Since its founding in the 1860s by the German Rhenish Mission Society, the Batak Christian Protestant Church (HKBP) located in North Sumatra had grown by the 1930s to number 450,000 members, among whom church and ethnic group were closely identified. Indigenous leadership was st…
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Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) continue to decline due to habitat loss, poaching and conflict with humans. Yet, developing effective land conservation strategies for elephants is difficult because there is little information available on their foraging ecology, h…
The human dimension of park-people interactions was investigated in communities near Way Kambas National Park in Lampung Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. Data from rapid village assessments, a 92-item questionnaire survey, elephant conflict data logs, a database of tiger-human conf…
This study focuses on the ways in which small states in the frontier regions of eastern Sumatra developed their authority as both Malay states and localized reflections of their own social and ecological environment in the period prior to colonial rule. During the eighteenth cen…
Precision agriculture (PA) is changing the way people manage crops and soils. As an information-driven system, PA possesses fine-scale diagnostic capabilities that facilitate the application of production inputs so as to match varying crop, soil and other field attributes. Conce…
My dissertation topic concerns the effects of interactions between Western tourists and Toba Batak wood carvers in North Sumatra, Indonesia. On Samosir Island, in the midst of Lake Toba, tourists find a wide array of wood carvings ranging from quickly made human figures to elabo…
This dissertation research focuses on understanding climate variability in the Indian Ocean using bomb produced radiocarbon in coral samples in order to understand water mass mixing processes in the equatorial Indian Ocean. I present accelerator mass spectrometric (AMS) measurem…
This dissertation considers the interplay of gender, power, and the political (dis)articulation of state-region relationships through an exploration of Minangkabau property disputes. My analysis adds depth to overly structural accounts of Minangkabau society, by looking at socia…
This study explores how values and practices associated with rice agriculture in one highland village generate patterns of response to the incursion of the green revolution, television, and a nationalist ideology of development. As there is currently no authoritative monograph o…
Creation of the Kerinci Seblat National Park was initiated in 1982 as part of a rapidly growing protected area network designed to address rising national and international concerns about tropical biodiversity loss in Indonesia. While Indonesian law defines national parks as are…
Evolutionary theory predicts that male parental care in mammals will be rare. However, siamang males are reported to provide extensive care for infants. Infant care patterns in wild siamangs have not been described in detail, and the function of male care is unknown. This disser…
Spatially explicit models of land use decisions have been applied to a variety of applications such as determinants of deforestation, effects of urbanization, and the influence of protected areas on land use. The models have generally been based on linear-in-parameters functiona…
Indonesia has one of the highest diversities of plants and animals in the world and nine of the eleven felid species present in Southeast Asia are found in Indonesia. Yet, Indonesia now leads the world in the number of threatened and endangered mammal and bird species, with new …
Connections to Disaster investigates the behavior of two competing network typologies (decentralized and distributed), in an effort to remap the relationship between architecture and disaster, specifically the tsunami. Fundamentally, the concept of cloud architecture is one of m…
During the latter part of the 19th century, the Toba Batak area in north Sumatra was exposed to European influence after the defeat of the traditional power symbol, Si Singa Mangaraja. Millenarian expectations began after Batak people were obliged to recognize the superiority of…