Stephen Headley's new book explores contemporary religious change in the Surakarta region of Central Java. In his analysis of the Durga ritual complex, the author sheds light on one of the most unusual court traditions to have survived in an era of deepening Islamisation.
An investigation of the potential for rural progress of the Asian village, especially in monsoonal and equatorial areas. Contents include distinctions and relations between rural and urban, origin and evolution of ecosystems involving rural man, location and morphology of villages, social and agrarian patterns, the sociology of labour, land use, rural water use, nutrition, health, child-rearing and rural evolution at present. With 20 diagrams.
Examines in detail such aspects as the method of utilizing personal ties and cultivating friendships, the mechanics of absorption into the movement, deployment of manpower resources and the training process within the movement. With a list of front and satellite organizations in the communist movement in Singapore from 1948-1966 and a bibliography inclusive of unpublished documents and studies and statements of detainees and ex-detainees.
An analysis of agrarian reform in the Philippines, the paper is divided into two sections: the first covers the Spanish legacy and the second investigates the agrarian question under American political tutelage and, with the withdrawal of US colonial sovereignty in 1946, Filipino national leadership in 1946-65.
Uses the early phase of Chinese industrial efforts to demonstrate that Chinese political values significantly and assuredly affected the way modern industry was promoted and developed. Both values and environment can change, and it is their interaction that determines some specific ideological content and thrust.
The major issue in the future of ASEAN centres around national versus regional interests. Against a background of the evolution of ASEAN, the national interests of the five partners are identified and their regional interests, as reflected in the Association, are considered. The prospects for ASEAN over its second decade are analysed in terms of competition and cooperation in regional and international politics. Considerable attention in the study is given to the 'Indochinese Connection'.
The aim is to focus on a point of possible cooperation, somewhat in isolation from the many obstacles that clearly present themselves, in order to draw attention to the fact that despite obvious conflicts of interests, the oceans of Southeast Asia merit close attention as a possible focus for fresh initiatives in regional cooperation.
Discusses Singapore's educational system and manpower training and their relationship with economic growth. Describes the role of vocational and technical schools, and the Adult Education Board (AEB), People's Association (PA) classes in detail. With tables, charts, appendixes and bibliography.