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ItemRemembering Suffering and Survival: Sites of Memory on Buru(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Survivors and their families have remembered the events of 1965 and the related suffering of persons targeted in the violence in complex ways. In the absence of state recognition of the suffering of victims of 1965, survivors and families have had to pass on their memories in personal ways making their own meanings of these sites of terror within families and communities of former political prisoners. This chapter considers this process in terms of memories of imprisonment on the remote eastern Indonesian island of Buru.
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ItemDiversity of Indian Identity in Multicultural Melbourne(Manticore Press, 2019-02-17)This book covers the theory of diaspora, the historical development of the Indian communities in Australia since the late 19th century to the present times, current practices and statistical profiles of Hindus and Sikhs in Australia, and diasporic connections.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableMaking Spaces in Malaysia: Women's Rights and New Muslim Religiosities(Oxford University Press, 2017)
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ItemThe Human Rights Courts: Embedding Impunity(Cambridge University Press, 2019-09-30)This chapter critically examines the development of the Indonesian Human Rights Courts that were established following the fall of authoritarianism. Intended to address past and present cases of gross human rights abuses, the Courts have attracted strong criticism for failing to hold perpetrators accountable. This is widely regarded as a consequence of the influence of powerful political actors resistant towards human rights reform. This chapter seeks to deepen the understanding of the gap between the goals of the Human Rights Courts and their actual performance, through a socio-political analysis of law and legal institutions. Using Daniel S. Lev’s concept of legal culture, this chapter will argue that while the Human Rights Courts represent a shift in procedure, legal values have not changes legal values consistent with human rights principles embedded in law. This means that while human rights have been made part of the legal and judicial system, the Human Rights Courts have been unable to shape understandings of rights in a way that is conducive to human rights reform, instead embedding impunity for the security forces.
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ItemLine Struggle(ANU Press, 2019-06-25)Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world- renowned scholars in the China field, from various disciplines and continents.
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ItemDatong and Xiaokang(ANU Press, 2019-06-25)Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world- renowned scholars in the China field, from various disciplines and continents.
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ItemNo Preview AvailablePertanian, Ketahanan Pangan dan Perubahan Iklim (Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change)(Penerbit Buku Kompas /Ministry of Environment and Forestry, 2019)Climate change poses a serious threat to agricultural production and food security in Indonesia. This threat arrives at a time when global, regional and national food security are already subject to other adverse trends, creating the potential for a perfect storm. In this chapter we look at existing challenges and the additional impact climate change will have. We then examine how the sector contributes to GHG emissions, how it could mitigate climate change by reducing its own emissions, and even help absorb some emissions from other sectors. Mitigation, however, will not be enough. The 21st century is very likely to witness 2-3C of global warming, even if all pledges to the Paris Agreement were honoured. We therefore also outline an adaptation strategy to make Indonesia’s agriculture more resilient and its food supply more secure. We conclude with a concise list of recommendations to policy makers.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe omnipresent past: Rethinking transitional justice through digital storytelling on Indonesia’s 1965 violence(ANU Press, 2019)Almost 20 years since the fall of authoritarianism, Indonesia is yet to deliver justice on the human rights violations the country witnessed during the New Order (1966–1998).
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ItemCivil Society: Past, Present, and Future(Routledge, 2019)
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ItemParmenides and Mulla Sadra: The Mystical Journey to Being(ICAS Press, 2012)A comparative analysis of the philosophical views of Parmenides and Mulla Sadra is established on two assumptions. First, it is argued that both thinkers have developed their ontology under divine instructions revealed to them in a mystical experience. Second, in the reconstruction of their mystical experience asserted the priority of 'Being' as the sole reality and the foundation of knowledge and the existence of the world.