Indonesians recount role in massacre
By ANTHONY DEUTSCH
SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — The men bound the thumbs of dozens of suspected communists behind their backs with banana leaves and drove them to a torch-lit jungle clearing. As villagers jeered, the prisoners were killed, one by one.
“There was no resistance,” remembers Sulchan, then the 21-year-old deputy […]
Category Archives: Indonesian Studies
Indonesians recount role in massacre
November 16, 2008 – 1:25 pm
The secret weapon the West uses against Asia
October 5, 2008 – 6:01 am
From The Jakarta Post, 4 October 2008
By Nury Vittachi
Today, boys and girls, we will learn about an extremely dangerous weapon of mass destruction which is frequently used by Western governments to cause massive damage to Asian countries. It is small, portable, and cannot be detected by any security scanner. It is called The Travel […]
Stanley in Melbourne
September 28, 2008 – 7:55 pm
Yosep Stanley Adi Prasetyo, a Commissioner for the Indonesian Human Rights Commission responsible for the sub-commission for Education and Public Awareness will be visiting Melbourne, and a few other capital cities of Australia.
While in Melbourne Stanley will be making a number of presentations from Tuesday, 21 October to Thursday, 23 October 2008. For further details, […]
When poetry meets jazz
September 28, 2008 – 7:46 pm
INDONESIAN PROGRAM, Asia Institute
presents a free public performance
Singing Srengenge
“When fine poetry meets fine jazz, a new music is born.”
Australian writer/singer Jan Cornall and Indonesian poet, Sitok Srengenge perform
and discuss a selection of works from their jazz poetry CD, Jan Cornall - Singing Srengenge
Tuesday 30 September 2008, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room (YHM), […]
Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia
September 17, 2008 – 9:56 pm
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Home to approximately one-fifth of the world¹s Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia are often overlooked or misrepresented in media discourses about Islam. Ideas, sounds, images, gestures, and meanings about Islam abound in contemporary popular cultural forms including film, music, television, radio, comics, fashion, magazines, and cyberculture. By focusing on popular […]
Launch of Popular Culture in Indonesia
July 8, 2008 – 12:09 pm
On Wednesday 2 July Professor Krishna Sen, FAHA (Executive Director, Humanities and Creative Arts, Australian Research Council) launched a new book Popular Culture in Indonesia; Fluid Identities in Post-Authoritarian Politics (London: Routledge, 2008) that I edit.
The event began at 6:00pm (refreshment) in the University Professional Bookshop (The University of Melbourne), for 6:30pm (presentations) in Theatre […]
Politics Meets Pop Culture In Indonesia
June 1, 2008 – 11:40 am
“Politics Meets Pop Culture In Indonesia” a podcast conversation with two of several authors of a newly published book Popular Culture in Indonesia; Fluid Identities in Post-Authoritarian Politics (A. Heryanto, ed., Routledge 2008). The podcast is available for playback online, or download and save in your computer or mp3 player. A transcript in pdf and […]
Abdullah Gùl: “Most Muslims like to live in an Islamic society with a secular state”
May 15, 2008 – 10:01 am
“So far, no Islamist party has won a majority of the popular vote in any of the Muslim countries where reasonably clean elections are held. Often, the Islamist share of the votes has declined. In Malaysia, the Islamists have never gone beyond 11% of the popular vote. In Indonesia, the various Islamist groups have never […]
Launceston, May 2008
May 15, 2008 – 9:45 am
In the second week of May I had my first visit to Tasmania. Sponsored by School of Asian Languages and Studies (University of Tasmania) chaired by Associate Professor Pam Allen, my visit was primarily to participate in a seminar that the school held on 8 May 2007 on Launceston campus. Dr Dirk Tomsa was the […]
The Impossibility of History - a free public lecture by Laksmi Pamuntjak
April 14, 2008 – 11:56 am
ps: See images of Laksmi Pamuntja’s public lecture ‘The Impossibility of History’ (1 May 2008), download her notes for the talk, or listen to the audio recording of the event.
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