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The Dutch government policy on opium was one of the most controversial issues in colonial Indonesia since the mid-nineteenth century. The controversy aroused from ‘moral’ consideration condemning the fact that the colonial state took profits from selling opium, heroine and other related products. In cooperation with the opium monopoly (opiumregie), the colonial police department created a special anti-opium unit as an effort to mitigate the opium problems (opiumkwestie), particularly smuggling and illegal opium distribution. Using the (colonial) government and non-government sources, this paper investigate the work of the anti-opium squad in the late colonial period. It argues that the work of this organization was highly influenced by the ‘political stand’ of the colonial state on opium and its financial interests, and hence it reflected the capacity of colonial state and the nature of its ‘governance’ in general.
Presenter: Abdul Wahid, Ph.D, is a teaching staff at the Department of History, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta. Earned his bachelor and master degree from Gadjah Mada he also obtained his M. Phil from University Leiden, and his Ph.D from Utrech University, the Netherland. From October to December 2013, he conducted a post-doctoral research at the KITLV Leiden on ‘The Dutch Military Operation in Indonesia, 1945-1949’.
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DATE AND TIME Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 1 – 3 PM VENUE CRCS, Room 406, 4th floor of Graduate School (Sekolah Pascasarjana) UGM Building Jl. Teknika Utara, Pogung, Yogykarta.
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Berita Wednesday Forum
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In this forum Prof. Buckley will discuss religion within the public sphere of Indonesia and Canada. Starting with a philosophical observation on the reality of diversity and the diversity of reality, then he will move to the consequence of recognizing the constitutive role of “difference” referring to the MUI Fatwa on Religious Pluralism-July28, 2005 and the Quebec Bill. The outline of his talk and the introduction of Quebec Bill can be downloaded below:
Prof. Robert Philip Buckley is a scholar of religion in Indonesia and the McGill head of the IAIN Indonesia Social Equity Project, he possesses extensive experience working with Islamic higher education in Indonesia through Canadian International Development Agency bilateral projects. He has taught and lectured throughout the network of State Institutes of Islamic Studies/State Islamic Universities and played an active administrative and academic role in outreach program development within this educational system. His academic interests include the place of religion within the public sphere in multi-religious societies, questions about pluralism and identity in Indonesia, and how publically funded Islamic universities can assume a lead role in social development in Indonesia. Along with administrative background in development projects, Professor Buckley also has an established record of academic leadership in Canada. Professor Buckley’s formal training and the majority of his publications are within the field of 20th century German philosophy.
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DATE AND TIME Wednesday, March 5th, 2014 @ 1 – 3 PM VENUE CRCS, Room 406, 4th floor of Graduate School (Sekolah Pascasarjana) UGM Building Jl. Teknika Utara, Pogung, Yogykarta.
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The presentation deals with the ritual of Haul (annual commemoration of the dead) of seven Balinese Muslim saints (Wali Pitu). Some preliminary findings taken from the field as observing the ritual will be discussed. It will unveil kinds of readings and practices associated with the saint veneration developed by minority Muslim living in the context of dominant Hindu civilization. The extent that the ritual reflects the nature of religious relationship in the island is of important question discussed throughout the discussion.
Syaifudin Zuhri He obtained his BA in Sociology of Religion from Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University (2005) and MA in Islamic Studies from Leiden University (2009).His research interests include minority Muslim, Indonesian Islam, and Muslim saints. Among his latest publication are “Majlis Tafsir al-Qur’an and its Struggle for Islamic Reformism,” in Islam in Indonesia: Contrasting Images and Interpretations, edited by Kees van Dijk and Jajat Burhanuddin, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013 and “Inventing Balinese Muslim Sainthood,” Indonesia and the Malay World, Volume 40, Issue 119, 2013. |
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DATE AND TIME Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 @ 1 – 2.30 PM VENUE CRCS, Room 406, 4th floor of Graduate School (Sekolah Pascasarjana) UGM Building Jl. Teknika Utara, Pogung, Yogykarta.
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Due to the vulcanic ash fall, the presentation of Christine Cabasset on Wednesday forum is cancelled and replaced by Dr. Rodtke’s lecture on “Politic Islam in Global Term.”
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If the Arab Spring was not originally motivated by the will to create an Islamic State, then by what? Why Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwanul Muslimin) failed? What does the call for an Islamic State entail? Is the Salafi paradigm more than a nostalgic illusion? What has become of the traditional schools of law? Are there alternatives that make better use of the established modes of “living Islam” and are more compatible with the modern nation state? These are some of the questions will be discussed in the lecture.
Dr. Andreas Radtke is the political cousellor in German Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia. He earned his Ph.D from Free University, Berlin, with his thesis “Revelation between Law and History: Source studies on the framework of early Muslim legal thought”. He was Economic Counsellor, German Embassy, Canberra (2010 – 2013); Parliament Liaison, EU Affairs, Foreign Office, Berlin (2008 – 2010); Personal Adviser to EU Special Envoy for the Middle East, Brussels and various Middle Eastern countries (2003 – 2005). |
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DATE AND TIME Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 @ 1 – 2.30 PM VENUE CRCS, Room 406, 4th floor of Graduate School (Sekolah Pascasarjana) UGM Building Jl. Teknika Utara, Pogung, Yogykarta.
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ABSTRACT For Indonesian public at large the Jewish history and reality in Nusantara is vague and in many ways imaginary. This presentation will lay down the dynamics of Jewish visibility and invisibility in Nusantara history and in modern public discourse. However, the presentation is not exhaustive, and the focus is directed at the moments whenever Jewish identity is contested and transformed. Like any other social identity and belonging, Jewish identity in this regard is considered impermanent, dynamic, adaptable, and constantly changed; it is the outcome of the reciprocal process between self-perception and social imposition. Through this, it testifies different trajectories of identity formation throughout Nusantara history, including the emergence of a new Jewish identity in the present day. |
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SPEAKER Dr.Leonard C. Epafras is a core Doctoral Faculty in the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS). He teaches History of Religions in Indonesia at ICRS, and Biblical Hebrew, Judaism, and Christianity at Duta Wacana Christian University. His research field including: Memory Studies, Cultural Studies, Biblical Studies, Judaica, Peace Studies, and Muslim-Jews Interaction.
DATE AND TIME Wednesday, February 12th 2014 @ 1 – 3 PM
VENUE CRCS, Room 406, 4th floor of Graduate School (Sekolah Pascasarjana) UGM Building Jl. Teknika Utara, Pogung, Yogykarta.
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