Short Course: Indonesian Islam and Religious Pluralism

The ICRS (Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies) is offering a short course on Indonesian Islam and Religious Pluralism. With visits in Bali, Yogyakarta, and Manado, the course will include visits to religious sites in all destinations, and is lead by an internationally recognized faculty. ICRS is providing different packages for different budgets and interests. Course fees are all inclusive, and include airfare, transportation, study materials, and lodging. Contact ICRS directly if interested:

Program Assistant: Ida Fitri +62-857-4322-8661, or idafitriastuti2013@gmail.com

Program Coordinator: Dicky Sofjan +62-812-1095-55, or dickysofjan@ugm.ac.id

Recipients of the 2018-2019 AIFIS/Luce Foundation Fellowships

AIFIS is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2018-2019 Henry Luce Foundation Fellows:

U.S. Fellows:

Darin Self, Cornell University, Government/Competing for Power: Identifying Institutional Influence in Authoritarian Regime

Andrew Weintraub, University of Pittsburgh, Music/Critical dimensions of music to collective memory of 1965-66 

Francesca Pase, University of Georgia, Education/Navigating the Emotional Landscape of the Indonesian Early Childhood Classroom 

Galen Stolee, Harvard University, Anthropology/The Mediators: Truth and Regulation in the Indonesian News Industry 

Maho Ishiguro, Wesleyan University, Music/Srimpi Moncar: Analysis of the Chinese-ness through the lens of Javanese Aesthetics 

Wendy Erb, Columbia University, Calls for Conservation: Bioacoustic Monitoring of Endangered Apes to Support Protection of a Threatened Bornean Landscape 

Brent Luvaas, Drexel University, Project: Insta-nesia: Street Photography, Social Media, and the Indonesian Urban Imagination 

Indonesian Fellows:

Ika Nurhayani, Brawijaya University, Dayak Desa: A Dialect of Sanggau or a Separate Language?

 Desi Adhariani, University of Indonesia, Eco Innovation of Indonesian Palm Oil Companies: Cost and Benefit Analysis

Silvester Pramadi Tjiptopradonggo, Indonesian Art Institute of Surakarta, The Dynamics of Surakarta Style Javanese Dance Outside the Keraton during the Decades from the 1940s to 2000s 

Theresia Indira Shanti, Atma Jaya University, The Implementation of Mental Health Service among University and College Campuses 

Benny Baskara, Halu Oleo University in Sulawesi, Religious Ecological View of the Bajo people in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia

 George Tawakkal, Brawijaya University, Malang, Meaning of Democracy and Vote Buying

 Achmad Munjid, Gadjah Mada University, Interfaith Relations among Indonesian Diaspora in the U.S.

 Desiree Simandjuntak, Small-scale tuna fishery governance and market access in Toli-Toli, Sulawesi

University of Delaware

AIFIS is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Peter Cole and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Delaware. The collaboration enlists students and universities from both the United States and Indonesia. Below are a few abstracts from their proposal, and the complete document can be downloaded here.

One of the major problems facing Indonesia, and much of the developing world, is the rapid loss of cultural and linguistic diversity.  The problem is especially acute in East Indonesia, a region known for its diversity of languages, both Austronesian and Papuan, where the inroads of contemporary Indonesia on local cultures are well known.

The program involves training in language documentation in Kupang (one week), three weeks gathering stories, personal narratives, conversations, songs and other examples of the language spoken in a village in East Indonesia, and an additional week in Kupang preparing the data for archiving.  The first year of the program is now complete, and the data from the first year have been submitted for archiving to Paradisec (http://www.paradisec.org.au/), an archive located in Australia that specializes in the languages and cultures of the Pacific.  The American/Indonesian teams are now reviewing the results of the first year of the program and are preparing to recruit participants for the second year.

Students working with local participants in Kupang

Students working with local participants in Kupang

IFFest New York 2018

The Indonesian Film Forum in New York City is now selling tickets for their 2018 festival.  The films will be screened at the School for Visual Arts Theater in Chelsea.  For tickets and more information on the films included in this years festival, click here.

Call for Papers: Education, Conflict Histories, and Social Cohesion Building in Indonesia

As part of a joint project titled "Education, Conflict Histories, and Social Cohension-Builing in Indonesia," the Centre for Research on Pace and Development (CRPD) at KU Leuven (Prof. Arnim Langer), the Institute of Political Studies at Heidelberg (Prof. Aurel Croissant), and the Department of Politics and Government at Gadjah Mada University (Dr. Mada Sukmajati), welcome abstracts from junior and senior Indonesian researchers concerning the way in which Indonesia has been dealing with the legacies and histories of conflict, and how a more peaceful and socially cohesive future can be achieved.  The current call aims to particularly bring together scholarship on the role of formal and informal education in fostering conflict and division as well as reconciliation, ethnic and religious tolerance and inter-group understanding in Indonesia.

For the complete abstract and contact information, click here.

Call for Papers: Indonesian Constitutional Court International Symposium

On 1-3 October 2018, the Indonesian Constitutional Court will hold its 2nd International Symposium. Reflecting on its first successful event in Surakarta on 2017, the Court aims to provide an annual academic forum to discuss various constitutional issues. Selected articles from the Symposium (based on peer review decision) will be on the special issue of the Court's academic publication, Constitutional Review (CONSREV) Journal, published by the Center for Research and Case Analysis, the Indonesian Constitutional Court.

For more information, click here.