AIFIS-RISTEK/BRIN ACADEMIC WRITING FOR INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION: A VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

The Indonesia Ministry of Research Technology in collaboration with AIFIS offers the Academic Writing for International Publication workshop to enhance the capacity of Indonesian scholars in the field of social sciences, arts and humanities, and applied sciences to publish their research in international academic journals or academic presses.

In adapting to the current challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop series is offered virtually, including through synchronous and asynchronous sessions.

The Academic Writing workshop focuses on the challenges faced by Indonesian scholars working in especially social science fields, arts and humanities, and applied sciences in publishing internationally, and on strategies and methods to overcome these challenges. The workshop targets Indonesian scholars and researchers who have a manuscript in preparation for publication in international outlets. Groups of Indonesian researchers are invited to work with qualified mentors identified by AIFIS, who will assist workshop participants with the skills, knowledge, and procedures necessary to submit manuscripts to reputable international publishers, as well as provide participants with intensive feedback on their manuscripts. Qualified mentors will include experienced scholars and researchers who have a track record of successful publication in high quality international academic journals.

Workshop Date:        May 31 – June 16, 2021 (10-12 working days/2-2.5 weeks)

Format:                      

1)     Virtual Workshop: Synchronous virtual presentation & discussion sessions through Zoom (18:00 – 21:30 WIB)

2)     Small-group mentor-author virtual meetings (1 - 1.5 hour in long via Zoom at a time decided together by mentor and author; 2 times per week)

3)     Intensive cycles of consultation/feedback and rewrite/revision

4)     Daily Assignments

5)      Paper Presentation at the AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies

Application submission deadline is Wednesday, March 31, 2021 23:59 WIB (Jakarta time)

Please submit application to: aaworkshops_apply@aifis.org

Important Dates

Application Open                                   Feb 1, 2021

Application Submission Deadline           March 31, 2021

Notification of Selected Applicants         May 3, 2021

Workshop Dates                                     May 31–June 16, 2021

Presentation at the International

Conference on Indonesian Studies        June 23-26, 2021

Click the below button to download the submission guideline and the application form!

Evil Fails Virtue Prevails: Indonesian Shadow Theater Performance in Honor of US Inauguration

Evil Fails Virtue Prevails: Indonesian Shadow Theater Performance in Honor of US Inauguration

Date: January 30, 2021 | 8:00 AM - 01:00 PM EST / 20:00 - 01:00 WIB in Jakarta (Java), Indonesia

In honor of the inauguration of President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris Indonesia’s celebrated shadow theater artist (dalang) Ki Purbo Asmoro will be giving a special live streaming performance from Indonesia.

This event will be covered by Voice of America, and is sponsored by the American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) on the simultaneous English translations of the wayang, the Indonesian Cultural and Educational Foundation (AICEF), UNIMA Indonesia and Sanggar Ekalaya, the performance will be a traditional story from the wayang literature but will include specially designed puppets representing President Biden and Vice President Harris that will converse and interact with other characters during the middle of the performance when it is customary for the puppeteer to create comedic scenes that provide social commentary on contemporary events and trends.

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Wayang Virtual Performance: Baladewa's Willful Release from the World 9With English Translation by Kathryn 'Kitsie' Emerson

15 Jan 2021

Ki Purbo Asmoro will be performing Baladewa Muksa (Baladewa's Willful Release from the World") in commemoration of the 100th day after the passing of his father, Mbah Damiri Soemarno.

The entire musical troupe will be from his immediate family!

Friday, 15 January 2021

2-6am Honolulu

5-9am San Francisco and Los Angeles

6-10 am Missoula

7-11am Chicago

8am to noon on the East Coast, USA

13:00-17:00 in London

14:00-18:00 in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels

20:00-midnight in Java and Hanoi

21:00-01:00 in Singapore and Bali

22:00-02:00 in Tokyo

starts at midnight and goes in 16 Jan 4am, in Sydney and Melbourne

English translation sponsored by American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS).

The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS)

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ONLINE WORKSHOP: AUDACITY AND ELAN FOR LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION

Background

Indonesia is home to more than 700 languages, and many of them are undocumented. While these languages are invaluable to the country, most of them are endangered as people are shifting to using regional lingua francas or Indonesian, the country’s national language.

Although efforts to document these languages have started, the endangerment pace is so rapid that we need to work harder. One of the problems in documenting local languages is that many local linguists have not implemented modern methods in doing language documentation, such as using softwares to transcribe and annotate data.

To build the capacity of local linguists in doing language documentation in using tools for language documentation, PKBB and AIFIS are conducting a workshop. In this workshop, we  will specifically focus on Audacity and ELAN. Audacity is an easy-to-use, multy-track audio editor and recorder for windows, mac OSX, GNU/Linux and other oepanting systems (can be downloaded from https://www.audacityteam.org/download/). ELAN is an annotation tool that allows people to  create, edit, visualize, and search annotations for videos and audio data (can be downloaded from https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/download).

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Virtual education “Overcoming Fatigue, Stress, and Challenges in Online Teaching”

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AIFIS-RISTEK/BRIN ACADEMIC WRITING FOR INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION: A VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

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Indo-Pacific Outlooks, Opportunities, and Challenges

The Indo-Pacific region refers to the countries and tropical waters in between Indian Ocean

and Pacific Ocean. It is made up of important global maritime trade routes, rich marine

biodiversity, and blue economy potentials. Historically, the interconnection, exchanges, and

acculturation between the peoples and polities in this region have taken place for centuries. In

the recent decade, the region has gained new significance as the major actors in this region

have defined their strategic interests and actions within the context of Indo-Pacific. China

establishes the maritime leg of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which requires the

interconnection between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. It claims de facto control of

South China Sea, which is part of Central Indo Pacific, to secure and assert influence over the

Malacca Strait on to the Indian Ocean and then reaching out to the Middle East and ultimately

Europe.

Meanwhile, the US, being aware of the necessity to have a projection of naval power in the

Pacific Ocean as well as the Indian Ocean, tries to reassert its strategic interests of freedom of

navigation in the South China Sea through which trillions of US dollar of international trade

makes it passage through it. Asia’s powers such as Japan, South Korea, Australia and India

share the same interests as the US. ASEAN countries including Indonesia attempt to offer a

neutral way through the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific. However, the increasing hostility

in South China Sea continues creating tensions in Indo Pacific at large.

In response to this contemporary geopolitical issue, the Master of International Relations Study

Program, which is part of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Pelita

Harapan (UPH) initiates the 1st UPH International Relations Conference (UPH-IR Conference)

with the topic “Indo-Pacific: Outlooks, Opportunities, and Challenges.” The conference is a

milestone in the 2020-2021 research agenda on Indo-Pacific conducted by the Master of

International Relations Program. The conference will be held virtually with support from UPH

Online Education. All participants will receive conference pass to access all online panels and

other conference events, customized virtual background, and conference certificate.

Participants

Ambassadors, diplomats, government officials, scholars, researchers, educators, students, and

observers from Indonesia and abroad

Venue and Dates

The conference will be held on Friday and Saturday, December 4 – 5, 2020 virtually from

Jakarta and Lippo Karawaci, Indonesia. The committee will be using a secured online learning

management system and video conference platform provided and managed by UPH Online

Education. Only registered participants and invited speakers will be given the access to the

platform.

Contact Information

UPH-IR Organizing Committee

Email: magister.hi@uph.edu;

uphinternationalconference@gmail.com

Ph.: +62-8783-8383-978

Developing Child Friendly Learning in Covid-19 Pandemic

LATAR BELAKANG

Mungkin banyak yang beranggapan bahwa School from Home (SFH) akan membuat anak menjadi lebih dekat dengan orang tua, apalagi di saat orang tua menjalani Work from Home (WFH). Orang tua mempunyai lebih banyak kesempatan untuk melihat perkembangan belajar anak. Pada kenyataannya tidaklah demikian. Banyak orang tua yang tidak terlahir menjadi guru. Alih-alih menjadi peran pengganti guru ketika SFH, orang tua justru menjadi pemicu kejengkelan anak. Hal ini membuat anak frustasi. Belum lagi ditambah dengan masyarakat kita yang masih meyakini social learning di mana masyarakat cenderung belajar dari sesamanya. Menjadi terisolasi membuat tantangan semakin berat apalagi ditambah dengan keterbatasan sarana dan prasarana. Bayangkan saja, anak yang tertekan, ditemani oleh orang tua yang juga tertekan dan guru pun juga ikut tertekan. Dengan mempertimbangkan kompleksitas tersebut, pembelajaran yang berorientasi mengenal keluarga secara mendalam diharapkan bisa menjadi jembatan untuk mengurangi ketegangan.

TANGGAL DAN TEMPAT

AIFIS bekerjasama dengan Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Yogyakarta (STAIYO) akan menyelenggarakan kegiatan ini pada :

Tanggal           : Jum’at, 20 November 2020

Waktu             : 15.30 – 17.00 WIB

Pendaftaran     : https://bit.ly/staiyo

PEMBICARA

Eny Winarti, M.Hum., Ph.D. – Alumni Ohio University, Dosen Universitas Sanata Dharma

PIDANA PENCEMARAN NAMA BAIK DI INTERNET DAN KEBEBASAN BERPENDAPAT DI INDONESIA

Sebagai negara yang mengklaim berprinsip demokratis, Indonesia masih menghadapi tantangan nyata dalam praktik demokrasinya. Saat ini, peraturan hukum Indonesia tidak memberikan standar untuk pencemaran nama baik yang jelas. Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Pidana (KUHP) peninggalan jaman kolonial yang sampai sekarang belum dirubah adalah salah satu contoh peraturan tersebut. Perkembangan internet yang kemudian melahirkan adanya Undang-Undang Informasi Transaksi Elektronik pada tahun 2008 dan diamandemen pada tahun 2016 juga dikritik karena rawan disalahgunakan dan multitafsir. Dampaknya, pada sebagian kasus, pendapat atau kritik masih dianggap sebagai sebuah tindak pidana pencemaran nama baik.

Presentasi ini akan menganalisis pidana pencemaran nama baik pidana di Indonesia, dengan mengkaji kebebasan berekspresi dan batas-batas antara ekspresi yang dilindungi dan yang tidak dilindungi. Presentasi ini mengkaji praktik perlindungan kebebasan berekspresi dengan menganalisa peraturan perundang-undangan dan kasus-kasus penting pencemaran nama baik di Indonesia, baik offline maupun online. Analisa peraturan dan praktiknya pada kasus-kasus tersebut akan berujung pada kesimpulan apakah prinsip demokrasi yang benar sudah dijalankan di Indonesia.

WAKTU

AIFIS berkerjasama dengan Prodi Ilmu Hukum, UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta akan menyelenggarakan kegiatan ini pada:

Tanggal           : Selasa, 10 November 2020

Waktu             : 09.00 – 10.30 WIB

Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID :964 1145 2588 ## Pass code: ilmuhukum

PEMBICARA

Eka Nugraha Putra - AIFIS & Fulbright Fellow; SJD Candidate di Indiana University Bloomington – USA; Dosen Fakultas Hukum, Universitas Merdeka Malang

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Tips & Strategies Applying for Research Grants and Getting Published

Virtual Education in Review and Curriculum Adaptation

Crescent of Peace: Muslim Peacebuilders in Ambon

Webinar: Rutgers International Institute for Peace Invited Lecture: Crescent of Peace: Muslim Peacebuilders in Ambon

Oct 27, 2020 05:30 PM - 7:00PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register here: https://rutgers.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_PABT4hDlSKaPufIWBcfdGA

From 1999-2002, armed Christian and Muslim in Indonesia’s Maluku province waged a bitter civil war that left thousands dead as massacres against civilian populations were conducted by both sides. For a time, Maluku seemed doomed to endemic cycles of interreligious violence, with retaliation and vengeance fueling a cascading conflict. Eighteen years later, however, Maluku is at peace and the Christian and Muslim have undertaken a project of reconciliation. By examining the peace that was rapidly built in the wake of religious strife, this talk will examine the way that interreligious reconciliation has taken place in Ambon, Maluku-Indonesia and what greater lessons that the peace in Maluku has for the rest of the world.

Speaker Bio: Lailatul Fitriyah is a Ph.D Candidate at the World Religions and World Church Program, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame. She is also one of the founders of Feminist Theologies in Global Context Colloquium at Notre Dame. Her current research focuses on the construction of lived feminist theologies in postcolonial Southeast Asia, Christian and Islamic anthropological theologies, feminist theologies of migration, and feminist interreligious dialogue. She holds an MA in International Peace Studies from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies-University of Notre Dame, and was also a Nostra Aetate Fellow at the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID), Vatican City-Italy. -- This talk is co-sponsored by the Rutgers International Institute for Peace at Rutgers University Newark, the American Institute for Indonesian Studies and the New York Southeast Asia Network.

Advancing Indonesian Scholars' Research and Publication in International Outlets: A Virtual Workshop

Limited seats available for the "Advancing Indonesian Scholars' Research and Publication in International Outlets: A Virtual Workshop"

Register yourself at the following link: https://forms.gle/z31oFs9MsY3sAXfp8

Bapak dan Ibu Yang Terhormat,

We received such a large number of applications this year and all of the manuscripts were selected through a very competitive process. The space for the one-on-one mentoring sessions is highly limited and we can only have so many mentors for so many participants.

However, we would like to invite you to attend the non-mentoring, general lecture sessions instead, scheduled to begin on November 2, 2020, virtually through Zoom.

These sessions will be led by other speakers, among them our lead instructors, Dr. Paul Kratoska, Dr. Susan Nerney and Dr. Paul Nerney, all of whom have been leading our workshops for the past years. We will cover questions such as "What Journal Editors Look For and Mistakes Authors Makes, Strategies for Writing Academic Manuscripts, What Do Reviewers Look For, and Responding to Referee Reports," among others. See poster for details!

*Free and open to the public!

The Global Impact of the US Election

Asia Pacific Society for Public Affairs and The Jusuf Kalla School of Government UMY, supported by the AIFIS US, Magister Ilmu Pemerintah, Magister Hubungan International, Magister Ilmu Hukum and S3 Politik Islam, proudly presents an Internationally seminar series on "The Global Impact of the US Election".

Time, Tuesday, October 27th 2020.

At 09am Jakarta Time.

Please register through this link: https://bit.ly/3f9zsaD

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Writing workshop: How are remote sensing technologies used to manage and conserve forests in Southeast Asia?

Forest and Society, an open-access journal focusing on issues affecting people and the environment, is currently seeking papers for a special section looking at how remote sensing technology is used in Southeast Asia.

For those interested in submitting to the special section, Forest and Society, together with the American Indonesian Exchange Foundation (AMINEF), the American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) and Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), will be hosting an online writing course designed to help potential authors prepare manuscripts for submission.

The class will meet via Zoom on Tuesday evenings from 19:30-21:30 WIB/ICT (UTC +7) from Nov. 3-Jan. 12. It will consist of 10 online sessions, by the end of which participants should have a completed manuscript ready to submit for peer review.

Nov. 3:        Writing the abstract  

Nov. 10:      Revisiting your research question and making a writing plan   

Nov. 17:      From abstract to outline

Nov. 24:      Writing out your methods

Dec. 1:        Results

Dec. 8:        Writing the introduction

Dec. 15:       Writing the discussion

Dec. 22:      Writing the conclusion

Dec. 29:      Holiday break

Jan. 5:         Deciding on an effective title

Jan. 12:        Editing and submitting your manuscript

How to apply:

Please submit a brief description (200-300 words) of your research and the proposed manuscript topic here: https://forms.gle/ruC9MPs9SD8RNpTZ6

Please submit your applications on or before October 25, 2020. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. The workshop is free to attend, and there is no cost to submit or have your manuscript published in Forest and Society.

More information about the special section and the Forest and Society journal can be found here: http://journal.unhas.ac.id/index.php/fs/announcement/view/87

Virtual Education in Review

Virtual Education is an educational process using information and communication technology through internet. In virtual education or non-face-to-face education, students are not required to regularly come to school. Virtual Education is also an interactive learning tool. Lectures/teachers and students can communicate using internet media. Lecturers/teachers can provide lecture material, in the form of files, videos, or text. As face-to-face-education, through Virtual Education, students can also get lecture materials in the form of files or readings from the lecturers; send questions to the lecturer of the course, and take exams on time, which have been set. This discussion will explore the advantages and disadvantages of virtual education, which has started a lot since the outbreak of Covid-19. ACTIVITY, AND

AIFIS in cooperation with Master Program of English, Universitas PGRI Semarang, will conduct this event on: Wednesday, 7 October 2020, at 08.00 WIB

Registration : https://bit.ly/VirtualEdu_Rev

SPEAKER: Francesca Pase, Ph. Cand. (AIFIS Fellow 2018-2019 and Ph.D. Candidate at The University of Georgia, USA)

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PSN International Conference: Doing Global, Doing Local: Locating ‘Subculture’ in Indonesia

Seminar Kebangsaan dan Bedah Buku Menegosiasi Ulang Indonesia

“Kami tetap bersedia berada di ikatan keindonesiaan, tapi kali ini dengan cara kami, bukan dengan cara Jakarta,” demikian lah sikap politik yang ditunjukkan dengan amat terang oleh banyak aktor politik di awal reformasi, for better or worse. Dengan melihat ulang kasus-kasus di Manado dan Sumenep serta peran lembaga-lembaga agama dalam era awal perubahan politik di kedua daerah, buku ini memaparkan bahwa reformasi politik di tingkat lokal pada intinya adalah proses renegosiasi kontrak sosial antara para aktor politik, yang merupakan upaya kuratif terhadap persoalan-persoalan di masa lalu. Salah satu faktor penentu karakter politik lokal adalah riwayat relasinya dengan pusat kekuasaan nasional. Di Indonesia, centrum cenderung berubah lebih cepat daripada periferi. Politik di pinggiran memiliki kontinuitas sejarah lebih tinggi ketimbang pusat. Sejarah menunjukkan bahwa pinggiran telah jauh lebih tua daripada pusat. Mungkin ini pula yang bakal menunjukkan bahwa pinggiran akan berusia lebih panjang dari pusat.

AIFIS bekerjasama dengan Integrated and Sustainable Development Institute (ISD Institute) UIN Sunan Kalijaga and Lakpesdam NU Sleman akan menyelenggarakan kegiatan ini pada:

Tanggal           : Senin, 28 September 2020

Waktu              :  13.00 – 15.00 WIB

Pendaftaran    : http”//bit.ly/MenegoisasiUlangIndonesia

Meeting ID      : 993 1153 7365

Passcode         : BBIW2020

PEMBICARA

1.   Ahmad Rafiq, Ph.D. – Alumni Temple University, USA dan Ketua Program Studi S3 UIN Sunan Kalijaga

2.   Dr. Abdul Gaffar Karim – Penulis Buku “Menegosiasi Ulang Indonesia” dan Dosen Fisipol UGM

3.   Siti Khodijah Nurul Aula, MA – Dosen Fakultas Ushuluddin & Pemikiran UIN Sunan Kalijaga dan Peneliti ISD Institute

ONLINE WORKSHOP ON ELAN FOR LANGUAGE PRESERVATION

The Language and Book Department of the Ministry of Education and Culture noted in 2019 that Indonesia had 718 regional languages. This number does not include the numerous dialects of the languages. Most of these languages, around 400 of them, are spoken in Papua. Unfortunately, most of these languages are endangered mostly due to the pressure of the national language, Indonesian. Younger generations have switched to Indonesian which provides more economic and social advantages. Therefore, it is important to conduct a workshop to equip Indonesian linguists with skills to document and preserve the regional languages using up-to-date and internationally recognized method such as using ELAN. ELAN is a program for audio and video and can be downloaded for free at https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/download.  However, the use of ELAN requires previous training and guidance from researchers who have frequently used it in their field research.

This online workshop of ELAN is designed to minimize the limitations of distance and cost for Indonesian linguists who are interested in in gaining expertise in using ELAN. The workshop is held by a collaborative team from AIFIS, PKBB-Atma Jaya, The Language and Literature Department, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya and Nick Williams, Ph.D. (Colorado University Boulder). An electronic certificate will be provided for participants who take part in each session of the workshop and it will be sent via emails.

Dates, Time, and Venue

Date    : Monday-Tuesday/28-29 September 2020

Time    : 1 to 4 pm WIB (morning session) & 4 to 5 pm (afternoon session)

Venue  : Virtual Workshops (via Zoom)

Facilitators

Yanti, PhD. (PKBB Unika Atma Jaya Jakarta-Univ of Delaware)

Nick Williams, PhD. (University of Colorado Boulder)

Moderator

Ika Nurhayani, PhD. (Master’s Study Program of Linguistics, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya-Cornell University)

Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan (KOLITA) ke-18 : A Virtual Conference

Pada tahun 2020 ini, setelah mengikuti dan mengamati perkembangan pandemi COVID-19 di Indonesia, kami memutuskan untuk menyelenggarakan KOLITA 18 secara daring pada 16-18 September 2020. Pelaksanaan KOLITA secara daring akan menggunakan aplikasi zoom. Sesi pembicara undangan akan diselenggarakan secara langsung. Para pembicara paralel akan mengunggah video presentasinya ke Youtube dan sesi tanya jawab akan diselenggarakan secara langsung melalui zoom dengan 3 ruang pertemuan selama penyelenggaraan KOLITA.

Seperti pada pelaksanaan KOLITA beberapa tahun terakhir, presentasi pada KOLITA dibagi menjadi dua kategori, yaitu Sesi Pembicara Undangan dan Sesi Pembicara Paralel.

Ada 4 pembicara undangan (Malaysia, Singapura, Amerika Serikat dan Jepan) dan kurang lebih 130 pemakalah paralel yang akan hadir untuk membentangkan makalah mereka antara lain dari institusi luar negeri seperti University of Colorado at Boulder, Islamic International University Malaysia, dan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Pembicara undangan:

1.      Dr. Thomas J. Conners dari University of Maryland

2.      Dr. Asako Shiohara dari Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

3.      Dr. Willy A Renandya  dari  National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

4.      Prof. Dr. Stefanie Shamila Pillai dari University of Malaya, Malaysia.

Informasi tentang KOLITA dapat diakses di https://kolita.atmajaya.org/