{"title":"Nigel Phillips (1934–2021)","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2021.1974723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2021.1974723","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43059814","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":"The Adat Aceh","authors":"Raja Iskandar Bin Raja Halid","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2021.1959144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2021.1959144","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After the fall of Melaka to the Portuguese in 1511, Aceh began to assert itself as a formidable Malay sultanate. After annexing Pasai and its neighbouring polities in 1524, Aceh gradually replaced Melaka as the centre of the Malay world. The Aceh sultanate held elaborate ceremonies and celebrations, which involved the playing of music in street processions as part of its royal adat or customs. This was seen as an important visual and aural representation of the ruler’s authority and presence towards not only its people and other regional sultanates, but also foreign visitors. The nobat, a court musical ensemble, was central to a Malay royal institution, revered for its mystical powers and ability to consolidate and maintain socio-political order. The use of the nobat and other instruments in the Acehnese court ceremonies was documented in a 17th-century text called the Adat Aceh (Customs of Aceh). This article looks into the text and its musical content, supported by European accounts, in analysing the important role of music in the adat and istiadat of the Acehnese court.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41750398","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":"English usage in the linguistic landscape of Balikpapan’s main Thoroughfares","authors":"Mannix Foster, Alistair Welsh","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2021.1959162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2021.1959162","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recognising the global prestige of English and its prominence in Indonesia, this study examines the linguistic landscape of roadside signage alongside main thoroughfares in the Indonesian city of Balikpapan, a provincial city of East Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo. We find that some signs are entirely in Indonesian, some are entirely in English and some combine both languages, while there is an absence of ‘local’ languages in signage. Applying Bakhtin’s theories of heteroglossia in language production, and contextualised by Indonesia’s most recent language laws, we examine the indexical dimensions of language use in signage where Indonesian is a centripetal force towards nationalistic positioning and English represents a centrifugal force, potentially undermining the national language and associated identity positions. Complexity is evident in the deliberate mixing of English with Indonesian languages (code switching) in top-down official signage and in bottom-up non-official signage. We suggest that the ‘invasive’ use of English that conflicts with Indonesian laws reflects a contestation of identity positioning between a centripetal idealised national identity and a centrifugal foreign influence. Of greatest interest is the intersection of these seemingly competing forces through deliberate blended language use (code switching). This suggests complex, hybridised identity positioning that combines nationalistic sentiment with an outward gaze that aspires towards more globalised identity positions.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44114420","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":"Romantic nationhood","authors":"Bayu Kristianto","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2021.1952019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2021.1952019","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Directed by Rizal Mantovani, the film 5cm (2012) tells the story of a group of five young Jakartans united by friendship. To test the strength of their friendship, one group member, Genta, suggests that they refrain from seeing each other for three months. At the end of this no-contact period, they climb Mount Semeru, the highest mountain in Java, and prove again the resilience of their comradeship. It is a motivational film targeted at young nature lovers which reminds the Indonesian youth of the need to love their country and its beautiful landscape. Drawing on each member’s testimony of love and devotion to the Indonesian nation-state after witnessing first-hand the breathtaking wonder of Mount Semeru, I argue that the film demonstrates the subsuming of the natural environment under the power of the state, using Yi-Fu Tuan’s conception of romantic geography. This analysis demonstrates how portraying nationalism romantically advocates a superficial allegiance to the nation-state and negates the sovereignty of the land.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13639811.2021.1952019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41689330","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 manuscripts: a guide to paper and watermarks. The collected works of Russell Jones 1972–2015","authors":"Farouk Yahya, R. Jones","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2021.1939521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2021.1939521","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13639811.2021.1939521","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49605187","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":"Maintaining and revitalising Balinese language in public space","authors":"I. W. Mulyawan","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2021.1910356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2021.1910356","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Kuta in Bali, is an over developed urban city, observed through the emergence of outdoor signs along the main streets. However, there were no local laws to regulate the use of local language in public spaces, which led to the marginalisation of the Balinese language. In 2018, Bali’s Governor Regulation no. 80/2018 was issued to regulate the use of languages in Bali, exclusively to maintain local language in public spaces. This study is aimed at investigating the effect of the regulation on the use of local language in Kuta’s public spaces. The data were collected from six main streets in Kuta in January 2020. The result showed that the Balinese language had gained a prestigious position in public space with its addition on many outdoor signages. Conversely, this regulation is alleged to violate national law that obliges all public signs be in the Indonesian language and placed above local and or foreign languages on the same sign board.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13639811.2021.1910356","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43051318","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":"The author of the Syair Perang Mengkasar","authors":"Henri Chambert-Loir","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2021.1898152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2021.1898152","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Syair Perang Mengkasar (The lay of the Makassar war) is one of the most famous works of Malay literature. Written in about 1670 in Makassar, Sulawesi, it is the first war syair and regarded as a model of the genre. The poem relates the war waged by VOC troops, assisted by several ‘Indonesian’ forces (Bugis, Buton, Ternate), against the army of Sultan Hasanuddin of Makassar, between 1666 and 1669, leading to the defeat and surrender of Makassar. There is only one edition of the text, and a remarkable one, that of Cyril Skinner in 1963. Skinner identified the author as Ence’ Amin, a secretary to the Sultan, claiming that he had made an elaborate and extremely praiseful portrait of himself in three stanzas of the poem. This is most surprising because, as far as we know, Malay authors, without a single exception, never praised themselves; on the contrary they systematically affect conventional humility and declare themselves stupid, ignorant, and devoid of any talent. The article demonstrates that Skinner’s theory is based on false assumptions and that the author of the poem is one Ence’ Ambon.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13639811.2021.1898152","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46433711","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":"Political language and fake news","authors":"Timo Duile, Sukri Tamma","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2021.1862496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2021.1862496","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article outlines political symbolism and language in the 2019 election in Indonesia and aims to situate fake news narratives within them. By analysing official election campaign posters (spanduk), it is argued that Islam and nationalism are the only ideological references and are applied by both camps, leaving no room for other forms of ideological contestation. The article suggests understanding this phenomenon as a hegemonic, Gramscian ‘common sense’ which creates a notion of unity of the nation. This unity, however, is disturbed by hoaxes as in fake news. But instead of referring to hoaxes only as a threat to Indonesian politics, we argue that hoaxes are an integral part of the ‘common sense’. Hoaxes are a means to make the ideological framework of Islam and nationalism accessible for the popular masses, applying a kasar (rough) approach, contradicting the halus (soft) language of the political elite. They are also inevitably a means to create the impression that the camps are distinct. As hoaxes refer to the constitutive outside of the nationalism-Islam complex (as Islamists suggest that Jokowi has ties to the outlawed Communist Party or that Prabowo aims to establish an Islamic state, for instance), they serve the function of maintaining the ideological order in post-New Order Indonesia.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13639811.2021.1862496","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42247199","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":"Indonesian manuscripts in Iran","authors":"M. Daneshgar","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2021.1857988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2021.1857988","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This report aims to introduce three previously unknown and under-examined Indonesian manuscripts that are preserved in Iranian libraries. They are written on dluwang/daluang paper and each include interlinear translations and glosses in Javanese using Pégon script. These manuscripts had been in the possession of religious families in Iran.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13639811.2021.1857988","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46598860","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}
R. Feener, P. Daly, E. Edwards McKinnon, L. En-Ci, Ardiansyah, Nizamuddin, N. Ismail, Tai Yew Seng, Jessica Rahardjo, K. Sieh
{"title":"Islamisation and the formation of vernacular Muslim material culture in 15th-century northern Sumatra","authors":"R. Feener, P. Daly, E. Edwards McKinnon, L. En-Ci, Ardiansyah, Nizamuddin, N. Ismail, Tai Yew Seng, Jessica Rahardjo, K. Sieh","doi":"10.1080/13639811.2021.1873564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2021.1873564","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study presents a distinctive type of Muslim gravestone found on the northern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, that dates to the 15th century. These grave markers, locally known as plang-pleng, provide evidence for the formation and disappearance of an early form of vernacular Muslim material culture in Southeast Asia. We documented over 200 of these gravestones during a large-scale archaeological landscape survey. In this article, we present a typology of these gravestones based upon shape, morphology and ornamentation. We then discuss their geographical distribution and periodisation based on examples with dated Arabic inscriptions. Our results show that these gravestones were initially a cultural product of the historic trading settlement of Lamri dating from the early 15th century. By the middle of the 15th century, variations of these stones started to appear widely near the Aceh river. The plang-pleng tradition was displaced in the early 16th century by the batu Aceh gravestones associated with the Aceh sultanate, which became a standardised part of Muslim material culture in the region for the next two centuries.","PeriodicalId":44721,"journal":{"name":"Indonesia and the Malay World","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13639811.2021.1873564","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47227151","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}