Bachelor thesis | South and Southeast Asian Studies (BA)
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This dissertation aims at examining the divergent outcomes of cash crop production in Indonesia and the sharply contrasting evaluations in the literature. Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an...Show moreThis dissertation aims at examining the divergent outcomes of cash crop production in Indonesia and the sharply contrasting evaluations in the literature. Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier by Tanya Murray Li, and Pursuing Livelihoods, Imagining Development: Smallholders in Highland Lampung, Indonesia by Ahmad Kusworo are exemplary of the discrepancy. By way of comparing the ethnographies, the dissertation attempts to uncover what explains the differing appraisals of commercialization processes in Indonesia.Show less
Bachelor thesis | South and Southeast Asian Studies (BA)
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High public support for anticorruption campaigns exists already for a long time in Indonesia. However, since the establishment of a celebrated anticorruption body during democratic times, all three...Show moreHigh public support for anticorruption campaigns exists already for a long time in Indonesia. However, since the establishment of a celebrated anticorruption body during democratic times, all three government branches have shown members to make attempts to weaken the anticorruption body after they became suspects in corruption cases. Elitists in the Indonesian government openly fight the morally supported KPK anticorruption body.Show less
Bachelor thesis | South and Southeast Asian Studies (BA)
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Social media has been able to develop itself as a necessity into the lives of Indonesian users for the past decade. There are different factors that contribute to the popularity of social media...Show moreSocial media has been able to develop itself as a necessity into the lives of Indonesian users for the past decade. There are different factors that contribute to the popularity of social media usage in Indonesia. The most important motive behind remains the wide accessibility of mobile internet devices. Social media has been a main focal point for cultural exchanging and cultural expressions. It has shaped and created idealistic lifestyles, beauty perceptions, fashion trends and religious/educational resources are shared freely in a high pace. Especially on the social network application Instagram, visual representations are easily being shared using photographic posts. Along with the impact of globalization, Indonesian Instagram users are the interlinked and in direct involvement with the outer world. It cannot be denied that social media platforms strengthen the power of the active individual agent and that the social media application becomes an empowerment tool to the audience. Besides the evident benefits, social media has brought a series of negative effects to the Indonesian society as well. Ethical conflicts and moral violations of visual social media content have inflamed the debate on social media literacy education. Also, excessive monthly expenditures are a result of the problematic high consumer culture that circulates on Instagram. Especially the most dominant group users –Indonesian youngsters– seem to be the most vulnerable group for these online complications. It is therefore of the interest to highlight how the Indonesian youth approaches and practice social media applications. This paper explores cultural Indonesian youth studies further on virtual terrain, with its focus on the photo-sharing application Instagram.Show less
Bachelor thesis | South and Southeast Asian Studies (BA)
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Because of the geographical location of the Indonesian island Java, it was soon exposed to the well-developed textile industry on the Indian subcontinent, leading to an extensive exchange of...Show moreBecause of the geographical location of the Indonesian island Java, it was soon exposed to the well-developed textile industry on the Indian subcontinent, leading to an extensive exchange of textiles. Java established a small scale indigenous resits dyeing industry, named batik. Over the centuries, batik developed to high artistic levels on Java and unlimited pattern variations were created. But, most of the circulating textiles in Java were imported from India. By the end of the seventeenth century, the demand for Indian textiles vanished, and the indigenous Javanese textile industry emerged fast. Some argue that the demand for Indian textiles at the end of the seventeenth century had decreased by the impoverishment of the Javanese after years of Dutch dominance. But, I argue that the Dutch had an important role in providing stimuli in the eighteenth century, which eventually led to the commercialisation and growth of the batik industry in the nineteenth century. With developments such as inventions as the cap and canting pen, available artificial dyes, Dutch stimulation of Chinese migration who participated in the textile industry and the Indo-European female entrepreneurs who started batik commercial centres as a reaction to the high global demand for batik, the fabric was able to evolve as we know it in current times.Show less
Bachelor thesis | South and Southeast Asian Studies (BA)
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This thesis compares two Rajasthani storytelling traditions: kavad bacana and kathputli. Even though both storytelling practices are going through a process of modernization, traditional kavad...Show moreThis thesis compares two Rajasthani storytelling traditions: kavad bacana and kathputli. Even though both storytelling practices are going through a process of modernization, traditional kavad bacana and kathputli respond in different ways, which we may link to the theoretical concepts of appropriation and revitalization.Show less
Bachelor thesis | South and Southeast Asian Studies (BA)
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This thesis will explore the effectiveness of the unique developmental approach of the Indian Women's Union SEWA. This women's union and activist network works through the agency of self-employed...Show moreThis thesis will explore the effectiveness of the unique developmental approach of the Indian Women's Union SEWA. This women's union and activist network works through the agency of self-employed women to empower and develop. By using the conceptual debate of structure and agency, this thesis will make a contribution to the effectiveness of projects for women empowerment in India.Show less
Bachelor thesis | South and Southeast Asian Studies (BA)
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the thesis tries to answer the question: to what extent was the new port of Tanjung Priok succesful in achieving the objectives set for it by the Dutch colonial government?
Bachelor thesis | South and Southeast Asian Studies (BA)
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The Hindu-Muslims relations are different in India and on Bali. The reason why this is, is the fact that ideologies in these areas when it comes to Hindus and Muslims dealing with each other differ...Show moreThe Hindu-Muslims relations are different in India and on Bali. The reason why this is, is the fact that ideologies in these areas when it comes to Hindus and Muslims dealing with each other differ. While in India the difference between the two groups are empathized and the inequality between the two religious groups is clear, on Bali it is the similarities between Hindus and Muslims that are stressed and there is no clear inequality between the two religious groups. Why the ideologies are different can be accounted for by the history of the two areas. In India, there was a time when Muslims invaded the country and ruled over them for more than three hundred years. It assumed by the Hindus in India that the Muslims in their country are descendants from the invaders and because of it they are enemies. On Bali, Muslims and Hindus have learned to live in harmony. They feel like they belong to one group. The economy on the island is dependent on an harmonious relationship between the two religious groups.Show less
Bachelor thesis | South and Southeast Asian Studies (BA)
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This thesis focuses on the social position of Shi'i Muslims in Indonesia. The emphasis lays on the attack of a Shi'i village in Sampang in 2012, on the island of Madura.
Bachelor thesis | South and Southeast Asian Studies (BA)
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Indigenous Javanese religious movements alligned themselves with the Indonesian Communist Party after Indonesia gained its independence. After the elimination of the PKI in 1965, this alliance...Show moreIndigenous Javanese religious movements alligned themselves with the Indonesian Communist Party after Indonesia gained its independence. After the elimination of the PKI in 1965, this alliance became a historical burden which undermined the special and political position of Javanese religions in the long term.Show less
Bachelor thesis | South and Southeast Asian Studies (BA)
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Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, acquired power in 2014 many pro-Hindu regulations have been gone into a fast track. One of these regulations is a...Show moreEver since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, acquired power in 2014 many pro-Hindu regulations have been gone into a fast track. One of these regulations is a ban on the consumption and possession of beef, which is a legal offence. This ban on beef is viewed as an attack on the citizenship of India’s largest of minority groups; the Dalits and Muslims. This thesis questions how a ban like this contradicts with the secular identity of India. The citizenship of the minority groups will be examined by having an historical overview of their struggles to reach equality within a society with changing interpretations of secularism. Why has there occurred discrepancies in the theory and practice in Indian secularism? And how does this weaken the citizenship of the minorities? Can India , with the expansion of the beef ban explain the development of the large beef export industry on the grounds of secularism? This thesis develops an understanding that pluralistic societies use their secular identity only when it fits their political agenda.Show less
