• October 28^th, 2017
• Fazlul Rahman (Ph.D student of ICRS- Graduate School of Gadjah Mada Univ, Yogjakarta,)

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The extension of public sphere into digital public sphere (digisphere) gives birth to new problematic issues: the problem of relationship (relationship one has with the self ?the technology of the self or self-construction ?and social relationships between people, and relations between human and their tools), the problem of control, and the most critical, the problem of religious authority. In general, late modernity has witnessed a general shift of authority from ?without? to ?within,? from external institutions to personal institution (James Proctor, 2006), even ?beyond personal institution.? Accordingly, in the issue of religious authority in digisphere, I would like to argue that Internet have reshaped how people perceive religious authority, which is no more ?top-down? (theologian to non-theologian), but bottom-up or cooperative. In the other words, there is the dislocation (experienced not only in the religious sites) and deteritorialization (religious authority not only belong to theologian) of religious authority in the digisphere. These dislocation and deteritorialization in the digisphere give significant impacts on Indonesian inter-religious life, particularly which related to the issue of intolerance among different religious groups, in a way that religion will no more monopolized by one single authority. In this research, I will see this issue from the perspective of Pandhalungan people. Pandhalungan region refers to a region in the northern coastal areas in the eastern province of East Java with Madurese-background majority. The so-called Pandhalungan people is, culturally, a hybrid society consists of two mixed dominant cultures Java and Madura. Social ethics of Pandhalungan people rooted in the values of two dominant cultures, Java and Madura, among them are: politeness, respect (being respectful to elders and people who has high social class is very important for Pandhalungan people, more over to their teachers and Kyai), and high work ethic. Based on those considerations, this research will question to what extend the changing pattern of religious authority in digisphere affects Pandhalungan people?s perception of religious authority (together with their local wisdoms) in responding to the issue of intolerance among religious groups. As a pilot project, this paper will shed the lights on three particular issues: the discourse of religious authority, the phenomenon of Kyais (religious leaders) as the representatives of religious authority among society, and the cultural and socio-religious background of the Pandhalungan people read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• Laila Kholid Alfirdaus (Indonesian Consortium of Religious Studies (ICRS), Post-Graduate School, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

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Padang, West Sumatra, is noted to rarely experience mass violent conflict, although it is known to be a plural city, in which several ethnic groups reside together with the native ethnic group, namely Minangkabau. Indeed, this does not mean that Padang does not have problems. The issues of discrimination against ethnic Chinese post-2009 earthquake, as well as the application of Perda Syariah issued in mayor Fauzi Bahar?s first term (2004-2009) that have resulted strong social tension between different ethnic and religous groups are amongst the most important problems to mention. However, unlike many other big cities in Indonesia, as Solo, Semarang, Medan, and Makasar, in which mass violence is easily exploded, the social tension in Padang is often successfully managed. In this regards, looking at the cultural aspects of Minangkabau society, in addition to the political economy perspective, is important, and raso pareso, the cultural practice of Minangkabau, applied not only by ethnic Minang, but also by the other minority ethnic groups, including ethnic Chinese, could not be avoided to discuss. The assertion of mutual-respect, tolerance, mutual understanding, evidence based argumentation, and long-term oriented behaviors in raso pareso has helped people from different ethnic groups to build peaceful social interactions. This has enabled, for instance, the building of trading relation between ethnic Minang and ethnic Chinese in the midst of long-existing problems of religious differences. In fact, raso pareso has not only been social ethics, more importantly, it has also been social exchange for enabling the building of consensus and commitment to share in trading, and in the other fields of social life. Neverteheless, raso pareso is also very political for becoming the bargaining tool for different ethnic groups in Padang through the politics of accommodation and the politics of recognition. Using the framework of social ethics, social exchange and politics, this paper discusses how the cultural practice like raso pareso, in addition to the political economy factor, could enable the peaceful encounters between different ethnic groups in Padang. Given the technical limitation, this paper is limited to discuss ethnic Minang and ethnic Chinese relationship. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• Dr. Mohammad Hossein Mokhtari (Professor of the University of Qom)

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Threat to global security, war-mongering of arrogantregimes, sinister phenomenon of state terrorism and religious violence can be considered among the most important challenges of the contemporary world. Global oppression of the world powers which has been established through denial of the rule of knowledge and spirituality and opposition against local and regional wisdoms, leads to prevalence of cruelty, warmongering, violence and state terrorism against human societies. Therefore, this paper is aimed atreviewing the causes of increased global security threats by militants using components of knowledge, spirituality and wisdom as interdisciplinary issues, and analyzing the reasons of religious violence derived from the harsh and dogmatic prejudices in the world and also how to deal with such crises using the issues of knowledge, spirituality and wisdom. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• Dalmeri (University of Indraprasta PGRI Jakarta)

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Measures terrorism is often associated with Islam that sparked tension between Islam and the West. The West became more cautious in giving space. Since the terror committed by Muslims, they taste that all Muslims are terrorists, and Islam itself is a dogma which contains the teachings of terrorism. Primarily since the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Muslims have always been the top of the government’s suspicions the country, especially a country that has a Muslim ethnic minority. All their activities closely monitored, the motion is complicated, and they are always the first order of the list every occurrence of acts of terrorism suspects. Islam is not a religion of terrorists who teach his people commit crimes that violate humanitarian. There are some people who claim that Muslim terror is the embodiment of the jihad is obligatory in Islam. Understanding they actually leads to aberrant act of terror occurs not only among Muslims, but also among other people. Terrorism creates fear into various global humanity for crimes, because it is done by those who have a distorted understanding of the religious values. They are always making every effort to achieve ideological goals and the targets are free and not military. Perpetrators of terrorist acts are called terrorists. Terrorism is coordinated attacks aimed at generating feelings of terror against a group of people. Unlike the war, acts of terrorism are not subject to the ordinances of war. There are five main criteria of terrorism. First, there is always the threat of violence and (Violence). Second, the psychological impact and fear (Psychological impact and fear). Third, terrorism is used for a political purpose (perpetrated for a Political Goal). Four, terrorism contains illegitimacy (Unlawfulness or illegitimacy). Five, the target intentionally directed at Deliberate targeting of non-combatants. Acts of terrorism in the name of Islam is clearly not a form of jihad but became a global crime against humanity and a deviation of religious values. Terrorism, in any context is a crime against humanity that does not fit Islamic guidance. Islam is a religion of mercy for universe, so it is very inappropriate if adherents behalf of indiscriminate killings by jihad in defense of religion. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• Halvina Grasela Saiya (Study Programme of Environment Science Concentration of Magister Programme in Environment Management)

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Inner Ambon bay is a shallow and narrow waters that serve as the location of floating net aquaculture systems, but its water quality is threatened by depositional. This research is aimed at knowing depositional rate, its effect to carrying capacity of marine environment that indicated by water quality, and to formulate nvironmental management strategies. Depositional rate assessed by calculating the rate of suspension sediment discharge from river, potential erosion estimates with USLE method, satellite imagery analysis of year 2004 and 2012, rate of water flow analysis from outer Ambon bay to inner Ambon bay, as well as bathymetric data analysis of year 2008 and 2012. To determine the water quality, sampling and laboratory test as well as scoring, weighting and matching was did to parameters, that is turbidity, DO, pH, brightness, temperature, TSS, TDS, gross primer productivity and nett primer productivity, while its environmental management strategies studied by causal approach. The research finding showed that depositional rate from suspension sediment discharge calculation and unit convertion of Wae Heru river and Wae Tonahitu river is 1.7 cm/year, while the class of potential erosion at the Wae Heru and Wae Tonahitu river mouth, both of them is very light (<15 tons/hectare/year). Satellite imagery analysis showed that depositional rate at Wae Heru and Wae Tonahitu mouth river is 2445 square meters/year and 1459.625 square meters/year respectively. Through complementary data, that is the rate of water flow analysis obtained that rate of water flow to inner Ambon bay is 84 cm/s, whereas athymetric analysis show a reduction in water depth is 13.9 cm/year. Results of water quality analysis indicates that the carrying capacity of waters are in the medium class, as well as refer to depositional rate and water quality, so environmental management strategy is focused on the management of upstream rivers, midstream rivers, downstream rivers, riparian and coastal area. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• Luthfi Annur Hudaya (Magister Ilmu Lingkungan, Sekolah Pasca Sarjana Universitas Gadjah Mada)

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Shore and sand dune as integral part of Parangtritis Coastal Area (PCA) are interesting object for tourism activity and also proved have various ecological functions. Unfortunately, this various ecological function not directly linked to economical function. This problem is trigger land conversion in shore and sand dune protected area. Aim of this research are (a) identify land use planning mismatch in PCA, (b) identify factor driving land use planning mismatch in PCA, and (c) propose some local wisdom-based alternatives solution of land use mismatch in PCA. Spatial analysis using geographic information systam is used to define land use planning mismatch in PCA, while descriptive analysis is used to describe driving factors and local wisdom-based solution of land use planning mismatch in PCA. This research found that 14% of shore and sand dune protected area was miss used, such as for settlement, commersial building, and agricultural land. The development of Pokdarwis (Local Communities? Commitee on Tourism) could be the local wisdombased and community-based alternative solution can be implement in this area. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• Tika Rahayu Sasongko (Faculty of Geography, University of Gadjah Mada)

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Climate change has become a global issue, it shows from the universally accepted result from the United Nations convention about climate change (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC) at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on the year 1992. The implication of climate change does not only affect the rising of the temperature, but also affects other climate parameters. This study focuses on the projection of rainfall as the climate parameter at Progo Hulu watershed, because rainfall has a big enough variability in terms of space and time. The rainfall projection in this study is executed as an early effort of disaster mitigation which is the implication of climate change at the Progo Hulu watershed. The method used for the climate change modeling in this study is the HadCM3 method. The emission scenario used in this study is the A2 and B2 emission scenario. The B2 scenario is considered to be the basic scenario which contains sustainable local environment handling and A2 scenario simulated that is indicated by the high increase of the growth of the population and low economic development. The rainfall projection yielded data from year 2011 until year 2100. The result from this study shows that in general, the rainfall projection using the A2 and B2 scenario has different characteristics on 10 rain stations at Progo Hulu watershed. On both of the scenarios, 8 out of 10 rain stations showed an increasing rainfall trend, while on the other 2 stations, which is Parakan and Kintelan showed a declining trend. The highest monthly rainfall rate occurs on year 2100 with the B2 scenario occurs on the Magelang station as big as 1173.38 mm that occurred on December, while for the A2 scenario is as big as 1923.8 mm that occurred on February. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• Kartika Pratiwi (Master Program on Geo-information for Spatial Planning and Disaster Risk Management, Graduate School, UGM)

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5 days after Kelud Volcano eruption 2014 in 13 February 2014, lahar was occurs in several river in slope of Kelud Volcano. Rainfall with intensity 40 mm/hour mobilized pyroclastic material from upper part of Kelud Volcano to the channel during 3,5 hour. The aims of this paper are (1) to study of geomorphic impact of lahar related with damage and (2) to study future risk due to the potential of lahar source material and lahar repose. We use merged data from primary data as well as secondary. Geomorphology impact of lahar was identified using integration of remote sensing, GIS approach, and fieldwork checking. Interviews as well statistically data from villages were used in order to determine their perception to the risk of lahar. Morphogenic processes such as riverbank erosion, channel widening and riverbed down cutting takes an important role in generating the impact of lahar in Kali Konto. Lahar in medial and distal area was affected more largely than lahar in proximal area. This impacted in river widening and buried crop field inside of the channel. People along this river must be prepared due to huge potential of lahar and their vulnerability. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• Anak Agung Ngurah Agung (Master of Disaster Management, Postgraduate School, Universitas Gadjah Mada)

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Abstract. Bantul Regency, as one of the five regencies in Yogyakarta Special Region, is strategically attractive for beach tourism which is visited by more than 1.6 million local and foreign tourists. Several famous beaches become tourist main destinations such as Parangtritis Beach, Parangkusumo Beach, and Depok Beach. However, the existence of rip currents spread along the shore has been threatening as danger for tourists. Rip currents can physically be characterized by the geomorphologic condition of the beach, i.e. cusps (horn like) morphology and sandbar shape (crescent moon or cresentic bar). Based on the data of SAR team in Parangtritis Beach, from January to December 2013, there were 39 casualties cases existed due to rip currents. Spatial information of rip currents distribution along the shore is particularly necessary to anticipate the number of victims then tourist could be informed the rip currents locations. This research explored the motion occurrences of rip currents within a year during west monsoon utilized middle and high resolutions imagery satellites. Wave parameters measurements were used as parameters for the methodology. The results showed that recorded wave period is about 11.17 ? 18.69 seconds with the maximum of wind speed reaches 11.3 m/s and the formation of waves is 3.96 m height. This research highlighted that Kretek coast has been the greatest potential to generate the rip current than other coasts in Bantul Regency due to the 3O of beach slope. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• Arief Sofyan Ardiansyah (Kajian Budaya dan Media Pascasarjana)

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Advertising is part of a social phenomenon of contemporary consumer society. Objects in the ad does not stand alone but is formed by a system of language. Through language, the ad shows people’s daily practice in the relationship in which power relations including lifestyle supported by consumptive life. Currently, when environmental issues became popular, the ad was taking shape of it into a green advertising. Construction of meaning “green” in the ad shows a paradox .This article found that green with the tagline “energy saving ” and “environmentally friendly” is just mask of reality. Existing green ads actually build a new type of consumption that make environmental issues a new class marker. A class that builds their superiority by creating an upper middle-class subjects as environmental heroes. This article takes a case on ads household electronic appliance be energy saving so that it can be used by the lower classes that would basically eliminate the distinctive nature of the upper class. However, through the construction of the myth of the upper middle class as environmental heroes then this distinctive trait can be maintained simultaneously keep open the possibility of lifestyling. Through this green advertising, capital is able to expand its market reach lower class consumers while keeping the upscale market. This article looks at the construction of the imaginary subject position creates a distinctive imaginary relationship that is able to maintain the hierarchy between the lower class and upper class, although both consume the same thing. read more