• Authors: Krisna Mutiara Wati
  
• From: Master of Disaster Management Graduate School Universitas Gadjah Mada
  

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This study aims to analyze the economic resilience of street vendor (PKL) on Malioboro Street. The economic resilience is comparison ratio between income before and after volcanic ashdisaster. This study used DSER (Direct Static Economic Resilience) method to analyze how to count the economic resilience. Respondents in this research are street vendors on Malioboro Street. The street vendors divided into three kinds of commodity. First, street vendors with big size commodity. Second, street vendors with small size commodity. The last, street vendors culinary. The respondents is 93 people. The results show that economic resilience of street vendors with big size commodity is better than the other. The high of level econom. read more

• Authors: Siti Syamsiyatun
  
• From: ICRS/UIN Sunan Kalijaga/Monash University alumnae
  

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Religious “flavor” is everywhere in Indonesia’s public sphere, manifest or hidden; it is also found clearly in the Indonesia?s declaration of independence, State’s foundational philosophy and Constitution. Religion is believed to be sources for ethical guide and reference for Indonesians. My presentation will address the questions regarding which ways and how such religious spirit and precepts have been perceived, interpreted and implemented in actual social life to shape humane community in Indonesian. In doing so, I will examine the experiences of one of the most longstanding Muslim women’s organization called Aisyiyah, founded in 19 May 1917 in Yogyakarta. i It is well documented that many religious interpretive teachings on the hands of different people have been understood and implemented differently, and in some cases even resulting in opposite proposal of actions; for instance on marital issues, population control, interfaith engagements and peace, and many more. Aisyiyah has had encountered such challenges and has always been using Islamic world view and ethics, as they understood, to offer counter arguments especially to malecentered interpretations propagated by a number of Muslim organizations. The highlights of what this organization, Aisyiyah, has contributed are in the area of education, marriage and family, and women?s contribution to community peace building and development. Education for all, especially for girls and women has been a priority for Aisyiyah since its early development during the colonial era. Education is believed by Aisyiyah as a significant key for social change and mobility, rather than formal politics, for attaining better life in this world and hereafter. When education for girls was denied for most indigenous population during the colonial era, this Muslim women’s group propagated for girl education in the subjects of religion and socialempirical need and practices. Marriage and family life are also the focus of this organization; the organization has produced a conceptual and manual book on Keluarga Sakinah. Among the biggest challenges faced by Aisyiyah come from intra-Islamic social movements which promote patriarchal interpretation and practices, and from extra-religious movements which promote humanhedonic centered world view. The rapid development of ICT consumed by children has been another challenge for women of Aisyiyah, as many of them are in the age group of X and early Y generations. read more

• Authors: Asis Wahyudi
• From: Graduate Student of Geography Department, State University of Malang

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Most of earthquakes and tsunamis in Indonesia cause high casualties. The high casualties showed that the level of community preparedness for tsunami disasters is still low. Sidoasri Beach is one of v-shape beach and the dangerous beach for tsunami in Malang. This research aims to determine the level of community preparedness on tsunami and describing the relationship between level of education and age with the level of community preparedness on tsunami. Sample of respondents was determined by proportional sampling method which then respondents were selected by systematic random sampling method. Datas were collected through observation, questionnaires, and documentation. The results showed that the index of community preparedness for tsunami in zone I and II which respectively 44,08% and 55,79% with moderate preparedness category, while the index of community preparedness for tsunami in zone III is 66,04% with a high preparedness category. Test showed that the high education impacts on high level of preparedness index on tsunami, whereas the high age impacts on low preparedness index on tsunami. The highest preparedness level is owned by educated College/Academy students and aged between 35-39 years-old. The worse preparedness level is owned by elementary school-educated and aged ’55 years-old. Tsunami socialization is required to increase the tsunami disaster preparedness level of Sidoasri community, especially communities of zone I who is only elementary-school educated and aged ’55 years-old. The College/Academy community or aged between 35-39 years should have played an active role in giving an understanding to the public about the importance of high preparedness of the tsunami disaster. read more

• Authors: Alan Feinstein
  
• From: Executive Director AMINEF/Fulbright
  

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The challenges in higher education are multiple and point up general problems in how knowledge is discovered, consumed, and distributed – the economy of knowledge, in the broadest sense of that word. Like any economy, the reality of power relations is crucial in, even constitutive of it – i.e., power defines what is known, how it is known, and who can know it. While the conference aims to address “humanity” generally, I will focus on Indonesia with a sideglance at the United States, as one of the hegemons in international education, highly influential in its models of what education is and should be. The challenges are, among others: (1) What does a university education consist of? Is it meant to prepare a student for a place in the work economy, or does it entail broader moral or political aims – creating ethical, tolerant, civic-minded or patriotic citizens, for instance?; (2) Are certain fields of knowledge/study more important than others, or have they come to be? Here we come upon the problem of humanities/social sciences versus hard science (or STEM) fields, and the question of the value of what is called a “liberal education”; (3) Since professors, scientists, and students alike are all meant to create new knowledge through research, what is the quality and relevance of that research, and how can quality and relevance be measured? Here we confront the huge issue of evaluation, which has led to universities being treated like businesses and the whole rise of metrics like KPIs. (4) How is new knowledge – the results of research – used, consumed, intermediated and disseminated? For instance, some research is meant to influence policy (e.g., governmental or pedagogical, etc.); some to influence practice (medical or environmental); and some research is not utilitarian, but aims to enlighten, inform, stimulate, or even please. Here is where the powerful technological tools of the last decades come in: these provide access to millions of texts in books and articles and web postings ? an access unimagined just a few years back. read more

• Authors: Hidayatul Wahidah
  
• From: Center for Religion and Cross Cultural Studies Graduate School Universitas Gadjah Mada
  

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The Pundhen of Mbah Sentono is a sacred landscape that is used frequently by people to increase their spirituality. It is recognized as a sacred place to perform rituals such as tahlilan, slametan and ruwatan desa. The main issue I raise in this paper concerns the socialpolitical signifiance of the rituals. The three main questions are, first, how is ruwatan practiced in the Pundhen of Mbah Sentono? Second, how have political actors used the ritual in the pundhen as a political tool in election? The last, how have people also used the ritual in the pundhen to counter the political actors? use the ritual? I will show that the rituals do have social-political significance and argue that both political actors and people in society have mutual relations through the rituals. From this point of view, I state that ritual in the Pundhen of Mbah Sentono is divided into two time periods, ?during election period? and ?after election period?. ?The ritual during election period? are tahlilan and slametan which are handled by the candidates of the local election to build political support, whereas ?the ritual after election? is ruwatan desa which is also used by the winner for negotiation and reconciliation to ease the negative impacts of the competitions during the local election, which affect people. On the other hand, people also use the rituals to ask for financial supports from the candidates for holding big ruwatan desa and kirap. In the years before and after election, ruwatan desa is held as small events. In this research, I analyze the social-political significance of ritual, using a theoretical framework informed by Kertzer. Based on my fieldwork in the research site, I argue that although the relation between political leaders and people give negative impacts for their social-political relation, but they also advantage each other. That is the reason I call it as mutual relation between political leaders and people through rituals. read more

• Authors: Azis Anwar Fahcrodin
  
• From: Center for Religion and Cross Cultural Studies Graduate School Universitas Gadjah Mada
  

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Among the challenges faced by those involved in the struggle for justice and equality for adherents of indigenous beliefs in “religious countries” such as Indonesia is, besides the political system of the country, the very definition of religion. There has been the view?and this is believed by some Indonesian religious authorities as well as government officials’ that Indonesia’s indigenous beliefs (aliran kepercayaan) are not religion because they are not yet fulfilling the requirements to be considered religion, that is, having the idea of God, prophet-like founding figures, and scripture. In turn, due to this monotheism-biased paradigm in defining religion, Indonesia’s aliran kepercayaans are categorized merely as “culture”. As a result, the adherents of indigenous beliefs are regarded as not yet having any religion, causing their inability to get full civil rights as compared to the adherents of the officially recognized six religions. This paper challenges this paradigm and argues that considering those indigenous beliefs to be religion is, instead, theoretically valid. The main argument is that because the definition of religion is always evolving and politically contested and that the common understanding (including that which is embraced by the Indonesian government) of religion is actually “world religions”-biased and, thus, a modern construction, the word “religion” is highly possible to be redefined in a way that can include the indigenous beliefs; and such a redefiniton is scientifically legitimate. read more

• Authors: Yuyun Sri Wahyuni
  
• From: The Mulawarman University, Samarinda

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This paper discusses short biography of Indonesian Freirean, Mansur Fakih, his thoughts and critiques on developmentalism paradigm and gender analysis as its counter. Fakih regards globalization as global political economy term and strategy in developmentalism that has been demystified and created forms of neo colonialism throughout poor and developing countries including Indonesia. Fakih argues that globalization is interrelated with neoliberalism and both of them are global systems that marginalize unbenefited groups mainly women. Fakih proposes that raising critical consciousness through critical educations as a way to having social transformation and using gender analysis as a tool for Indonesian social justice movements. read more

• Authors: Francy Iriani
  
• From: Trilogi University

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In a country where most people has the symbolic view of leadership, (Robbins & Coultar;2013) and the high context culture where the leader is center of the organization (Kinicky&Kreitner;2010), (Yukl;2008), the success of an organization is highly dependence on the leader. Posdaya stands for Pos Pemberdayaan Masyarakat, or the social movement of empowering people, is a movement that form in a social organization, is aligned with the government?s goal of providing social welfare. This research wants to know on what leadership factors that influence the success of the national champion Posdaya. This research is a qualitative research (Czarniawska; 2004), (Cresswell; 2007), (Denzin & Lincoln;2009) with the aim of knowing what factors influencing the Posdaya and what leadership factors that has been successfully brought Posdaya to became a national champion. This research will use primary data that obtained from interviews with the Posdaya organizers who are the sample of the research. The interview will be coded using manual coding Saldana (Cresswell; 2007). The data will then be tabulated follow with the mapping of the leadership traits, characters and factors that make an organization achieving its goal. The map then will be compared with leadership theories (Yukl;2008), (Schermerhornm Hunt & Osborn; 2007) (Dubrin; 2010), (Hugh, Ginnet and Curphy; 2012). read more

• Authors: Siti Nur Hidayah
  
• From: Faculty of Tarbiyah and Education Science State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta

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Government policy which seems to push higher education institutions in Indonesia to be able to compete with other institutions in the global level made numbers of universities reformulate their visions and internal policies to become high ranked university. This paper aimed at discussing the strategies which could be formulated by higher education institution to face the global changes and competition athmosphere in the academic world as well as market demand. Using the concept of learning organization, this paper identified internal and external challenges faced by higher education institutions in Indonesia which need to be dealt with. This paper concluded that to become a learning organization, higher education institution should firstly identify its own antecedent and moderator so that the outcome produced make the institutions able to compete in the national and international level. The Antecedent of learning organization covers seven elements which lead to the internal side of the institutions, they are: values, motivation, individual learning, personal vision, training and development, organizational commitment, dan group commitment. On the other side, the moderator toward learning organization lies in the institution’s policies for its human resource which give space for academic and career development for its members. read more

• Authors: Khairu Roojiqien Sobandi
  
• From: Department of Political Science, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman

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This paper analyzes a preliminary study of youth political engagement in post-reform era especially the case of the youth activities in Purwokerto, Central Java Indonesia. Using qualitative research method, this research examines how the youth engage with political matters and which channels they preferred in their activities. The results shows that the youth political engagement in post reform period have more space in practicing their activities. They have their freedom in expressing their thought and engaging through various student organization activities. Beside intra and extra campus student organizations, in post reform period, we found that there is a third type of student organization, which is an independent organization that fluid and flexible in nature. This organization utilize information and communication technologies (ICTs) in expanding their reach toward the other interested parties to join and engage together regardless their background like, political parties underbouw, ideological, religion based or even ethnicities based organization. At this point, the youth managed to establishing their own social networks through social media and website that their created by themselves. This relatively new media create more political engagement among the youth in tackling local, national and even international issues. Unfortunately, they don?t utilize effectively their social media and website in supporting their activities in gaining supports from other students relating to social and political issues. This situation is related to the characteristic of the Indonesian youth as internet user that utilize the internet for entertainment. In short, the youth political engagement managed to gain more space but at the same time, they lack of productivity in their activities. read more