In this update of her 1997 ethnography, the author traces changes that have taken place in the service sector of Hong Kong's workforce since its reunification with mainland China in that year. Argues that though the influx of foreign domestic workers has risen dramatically and t…
Contains critiques on the notion of empowerment of women by seventeen international scholars. This volume considers opportunities for women in the context of globalization, resurgent nationalism and politicized religion, cultures of masculinity, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Afri…
The correlation between form and function is the subject of a huge debate in linguistics. This thesis studies this correlation by investigating sentences (utterances) and their formal features, as in using language, people not only think about what to say—the informative content…
PROBLEM: The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between Parenting Stress and a selected set of predictor variables among parents of children and youth, from birth to 17 years, attending Indonesian churches in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The selected predicto…
The assignment of functions to sub-national governments has been an important issue in both federal and unitary states. Indonesia, a unitary state, has recently addressed this issue in the context of its district autonomy pilot program, providing an opportune window to empirical…
In the last fifteen years, Indonesian coal production has increased rapidly. Most of the production came from mines operated by private companies. The success of the Indonesian government in attracting investors, both domestic and foreign, was accomplished by improving legal asp…
The study investigates the contribution of selected in-school resources on student academic achievement in Indonesian junior high schools. Multiple regression analysis is employed to measure the relative contribution of each variable to the criterion variable. The in-school fact…
The dissertation falls into two parts. Part one deals with the Problem of Unity in Indonesian Society and its Christian Churches. The first chapter sets forth the Indonesian's major problem which is the unity of the nation amidst the astounding diversity of its political orienta…
Through the art and process of handloom weaving this study examines the complex relationship between the village community and economic development, not only in terms of how economic changes affect village life but also how village community relations and norms influence economi…
The years 1968–1978 represent a period of crucial challenges to the Indonesian theatre establishment, pioneering the way for crossover experimentation between modern, Western-style naturalistic theatre, which was promoted by the national acting academies, and indigenous performa…
This study investigated how students use knowledge and strategies from their out-of-school environments to construct knowledge and solve problems during scientific experimentation. In addition this study aimed to develop a methodology for understanding students' reasoning proces…
The purpose of the study was to elicit and analyze sixth grade students' explanations concerning concepts taught in the national Indonesian sixth grade science curriculum. In this study, students were asked to identify the cardinal directions on flat maps and a globe, to describ…
This dissertation examines the relation between fear and state power through a study of formal and informal security institutions in Bandung, West Java. Using a combination of historical and ethnographic data, it argues that the central problem for the evolution of the urban sec…
Efficient public transportation is important for growth and the dynamic economic functioning of cities. Many cities in the developing world are plagued by infrastructure shortages, insufficient public transportation services, and severe traffic congestion which impair industrial…
This dissertation contains three essays on technology adoption from foreign direct investment and exporting. The empirical analysis is based on a panel dataset of Indonesian manufacturing establishments from 1988 to 1996. The first essay examines how the technology that accompan…
Scope and method of study. The objectives of this study were (1) to describe the world palm oil and palm kernel oil industry from 1997 to 1999 and the condition of palm oil and palm kernel oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia during, and after the 1997–1998 Asian financial cri…
Land-based pollution has dramatic effects on coral species diversity, live coral cover, morphological composition of the coral fauna, coral growth rates, coral bioerosion intensity, and reef carbonate budgets. Pollution damage is measured in surveys of eight Java Sea reefs and e…
Introduction. This study comprises two individual analyses of the same data set, that is the 1994 National Survey on Pregnant Women (NSPW). The data set used all pregnant women reported in the 1994 Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) which involved ever-married women…
