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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”
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)”Pria Satu
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gua mau tanya… jadi gmana konstelasi terakhir Continue reading “Pemilu 2009: Pembicaraan Dua Pria tentang Tokoh-tokoh Politik juga BLT”
JUMLAH pemilih yang memberikan suara dalam sebuah pemilihan umum bukan satu-satunya indikator DEMOKRASI. Continue reading “Coretan Dinding yang Terpojok di Tempat Sampah: Pemilu 2009”
TANPA mengurangi rasa hormat Continue reading “Mohon Doa Restu Peresmian Rumah Sakit Jiwa”
JAMES C. Scott’s Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcript deals with conflicting circumstances between the powerful and powerless group, between colonizer and colonized people, between the rulers and the ruled. Continue reading “Question on Resistance and Hegemony”
KECAMAN yang disampaikan Presiden Amerika Serikat Barack Hussein Obama atas peluncuran roket Taepodong-2 milik Korea Utara sebuah tindakan yang berlebihan. Continue reading “Kecam Korea Utara, Obama Kacamata Kuda”
THE fall of Soeharto in May 1998 and the decline of authoritarian regime in Indonesia followed by people’s great enthusiasm for democracy has gradually and in a sense almost extremely changed both of the country’s political structure and culture.
Continue reading “Indonesian Political Islam: The Vanishing Wall”
PRESIDEN AS Barack Obama terlihat serius menyimak proposal Continue reading “SBY dan Obama”
“JELASLAH bagi kita yang menyaksikan dengan mata kepala betapa kejamnya aniaya yang telah dilakukan oleh petualang-petualang biadab dari apa yang dinamakan Gerakan 30 September.” Pangkostrad Mayjen Soeharto, 4 Oktober 1965.
THE East-West Center’s Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP) in cooperation with the Asia Pacific Democracy Partnership
Namanya Baitullah Mehsud. Continue reading “Baitullah Mehsud Ancam Serang Istana Barack Hussein Obama”
KETUA MPR dan mantan presiden Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) Hidayat Nurwahid masih memimpin klasemen sementara poling “siapa yang paling berpeluang mengalahkan Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono” Continue reading “Nurwahid Dibayangi Prabowo, Untuk Sementara, Rizal Lampaui Kalla”
BARACK Hussein Obama tidak punya pilihan selain menyerang habis-habisan Al Qaeda yang kini mulai memperlihatkan kekuatan di perbatasan Afghanistan dan Pakistan. Continue reading “Barack Hussein Obama Siapkan Perang Baru di Afghanistan”
PRESIDEN Irak Saddam Hussein mengirim delegasi perdagangan ke negara-negara Arab. Delegasi ini menggelar pameran barang-barang buatan Irak. Mereka menunjukkan pada dunia internasional bahwa Irak masih bisa bernafas walau diembargo 13 tahun lamanya.
Saya mengunjungi pameran produk Irak di Damaskus hari Jumat lalu. Continue reading “PPI: Pameran Produksi Irak”
RAYS of Hope for Gaza: an evening of Continue reading “Rays of Hope for Gaza”
KEPUTUSAN Presiden Amerika Serikat Barack Hussein Obama memperkuat pasukan AS di Afghanistan ditentang kelompok anti-perang. Continue reading “Panci Pun Dipukuli untuk Menentang Obama”
PULANG shalat Jumat, di dalam lift seorang mahasiswa Palestina bertanya.
“Sudah lihat pengumuman itu?”
“Pengumuman apa?” saya balik bertanya.
“Nanti saya tunjukkan,” sahutnya.
Keluar dari lift dia menunjuk sebuah pengumumam pertunjukan Continue reading “Tersinggung pada Teroris yang Baik”
UNTUK melengkapi tulisan mengenai Mikronesia Continue reading “Legal Aliens”
BERBAGAI penyimpangan dan inkonsistensi dalam pelaksanaan pemilihan umum di Federasi Mikronesia dan Chuuk State memerlukan penyelidikan lebih lanjut.
Continue reading “APDP Akan Diskusikan Penyimpangan Pemilu dengan Pemerintah”
