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ICCEDI is an international seminar that is held every two years
organized by the Law and Citizenship Department, Faculty of Social
Science Universitas Negeri Malang. The activities aim to discuss
the theoretical and practical citizenship education that becomes
needed for democracy in Indonesia and other countries with a view
to build academic networks by gathering academics from various
research institutes and universities. Citizenship education is an
urgent need for the nation in order to build a civilized democracy
for several reasons. Citizenship education is important for those
who are politically illiterate and do not know how to work the
democracy of its institutions. Another problem is the increasing
political apathy, indicated by the limited involvement of citizens
in the political process. These conditions show how citizenship
education becomes the means needed by a democratic country like
Indonesia. The book addresses a number of important issues, such as
law issues, philosophy of moral values, political government,
socio-cultural and Pancasila, and civic education. Finally, it
offers a conceptual framework for future democracy. This book will
be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners,
governance, and other related stakeholders.
Struggling to assert the voice of his people, Minke is met with corruption tragedy. "A complex and colorful batik of political, intellectual, and social life in the Dutch East Indies at the turn of the 20th century."The New York Times Book Review.
Minke, a young Javanese student, struggles to discover where his allegiances lie in colonial Indonesia. "A powerful love story and a tale of a young man's growing maturity in a land corrupted by political repression."—The Washington Post Book World.
"In this most significant contemporary study of Indonesian trade
unions and the broader working class, Max Lane provides a concise
and informed examination of the practical and ideological
challenges of incipient labour organizations engaged in political
and popular struggles in an underdeveloped nation. This detailed
and highly informative book evokes similar historical and
comparative struggles of exploited workers worldwide and is
indispensable for students of labour movements in the Global
South." --Immanuel Ness, Professor of Political Science, City
University of New York, author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming
of the Global Working Class
Decentralization is a major trend in Indonesia since the first
decades of that nation under Sukarno and Suharto. Max Lane is
justly treasured for illuminating those first decades, for example,
through his translations of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and his
excellent book, Unfinished Nation: Indonesia Before and After
Suharto. Anyone who seeks insights into the current trend of
decentralization, whether in Indonesia or other parts of the world,
will find this work cogent."" - James L. Peacock, Kenan
Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill ""This book opens up the discussion on the history and
political economy of the new populist policies that seem to gain
momentum in the face of the Indonesian elections. It also addresses
questions pertaining to the problems and options related to popular
aspirations within this context - all of which cannot be explained
very well by any of the predominant theses on Indonesia, whether as
an oligarchy or a democratically liberal but economically predatory
country."" - Professor Olle Toernquist, University of Oslo
Unfinished Nation traces the evolution of Indonesia from its
anti-colonial stirrings in the early twentieth century to the
lengthy, and eventually victorious, struggle against the
dictatorship of President Suharto. In clarifying the often
misunderstood political changes that took place in Indonesia at the
end of the twentieth century, Max Lane traces how small resistance
groups inside Indonesia directed massive political transformation.
He shows how the real heroes were the Indonesian workers and
peasants, whose sustained mass direct action was the determining
force in toppling one of the most enduring dictatorships of modern
times. Taking in the role of political Islam, and with
considerations on the future of this fragmented country, Unfinished
Nation is an illuminating account of modern Indonesian history.
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Footsteps (Paperback, New ed)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer; Translated by Max Lane
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Minke embarks on a personal odyssey of self-discovery that takes him into the heady dawn of a fledgling nation. "Here is an author half a world away from us whose art and humanity are both so great that we instantly feel we've known him—and he us—all our lives."—USA Today.
During 2020, the Widodo government introduced a new Bill for
parliamentary consideration. This was the Employment Creation Law.
It was also known as the Omnibus Law as it introduced amendments to
seventy-four other existing laws on a wide range of matters. The
Bill provoked considerable controversy, especially provisions
reducing protection of labour rights and weakening environmental
protection laws. Several provisions introducing further
deregulation of a range of activities also attracted criticism. The
labour and environmental issues were the basis for a series of
street protest mobilizations during the year. These also involved
mobilizations where university students participated. The Law was
justified by the government in its supplementary material to the
legislation as a strategy to attain a specific growth rate in the
gross domestic product and arguing that the revisions in the Law
were necessary to substantially improve what was described as Ease
of Doing Business. Despite the protests and criticism, the law was
passed by a big majority in Parliament on 5 October 2020. All
member parties of the governing coalition voted for the Bill, and
it was signed into law by President Joko Widodo on 2 November 2020.
The political journey of this Bill into Law revealed very clearly
the homogeneity of the Indonesian political elite, represented by
the parliamentary parties, all of whom either supported or
acquiesced to the Law. It was also revealed that sustained and
mobilized opposition to the Law was basically confined to a section
of civil society, with some sections, including important large
trade unions, campaigning in only a moderate and constrained way.
In 1965 Indonesia had the largest communist movement in the world
outside of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
Indonesian President Sukarno supported the movement and was edging
Indonesia towards socialism when a mutiny coordinated by D. N.
Aidit, chairperson of the Indonesian Communist Party, was launched
on the last day of September 1965. The backlash destroyed the
movement. As Max Lane describes in "Catastrophe in Indonesia",
though Aidit's attempt to replace the anti-communist army
leadership was organized without the knowledge of the communist
party, the army launched a subsequent propaganda campaign against
the communist movement. Consequently, the government collapsed,
opening the way for an extremely violent uprising in which over a
million people were killed and tens of thousands imprisoned. All
left-wing ideas and activities were banned - and remain so today.
In "Catastrophe in Indonesia", Lane probes this massive and
complicated collapse of communism, providing a thorough and
knowledgeable explanation of how the movement's leadership trapped
itself in such a disastrous situation. He then brings the story up
to the present, analyzing the overall impact on Indonesian politics
and the re-emergence of a new Indonesian left today.
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