Ahok Through Their Eyes
Ahok Through Their Eyes

Author: Mari Elka Pangestu, Ahmad Syafii Maarif, Rheinald Kasali (et al.)

Publisher: Basuki Solusi Konsultindo

Published: 2017-06-29

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 6025053413

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A Biography Book of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (BTP). This book is a collection of stories about BTP from the views of 51 authors from various backgrounds. This book was conceived as a 51st birthday present for BTP. This book is the english version of Ahok di Mata Mereka.

Rising Islamic Conservatism in Indonesia
Rising Islamic Conservatism in Indonesia

Author: Leonard C. Sebastian

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-29

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 100020538X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This edited volume argues that the rise of Islamic conservatism poses challenges to Indonesia’s continued existence as a secular state, with far-reaching implications for the social, cultural and political fortunes of the country. It contributes a model of analysis in the field of Indonesian and Islamic studies on the logic of Islamic conservative activism in Indonesia. This volume presents informative case studies of discourses and expressions of Islamic conservatism expressed by leading mainstream and upcoming Indonesian Islamic groups and interpret them in a nuanced perspective. All volume contributors are Indonesian-based Islamic Studies scholars with in-depth expertise on the Islamic groups they have studied closely for years, if not decades. This book is an up-to-date study addressing contemporary Indonesian politics that should be read by Islamic Studies, Indonesian Studies, and more broadly Southeast Asian Studies specialists. It is also a useful reference for those studying Religion and Politics, and Comparative Politics.

Religious Pluralism in Indonesia
Religious Pluralism in Indonesia

Author: Chiara Formichi

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-12-15

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1501760459

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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." Contributors: Lorraine Aragon, Christopher Duncan, Kikue Hamayotsu, Robert Hefner, James Hoesterey, Sidney Jones, Mona Lohanda, Michele Picard, Evi Sutrisno, Silvia Vignato

Martial Arts in Indonesian Cinema and Television
Martial Arts in Indonesian Cinema and Television

Author: Patrick Keilbart

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1793627169

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book studies the Indonesian martial art Pencak Silat and related media practices, and, building on that, assesses mediatization processes, meaning the potential influence of technology-based media practices. Pencak Silat represents a cultural system of values and beliefs, with hierarchical structures and relations, and social advancement being mediated in embodied social learning. The study contributes to martial arts studies and media studies, demonstrating potentials and limitations of media technologies and their (dis-)embodiment – their extension or reduction of the body as medium, and their embeddedness in or detachment from a given socio-cultural context. With Pencak Silat being practiced all over Indonesia, by a large part of the population, the thesis also represents a contribution to Indonesian studies. Based on extensive fieldwork (between 2008 and 2016), the study analyzes martial arts and/as media in Indonesia, and presents an ethnography of Pencak Silat and mediatization.