• Author: Ari Nurhayati
• from : Faculty of Cultural Sciences, UGM

This study aims to describe the shifting perspective of African- American society on black women?s beauty in the end 20th century up to the early 21st century in Morrison?s God Help the Child, to reveal the background of the shift reflected in the work, and to explain Morrison?s view in the novel. This study is qualitative in nature. The source of the data is Morrison’s novel God Help the Child. The data are words, sentences, paragraphs, and expressions relating to the African-American society’s perspective on black women’s beauty in the novel. This study was conducted by following some steps: reading and rereading the novel, collecting and categorizing the data, interpreting and describing the data. This study has three findings. Firstly, in the last decade of twentieth century, the Whites? standard of beauty still dominated the African-American society. Darker tone of black skin was considered the absence of beauty. However, the African-American society of the 21st century celebrates the quality of beauty possessed by black women. Secondly, the shift of the perspective is due to the social dynamics that influence the African Americans in viewing themselves. Thirdly, Morrison underlines that black women’s distinctive qualities of beauty can be an alternative standard of beauty reflecting Afrocentricity and the African Americans? self-respect. Keywords: beauty, Morrison, novel, African-American read more

• Authors: Ni Ketut Widhiarcani Matradewi
• From: Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada

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This article aims at presenting ways to empower the uniqueness of Indonesian language in translation. Translation is one of the important ways in cultural transformation. Many informations, text, books, novels and other references are reproduced by translation process. It makes the position of translators are on the important place as well. The competence of Indonesian translator in empowering words, structure and Indonesian language uniqueness will be a good way to transform culture in global period. The theoretical framework of this study comes from the perspectives of Critical Linguistics. Critical Linguistics aims at uncovering the role of language in constructing social identities, relationships, social issues, events and ideology. Critical Linguistics which is first appeared in 1979, was introduced by Roger Fowler, Hodge, Kress and Trew. They are a group of scholars from the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Critical Linguistics put forward to reveal the ideology hidden in the texts. The term ideology is used very differently by different researchers and also in different academic cultures. Meanwhile the purpose of empowering Indonesian language is to find out ideology in the source text and reproduce it in target language. Data for this study were taken from French novels Bonjour Tristesse (Fran’oise Sagan). The French novel is best seller novel and written by famous novelist and translated by Indonesian translator who are famous as well. Finding of the study indicate that empowering Indonesian language by read more

• Author: Elizabeth D. Inandiak
• from : Institut Fracais d’ Indonesie

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May 27, 2006 at dawn, in fifty-two seconds, three hundred thousand houses collapsed in Yogyakarta, Bantul and Klaten, killing six thousand people. That morning, as a poet and writer living in these region for 20 years, I stopped writing. Amid the ruins, the most beautiful verses look like a parasitic vine that creeps and hinders community outreach. I recycled my writing skills into ” financial reports” sent to supportive friends to account of the good use of the money they donated for months to rebuild all aspects of the life of the 500 inhabitants of Bebekan. Inspired by the energy of “gotong royong” (community-help) and by a micro economic system based on improvisation on a daily basis to adjust to the wishes of the villagers, a community centre was founded just one year after the disaster. This community centre aimed to promote cooperation between culture and agriculture, education and micro-economics, environment and local wisdom. It was named “Giri Gino Guno” which means “hill of great value and benefit”. I would like here to share the many challenges I’ve faced throughout this extraordinary human adventure, and the down-to earth guidelines I’ve learned from the people of Bebekan. Let me therefore quote the 20th “episode” of my accounts sent to supportive friends from all over the world. read more

• Authors: Ana Anggraini
• From: Master Program of Higher Education Management, Graduate School of UGM

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The aims of the research is to identify the implementation of academic quality assurance on the evaluation of lecturer performance in teaching learning activity and to study the effectiveness of the lecturer performance components as an indicator of the teaching learning quality in Graduate School, Universitas Gadjah Mada. The research was conducted in five study programs of Graduate School, namely Religion and Cross Culture, Media and Cultural Studies, National Resilience, Extension and Development Communication Studies Program, also Environmental Studies Program. The variables were selected based on the quality assurance standard, issued by Board of Higher Education, not only to evaluate the lecturer performance but also to evaluate the study program performance. The variable consists of three elements, namely the Teachers and Lecturers Act 14 of 2005 (competence of pedagogic, professional, personality, and social), BAN-PT accreditation standard (Standard 4: Human resources and standard 7: research and community service), and the citation index based on Scopus and Google scholar. This research employed the descriptive analytic method with qualitative and quantitative approach as well as interview to obtain real data. The result showed that the performance of lecturers under the Teachers and Lecturers Act 14 of 2005 and BAN-PT accreditation standard achieved good results, while the performance for the citation index lecturer needed to be improved. Component of input variable namely BAN-PT accreditation standard and citation index may reflect the effectiveness of the quality of teaching learning in the variable ouput, in particular for pedagogical and professional competence based on the Teachers and Lecturers Act 14 of 2005. It was proved that 100 students as respondent from five study programs gave high results namely 92.91 for pedagogic competence and 91.3 for professional competence. read more

• Authors: M. Rizky Sasono
  
• From: Visual Arts and Performing Arts Studies Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah Mada

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Since the turn of the century, after the fall of repressive regime of Soeharto in 1998, Indonesia has been experiencing a more open version of democracy. Some of these freedoms of expression are manifested in works of contemporary performing arts. The post-reform opennes has brought more articulative approach thought on human tragedy. Although, within the same period the country has seen the rising conservatism and intolerance that are, paradoxically, threatening democracy and the freedom of expression. The issue of human rights, corruption, and marginalized communities in performing arts have not only been advocation of injustice, but also subjects of invitations from international festivals. The case of Papermoon Puppet Theatre’s Mwathirika and Teater Garasi’s Je.ja.l.an that allure internatonal festivals. This paper will explore such phenomenon to see the relations between creative exploration of human crisis and the aesthetic means of the spectacles. In what ways do art festivals claim the value of such transnational performances, and how they are perceived by the media. read more

• Authors: Noor Cholis Madjid
• From: Education Financial and Training Agency, Center of Budget and Treasury Learning Center, Ministry of Finance)

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The poverty rate in Indonesia is diminishing by time, where the percentage continues to fall slowly from 2006 till 2014. In 2006 the poverty rate was in the range of 17.8% or a total of 39 million people, to the range of 11% or 28 million people in 2014. President Jokowi’s current government continues to promote poverty redduction programs which are divided into three clusters, namely family based social assistance programs, poverty reduction programs based on community empowerment and poverty reduction based on economic empowerment of small and micro enterprises. However, Indonesian poverty reduction programs still face a variety of obstacles so that the goals have not been achieved fully. This paper tries to give some suggestions regarding how to improve the poverty reduction programs to be more effective The suggestions are to standardize the definition and calculation of poverty, to focus on agriculture development, improving the distribution and dissemination of the “cards” used in poverty reduction programs and a strict control over the use of poverty reduction?s budget which is spread in the various Ministry and Institutions of Indonesia. +C37 read more

• Authors: Merry Andriani
• From: Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University

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The diffusion of French as foreign language is the most institutionalized and systemic in the world. Nowadays the European framework for languages is also supporting this fact as one of the linguistic instrument. This article aims to describe and analyse how the female language user in Indonesia negotiate and adapt to the French language demands that completely far beyond their socio-cultural realities in daily life. How the female language user is struggling and finding strategies in French? What kind of discourse practice are they attracting to and using the most? Why are some of their choices and strategies different from the male language user? In order to analyse this aspect, the classic linguistic description or the sociolinguistic in the structural perspective wouldn’t be satisfying. We could never separate their linguistic production from their social practice. Based on this assumption we choose to use the critical perspective and methodology for the sociolinguistic domain. This research finds that female language user is more captive to linguistic practice in French at two different states: phonetic and lexical. They are also more attracted to various kind of discourse practice especially those related to the consumption pattern. read more

• Authors: Qoriatul Mahfudhoh
• From: Media and Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah Mada

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This research sets two objectives of study. The first, to study the constructed meaning of sports and health within Annisa Magazine, especially in May edition 2013. The second, to explain new definition of sports and health which reproduce the ideal women body shapes. This research uses critical discourse analysis which is developed by Norman Fairclough as an analysis method. This method is used to expose the text and its relation to discursive and socio-cultural practices. Besides that, this research also uses feminism and post-feminism, and gender theories. Those theories is expected to explain how women who doing sports and health activities were defined by media and why. The result of this research shows that Annisa magazine depicts women who do sports and health exercises are not only to gain healthier body, but mostly also to get beauty and ideal shape of body. In other words, the definition of health women which is constructed by Annisa magazine can be comprehended as health, beautiful, and ideal women. read more

• Authors: Hardiwan Prayogo
• From: Performing Arts and Visual Arts Studies Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta

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Festival in the era of communication technology now could not be more distant from the daily reality experienced by society. FKY 27th present the theme “Dandan” and tagline “EdanEdanan” purposely formulated by the committee so that the festival is becoming increasingly relevant in articulating the problems and realities daily life Yogyakarta, where every element layer of society need momentum and awareness for “Dandan” or literally interpreted as a improve and dress up in positive terms. So how organizers festival managing all natural resources and human to solve problems of classical with innovative management will be a discussion of the author, this paper does not become ambition from author to formulate a solution or a blueprint of the system of arts management festival, but more of a bid by the authors through portrait of the reality of management ideas present city arts festival in the implementation of the FKY 27th in 2015. The field research conducted by the authors with Paweda, Art Management Studies in Yogyakarta, qualitatively and quantitatively from the pre-event until the event takes place that is dated 19th August 2015 till 5th September 2015. read more

• Authors: Artyasit Srisuwan
• From: Faculty of Liberal Arts (History), Thammasat University, Thailand

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This article studies the Siam’s Crimes during 1920’s – 1930’s by using primary sources as the text for content analysis. It categorizes into three parts. The first part surveys and explains about the background of Lam Tat and Klon Lam Tat in print. The second part considers the bandit and murder cases in Siam, which presents through the newspapers and paperbacks. The third analyzes Haji Kiad’s works and his view on the incident as a Bangkokian Muslim, including his criticism about Siam’s Crimes and the government efficiency throughout his Klon Lam Tat. read more