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This international Symposium is a bi-annual symposium held by Centre for Research and Development of Religious Literature and Heritage. The theme of this year symposium focuses on: “Empowering Civilization through Religious Heritage”.
This article is based on the results of in-depth research on the pangkak gasing and social interactions of Sambas Malay children and adolescents. Pangkak gasing is a traditional game that is currently running lively in the rural district o...
In the development of technology, all aspects experience the same development, including literature. Technology had greatly influenced the production and reception of literature. Changes in literary works by utilizing current technological...
This paper focuses on the history of spice trade in Moluccas. Using two main approaches of firstly, Braudel, I intend to examine the histoty of spice trade in Moluccas in the 16th century in relation with the changing of the structure of e...
Studies on magic in civil revolts in Indonesia are remarkably scarce. The use of magic in Bantenese revolts are presented in the works of Kartodirdjo(1966) and Williams (1982,1990). This article explains several aspects ofmagic such as the...
This article discusses moral values in various religious myths spread on several areas of Banten. How Bantenese society undertands and believes in religious myths that spread out and are still maintained from generations to generations bec...
Patriarchy is a system that put adult men in the central or the most important position, while women and children are put in relation to theinterest of the patriarch (adult men). The over generalised belief (stereotype)of women in patriarc...
This study aims at finding out how the Searle’s illocutionary speech acts are most frequently used and performed in the book “Paparaton: Legenda Ken Arok dan Ken Dedes”. The researcher uses qualitative method by collecting data from readin...
This research paper aims at providing a review of the literature and media coverage on the ethno-history of the Indigenous Moronene community. Thus far, there are less than a handful of sources on the ethnolinguistic identity and society t...
One of many annual traditional Javanese ceremony for celebrating the new year is Kirab Kiai Slamet. This ceremony was held in Surakarta, Central Java by one of greatest Javanese Kingdom, Keraton Surakarta Hadiningrat. A thousand visitors w...
Drawing upon anthropological theory of resistance and testing its limits, I will present a closer observation on how dissenting voices to thestate project of Sharia in contemporary Aceh look on the ground.Without thereby renouncing its vio...
Since the decentralization era that started in 1999, the need to search for local identity in various regions in Indonesia gradually emerged. Local elites have been pursuing some specific characteristics to legitimize their indigeneity and...
This study focuses on how civil militias in Banten and Lampung do their persistence in society. Civil militias play significant role in society not only asbeing intermediaries between civil societies themselves and the government,but also...
This article delineates the development of pesantren and madrasa as avery significant part of Islamic education in Indonesia. In doing so, Iexplore three points related to the development. Firstly, there is an ancienttradition of accommoda...
The Chinese community in Yogyakarta is used to culturally divided into two groups: peranakan and totok. The peranakan were Chinese withlocal roots. This group was usually influenced by local Javanese culture.Their language also often used...
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