to advance agriculture, however, distributing help through farmer groups causes the depedence. Hopefully, farmer groups have the characteristic of independence to stand on their own feet that will materialize when social system is formed. To achieve the intact independence requires social system engineering involving government institutions, technical services, and private sectors. The engineering occured due to the synergy among institutions so that independence is established. The social system engineering is also created to prepare farmers to face ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). This research aimed at: (1) identifying groups? independence as models of social system engineering, (2) analysing the influence of group dynamics, motivation, capacity, and environment on groups? independence, (3) organizing and analysing social system engineering models in developing horticultural agribusiness, namely the synergy among farmer groups, village government, Agricultural Extension Center, and private sectors in producing groups? independence as the base of horticultural agribusiness development. Assesment used in this research was mixed method, quantitative and qualitative. Samples were selected using random sampling and data were analysed with path analysis. Groups? independence would motivate the village government, Agricultural Economic Center, and private institutions to create the synergy among them. The synergy models among institutions extremely affected the group visions accomplishment such as production facilities, agricultural technology information, and the products marketing. read more

• Authors: Elly Prihasti Wuriyani
• From: Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada

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Family and the struggle of eco-feminism are two different aspects that need to be elaborated in the research of social science and humanities. On the one hand, family is not only defined as the relation between husband, wife and children. It is a whole social system where the concept of family is always moving and the society involves in the dynamics of family. On the other hand, the study of ecofeminism sees a connection between the exploitation and degradation of the natural world and the role of men and women in the exploitation and degradation of the natural world. Family also become part of the degradation of that natural world. The oral tradition of Lake Toba Oral Tradition showed how the imbalance of family relationship affected the natural ecosystem. The methods used in this paper was the descriptive analysis. The paper attempted to look at the ecofeminism from the New Age ecofeminism. read more

• Author: Hayatul Cholsy
• from : Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada

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This research aims to explain the use of French loanwords in the Indonesian language as a part of lifestyle in culinary and fashion by the elite society in Indonesia. In the culinary and fashion sectors in Indonesia today, various French loanwords are used due to the absence of equivalent vocabularies, and the intensely frequent use of the words, although sometimes they are compatible with some of the Indonesian language vocabularies, in spite of the inconsistency in the use of these loanwords. The loanwords function as a distinction, which is constructed in order to distinguish a particular social group, the dominant class, from the dominated class in society. The use of loanwords also adds positive values, or a prestige, so that the use of these loanwords by the dominated or the middle class is considered an effort to achieve a similar position as that of the dominant class, which is the elite class in the culinary and fashion sectors. read more

• Authors: Rika Harini
• From: Faculty of Geography, Gadjah Mada University

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Demak coastal area is one of vulnerable areas to tidal flood. Tidal flood that occurs continuously has negative impacts on coastal communities. These negative impacts include the effects of physical, social, economic, and environmental. Thus the necessary existence of community adaptation strategies to face the tidal flood. This study aims to assess adaptation strategies of communities in Demak coastal areas. The methods used in this research are the field survey, in-depth interview and Focus Group Discussion (FGD). Field survey was conducted to collect data on the condition of research area. In-depth interview was conducted to obtain information from the relevant authorities, namely Regional Disaster Management Agency and Department of Public Work. Data were analyzed descriptively qualitative. The results showed that people in the Demak coastal area has several strategies to face tidal flood that often occur in the region. Adaptation is performed on residential buildings, roads, and ponds. Adaptations made by raising building houses, making embankment, planting mangroves in the coastal areas, and forming communities caring tidal flood. read more

• Authors: Jeanny Dhewayani
• From: Indonesian consortium for Religious Studies, Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University
  

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This research attempts to describe connection between sounds, religion, and interfaith dialogue in Yogyakarta and its bordering areas. It portrays several acoustic sources produced from various sacred places, such as mosque, church, vihara, and shrine. It will not specifically portray voices produced by mosque, while in Indonesia it often generates sonic disputes. This research also questions whether or not such voices and noises has altered the way people tolerate one another. To some extent, when it comes to religious sounds, people psychologically respond differently. In terms of interreligious relations, individual responses toward religious sounds provide an indication on the degree of tolerance that people of different religions have toward the religious others. This paper also explains how people of different faith respond to varied sounds that represent religious identity of the others delivered through hearing. In doing so, this research will (1) discuss several acts of noise control, (2) explain theoretical perspective of soundscape and acoustic communication, and (3) analyze people?s perception toward voices of religious other. read more

• Authors: Ellen Tantjaro
• From: Population Studies, Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah mada

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This study aims at (1) finding out the livelihood capacity of workers in informal sector; (2) analyzing factors affecting the livelihood capacity of workers in informal sector based on socio-demographic and nondemographic characteristics; (3) examining success levels of workers in informal sector in Palu Municipality; and (4) identifying a model as the basis of developing the livelihood capacity of workers in informal sector in Palu Municipality. The study used a quantitative approach with a survey method. Observation was carried out on 325 actors in informal sector s that were clustered into five, i.e. agriculture, services, small industry, trade and foods stall. The data collected were analyzed in accordance with the aims of the study by some analysis techniques, i.e. a descriptive analysis in forms of percentage, frequency table, cross-tabulation and pentagon radar chart and quantitative analyses, i.e. Analysis of Variance (Anova) and a multiple linear regression. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the majority of actors in informal sector in Palu Municipality have worked in trade sector and been from Javanese ethnic. The livelihood capacity of workers in informal sector s was not evenly distributed, where peoples in Kailu tribe as the indigenous people in Palu Municipality were considered as lower than other tribes. Such livelihood capacity of workers in informal sector was affected by socio-demographic and non-demographic characteristics. However, there was no effect of all the socio-demographic characteristics, including gender, age, education, family members, and duration of work on the livelihood capacity of workers in informal sector. Meanwhile, the non-demographic characteristics, such as resource mobilization, cultural capacity, social capacity and information literacy, affected the capacity of workers in informal sector. In view of income, success among workers in informal sector could be categorized as high enough. The model developed was the training and the establishment of “Smart Park” for low-income workers. The actors in informal sector were categorized into still-small workers and sufficiently developing ones. There were various trainings in the Smart Park program, such as business management training, product marketing training, cake making training, snack making training, foods cooking training, laundry service training, mechanic work training, beauty salon training, rental service training, and so on to make the workers professional in their respective informal sector s. read more

• Authors: Wening Udasmoro
• From: Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada

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It is sometimes argued that conflict is mainly a male world. Men are simultaneously perpetrators of and active agents resolving problem of conflict. In peacebuilding, it is usually men who are considered peacebuilders; women are rarely taken into account as active subjects in peacebuilding agreements. However, much feminist research has shown that women also have roles as peacebuilders during conflict. This article attempts to show the role of both women and men in the peacebuilding process, not as political negotiators but as subjects who use their power of discourse in everyday life and in the negotiation and construction of peacebuilding. This paper looks at the different linguistic approaches used by men and women from different social classes and religions to contribute to conflict resolution. Several questions are to be answered: how are women and men from different social classes and religions actively present in the peacebuilding process? What discourses do they constructively use to resolve conflict? This research was conducted using Critical Discourse Analysis; empirical data was taken from the case of the conflict in Ambon. read more

• Authors: Muhamad
• From: Tourism Studies, Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah Mada

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This study aims to observatory, through monitoring, evaluation under the scheme Sustainable Tourism Observatory (STO) and the Sustainable Tourism Development (STD). Instruments Sustainable Tourism Observatory (STO) is a collection of components to build systems that have a relationship between one component with the other components aimed at generating a structured monitoring information on conservation Art Deco architecture as urban tourism destinations. Other most important objective is to find an indicator to determine the advantages and disadvantages of tourist destinations; improve the quality of tourism products that have the promotion and image as a sustainable tourism destination and improve competitiveness. Snapshoot assessment methods that include: exploration, formulation, implementable Art Deco architectural preservation as a Tourism Destination Cities in Yogyakarta. Architectural Preservation heritage (heritage) multiculturalism is an integral part of efforts to improve the quality of tourism products sustainable. read more