Melintasi Batas Peradaban, Mencatat Perjalanan, Menawarkan Cara Pandang
HARI ini, pada pukul 14.00 Waktu Indonesia Timur, sejumlah tentara mengamuk, merampas kamera dan mengejar para jurnalis di Jayapura, Papua. Continue reading “Diprotes, Kekerasan Tentara di Jayapura”
SERING kita melupakan sejarah yang sebenarnya menentukan kita pada saat ini atau pada masa depan.
Pada minggu lalu saya sempat membaca Asia Tenggara dalam Ming Shi Lu di sebuah laman sejarah di Internet yang terbuka kepada orang ramai: http://www.epress.nus.edu.sg/msl. Continue reading “E-mel dari Hawaii: Merubah Fikiran pada Sejarah”
What is swine flu?
Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses that causes regular outbreaks in pigs. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. Swine flu viruses have been reported to spread from person-to-person, but in the past, this transmission was limited and not sustained beyond three people. Continue reading “Swine Influenza and You”
IN 2005, Teguh Santosa re-published, in the online version of Rakyat Merdeka Daily, Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten’s cartoons Continue reading “Resisting Fundamentalism: Perspective from an Indonesia Journalist”
FROM Pakistan to Gaza and Lebanon, militant Islamic movements have gained ground rapidly in recent years, fanning Western fears of a consolidation of radical Muslim governments. Continue reading “Indonesia’s Voters Retreat From Radical Islam”
THE fall of Soeharto in May 1998 fundamentally changed both the political structure and the political culture within Indonesia. Continue reading “Abstract: Political Islam One Decade after the fall of Soeharto”
MINGGU lalu, beberapa orang kawan saya berteriak gembira.
Apa sudah terjadi?
Bukan keputusan peperiksaan cemerlang atau berita tambahan biasiswa yang mereka terima.
Seorang kawan terpekik: ‘Navy Seals GO’. Continue reading “E-mel dari Hawaii: Apabila Rakyat Sebuah Negara Terdesak”
SEDIKIT bergeser dari hingar bingar usai Pemilu 2009. Continue reading “Catatan Dinding di Hari Kartini”
ETHNICITY commonly speaking is seen as the most major sources of conflict within society. Nevertheless, many studies find that ethnicity is not! Continue reading “Ethnicity and Violence”
SEBENARNYA di antara sekian banyak calon presiden (capres), salah seorang yang paling cendekia akademis, khususnya di bidang ekonomi, adalah Dr Rizal Ramli. Continue reading “Rizal Ramli: Kolom Jaya Suprana”
TAHUN 1997 Roxana Saberi dinobatkan sebagai Miss North Dakota. Setahun kemudian dia terpilih sebagai satu dari 10 finalis Miss America.
Lulus dari jurusan komunikasi massa dan bahasa Prancis di Concordia College di Moorhead, Minnesota, dia melanjutkan pendidikannya ke jurusan komunikasi di Northwestern University dan kemudian ke hubungan internasional di Cambridge University di Inggris. Continue reading “Dituduh Bekerja sebagai Mata-mata Amerika, Roxana Dipenjara Delapan Tahun”
DUET Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono-Jusuf Kalla dipandang sudah klop dan berkelanjutan. Kini ada wacana lain yang bisa maju ke Pemilihan Presiden: duet Prabowo Subianto-Rizal Ramli. Bagaimana kemungkinan mosaik politiknya? Continue reading “Rizal Ramli dan Prabowo, Duet?”
FROM FARMER TO PARLIAMENT
Reporter: Geoff Thompson | Camera: David Anderson | Editor: Simon Brynjolffssen | Research: Ake Prihantari | Producer: Ian Altschwager
Continue reading “Prabowo: Saya Pernah Jadi Bagian dari Rezim Otoriter”
SULTAN Hamengkubuwono X adalah tokoh nasional pertama yang hadir di rumah Mega. Sultan tidak menandatangani pernyataan yang disusun para tokoh nasional karena mempertimbangkan posisi Partai Golkar.
SEJUMLAH tokoh bertemu di kediaman Megawati Soekarnoputri, Jalan Teuku Umar, Menteng, Jakarta Pusat, hari Selasa kemarin (14/4). Continue reading “Tokoh-tokoh Nasional Gugat Pemilu 2009”
ADHIE Massardie menjelaskan dasar gugatan mereka terhadap proses pemilihan legislator yang berlangsung tanggal 9 April lalu. Continue reading “KSAR Menggugat Proses Pemilu 2009”
AH, cerita ini kedengaran tidak asing sepertinya. Continue reading “Cerita Lama tentang Identitas dari Helen Ong”
NATIONALISM is one of significant subjects and debates in the real politics.
It is a sense that stirs group of human beings in particular territory, which share many similarities and experiences among them, to unite themselves and to form a distinct supra-organization called state. In practice, nationalism is used for the first time as a political banner in the resistance and anti-colonial movement. After that, it is used in many ways, from the political arena to the sport fields.
As a political banner of the resistance movement in modern world, nationalism movement meets its goal following a very severe political turbulence and crisis in one existing polity. After the First World War, for instance, the Ottoman severely lost many of its territory in the Middle East and the Central Asia where the people in those regions found them, culturally and historically, were different with the Turks, and were different among each other’s. Or, following the end of the Second World War, many colonized countries in Asia and Africa, proclaimed their independence from colonizers. The last significant wave of nationalism happened following the downfall of the Soviet Union and socialist block in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. As much as 17 new countries emerged following the end of the Soviet Union and at least sevens new states proclaimed their independence following the collapse of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Continue reading “On Nationalism (Again)”
Teguh Santosa 