The research aims to investigate the social transformations of everyday life in borderland of Sebatik Island of Indonesia and Malaysia as bordering processes and practices that being co-constructed by the nation-states and the Bugis local residents. I pay an analytical attention…
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Vast areas of lowland tropical rainforest have been converted to anthropogenic grasslands by the synergistic effects of logging, agriculture, and recurring fire. These degraded areas are susceptible to colonization by invasive species. In Borneo, which has experienced the highes…
This dissertation consists of three empirical essays investigating the shaping and consequences of individual risk and time preferences in Indonesia. Risk and time preferences were elicited using hypothetical questions in the 2007/08 wave of the Indonesian Family Life Survey. Th…
This study focuses on the institutionalization of information security in the banking sector. This study is important to pursue since it explicates the internalization of information security governance and practices and how such internalization develops an organizational resist…
On January 31, 2007, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced a new land redistribution program that was part of the implementation of a land reform policy called Reforma Agraria. The program was to be launched in conjunction with a land registration program as pa…
The roots of Islamic teaching, the santri Muslims of Indonesia together with the intellectual masters of the pesantren tradition, and the pesantren strategists during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are the main subjects in this work. Their intellectual biography includin…
With a population of more than 255 million, Indonesia is home to more Muslims than any other country in the world, but it is a secular state with five officially sanctioned religions. Beginning in the late 1980s, Muslim aspirations and Islamic revivalism have taken a central pos…
Computer technology has been popular for teaching English as a foreign language in non-English speaking countries. This case study explored the way language instructors designed and implemented computer-based instruction so that students are engaged in English language learning.…
About 30% of Indonesian male to female transgenders (Waria) are estimated to be HIV-positive. Unprotected anal sex was the major route of HIV transmission among waria in Indonesia. As indicated by previous studies, multilevel factors were found to be significantly associated wit…
Counter-mapping is both a social movement and method that local communities employ to assert their claims over lands and waters by producing standardized cartographic maps. In this dissertation I attempt to explore the encounters between scientific cartography and indigenous spa…
This qualitative study explored the lived experience of interpersonal forgiveness of individuals as it was discovered within the family context. The aim of this study was to identify and describe, from a number of Indonesian Christians who had experienced forgiveness in families…
The first essay investigates the relationship between natural disasters and poverty at the district level in Indonesia. System generalized method of moments (GMM) and regional fixed effects models are employed, and the results suggest that damage to manufacturing facilities, hos…
This dissertation contains three essays on the relationship between the spatial distribution of economic activity and different types of public goods. In the first essay, I study how changes in transport infrastructure affect the location decisions of firms by examining how manu…
This collection explores various aspects of Indonesian culture. From remote government settlements off the coast of Sumatra to the urbanized and commercial beaches of Bali, these stories take a look at the complexities, differences and adjustments felt by people of both the East…
Achieving millennium development goal 4 (the reduction of child mortality by two-thirds by 2015) does not require new science and technology. Rather, it demands the expansion and implementation of evidenced based practices throughout Indonesia to reach the large and diverse popu…
The purpose of this study was to explore primary grade teachers' stages of concern and their implementation of an educational reform initiative called Integrated Thematic Instruction (ITI) in Indonesia. The Indonesian minister of education mandated primary grade teachers to impl…
This study investigates the orographic effects of the New Guinea Mountains on the eastward propagation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and the rainfall associated with it during the strong 2007-08 event (MJO07-08). The eastward propagation of the MJO has been observed in …
This dissertation is a historical and stylistic analysis of music arranging in pop Sunda . Pop Sunda is modern commercial popular music in the Sundanese language accompanied by primarily Western instruments. The music blends traditional Sundanese and Western musical elements. I …
Institutions for collective action are vital to accomplishing a variety of difficult developmental tasks, including irrigation management. For decades experts have argued collective action institutions for farmer participation, called water user organizations, are essential for …