Solo wayang performance by Ki Cahyo Kuntadi

Ki Cahyo Kuntadi and his wife Nyi Sukesi Rahayu, performed a similar solo wayang performance that Ki Purbo Asmoro put on a few days ago. Click the link here to see the performance.

Times around the world:

Jakarta, Indonesia: Sat 28 March, 9:00pm Jakarta-time East Coast, USA: Sat 28 March 10:00am to about noon
West Coast, USA: Sat 28 March 7:00am to about 9:00am
London: Sat 28 March 2:00pm to about 4:00pm
Paris and Amsterdam: Sat 28 March 3:00pm to about 5:00pm
Tokyo: Sat 28 March 11:00pm to about 1:00am on the 29th
Singapore: Sat 28 March, 10:00pm to about midnight
Hawaii: Sat 28 March, 4:00am to about 6:00

Ki Cahyo Kuntadi with Nyi Sukesi Rahayu — Live Streaming Wayang Cangkem. Location: Pendapa Sanggar Madhangkara

Today's live stream: see a wayang performance online!

To AIFIS colleagues, readers and those interested in a wayang performance:

Today, March 25, 2020, Ki Purbo Asmoro will be performing a wayang all alone at home, as his own prayer for the world situation. There will be no audience and no musicians (it looks like Ki Purbo himself will play some gender). The lakon is DURGA RUWAT or SUDAMALA, and it will start soon!

Link to a video of his performance can be found here.

Ki Purbo Asmoro

Live Wayang Performance Happening Now!

Study Wayang and Gamelan in Java - Summer 2020

Experience gamelan and wayang life in Solo, hands-on! July 13-19, 2020 and August 14-20, 2020. Further information on programs in Solo is available through Sanggar Ekalaya.

You can also come to study gamelan in Solo for a week (July 13th-19th, 2020) and then go to Bali for a Çudamani Summer Institute for two weeks (July 23rd, August 7th, 2020).

Check out these two amazing opportunities in Java by clicking the links associated with the two respected institutions for studying wayang and gamelan.

Fellow's Report: Wendy Erb

With support from the AIFIS-Luce Fellowship, Dr. Wendy Erb traveled to Indonesia from June through August 2019 to strengthen and further develop an international collaboration with partners at the University of Exeter in the U.K. and the Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) and Universitas Muhammadiyah Palangkaraya (UMP) in Indonesia. During the funding period, Dr. Erb and her collaborative team co-led a training event to bring together interdisciplinary perspectives and diverse stakeholders to promote conservation research in Central Kalimantan. During the field season, Dr. Erb found numerous opportunities to train and develop capacity in the local community. Dr. Erb and her research collaborators also hosted an international research symposium to promote the findings of her collaborative conservation research program in the Rungan landscape.

The data generated from this research project will not only lead to key scientific discoveries but also contribute to conservation, including an assessment of the presence and abundance of rare, and possibly new, species of wildlife as well as a greater understanding of the factors influencing endangered Bornean ape population sizes and habitat use. Dr. Erb hopes to contribute to the development of passive acoustic monitoring as a cost-effective tool to assess and monitor biodiversity across Borneo’s threatened landscapes.

AIFIS Fellow Wendy Erb with students from the MungkuBaru High School

New Fellowship Recipients

ANNOUNCEMENT OF AWARDS RECIPIENTS OF AIFIS-LUCE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS 2019-2020

U.S. Research Fellowship Recipients:

Marielle Butters, PhD (candidate), Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Sundanese Language Description and the Impact of Urban versus Rural Environments."

Prof. Anne Rasmussen, Department of Music and Ethnomusicology, College of William & Mary, “Monsoon Music: The Soundscape of Indonesian Islam in an Indian Ocean World.”

Alissa Stern, JD, Harvard Law School, Founding Director of BASAbali "How Digital Databases Can be More Effective at Engaging Communities in Revitalizing Local Languages"

Rebecca Britain, PhD (candidate), Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, "The effects of fluctuating nutrition on parasite infections in wild Bornean orangutans."

Indonesian Research Fellowship Recipients:

Nur Hidayah, PhD., Faculty of Economics, Jakarta State Islamic University, "Muslim Women’s (Economic) Rights in Contemporary Indonesia: Strategies for Survival, Transformation, and Empowerment."

Yusuf Bahtimi, Department of Climate Change, Energy and Low Carbon Development, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), "Reviewing the Changing Human - Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) Relationship in the Emerging Anthropocene Era."

Abdul Hadi, PhD., Department of Soil Science, Lambung Mangkurat University, South Kalimantan, "Consequences of the loss of biodiversity in wetlands of Indonesia caused by oil palm development."

Thomas Triadi Putranto, PhD., Department of Geological Engineering, Diponegoro University, Central Java, "Impact Analysis of Land-Use Change to Groundwater in Semarang Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System."

Anton Nino Novenanto, PhD., Department of Sociology, Brawijaya University, Malang, "Moral Politics of the Powerless."

Cungki Kusdarjito, PhD., Department of Agriculture, Janabadra University, Yogyakarta, "Implementation of Critical Thinking to Counter Fake News from Social Media in New Democratic Country."

Rochdi N. Nazala, PhD. (candidate), Department of Global Affairs, Rutgers University, "A Janus-Faced Policy: Explaining Indonesian Counter Diplomacy toward West Papua’s Quest for Nationhood."

Eka Nugraha Putra, PhD (candidate), Department of Law, Merdeka Malang University, Indonesia, Indiana University Bloomington-Maurer School of Law, “Criminal Defamation and Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age.”

Fellow's Report: George Towar Ikbal Tawakkal

George Towar Ikbal Tawakkal, Professor at Universitas Brawijaya and recent AIFIS Fellow, recently worked with students and faculty at the University of Wyoming. Working with Dr. Andrew Garner and Dr. Tom Seitz at the University of Wyoming, George developed a research project about the democratic process in Indonesia, looking at vote buying and the money of politics. While visiting Wyoming he worked with students and faculty talking about issues of democracy facing Indonesia and the rest of the world.