Indonesia, Vol. 081, April 2006
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Item Guardian of Memories: Gardu in Urban JavaAbidin, Kusno (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-04)How can the Javanese gardu (guardhouse), generally perceived as an everyday institution responsible for neighborhood watch, have come to function simultaneously as a form of memorialization that helps define community identity? This essay examines the political roles and the changing meaning of gardu genealogically, from the contemporary era into the past, and shows how this everyday urban artifact often performs as a “monument” for the expression of political views, regulation of public memory, and definition of community identity.Item Colonizing Borneo: State-building and Ethnicity in Central Kalimantanvan Klinken, Gerry (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-04)The formation of Central Kalimantan province in 1957 was not, as is often thought, a successful revolt by local ethnic Dayaks against a centralistic Jakarta. It was part of a state-building process driven from Jakarta. In order to establish its authority in remote areas at a time of instability, Jakarta sought out loyalist partners in the regions. This was a form of indirect rule, whose ethnic idiom contradicted Indonesia's ideology of modernity.Item Editorial Note, Indonesia, volume 81, (April 2006)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-04)Item The Unfinished Privatization of Semen Padang: The Structure of the Political Economy in Post-Suharto IndonesiaPrasetyawan, Wahyu (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-04)This paper argues that in the absence of well-delineated boundaries establishing property rights of the different parties, actors involved in the conflict diverted their energies into efforts that would clarify those boundaries. The privatization of Semen Padang illustrates how a struggle between Indonesia’s central government and one of its provinces for a more efficient allocation of resources transformed into a fight over power.Item Review of A Comprehensive Indonesian-English DictionarySteinhauer, Hein (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-04)Item Table of Contents, Indonesia, volume 81, (April 2006)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-04)Item Playing the Game: Ethnicity and Politics in Indonesian BadmintonBrown, Colin (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-04)In only one sport does Indonesia excel at the international level: badminton. This paper focuses on three aspects of the sport: badminton’s role in shaping Indonesian nationalism and national identity; why the game had been so dominated by ethnic Chinese players; and the extent to which political leaders, and badminton players themselves, have used the game for political purposes.Item Review of Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British AsiaWillford, Andrew C. (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-04)Item Review of Women and the State in Modern IndonesiaBrenner, Suzanne (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-04)Item Review of A Merry Senhor in the Malay World: Four Texts of the Syair Sinyor Kosta and Bidasari, Jewel of Malay Muslim CultureChambert-Loir, Henri (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2006-04)