Online Course on Environment, Development and Governance in Indonesia Theories, Issues, and Trends
Learning to Navigate the Ethics of Boundaries: Schools, Youth, and Inter-Religious Relationships in North Sulawesi
To enhance the academic atmosphere during the covid-19 pandemic and to support our mission in promoting academic and research collaboration among scholars, The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) and the Center for Area Studies-Indonesia Institute of Science (LIPI) as the biggest research institute in Indonesia will jointly organize a monthly webinar on Southeast Asian studies. This monthly webinar discusses various topics related to Southeast Asian studies include religion studies, education, politics, society, ecology, culture, and so on.
The webinar is conducted in English, open for the public; broadcasted through LIPI YouTube channel. It is usually held with the first 45 minutes for power point presentation and the rest for discussion.
ORGANIZER AND DATE
This event is jointly organized by AIFIS and Center for Area Studies-LIPI and will be conducted on:
Date : Wednesday, 24 February 2021
Time : 2.30 – 4.30 PM (Jakarta Time/GMT+7:00)
ABSTRACT of the Speaker:
In this talk, I considers the complex conjunction of ethical frames that youth in majority-Protestant North Sulawesi are exposed to from the national and local political debates, religious teachings, and their social experiences at school that shape their understandings of and approaches toward inter-religious boundaries. In response to national concerns about the moral failings of Indonesian youth and social issues like rising religious intolerance, the revised 2013 Curriculum promised an increased focus on character and religious education. Educational goals toward developing social competencies in youth, including tolerance, have translated into strong imperatives for youth to acquire friends from various religious backgrounds. At the same time, as youth consider possibilities for dating and marriage, Catholic, Protestant, and Islamic religious education courses all stress the importance of marrying someone from the same religious background. In North Sulawesi, inter-religious marriages are often cited as providing a framework of tolerance that sustains harmonious inter-religious relations in the region. On the other hand, discourses about the threat of inter-religious marriages and their association with proselytization also inform fears of religious conversion a de-stabilization of identities. I demonstrate how two broad ethical frames used to make sense of inter-religious encounters depend on alternate understandings of personhood and subjectivity as either individualized or community-oriented.
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Binding Contestation: How Party-Military Relations Influence Democratization
The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) & The Jusuf Kalla School of Government -UMY will jointly organize a Online Seminar. The parties supporting the seminar included AIFIS, Faculty of Law, Master of Law, Doctoral Program in Political-Islamic Political Science, and Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, UM Jakarta. The international seminar will discuss the implementation of democracy which continues to experience new paradigm developments. The big theme raised in the international seminar series was "Contestations That Bind: How Party-Military Relationships Affect Democratization".
An international seminar will be held on Monday, February 15, 2021, at 08.30 - 10.30 WIB online via the zoom application. In addition, the event presented three speakers from academia who were concerned about the major themes of the seminar, including Sunarno. SH., M.Hum., Ph.D (Dept. Law, Yogyakarta Muhammadiyah University), Darin Self (Dept. of Government, Cornell University, USA), Dr. Maimun Murod-AlBarbasy (Dean of Fac Social & Poliitics Sciences, Muhammadiyah University Jakarta). In addition, the international seminar will be moderated by UMY Masters of Governmental Science Lecturers, Eko Priyo Purnomo, M.Res., Ph.D., who is also a senior researcher at Jusuf Kalla School of Governance.
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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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