Program studi Ilmu-Ilmu Humaniora, Program Pascasarjana Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Gadjah Mada, hari ini Jumat 9 Desember 2016 melaunching jurnal Ilmiah yang diberi nama SASDAYA. Jurnal ilmiah SASDAYA yang dilaunching ini selain versi cetak, juga bisa dibaca dalam versi digital online melalui portal jurnal UGM, yakni jurnal.ugm.ac.id/sasdaya.
Pemberian nama SASDAYA sengaja dipilih untuk nama jurnal ini sebagai monumen bagi narasi historis Sastra dan Kebudayaan yang sejak lama menjadi salah satu identitas Fakultas Ilmu Budaya UGM yang telah berkali-kali berganti nama. Penambahan kata Gadjah Mada Journal of Humanities dalam bahasa Inggris untuk menegaskan bahwa bidang ilmu yang ada di Fakultas ini ada dalam jalur ilmu-ilmu humaniora dari sebuah tradisi besar keilmuan dan kebudayaan UGM, yang disertai cita-cita dan pandangan ke depan tentang kesetaraan kita dengan perkembangan keilmuan secara global, bermanfaat bagi bangsa dan kemanusiaan, kata Bambang Purwanto saat melaunching Jurnal Sasdaya di Fakultas Ilmu Budaya UGM.
Bambang Purwanto juga mengatakan bahwa memulai sesuatu bukanlah hal yang mudah, tetapi menjadikannya terus berlanjut semakin tidak mudah. Walaupun begitu cita-cita dan komitmen akan keberlanjutan itu harus tetap dipelihara, itulah harapan terbesar ketika jurnal ini diluncurkan pertama kali. Semoga keberadaan jurnal ini dapat menjadi wadah bagi para penggiat ilmu-ilmu humaniora, terutama para mahasiswa dan alumni untuk mendesiminasikan hasil penelitian mereka, dan sekaligus sebagai sumber pengetahuan serta inspirasi bagi kemajuan ilmu pengetahuan melalui karya-karya ilmiah yang bernas.
Harapan besar Bambang Purwanto adalah semoga melalui jurnal ini sebuah mimpi besar dapat diwujudkan ketika kita tidak lagi hanya sekedar menjadi konsumen atas kajian-kajian humaniora tentang Indonesia yang dilakukan oleh para peneliti luar melainkan juga penyumbang pemikiran terbaik dalam kemajuan ilmu-ilmu humaniora. (LOR)

Pembayaran dimulai tanggal 3 – 20 Januari 2017.

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Dear All,
We are pleased to announce the upcoming conference on clientelism and citizenship in Indonesia which is being jointly organized by KITLV and UGM. The conference titled, ‘From Clients to Citizens? Citizenship in Democratizing Indonesia’ aims to explore the various meanings and practices of citizenship as understood in Indonesia. The conference, which will be held in the UGM campus from December 8-10, 2016, will have two keynote lectures by academic stalwarts in the field of citizenship, Prof. Dr. Engin Isin and Dr. Surya Tjandra. There will also be various interesting papers giving rich insights on several topics like: –
– Social media and citizen participation
– The expansion of welfare rights
– Village leadership and citizenship
– Contentious politics and Land conflicts
– Electoral democracy and citizenship
– Religion and Citizenship
– The politics of Identity
– Theorizing post-colonial Citizenship
– Citizenship and access to public services
– Minorities in Indonesia
– Labour Rights
This conference has grown out of the research program ‘From Clients to Citizens? Emerging Citizenship in Indonesia’, a research collaboration between Universitas Gadjah Mada (fakultas Ilmu Budaya and FISIP), KITLV, Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam funded by the Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and the Indonesian Ministry of Education (DIKTI). We have scholars from a wide range of countries like England, Australia, Canada, Netherlands and Indonesia who will be presenting their research on Indonesia. It is a great opportunity for students and others interested in understanding citizenship in Indonesia to attend the conference and gain from the rich perspectives presented in the sessions. We encourage students and scholars who are interested in attending the conference as observing participants to register in advance.The registration fees is Rp. 100.000 for general participants and 50.000 for students. Registration on a first come first basis as seats are limited. You can register by clicking on the link provided below:

Registration conference ‘From Clients to Citizens? Citizenship in Democratising Indonesia’

We look forward to see you all at the conference venue soon.

Javanese batik to the world: Europe, Africa, India and Australia

24 November 2016 ; Ruang Sidang 1 ; 13.00-15.00 wib

From the end of the 19th century, batik of Java – its technique, motifs as well as aesthetics, became a source of inspiration for textile producers, designers and artists across the world. In the early stage, this process was an outcome of colonial encounters when the wax-dyeing technique was introduced to the decorative arts of the Netherlands. In a short time batik became very popular among thousands of Western artists and craftsmen. While at times it was an informed adaptation of the Javanese technique that, in the process, was creatively adjusted to Western conditions, at the other extreme batik was used as an embodiment of Oriental fantasy.
The influence of Javanese batik on African textiles was an indirect process — an outcome of colonial globalisation facilitated by European industrialists. It also started in the last decade of the 19th century, when imitations of Javanese fabrics printed in the Netherlands and United Kingdom, started to be traded to West Africa. Javanese designs have been enthusiastically received by African people and, following a process of extensive adaptation, have become an integral part of the African textile tradition and identity.
To India, the Javanese technique was introduced in the late 1920s, following the visit of Rabindranath Tagore to Java and Bali. The great Indian poet and philosopher was fascinated with the cultural traditions of Indonesia and introduced some of them to the Visva Bharati University courses. Javanese batik helped to revive the old Indian tradition of wax-resist dyeing and provided the impulse to develop a new group of textiles that reflected Tagore’s philosophy and aesthetics.
The most recent of the cross-cultural encounters commenced in the 1970s with the introduction of the batik technique to the Aboriginal communities of the central desert of Australia. In the following years several collaborative projects took place, in which Australian and Indonesian artists worked side by side. In a process parallel to Java, in some cases patterns of Aboriginal batiks became imbued with cosmological meanings.
The great popularity of the batik technique had far-reaching consequences: it stimulated world-wide interest in Javanese culture and led to the organisation of public and private collections of Javanese art as well as numerous exhibitions and publications promoting the culture of this island.

Maria Wronska-Friend
James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
Maria Wronska-Friend is a Senior Research Fellow at the College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia. She is a cultural anthropologist with a particular interest in Southeast Asian dress and textiles as well as museum anthropology. Batik of Java, analysed as a cross-cultural phenomenon, is the main topic of her studies. Her PhD from the Institute of Arts at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, investigated the influence of Javanese batik on European art at the turn of 19th-20th centuries (Art Nouveau and Art Deco). As a museum curator she has organised several exhibitions, in Australia and Poland, promoting Indonesian textiles. She is the author of several books and exhibition catalogues on Indonesian textiles, as well as of academic papers. In October 2016, in Jakarta, she published a book ‘Batik Jawa bagi Dunia. Javanese Batik to the World’ that examines the influence of the batik technique and aesthetics on textiles made in Europe, Africa, India and Australia.

Conference ‘From Clients to Citizens? Citizenship in Democratising Indonesia’
8-10 December 2016 | Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta | Indonesia
Organised by: Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and Universitas Gadjah Mada
Keynote Speakers: Engin Isin (Open University, UK) and Surya Tjandra (the Trade Union Rights Centre)
What is the impact of Indonesia’s democratization process on everyday interactions between Indonesian citizens and power holders? Democratic reforms have led to a much livelier public sphere, freer and more active public debate and more intensive political participation. Yet democratization seems to have done little to end the predatory and clientelistic practices of political elites. The persistence of these practices and the ‘stalling’ of Indonesia’s democratization process cannot be attributed solely to institutional shortcomings or selfish behaviour of elites. Instead, there is an urgent need to study politics ‘from below’ by examining the character of citizenship in Indonesia.
Indonesian newspapers rarely discuss the challenges facing the country in terms of citizenship. Conversely, citizenship studies has also paid surprisingly little attention to the forms that democratic citizenship takes in a postcolonial country like Indonesia. As citizenship is generally studied in the context of a liberal, high-capacity welfare state, there has been relatively little attention paid to the forms of democratic citizenship in the context of a weaker institutionalized state and a predominantly clientelistic political system. As a result the analysis of state-citizen interaction in postcolonial states all too often takes a narrow form of identifying ‘absences’ or deviations of (idealized) western patterns of citizenship. In Indonesia the rights-claiming, autonomous and individualistic citizen – as celebrated in the general literature on citizenship – might be found, but a focus on this particular type of citizen is hindering a much-needed understanding of a more wider range of state-citizen interactions.
Instead, the everyday forms of state-citizen interactions observable in Indonesia can be used as an opportunity to re-conceptualize our interpretation of what citizenship is or should be. Ideas about the proper ‘civic’ behavior of citizens might be shaped by different emphases on, for example, individual vs. collective rights, rights vs. duties, as well as different conceptions of political legitimacy. We need to capture these different attachments to be able to understand the different forms that citizenship may take. What kinds of conceptions and practices of rights, reciprocity and representation are observable in Indonesia? How can we describe the impact of Indonesia’s democratic reforms on everyday interactions between citizens and the state? How do particular features of Indonesia’s history and political economy – e.g. its legal pluralism, weakly institutionalized state, relatively large informal economy and clientelistic political arena – shape these emerging forms of citizenship?
With this objective this conference aims to bring together accounts of how citizenship is being practiced and perceived in Indonesia. In particular, this conference calls for papers on the everyday practices, values and attitudes that can be observed in the way citizens deal with state institutions and authorities. Papers may discuss the historical evolution of citizen rights as well as a wide range of everyday citizenship struggles involving, for example, the way people engage in land conflicts, arrange access to welfare or public services or claim recognition of ethnic identities or religious values.
Panels will be organised at the least around the following themes:
-Social media and citizen participation
-The expansion of welfare rights
-Village leadership and citizenship
-Contentious politics and Land conflicts
-Electoral democracy and citizenship
-Religion and Citizenship
-The politics of Identity
-Theorizing post-colonial Citizenship
-Citizenship and access to public services
-Minorities in Indonesia
-Labour Rights
This conference has grown out of the research program ‘From Clients to Citizens? Emerging Citizenship in Indonesia’, a research collaboration between Universitas Gadjah Mada (fakultas Ilmu Budaya and FISIP), KITLV, Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam funded by the Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and the Indonesian Ministry of Education (DIKTI).
Information for paper presenters
Paper submission is closed. Selected presenters are already notified and are expected to submit full papers by 15 November. Papers and presentations should be in English. The best papers presented at the conference will be selected for inclusion in a peer-reviewed volume on Citizenship in Indonesia. Accommodation will be provided for paper presenters.
Conference registration
We encourage students and scholars who are interested in attending the conference as observing participants to register in advance.The registration fees is Rp. 100.000 for general participants and 50.000 for students. Registration on a first come first basis as seats are limited. You can register by clicking on the registration button.

Conference ‘From Clients to Citizens? Citizenship in Democratising Indonesia’