Women and Mediation in Indonesia
Women and Mediation in Indonesia

Author: S.T. van Bemmelen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-06

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 900448776X

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This volume is the product of an international workshop on Women and Mediation, organized in Leiden in 1988 by the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV) and the Werkgroep Indonesische Vrouwenstudies (WIVS), a Dutch interdisciplinary study group on Indonesian women. The book contains a selection of fourteen contributions—sociological, anthropological, and historical—ranging geographically ‘from Sabang to Merauke’ from the Toba Batak (North Sumatra) to the Dani (Irian Jaya). Loosely centred around the concept of mediation, many of the articles include new data derived from archival research and fieldwork. One cluster of articles concentrates on theoretical questions concerning the concept of mediation. Another cluster deals with brokerage in the economic and social fields. A third cluster focuses on mediation in the cultural domain, which many extend to mediation between different ‘cultures’(elite-agrarian, Western-Indonesian) or between the human and the suprahuman world, between macrocosm and microcosm. Mediation by women has been overlooked not only in the social sciences in general but also in the field of women studies in particular. The present volume explores the theme of mediation by women in general, and in Indonesia in particular.

Empowerment and Local Level Conflict Mediation in Indonesia
Empowerment and Local Level Conflict Mediation in Indonesia

Author: Christopher Gibson

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 5090810443

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"The notion of empowerment has been more often deductively claimed than carefully defined or inductively assessed by development scholars and practitioners alike. The authors define and assess empowerment through an in-depth examination of the extent to which a large community development project in rural Indonesia empowers participants (especially members of marginalized groups) through building their capacity to manage local conflict. Although the project induces conflict through its deployment of a competitive bidding process, the authors argue that, when well implemented, it can also enable otherwise unequal groups to more peacefully, equitably, and effectively engage one another. Using a mixed methods approach, they compare cases from otherwise similar treatment and control villages to shed light on the chief components of villagers' capacity to manage local conflict ..."--Page 2 of cover.

Court-annexed Mediation for Settling Family Disputes in Indonesia
Court-annexed Mediation for Settling Family Disputes in Indonesia

Author: Fatahillah Abdul Syukur

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13:

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Court-annexed mediation has been part of the Indonesian judiciary system since 2003. This thesis critically examines the strengths and limitations of traditional, Western and Islamic approaches to mediation, and how elements of these approaches could contribute to the development of more culturally relevant and gender-sensitive approaches to court-annexed mediation in Indonesia. A critical Foucauldian and feminist post-structuralist approach was used to analyse the Western model of court-annexed mediation used for settling family disputes in District and Sharia Courts. The researcher identified how the training and practices of mediators addressed the issues of culture and gender, and how the model differed from approaches to dispute resolution used in the indigenous and religious communities.

Demanding Images
Demanding Images

Author: Karen Strassler

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Published: 2020-03-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781478004691

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The end of authoritarian rule in 1998 ushered in an exhilarating but unsettled period of democratization in Indonesia. A more open political climate converged with a rapidly changing media landscape, yielding a vibrant and volatile public sphere within which Indonesians grappled with the possibilities and limits of democracy amid entrenched corruption, state violence, and rising forms of intolerance. In Demanding Images Karen Strassler theorizes image-events as political processes in which publicly circulating images become the material ground of struggles over the nation's past, present, and future. Considering photographs, posters, contemporary art, graffiti, selfies, memes, and other visual media, she argues that people increasingly engage with politics through acts of making, circulating, manipulating, and scrutinizing images. Demanding Images is both a closely observed account of Indonesia's turbulent democratic transition and a globally salient analysis of the work of images in the era of digital media and neoliberal democracy. Strassler reveals politics today to be an unruly enterprise profoundly shaped by the affective and evidentiary force of images.