Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many years later. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, through to the Arab slave revolts and anti-Ottoman rebellions …
Banned in China for its candid exploration of a young girl's sexual awakening yet widely acclaimed as being "the first novel of 'tough youth' in China" (Beijing Today), Beijing Doll cuts a daring path through China's rock-and-roll subculture. This cutting edge novel -- drawn from the diaries the author kept throughout her teenage years -- takes readers to the streets of Beijing where a disaffec…
Survivors of Operation Spectrum—the alleged Marxist conspiracy—speak up in this volume. For many of them, this is the first time that they cast their minds back to 1987 and try to make sense of the incident. What they did in that period was meaningful and totally legitimate. Their families and friends share the same view. The detainees were subjected to ill-treatment, humiliation, and ma…
Kisah tentang perjuangan sepasang anak manusia beda etnis pada masa-masa akhir Hindia-Belanda sampai perjuangan kemerdekaan Indonesia...
Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820 - August 5, 1895) was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, working in close collaboration alongside Karl Marx. In 1845, he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research. In 1848, he produced with Marx The Communist Manifesto and l…
A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute. The history of the 20th century is Marx's legacy. Not since Jesus Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion -- or been so calamitously misinterpreted. The end of the century is a good moment to strip away the mythology and try to rediscover Marx the man. Ther…
Revolusi kemerdekaan Indonesia adalah suatu drama sejarah yang dahsyat; suatu drama yang memadukan tujuan rasional dengan sentimen emosional; memadukan tindakan kongkret dengan cita-cita dan impian; memadukan realitas dan mitos. Revolusi itu adalah cetusan tujuan kebangsaan Indonesia yang paling mendasar, yaitu kemerdekaan, sekaligus menjadi faktor yang mengukuhkan dasar-dasar kebangsaan itu, b…
There are reasons for thinking that this is at last Indonesia's moment on the world stage. Having successfully negotiated its difficult transition to democracy after 1998, Indonesia has held three popular elections with a low level of violence by the standards of southern Asia. Recetly its economic growth rate has been high (above 6 per cent a year) and rising, where China's has been dropping a…
There are reasons for thinking that this is at last Indonesia's moment on the world stage. Having successfully negotiated its difficult transition to democracy after 1998, Indonesia has held three popular elections with a low level of violence by the standards of southern Asia. Recetly its economic growth rate has been high (above 6 per cent a year) and rising, where China's has been dropping a…
The world's population negotiates a multiplicity of naming systems. Some are compatible with the "normative" system of the world of passports and identity cards but a great many are not. This is particularly true in Asia, a region with some of the most sophisticated naming devices found anywhere in the world, including nicknames and teknonyms, religious and corporation names, honour and death n…
Seniman adalah profesi Yang Oleh sebagian besar orang dinilai unik. Mereka adalah orang-orang Yang bertugas menyuntikkan perspektif, merekam jaman, memprediksi masa depan, dan bahkan mengubah dunia. Pekerjaan mereka jenis pekerjaan subtil, mengolah rasa dana pa-apa saja yang tak sanggup diwujudkan dalam bahasa. Seniman adalah mereka yang berkubang dalam universalitas. Ketika ditanya apa itu se…
Novel sejarah yang menggabungkan catatan kebudayaan masyarakat Halmahera, Maluku Utara, dengan cerita kehidupan lintas generasi dari suku Tobelo, dan menyimpulnya dalam satu benang merah: semangat kepahlawanan dan keberanian masyarakat dalam menghadapi penguasa dan bangsa kolonial. Berlatar belakang Halmahera pada zaman kolonial dan relasinya dengan para sultan Ternate-Tidore abad ke-16 dan …
Volume 1 of Marx’s political writings, including The Communist Manifesto. Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism; he was above all else a revolutionary. In Paris in 1844 he made the connection between radical philosophy and the proletariat that would guide his future work, first with the Communist League and later with the International Workingmen’s Association. Marx’s…
Bunga rampai karangan mengenai etika pegawai negeri ini, menghimpun berbagai pengkajian tentang gejala pelanggaran-pelanggaran etik demikian, yang populer kini disebut dengan istilah "korupsi" Korupsi sebagai satu gejala sosal yang dalam sejarahnya telah mengambil berbagai bentuk, dan dalam berbagai masyarakat dan kurun waktuberhasil menanam akar dalam nilai-nilai budaya sesuatu masyarakat a…
This study of the national parliaments of India, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand is inspired by four major theoretical discourses: neo-institutionalism, parliamentarianism versus presidentialism, majoritarian versus consensus democracy, and transition theory. The book examines the specific role of parliaments in political decision-making, regime change, democratization, an…
The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia is a thought-provoking examination of local politics and the dynamics of power at Indonesia's geographic and social margins. After the fall of Suharto in 1998 and the introduction of a policy of decentralization in 2001, local stakeholders secured and consolidated decision-making power, and set about negotiating new relations with Jakarta. The volume…
Being "Dutch" in the Indies portrays Dutch colonial territories in Asia not as mere societies under foreign occupation but rather as a Creole empire . Most of colonial society, up to the highest levels, consisted of people of mixed Dutch and Asian descent who were born in the Indies and considered it their home, but were legally Dutch. They played a major role in the plantation industry, co…
Democratization in Indonesia has altered the political decision-making processes in many ways. It has also brought about tremendous change to the role of the Indonesian parliament in the country's political system. Once characterized as a powerless rubber stamp, the parliament has developed into a comprehensive and more representative body able to fulfil its functions more adequately. …
"The migration of some six million Vietnamese from the lowlands to the hills and mountains was one of the largest population transfers in twentieth-century Southeast Asia. Unlike the Indonesian transmigration program, however, the Vietnamese resettlement experience has received little scholarly attention. With this impressively researched volume, for which he won the 2005 Henry J. Benda Prize f…
"The migration of some six million Vietnamese from the lowlands to the hills and mountains was one of the largest population transfers in twentieth-century Southeast Asia. Unlike the Indonesian transmigration program, however, the Vietnamese resettlement experience has received little scholarly attention. With this impressively researched volume, for which he won the 2005 Henry J. Benda Prize f…
In this book one of Europe's foremost sociologists offers a profound and accessible overview of the trajectory of European societies, East and West, since the end of World War II. Combining theoretical depth with factual analysis, Goran Therborn addresses the questions that underpin an understanding of the nature of European modernity, including: To what extent is the period 1945-2000 producing…
Ditranskrip dan disunting dari rekaman kaset rangkaian enam kuliah Michel Foucault dalam bahasa Inggris di Universitas California, Berkeley, musim gugur 1983, sebagai bagian dari seminarnya, “Wacana dan Kebenaran,” buku ini menelusuri gagasan tentang parrhesia atau “keterusterangan dalam berbicara kebenaran.” “Menangkap aspek-aspek kritis pemikiran akhir Foucault, dan menekankan wa…
Perkembangan dan pertumbuhan ilmu pengetahuan berhubungan secara dialektis dengan perubahan realitas material, praktik, maupun pergaulan umat manusia yang didorong oleh faktor-faktor yang berada di luar wilayah akademis. Di dalam ranah akademis sendiri, dapat dikatakan bahwa ilmu pengetahuan tumbuh dan berkembang lewat penambahan objek kajian dengan hal-hal yang sebelumnya belum dipertanyakan, …
Panyingkul! adalah media yang mengembangkan jurnalisme orang biasa (citizen journalism)dan dapat diakses online di www.panyinkul.com. SElan membuka ruang bagi siapa saja, di mana saja dan kapan saja, untuk berpartisipasi menjadi enyampai kabar, Panyingkul! juga terbuka bagi yang ingin memperdalam ketrampilan jurnalistik. Partisipasi warga, siapa saja, di mana saja, terutama dalam menulis berita…
Seorang primadona yang memiliki suara emas, sampai-sampai para pria sekampung baik tua maupun muda, tergoda oleh alunan merdu suaranya saat menyanyi di kamar mandi. Tentu saja, aksi itu menuai protes para perempuan kampung hingga ketua RT terpaksa mengeluarkan peraturan baru: DILARANG MENYANYI DIKAMAR MANDI! Daftar Isi : 1. “Dilarang Menyanyi di Kamar Mandi” (2005), ditulis pertama…
Sekarang, pada separuh perjalanan dalam tahun 1980-an, Alvin Toffler menyuguhkan sebuah laporan perkembangan. Apa yang sedang terjadi di dunia sekitar kita yang berubah begitu cepat? Adakah suatu tatanan yang jelas - atau suatu senyum harapan yang tersungging di dalam wajah dunia yang kacau balau? Bagaimana fakta yang serba nyata seperti pengangguran dan senjata nuklir, teknologi komputer dan m…
One of the world's best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement. In this new edition of his memoirs, Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that takes us from Paris and Prague to Hanoi and Bolivia, encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, and Mick Jagger. Ali captures the mood and energ…
Merupakan edisi bahasa Inggris dari puisi-puisi pilihan Dorothea Rosa Herliany yang diterjemahkan oleh seorang penerjemah sastra Indonesia terkemuka, Prof. Harry Aveling. Sebagaimana dituliskan Anie Kantar dalam reviewnya: “Dorothea Herliany's poetry is intent upon exposing and opposing oppression. She does not attempt to mend, her poetry does not offer a vision of a final utopia. Instead, it…
Epileptik adalah mahakarya David B., seniman komik terkemuka di Eropa. Autobiografi yang emosional ini menceritakan kehidupan bersama abangnya, penderita epilepsi. Epileptik edisi bahasa Indonesia dibagi menjadi dua buku.
Epileptik adalah mahakarya David B., seniman komik terkemuka di Eropa. Autobiografi yang emosional ini menceritakan kehidupan bersama abangnya, penderita epilepsi. Epileptik edisi bahasa Indonesia dibagi menjadi dua buku.
Indonesia is now the fourth largest country in the world, but many aspects of its economic history remain poorly understood. Anne Booths study is the first comprehensive survey of Indonesian economic history in the 19th and 20th centuries, examining both the Dutch colonial era, and the postindependence period. Extensive use is made of recent work by Dutch, Indonesian and Australian scholars to …
Charts the history of women's liberation and calls for a revitalized feminism. Nancy Fraser’s major new book traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a new—radical and egalitarian—phase of feminist thought and action. During the ferment of the New Left, “Second Wave” feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alon…
As Indonesia's leading Muslim politician in the second half of the 20th century, Mohammad Natsir (1908-1993) went from heading the country's first post-independence government and largest Islamic political party to spending years in rebellion and in prison. After initially welcoming Soekarno's overthrow in 1965, he became one of the most outspoken critics of the successor Suharto government…
Gerakan ekologi dan etika lingkungan telah dengan tepat menunjukkan berbagai kerusakan alam dan kemerosotan lingkungan hidup akibat aktivitas-aktivitas manusia yang mengutamakan kepentingannya sendiri. Pandangan dunia yang antroposentrik dituding sebagai pangkal ketimpangan relasi antara manusia dengan alam sekitarnya. Namun baik ekologi maupun etika lingkungan ditengarai masih terjebak dala…
“Tiap-tiap tulisan ringkas dan liris ini—antara aforisme, anekdot, dan puisi, serta jarang yang panjangnya lebih dari satu paragraf—berisi pemikiran yang encer, mencengangkan, dan (kerap) sangat menggelikan.” Publishers Weekly “Salah satu pencipta terbaik di genre ini.” El País “Yang paling memukau dari cerita-cerita sangat pendek Shua adalah dia menghadirkan situasi-situas…
Bangsa Indonesia memandang bahwa apa yang terjadi di dunia ini dipengaruhi oleh kekuatan keramat di alam gaib. Cara pandang ini, disebut oleh Tan Malaka sebagai “logika mistika”. Logika ini melumpuhkan karena ketimbang menangani sendiri permasalahan yang dihadapi, lebih baik mengharapkan kekuatan-kekuatan gaib itu sendiri. Karena itu, mereka (masyarakat Indonesia) mengadakan mantra, sesajen…
Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, biographer, was undoubtedly one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. Above all, however, he was an embodiment of the engagé intellectual, active in a variety of political causes, as well as an individual who attempted to live his life in accordance with the philosophy he professed. These interviews take Sartre on a wide-ranging tour of …
Buku karya Benedict Anderson ini menganalisis secara intensif dan rinci asal mula revolusi Indonesia, dan dengan itu mengungkapkan ciri-ciri penting yang tidak begitu tampak dalam uraian mengenai revolusi-revolusi modern lainnya. Ia memperlihatkan betapa pola sosial-politik revolusi Indonesia itu menyimpang dari pola-pola sosial-politik revolusi modern lainnya, dan bahwa pecahnya revolusi Indo…