E. Ellisa, Estu Putri Wilujeng, H. F. Wasnadi, R. D. Dwianto, Jenni Anggita, N. Helen, E. Asyera, Putri Ayu Iramaya
{"title":"Community appropriation of communal sanitation","authors":"E. Ellisa, Estu Putri Wilujeng, H. F. Wasnadi, R. D. Dwianto, Jenni Anggita, N. Helen, E. Asyera, Putri Ayu Iramaya","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2023.2170085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2023.2170085","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aims to reveal the appropriation of communal sanitation facilities in an urban kampung area of Kampung Cikini, Jakarta. In Indonesia, MCK (mandi, cuci, kakus) refers to a communal facility for bathing, washing, and urinating/defecating. We argue that the urban kampung dwellers’ behaviour in using communal sanitation facilities is a form of appropriation and reappropriation of space which began with the establishment of the urban kampung area. Having conducted observations, interviews, and focus group discussions, we discovered that communal sanitation facilities have undergone continuous appropriation and reappropriation from colonial times until today in a dialectical process. Appropriation and reappropriation can be seen from the physical change of those facilities and their usages in everyday life. Standards of communal sanitation set by the government are negotiated and appropriated by different actors, while reappropriation depends on gender and labour division within the household.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":"51 1","pages":"1 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41681815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Jambi Coin with Kawi Inscription from Indonesia","authors":"Aditya Bayu Perdana","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2022.2123155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2022.2123155","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Malay archipelago has a rich numismatic legacy. However, identification of many native coins is still a challenge to this day, especially for those found in Indonesia. This study aims to re-examine a particular coin type made of tin-lead alloy with suspected copper content, reported to be found in the Musi river in south Sumatra. Available literature presumed the coin as a Siak issue, based on rather unsatisfactory reading of its inscription. While native Malay coins typically used Arabic Jawi for their inscription, the coin is unusual in using Indic script that can be described as a transitional form between late Kawi and early Modern Javanese, somewhat inclined towards the former. Through letterform comparison with artefacts such as Nītisārasamuccaya, this author proposes a revised reading of pangéran ratu hing jambi, making this coin attributable to Jambi. The commercial success of the early 17th century Jambi sultanate and the propensity of its court to emulate Javanese-ness seemingly support this attribution. A narrower date range, however, could not be drawn as the inscription provides little orthographic or linguistic indications. Analogy with contemporaneous Banten copper coins suggests that the Jambi coin may have been used as a prestige item rather than common currency.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":"50 1","pages":"358 - 369"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49505513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plural Ecologies of Tigers in Indonesian Literature","authors":"Timo Duile","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2022.2127540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2022.2127540","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores the changing ecologies in Indonesian literature by drawing on the examples of tigers in two influential novels, namely Mochtar Lubis’ Harimau! Harimau! (1975) and Eka Kurniawan’s Lelaki harimau (2004). Using the concept of ‘plural ecologies’ from anthropological research in Southeast Asia, an ecology is understood as a set of relations between humans and non-humans, and it is argued that Mochtar Lubis’ novel depicts a setting of conflicting ecologies in which an Islamic-humanist naturalism eventually emerges as the true ecology. The novel stands in the tradition of disenchantment in the wake of modernisation and nation building. But contrary to the assumption that society – and literature – develops towards disenchantment (penduniaan), the more recent novel, Lelaki harimau, provides an example of a plural ecology in which the possibility of other relations between humans and non-humans is maintained, as in the novel the tiger emerges as a spirit which dwells in the body of the protagonist. The plural ecologies make different readings of the novel possible and demonstrate that animism is still a relevant factor for the understanding of social reality.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":"50 1","pages":"342 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46311340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Cloth that Promises Resurrection","authors":"Geneviève Duggan","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2022.2129187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2022.2129187","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article considers small sacred cloths produced in Eastern Indonesia, an area known in the textiles literature as ‘east of the Wallace line’ as handwoven cloths produced in the region share essential characteristics. They are woven on back tension looms and show similarities in the weaving technique, composition and decoration methods. The first part of the article describes and analyses three weaving ceremonies on the island of Savu where a cloth locally considered as the most ancient and the most sacred textile is woven under certain conditions, raising the question of the type of loom on which it might have been originally woven. The second part is on the origin of the back tension loom used today in eastern Indonesia. Using linguistics and referring to advanced genetic methods as well as recent findings in navigation skills of ancient Austronesian people, I suggest a re-examination of the origin of the loom east of the Wallace line.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":"50 1","pages":"313 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48946030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Good to Produce","authors":"Darmanto","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2022.2089479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2022.2089479","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the role of food and food-related activities in a Mentawai society on Siberut island (West Sumatra, Indonesia). In particular, it deals with gardening, the main Mentawai activity for producing food, and its relation to the construction of Mentawai personhood. Gardening is a set of activities through which the Mentawai produce and reproduce themselves and others. It is the principal activity within a total process of constructing valued persons and sociality, rather than merely being the production of material substances. Mentawai foodways, therefore, offer vital clues to personhood and illustrate that food and food-related activities are transformative agents in the process of social production and sociality.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":"50 1","pages":"289 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44819997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Malay Exiles in Central Thailand","authors":"Christopher M. Joll","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2022.2049558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2022.2049558","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This short article presents provisional findings that shed new light on both the cultural geography of Islam in Thailand, and northern extremities of the Malay world. An analysis of mosques officially registered in Thailand reveals that 10% are located in Central Thailand. Half of these are part of metropolitan Bangkok, and 74% of these are concentrated on its eastern districts along the Saen Saep Canal. I summarise the picture provided by Thai studies specialists who have documented the dates, origins, and circumstances of the (mainly involuntary) movement of Malays to Central Thailand, central Bangkok, and (later) to its eastern outskirts. This is followed by discussions of Siamese practices such as the taking of all slaves (chalei), and the organisation of labour under the sakdina system.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":"50 1","pages":"273 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45907616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Possible Traces of Early Malay Settlement in South Sulawesi","authors":"M. Hadrawi, Nuraidar Agus, Hasanuddin","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2022.2027696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2022.2027696","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Indigenous written sources and local tradition attribute the emergence of the Bugis kingdom of Suppa on the west coast of South Sulawesi (Indonesia) to events in the 15th century. A founding female figure emerged from the sea with her entourage and, together with a ‘descended’ male figure, established the various kingdoms in the Ajattappareng area. Details in the story and persistent memory suggest the presence of Malays from Melaka. Given the nature and purposes of Bugis historiography and ideology, together with generalised support from archaeology, it seems that this may represent a valid memory of actual events.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":"50 1","pages":"198 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44839738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biopolitics of Invulnerability","authors":"G. Facal","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2022.2042117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2022.2042117","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the course of their nation building, most Southeast Asian countries worked among other things on setting governmental policies on their respective highly developed martial arts practice groups. These groups relate to diverse structures: initiation communities, security agencies, militia organisations. The Southeast Asian governments strove to standardise the martial practice, to ‘sportivise’ them, and to integrate them into the school education curricula. The federations are the subject of massive programmes for physical and ideological formation, designed to incorporate a patriotic political ethos and the interiorisation of nationalist values. However, by fostering the construction of ‘strong bodies’, these state biopolitics also contribute to (re)generating regional groups concurrent to the central power. Through several examples in the Malay world and with a particular focus on Indonesia, this article describes that these groups constitute political networks that are relatively autonomous, and convey alternative models for the expression of the agonistic body.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":"50 1","pages":"234 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47331473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Verse Numbering System and Arabic References in Bagus Ngarpah’s Early 20th-Century Javanese Qurʾan","authors":"Ervan Nurtawab, R. Adi Deswijaya","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2022.2026619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2022.2026619","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the exegetical activity in the composition of Kuran Jawi, a Qurʾanic translation from the turn of the 20th-century. Its focus is on the examination of the three-volume manuscript that contains the Qurʾanic translation in Javanese script and language that is now held in the library collection of the Radyapustaka Museum in Surakarta, Central Java. This Javanese Qurʾanic translation, Kuran Jawi, was carried out by Bagus Ngarpah, a royal servant (abdi dalem) and Islamic scholar in the early 20th-century Javanese keraton of Surakarta. The authors examine aspects of the verse numbering system and Arabic references that Ngarpah used for the arrangement of his work. An examination of the applied verse counts reveals that Kuran Jawi is accommodative to multiple numbering systems, and also contains idiosyncrasies. This study also reveals a complexity in the use of Arabic references that include non-Arabic commentary works. In the broader context, the study of Ngarpah’s Kuran Jawi confirms the emergence of awareness among the Javanese priyayi of Islamic modernism through their attempts at having a direct approach to the study of the Qurʾan.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":"50 1","pages":"173 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44909852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Javanese Mosaic","authors":"Tomasz Ewertowski","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2022.2044659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2022.2044659","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article attempts to analyse some images of Java in Polish travel writings from the second half of the 19th century in a comparative framework, and linking the various aspects of representations of the island with the respective travellers’ background, social and intellectual trends of the epoch, and literary conventions. This approach is based on concepts of imagology, habitus and comparative reading. The travelogues by three Polish authors are analysed here: aristocrat, lawyer and politician Adam Sierakowski (1846–1912), soldier Henryk Sienkiewicz (1852–1936, a relative of a famous writer by the same name), and an apostolic delegate for the East Indies Władysław Michał Zaleski (1852–1925). Polish travel accounts are juxtaposed with texts written by English, American, Russian, and Javanese travellers: Charles Kinloch (1810–1893), Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (1856–1928), V. Tatarinov (c.1860), Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay (1846–1888), and Radèn Mas Arya Candranegara V alias Purwalelana (1837–1885). The examples show that although some descriptive aspects of Java may be linked to national identity, far more fruitful would be a detailed examination of texts and contexts through a comparative analysis.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":"50 1","pages":"211 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42247076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}