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…
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…
The subject of this research project is the evolution of the Indonesian art song. This musical form emerged during the first half of the twentieth century and went into decline in the second half of the century. The Indonesian art song, sometimes called the Lagu Seriosa, never e…
The study emphasizes the applicability of micro economic models in assessing the producer's efficiency and optimization behavior. The choice of the subject, i.e., petroleum refining, poses complications due to its multiple output nature and the inherently complex oil market. We …
Development is everywhere. But development is a big business, with its own analogues to multi-national corporations, CEOs, misappropriation of funds, corrupt officials, trendsetters, yes-men, and protesters. Power imbalances within development are pervasive and evident through f…
The problems of human plurality to which this study wishes to respond are twofold: (1) What is the significance of Arendt's assertion of human plurality as the condition of political action? (2) How may her elaboration of public freedom as an important characteristic of the cond…
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…
This dissertation presents four studies covering different areas of Indonesian regional analysis with special attention to the interregional interaction. The first study examines the determinants of the lay-off process that took place during the Indonesian economic crisis among …
This study investigated whether constructivist learning environments promote mathematics achievement in rural schools in Indonesia. Until recently primary school teachers were prepared in special high schools. In the mid-1990's movement of these training programs was made to ins…
Despite various efforts made by the Indonesian government to improve students' language arts mastery, students still consider the language arts subject uninteresting and difficult to learn. This qualitative study explored the implementation of literature based instruction, a lan…
The study was conducted in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. Thirty-eight third-grade elementary school children (age = 8–9 y) in rural and thirty-nine in urban areas participated voluntarily. The subjects included male and female students. Food sources of vitamin B-6, commonly consu…
This dissertation estimates long and short-run relationships between the Indonesian and its related plywood markets—Japan, the United States, Malaysia, and Brazil—applying the concept of cointegration and the Law of One Price (LOP). The study provides an alternative solution to …
This dissertation examines contemporary legal practice in an Indonesian district court located in the Kerinci Regency of Jambi Province, with particular attention paid to the interactive production of a legal reality, which is generated through the encounters between professiona…
This dissertation confronts the difficulty in explaining the market pressures against the rupiah and the won during their currency crises of 1997–98. The crises are viewed in the context of multiple equilibria in financial markets, where the sudden rise in the market pressure is…
As commodity, performance, and sonic intervention in social space, popular music is a ubiquitous presence in contemporary Indonesia. This ethnographic study investigates the meanings and uses of three ideologically distinct Indonesian popular music genres: dangdut, pop Indonesia…
In this dissertation, structures and performances of Indonesian manufacturing will be empirically investigated. The microtheoretic measurement of technical change will be applied as an alternative to the traditional, growth accounting method to measure total factor productivity …
The purpose of this study is to explore and describe supervisory conferences as a means of EFL teacher development within the Indonesian non-formal sector of education. The study examined teacher development at both the pre-service and in-service stages. To capture the general p…
Construction industry professionals in Indonesia are accustomed to intense price competition and focused on the bottom line. They have difficulty in justifying investments in advanced technology. Both researchers and industry professionals need improved analysis tools and unders…
