• October 28^th, 2017
• YOHANNA I. MERAY (FBS Univesitas Negeri Manado)

Abstrack:

Symbol has the important meaning in human life. Without symbolism there can be no social and cultural interaction. For the purpose the need to built mutual relationship with others, man continuously creates symbols. Started from creating symbol, man constructs groups of society which give birth to culture. A group of society is bounded up by their cultural values which are uttered in symbolical form. Symbol than appears as a central core, as a means of communication produced by social convention. Communication, whether or not accommodates language occurs only when using symbols. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• DARU WINARTI (Gadjah Mada University)

Abstrack:

As people are going through their social life, they are naturally supposed to deal with any physical and mental experiences. Some of those natural experiences may well make them pleased, happy, and comfortable; or, otherwise, those could bring sad, disappointed, suffering, and even tortured feelings to them. For the former, those are usually called good experiences, while for the latter the bad ones. Then, learning from such experiences those people are certainly supposed to either keep doing something good, as for the former or, else, taking action for overcoming those regarded bad, for the latter. All of these are, particularly, reflected in dolanan song, which is a part of the dolanan driji. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• ELLY KENT (ANU, Australia)

Abstrack:

The title of this talk is taken from this illustration in a book by community activist and writer Roem Topatimasang. The book is called ?School is an Addiction?, and the comic describes a time before formal schooling was introduced to Indonesia, when every place was school, and every person was a teacher. I must admit, I have not read the book fully, but I chose the expression as a title because this concept, and the book that discusses it, were cited repeatedly by members of the organizations I will be discussing here. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• FRANCISCUS ADI PRASETYO (University of Jember)

Abstrack:

The word ?development? itself is currently in the community has several meanings. According Migley (2005: 3) it means a process of economic change brought about by the industrialization process. Development also means a process of social change resulting from urbanization, adoption of modern lifestyles, and behaviors of today. Furthermore, this term also has connotations of prosperity that offer that development can increase income; increase the level of education, improving housing conditions and health. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• KASIYAN (Ph.D Student of Performing and Fine Arts Studies Gadjah Mada University)

Abstrack:

Discussing the current urban culture phenomenon, it is commonly believed that it has a significant strategic meaning as it meets the reality that there are more than fifty percent of world society currently live in urban cities. Seen from the cultural-sociological perspectives, urban culture phenomenon is mostly the result of modernization phenomenon (Zijderveld, 2009: 51; Parker, 2004: 13) One of the main positive characteristics of the urban city society compared to the rural society is their ability and potentials to take control on the production constuct, reproduction and distribution of knowledge as the main pillar of dinamic process and change of culture. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• ANDRIAN LIEM (Faculty of Psychology Gadjah Mada University)

Abstrack:

Scavenger or trash picker in Bahasa called as Pemulung. Pemulung refer to people that have a profession as a collector of trash or used things (Azhari, 2009). Commonly pemulung are able to finded on urban or city area because more garbage produce here than sub-urban or village area. Some of them live in street (homeless) and called as gelandangan. Gelandangan coming from ?gelandang? which mean ?rove, wander?. Their life style is actually equal with Gypsy community life style, who also doing an odyssey (Ghofur, 2009). But parts of them choose to live in a fix area and work around there. Basically, the members of the second group already tired to keep moving and play ?hide and seek? with government officers. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• POPI PUSPITASARI (Doctoral Study Program, Architectural Engineering and Planning, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Abstrack:

Historic kampungs were important part in the formation of northerncoastal cities of Java cities in the past. This urban settlement has different characteristic in term of physical setting, building styles, uniqueness of tradition. Similar researches on historic kampungs have been performed on various cases, and it has been found that many historic kampungs have been undergoing transformation process which caused changes and even radical demolitions, mostly because of political intervention for the sake of urban development. Historical kampungs were often considered as an investment potential within the context of the city?s economic sector development. For instance, government carried out a kampungs improvement program to revitalize the deteriorating kampung?s physical quality to make it a better place to live and to be utilized as tourism object. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• FIRLY ANNISA (University Muhammadiyah of Yogyakarta)

Abstrack:

As the first international magazine for muslimah1 in the world, Aquila Asia may be a magazine pioneer that present today and represent urban people. Aquila Asia sold in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei get great attention from West society because it appeared very interesting, representing class, modern with Islam background. Reuters, for example, stated in its web site: ?SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) – There?s a beautiful model on the cover, a teaser about an article on sex and a swimsuit spread, but what makes Asia?s newest women?s magazine stand out is its audience: stylish, modern Muslims?. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• MELANIE V. NERTZ (Dept. of Cultural and Social Anthropology Albert-Ludwig-University, Freiburg, Germany)

Abstrack:

Not only the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the USA and postulates like the ?clash of civilizations? (Huntington, 1996) but also a general growth of worldwide interrelations affecting all aspects of life and society, have contributed to an increased public interest in how the ?West? is perceived by the ?East? and in particular how the ?West? is perceived by ?Islam?. In this context, Indonesia has attracted international attention due to the Bali bombings in 2002, making the country, which has the world?s largest Muslim population (and is the largest Muslim-majority democracy), part of the so-called ?axis of evil? overnight. Yet, even though a social development in the direction of conservative interpretations of Islam can be observed, equating Indonesia exclusively with Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism is unjustified. read more

• October 28^th, 2017
• SUBAGIO, H. (National Coordinating Angency for Survey and Mapping)

Abstrack:

This paper is a very preliminary study on maritime ethnic life in Indonesia is more represented in small city islands, so called concept of ?Metro Island?. Areas of this study is Sapeken Island has an area of 65.14 hectares with a population of 8,312 inhabitants which means that the population density of this island is equivalent to 12,700 people/km2 which is a very high density class, even more than other big cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta or Surabaya. Label of ?Metro Island? adopted the parameters of life in a city such as demographic issues, ethnically diverse, and the existence of culture among ethnic acculturation or cultural fusion accordance with the conditions of cities in mainland. read more