• October 28^th, 2017
• MEGA HIDAYATI (Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies Yogyakarta (ICRS-Yogya))

Abstrack:

Maintaining religious harmony is not only related to the issue of religion but also to the issue of politics, power, and economy. Therefore, governments have a role to play in creating religious harmony and many governments have adopted different methods to deal with the challenges of religious plurality. In Indonesia, the Ministry of Religious Affairs is especially concerned about maintaining religious harmony. Since this Ministry was established in 1946, its Ministers have given speeches emphasizing the need for religious harmony and highlighting the government has been involved in efforts to create religious harmony in Indonesia. Despite that emphasis, significant conflicts read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• JENNY RATNA SUMINAR (Faculty of Communication Science at Universitas Padjadjaran)

Abstrack:

Education sector particularly teachers are issues that interesting and important to be studied continuously, moreover these are reinforced by some various phenomena that occur such several issues concerning to unprofessionalism of the teachers reported widely as were allegedly by a book author of Professional Teachers (Kunandar, 2007: vi). Similarly, Salahudin Wahid, leader of Pondok Pesantren Tebu Ireng Jombang, said that the quality of teachers in Indonesia is relatively low despite the world?s fourth ranked in the teachers number (Pikiran Rakyat, December 8, 2010). read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• RAUDLATUL JANNAH (Student of Sociology Department Faculty of Social and Political Science University of Indonesia)

Abstrack:

eveloping a city to become a creative city is not an easy thing; it does not only require cooperative participation of all related sectors, but also good qualification of all aspects of the city development. The creative city is a concept which was initiated by Charles Landry in the late 1980?s and since then this concept has become a globally accepted paradigm in city development planning. As it has been defined by Landry (2000), the creative city may inspire the regional government, scholars, business workers, and people in general because this concept tries to explore the creative potentials which are possessed by each city. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• PETER CAREY (Jakarta School of Prosthetics & Orthotics)

Abstrack:

Peter Carey?s keynote speech presented the work of the UK disability charity, The Cambodia Trust, in Indonesia. In particular he focused on the outcome of a 126-household pilot survey in the Kelurahan (Sub-District) of Cilandak West (Cilandak Barat) in South Jakarta with a total population according to the recent May 2010 census of 60,252 [33.421 male; 26.831 female) and 12.725 households, 11.125 are headed by males and 1.600 by females. The survey took place over a two-month period in October-November 2011. This is pilot has been designed as part of a larger national assessment to gather statistics on levels of disability and Prosthetic & Orthotic (P&O) needs in the wider Indonesian population on which to plan Indonesia?s national strategy for prosthetic and orthotic education over the coming decade. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• FREEK COLOMBIJN (VU University Amsterdam)

Abstrack:

What are the most important issues in urban studies today? The UN has declared that the world population reached the figure of seven billion people on 31 October 31, 2011. For the last two years, more than half of the global population has lived in cities. The UN picked a baby born in a Mumbai slum as the seventh billion citizen of the world, but it could just as well have chosen a child born in kampong Ledok Ratmakan in Yogyakarta or any other Indonesian urban kampong. After all, Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world and rapid urbanization is also an important characteristic of this country, and has been a constant factor for at least the last century and a half. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• GOH BENG LAN (National University of Singapore (NUS))

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With the collapse of art into mass culture, recent academic debates have tried to recover the critical efficacy of art via the broader concept of aesthetics. Spurred by the thinking of French philosophers such as Adam Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, there-theorization of aesthetics has revived hope in the revolutionary potential of art. Among other things it has given rise toglobally oriented discourses on art and the creation of a democratic future. Yet a sophisticated return to a universalism of thought and action can be detected in these recent analytical procedures. The arising question here is whether the universality of human emancipation has onlyto be understood in teleological, singular, or transcendental terms? read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• SUNYOTO USMAN (Gadjah Mada University)

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The topic that I would like to talk to you is gated community, space and social inequality. For me the topic is very important and relevant to be explored in discussing the urban culture and society, particularly it is indicated that the gated community has produced many kinds of social problem in city life. It seems that the problems become more complex, and some people feel that the gated community gradually is destroying urban culture. I would like to focus my discussion in the impact of gated community on space domination and environmental conflict. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• ARDIANI IKA S (Economic Faculty of Semarang University)

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In Indonesia today there is a shortage of the number of public accountants. Based on data from IAPI (Institute of Public Accountants Indonesia) as at 25 March 2008, a public accountant (Holders of practice in Indonesia is 877 people aged 26-40 years with a composition of as many as 106 people (12%), aged 41-50 years as many as 229 people (26 %), aged 51-60 years as many as 257 people (29%), aged 61-70 years as many as 243 people (28%), aged 71-80 years as many as 37 people (4%) and aged 81-90 years by 5 people (1%). read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• GEORGE MARTIN SIRAIT (Dept. of Indonesian Studies University of Sydney Faculty of Business Administration Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta)

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The existence of modern retailing in Indonesia can be traced back to the 1970s when retailers served mostly upper class consumers and expatriates in urban areas.1 Among those are Hero, KemChick, Gelael, Ramayana and Matahari which were owned by locals. While Matahari and Ramayana focused on fashion retailing, the rest involved in food business. Some foreign indirect investment, such as Circle-K and 7Eleven, had been also in place during the 1980s through franchising arrangement. Foreign direct investment commenced entering market of this fourth most populous country in the world in the next decade. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• Fredy Torang Widiyanto Munthe (Centre Religius CS-University of Gadjah Mada)

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This paper will discuss indigenous tradition of Toba people of Sumatera. It will specifically discuss how Toba people conceptualize the protection and sustainability of environment based on their indigenous tradition. Toba indigenous tradition is characterized by ?inter-subjectivity? cosmology, which means that human beings and other beings who live in the environment are all ?subject.? Relationship between humans and environment is perceived as ?inter-subjective? relation. This paper will show how Toba people construct their inter-subjective cosmology through their concept ?tondi,? prevalent in Toba rituals in which data of inter-subjective concept are collected. Tondi for Toba people is a kind of ?life force? that determines the existence and life of a being: human and non-human beings. Human beings relate to other beings like trees, Water, mountains and so forth because those beings have tondi. The existence of tondi in a being constitutes the subjectivity of the being. Furthermore, Toba people understand that the life of human beings could only be guaranteed if tondi of other beings are protected, of if the environment in protected. This paper will analyze a ritual of ?manuk gantung? trough which the notion of tondi and of inter-subjectivity is conceptualized and reproduced. This paper, following Nurit Bird-David (1999), will finally argue that the Toba indigenous concept of environmental protection is local wisdom of Toba people that deserves more attention as an alternative to thinking about solving environmental crisis of the present time. read more