Suchergebnisse

Green aspirations and the dynamics of integration in two east Kalimantan cities / Monika Arnez -- Neoliberalism and the integration of labor and natural resources / Amalia Rossi and Sakkarin Na Nan -- Integration and marginality in the tourist economy / Olivier Evrard, Manoj Potapohn, and Karnrawee Stratongno -- Migration and the ethnic division of labor in Siam's teak business, 1880-1910 / Amnuayvit Thitibordin -- After the shelter / Runa Lazzarino -- Playing the NGO system / Giuseppe Bolotta -- Making sense of poverty in Aceh and Surabaya / Silvia Viganto and Carlo Alcano

Abstract
This article describes a vision of time (the past and the future) in post-industrial dynamics that the author and her co-researchers could gain through shooting a film in the region of Lhokseumawe, Aceh, a once fruitful site of extraction of natural gas subsequently planned to become a Special Economic Zone. It engages with the notion of "worlding" processes and pinpoints, in the ethnographic case of Aceh, the difficulty to access them through discourse because specific strategies of silencing and erasure are enforced throughout an emotional landscape. It is argued that it was the use of film-making as a relational tool aiming to create images that enabled the researchers to see through time and beyond regimes of invisibility. This is how they met ghosts on the gas scene. The steps in the making of an ethnographic film are used as a narrative lead. A scene is set up where the extractive economy of gas is linked to a global vision of development and prosperity as well as to present and past national politics, including a thirty-year-long war of resistance (1975–2005). The creation of a Special Economic Zone is shown to provide a relevant interpretive prism. Different styles of self-staging reveal cultures of suffering in North Aceh. It is argued that fear as a collective emotion takes different shapes across time and serves different political scenarios. Dispossession of land and under-remunerated work appear on the scene; the film's feminine characters' positive look to the future appears as an active effort of elaboration of the evolving context. The film Aceh, After is on free access at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR89korhLwQ.

In 1945, Sukarno declared that the new Indonesian republic would be grounded on monotheism, while also insisting that the new nation would protect diverse religious practice. The essays in Religious Pluralism in Indonesia explore how the state, civil society groups, and individual Indonesians have experienced the attempted integration of minority and majority religious practices and faiths across the archipelagic state over the more than half century since Pancasila. The chapters in Religious Pluralism in Indonesia offer analyses of contemporary phenomena and events; the changing legal and social status of certain minority groups; inter-faith relations; and the role of Islam in Indonesia's foreign policy. Amidst infringements of human rights, officially recognized minorities—Protestants, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhists and Confucians—have had occasional success advocating for their rights through the Pancasila framework. Others, from Ahmadi and Shi'i groups to atheists and followers of new religious groups, have been left without safeguards, demonstrating the weakness of Indonesia's institutionalized "pluralism."

"Addresses the state of religious pluralism in the post-Suharto era (1965-1998) with case-studies from across the religious spectrum (Animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, and Islam) and across the social sciences. The volume opens a number of windows on how the state, its government bodies, civil society groups, and individuals have experienced the five principles of Pancasila as a framework for the attempted integration of minorities and majorities across the archipelagic state"--