Hi there all, I have just joined the group. I am leaving Australia in
4 weeks to study Bahasa Indonesia at University Gadjah Mada in
Yogyakarta. Has any one else in this group done similar that can
advise me about Yogya and any hints for an Aussi living over there.
Regards
Tasha

Away from net news sources for a few days, the Indonesian
press is typically my first stop.  And the first Indonesian-
language newspaper I read is almost always Sinar Harapan.
Its articles generally consist of careful reportage.  The
subjects on which it reports consistently relate directly
to the ideals of the 'reformasi era.'  Traffic at Sinar's
online version has been steadily increasing over the past
six months at least.  It must be doing something right.

Today was one of those news 'catch-up' days. While dutifully
doing this, I relied on a link to Arsip Berita SH, Sinar's
free, public online news archives (on top of left panel of
its homepage:

Homepage: http://www.sinarharapan.co.id/
Online archives: http://www.sinarharapan.co.id/arsip.html

Have a look.  The product and interface are very well done.
The archives extend from July 2001 till the present.
At the top of the archives page is a keyword/s search
box (Pencarian) if you want to search the entire news
database.  Just type any keyword to see some results.
The search box brings up Sinar's _headline pages_
containing the keyword/s typed.  I typed

aceh 2003

Above the first result
is a link called Search Tips.  Hit it -- a window appears
telling you the Boolean defaults used and how to modify
them.  Seldom does this feature appear on Indonesian
news sites.  It's invaluable.  Knowing and using the
engine's search rules lets you zero in precisely on the pages
of most interest to you.

There are other 'extras' Sinar has built into its
online archives.  In your set of _search results_, look
at the very top of the page.  Under the phrase Search Sponsors,
there is a link which invites you to 'Find more results for
(your keywords) on Websearch.com.  Try this link.  You
are presented with stories in English from six _news_ search
engines (AllTheWeb, Overture, Inktomi, Teomi, Ask Jeeves,
Crawler).  Use the tabs to move from one to the other.
This is fiendishly clever programming which lets you
quickly augment your search with the major non-Google
news search engines.  And it's very fast.

Two lines below 'Find more results ...' you are invited
to visit the Info.com site and see even more results --
immediately -- using your keywords. You could profitably
spend a lot of time here, especially if you have chosen
your search keyword/s thoughtfully.

Finally, let's return to Sinar's Arsip page.  Besides
the search box, you are given the option of doing
_chronologically arranged_ searches from the past week
all the way back to the first week of July 2001.  The
options appear in a drop-down menu.  And you can do this
for any of the main news categories Sinar uses on its
homepage.  Extremely convenient.

A nice catch-up exercise -- please pardon my usual quota
of typos.

Best
John
johnmacdougall@...

________________________________

Tentang SH page: http://www.sinarharapan.co.id/tentang/index.html
Sejarah SH page: http://www.sinarharapan.co.id/tentang/sejarah.html
Redaksi SH page: http://www.sinarharapan.co.id/tentang/redaksi.html

Homepage Web Search: http://websearch.com/  (bookmark it)
Homepage info.com: http://info.com/ (bookmark it)

Amazon.com has hundreds of tricks to sell you books.
One is its Listmania feature.  These are lists of books
which Amazon visitors recommend on specific subjects.
They're sort of like postings to a 'milis.'  In that spirit,
I've collected a few samples -- found by typing keywords
in Amazon's Books section. The keyword you type determines
which listmania selections appear in the following screen.

There don't seem to be a whole lot of readers making
recommendations on Indonesia via Listmania. Most
words relating to places and peoples in Indonesia
bring up no Listmania options at all.  So
here's an opportunity for those of you who use Amazon.com.
(At the top right of each list in Listmania, Amazon lets
you click a small box to create your own list.)

It's often helpful to get others' 'takes' on what's worthwhile
bookwise -- and add your own.

A caution -- these lists do tend to date --
so for the latest books, it's best to use Amazon's
major search tools.  Perhaps a message later about
new and forthcoming releases.

The long URLs were clickable when I test-mailed this
msg to myself -- hopefully the Yahoo software will keep
them clickable.  If not, oh, well.

Best
John
johnmacdougall@...

___________________________

Learning Indonesian! - By Devi Novianty
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/3JOY8GL2OVPR3/ref=c\
m_aya_av.lm_more/102-7315688-4908959

Indonesia - By Thomas Belfield
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/NGFDKSK374H7/ref=cm\
_lm_lists/102-7315688-4908959

Essential Indonesia - By rugby007
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/3EBSSZY7B4ESK/ref=c\
m_lm_lists/102-7315688-4908959

The Dutch Empire - By Stephen Jesse Taylor
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/3H2D48LTJWO32/ref=c\
m_lm_lists/102-7315688-4908959

What Every Person Interested in Indonesia Should Read - By kusmulx
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/3SM73VDIJ97KB/ref=c\
m_lm_lists/102-7315688-4908959

Bali Essentials - By Chris McGowan
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/2ZDRZPBM1LDMW/qid=1\
058909472/sr=5-2/ref=sr_5_2/102-7315688-4908959

Bananas for Bali - By Renee Thorpe
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/RTH3Q62P26AL/ref=cm\
_lm_lists/102-7315688-4908959

Southeast Asian Design - By Thomas Belfield
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/XAW62266U615/ref=cm\
_lm_lists/102-7315688-4908959

It's easy to get expert status.  Just register yourself
in one of the many synonymous rosters strewn around the net.
Expert, specialist, consultant, informed person -- the
net has a place for you.  I've gathered a few on my
Experts page:

http://www.indopubs.com/experts.html

Aha, I hope you didn't peek yet.  'Cause if you want
to be known as an expert, you've got to expect a lot of
'competition.'  That's the approach on my Experts page.

I really don't like the term 'expert,' but it attracts
attention.  And it would be good to be able to find
'Indonesia experts' easily when needed.  If there were
no Indonesia experts, we'd have to invent them.  And
by and large that is what we have done.  Experts are
what in some disciplines are dubbed 'social constructions.'
But let us be thankful for them anyway.

My approach to finding Indonesia experts is somewhat sly,
(you can look at the page now).  First, I just suggest
going to universities and scholarly societies, common
expert habitats.  That's so you can find experts who are
not on expert lists.

Then I suggest you see who's presenting papers at conferences
of all sorts around the world (not just academic conferences).
That broadens the field a bit.

Then I suggest you look in online library catalogs to
see who has published anything ever of any kind on Indonesia.
That's an even larger net.  But you can definitely identify
knowledgeable people this way.

Then I take you to the collective judgments of librarians
and online compiler wizards on who are the experts
(click Digital Librarians, then Gary Price's Direct Search,
then MSU's Global Access). Many librarians and compilers,
especially nowadays, have their own unique perspectives which
can't be dismissed out of hand.  They are really experts
at finding experts.

Then there are the experts out there in the NGO world.
An often forgotten bunch which we should try to remember.
I provide three prime NGO portals for you to find experts
in this occupational niche.

Last but not least in the first part of my Experts page,
I show you a prime journalism site which identifies
places editors and reporters go for their experts (Journalist's
Toolbox, a great site).

Now, this sly approach may be too much for most people,
though I believe the rewards of using it are worth it.
So I then list some sites where you can experts questions
directly (some are free, some low fee, some high fee, but
none absolutely guarantees a reply much an answer).
Still, some ome of these sites are indeed worth a try.
Did you know Google and Yahoo provide experts to you?
Quick -- click, click.

By now you're tired clicking.  You want 'screened' experts.
Well, I wish there were more specialized sites listing
Indonesia experts.  Do email me _directly_ about those I don't
list.  But places like AccessAsia and the Asia Society roster
are worthy stops.  Structured searches for experts on Indonesia
are possible on these and similar sites.

I also offer one of the better 'worldwide' email
directories on the net in case experts' email addresses have
changed.  There is a special (and well-known) directory
of anthropologists which I then slip in.  I'm biased in
favor of anthropologists.  They have their feet on the ground.
Journalists in their own way.  Ask them first.

Then there are some of the few Indonesia-only expert
directories I could find on the net.  One is the Indonesian
Studies Committee's Directory of Scholars, a bit old
but undergoing voluntary updating.  Check it out.  You
might find some forgotten friends.  I'll let a little national
chauvinism slip in -- here's the clickable URL:

http://antarakita.net/directory.html

Let the other clicks in this Indonesia-specific group be a
surprise.  Some of you will find yourselves there.

If you still haven't found your expert, or got an answer to
your question about Indonesia, I suggest you revert to
brain-storming mode.  Look at Google's Countries Directory
(includes Indonesia), Country-Based Search Engines (includes
Indonesia), and the lay-it-all-out source approach of the
great BBC and Washington Post media sites.

Best
John
johnmacdougall@...

Milis?  It means mailing list.  I hope the linguists
out there will not get too upset.  I think the word was
coined after some debate on the old IDS mailing list
hosted at Syracuse University.  Some people like 'milis,'
others can't stand it.

Anyway, this is by way of introduction to a specialist
academic-style list called simply Bahasa.  You can guess
what it's about.  Officially it's called Bahasa List
(not Milis).

Here's the homepage hosted at U of Hawaii:

http://www.hawaii.edu/indolang/bahasa/bahasa.html

Then there is an Info page which explains how
the list works and some of its (ahem) adat:

http://www.hawaii.edu/indolang/bahasa/info.html

Uli Kozok is cited as primary listowner, Tim Behrend
as secondary listowner, and Jody Diamond as list sponsor
at the Dartmouth U server hosting the list proper.  New members
are asked to write a brief personal introduction.

Those collected personal intros appear on the list's
Siapa page:

http://www.hawaii.edu/indolang/bahasa/siapa.html

These intros are an exceptionally valuable resource
for identifying persons working (mainly) actively in
the broad field of Indonesian language studies.

Next come the List Archives:

http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/archives/bahasa.html

At last look today, the archives contain all list postings
from May 1999 to June 2003.  That is quite a long run
in the world of lists and shows that it must be doing
a lot of things academic lists should do.

And in just browsing a little, there were indeed some
significant year 2003 postings (hopefully all clickable from
here, else go directly to the archives):

Availability of complete Inodnesian language program on computer
"John U. Wolff" <juw1@...>
Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:07:28 -0400
http://listserv.dartmouth.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0306&L=bahasa&T=0&F=&S=&P=160

Advanced Indonesian Fellowship
Uli Kozok <kozok@...>
Sun, 2 Mar 2003 11:51:40 -1000
http://listserv.dartmouth.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0303&L=bahasa&T=0&F=&S=&P=53

Malay/Indonesian Linguistics: Final Call
MPI EVA Jakarta Field Station <mpg@...>
Sat, 25 Jan 2003 07:24:40 +0700
http://listserv.dartmouth.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0301&L=bahasa&T=0&F=&S=&P=137

Review of Keren!
Uli Kozok <kozok@...>
Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:53:34 -1000
http://listserv.dartmouth.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0301&L=bahasa&T=0&F=&S=&P=55

And who knows what else rests in the Bahasa Archives
especially when when the list was busier than now!

Best
John

John MacDougall
johnmacdougall@...

No, I am not an Indonesianist, my profession has nothing to do with Indonesia.
Well, I was born in Indonesia. In my spare time I am the moderator and owner of
several Indonesian mailing list among others  Apakabar (long story - when John
closed Apakabar@... last year, I asked his permission to use the name
and setup  Apakabar@yahoogroups.com which is now a very active1,000 members
discussion group) and Tjersil. (Tjersil@yahoogroups.com).

A few word about Tjersil - an abbreviation of Tjerita Silat (old spelling of
Cerita Silat). Several academicians (Leo Suryadinata and Claudine Salmon) has
written about this genre of Chinese martial art stories.In Indonesia these
novels were rewritten (disadur, not translated) by OKT, Gan KL and Tjan ID and
many other lesser known figures.

These novels was very popular in the 1950-1960s in Indonesia, featured in Star
Weekly, Keng Po and Sin Po (the leading magazine and newspapers at that time)
and many bother newspaper and magazines. It was so popular that the government
(in this case the military commanders and some civil leaders)  banned this genre
for chauvinistic and irrational reasons. They were concerned that this Tjersil
will poisoned the fresh mind of young Indonesians.

This genre is now still alive through VCDs and TV serial in Indonesia. However
the novels has disappeared in hard copies. So last December 2002, I setup a
mailing list to preserve and research this unique Indonesian heritage and to
consolidate effort to setup the electronic versions.

In the last 6 months we have managed to trace the original authors, its original
titles  etc etc and setup the database. Not only that, even the poetries etc etc
were analyzed ... Meeetings between avid collectors and "experts" were conducted
and even a small seminar with Dr Leo Suryadinata and Gan KL were held ealy this
month. Video and document of interviews with Gan KL and Tjan ID are also
available now). A website www.semutrangrang.com/tjersil is also available for
the public. The web site contains notes of our activities and stored also the
electronic versions of Tjersil works in process. These works are being done by
many enthusiasts. Those who has the books scan the pages - which were uploaded
and then retrieved by an army of "typist"  in Indonesia, Germany, USA and
Canada.

If you are interested, please join  us. Discussion are held in Indonesian and
bahasa Melayu "rendah" mixed with Tjersil "slangs" and vocab.



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The Asia Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco,
has long had an extensive research grant program in
Indonesia involving an impressive list of local 'partners.'
Its grants seems consistently to reflect selected (named)
contemporary policy concerns.  I've appended a few titles
and links to public versions of its Indonesia reports.

On its Web site ( http://www.asiafoundation.org/ ),
besides a list of these 'partners' in Indonesia,
one can find an impressive list of recent publications
covering the 17 countries in which the foundation
operates (caution: some links designed to bring up
papers just lead to an Acrobat reader download page).
There is also a short 'Guide to Experts,' a very neat
Photo & Media Center (which brings up a menu of
video clips), Grant Guidelines (no application form
needed), and foundation News and Events areas
(which are kept up-to-date). Plus more.  Worth a
long visit.

Best
John

John MacDougall
johnmacdougall@...

________________________________________

These recent selected readings may also now be found on:
http://www.indopubs.com/inco.html

Asia Foundation - Indonesia Rapid Decentralization Proposal
http://www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/IRDA-1st-English.pdf

Asia Foundation - Citizens' Perceptions of the Indonesian
Justice Sector
http://www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/IndoLaw.pdf

Rizal Sukma - Islam and Foreign Policy in Indonesia:
Internal Weaknesses and the Dilemma of Dual Identity
http://www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/WorkPap11.pdf

Asia Foundation and AC Nielsen - Elections and Democracy
in Indonesia
http://www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/elections_survey_indo_03.pdf

Hi John and others,

I recently received an email from Ismet Fanany, who taught Indonesian to many
ISSI, SEASSI and FALCON program students.  He was trying to track the various
students who had participated in the FALCON Indonesia Program at Cornell (I
believe it was for a tribute to John Wolff project). If there are others out
there who went through the FALCON Indonesian program, I am sure that Ismet would
be delighted to hear from you.  It would also be good to hear Ismet's
reflections on his many years of teaching Indonesian to Americans and
Australians.  I know Ismet and my other FALCON and ISSI teachers made a profound
impact on me when I was a student, and helped shape many of my early images of
Indonesia.  Ismet's email address is ifanany@...

-Kathleen

-------------------------------------------------------
Kathleen M. Adams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Loyola University Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan Ave
Chicago, IL 60626

Email: kadams@...
Tel: (773) 508-3458

With indonesia-studies list membership growing,
persons with greatly varying amounts of computer,
Internet, and list experience will be increasingly
posting to the list.

In trying to achieve a neat, helpful, and relevant
list, it makes sense to begin codifying 'adat' for
the indonesian-studies list.  This message initiates
the process. 'Adat' is not static. It can change.

1. If you want to send a _personal_ message to the
moderator/s or poster/s after reading a posting, email
these persons _directly_.  Do _not_ just hit
the reply button, or your private message will be
sent to the entire list (which will not likely be
interested in it).

2. Do _not_ include the full text of previous postings
to which you are responding.  Either just refer enough
to the prior posting to make it identifiable, or include
just the few lines in the original message to which you
are responding.

3. Avoid _chat_.  There are many definitions of
'chat' on lists, but here what is intended are postings
just a few lines long.  Send _chat_ through personal,
not list channels.  Too many chat messages cause persons
to unsubscribe from lists and make it more difficult to
persuade prospective members to subscribe.

4. Make your postings 'substantive.'  Another vague word.
Here, let it mean postings minimally 2 or 3 paragraphs
in length which contain information _relevant to the list_.

5. What is relevant to this list?  Postings should be
about _Indonesian studies_.  I emphasize both words.
That is our niche. Indonesia, studies -- make sure your
posting meets this criterion.

6.  This is not a current news list.  If you wish to
post a news story, _ideally_ give just its URL. In
any case, include a minimum of 2 or 3 paragraphs of
_your own commentary_ on any news article posted.

7. Nor is this a computer list, nor an Internet list,
nor a theology list.  But postings on these subjects
in which the tie to _indonesian studies_ is made clear
are welcome.

8. Postings should be in English (a few non-English
words are fine).  Frankly, Indonesian studies seems
to me far better covered in Indonesian-language lists
(though the best postings may be buried amid a lot of
chat and spats).  It is English-readers involved in
Indonesian studies who are under-served. This is such
a vast and complex field that everyone, even 'experts'
(dare anyone use this word casually anymore?) need
help in English from persons of any nationality in
a position to be informative.

9. Flesh-and-blood Indonesian studies groups and
individuals from any country are welcome to use
indonesian-studies to advance their scholarly purposes.

10. The list is not meant for advocacy groups, but (civil)
_policy_ discussions are welcome.

11. Discussion of list adat does not belong on the list.
Members should instead correspond directly with the list
moderator/s.

12. The list is an independent effort. Indonesia Publications,
my print periodicals business, does not sponsor the list.
The other moderator, Liz Coville, chairs the Indonesian
Studies Committee in the (U.S.) Association for Asian
Studies, but that group also does not sponsor the list.
Her email address is: ecoville@... .
I list my indopubs.com research assistance site on Yahoo's
indonesian-studies homepage merely as an optional convenience
for list readers. Later on, more moderators may be needed.

13. In growing list membership, I cull the Internet daily
for prospective members and use Yahoo's Invite facility
asking them to consider joining.  Any list member can
do the same thing, or find prospective members in his/her
own address books and send an Invite.  You are _strongly
encouraged_ to invite colleagues to join the list.
Invitation can also be done by direct email, but using
Yahoo's Invite tool ensures less hassle in joining from
the Yahoo list software.

14. The list posting address is:
indonesian-studies@yahoogroups.com

The 'generic' list subscription address is:
indonesian-studies-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

or directly by hitting the Joint This Group button at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indonesian-studies/

The 'generic' list unsubscribe address is:
indonesian-studies-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

The 'generic' listowner address is:
indonesian-studies-owner@yahoogroups.com
or directly to me at johnmacdougall@...

15. Once you have signed in to Yahoo and moved to
the indonesian-studies homepage, you can completely
manage your own list account. It is to your advantage
to explore all the options Yahoo software offers
you. The public indonesian-studies homepage is:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indonesian-studies/

16. Currently, the list is set for membership-moderation
only.  Only if postings begin routinely to inconvenience
members by violating list adat will the list be set to
message-moderation (which means enforcement of the adat
and delays in appearance of adat-compliant postings).

Best
John

JohnMacDougall
johnmacdougall@...

Ever wondered what happens to participants in special
programs to study the Indonesian language?  There doesn't
seem to be much systematic tracking, but, to its credit,
the U.S. Indonesia Society has tried to keep records of the
graduates from its Summer Studies program from 1996 to
2002.  Not everyone is included, but it's a good start
which ought be emulated.

The page to see what happened after is:

http://www.usindo.org/summer_studies.htm

Should anyone connected with similar intensive programs
or regular academic year programs, it would be good to
see it posted here.

And not just for Indonesian.  Also for the less frequently
taught languages spoken in Indonesia.

And not just for formal courses.  Anthropologists going
to the field make a variety of arrangements to learn
local languages of village communities.  It would be good
to hear and learn more about such experiences.

Similarly, Indonesians on the list may have some stories
of how they taught language/s to foreigners 'in-country.'

Feel free to share your experiences in a few paragraphs.
Post to: indonesian-studies@yahoogroups.com

Best
John

John MacDougall

John, as I think you're aware, there are a couple of other Windows search
programs, Enfish (www.enfish.com) and the new X1 (www.x1.com). Neither, sadly,
is available for the Mac, although I do remember a reader once chastising me for
not mentioning that Apple do have a indexer built into their OS. I can't
remember what he was referring to and haven't actually found one on the Macs
I've played with.

I prefer dtSearch too; it's not pretty but it gets the job done.

Best, Jeremy
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

On 7/16/2003 at 9:00 PM John MacDougall wrote: Responding to Charles Coppel's
query, the dtSearch
desktop product I described is available only for
Windows (from 95 through XP, version 6.04 for the last).
There is a different Linux product but nothing from
dtSearch for the Mac world. In academic settings,
some users have access to machines running various
operating systems,so I'd suggest that loyal Mac users
not give up on dtSearch too easily.  And academic
departments not using the Windows platform might
have budget money for just one Windows machine
(computer prices are near all-time lows now).

Here is the dtSearch FAQ page for the desktop product:

http://support.dtsearch.com/faq/default.htm

and the dtSearch menu page:

http://www.dtsearch.com/menu.html

and the dtSearch What's New page:

They cover just about all the technical issues
and will help anyone interested navigate the site.

askSam is a similar program to dtSearch:

http://www.asksam.com/

Some favor it.  I used it before learning about
dtSearch.  But so far as I know, there are only
Windows versions of askSam.

I know almost nothing about the Mac world but
did type

macintosh database

in Google and saw Macintosh database managers
in some number.  But I didn't study the results
to see if there are _free-form text-search_ Macintosh
databases.  Y'all who would like them, do a search.  :-)

By the by, indonesian-studies is meant for all
things related to Indonesian studies, not just
use of the Internet for research on Indonesia.
As membership increases, I am especially hoping for
(civil) substantive discussions, announcements and
commentary on new publications, planned conferences,
field reports, a question-answer service, and other
features not routinely found on other similar lists.

Feel free to post anytime along these lines to:

indonesian-studies@yahoogroups.com

Best
John

John MacDougall
johnmacdougall@...



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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Responding to Charles Coppel's query, the dtSearch
desktop product I described is available only for
Windows (from 95 through XP, version 6.04 for the last).
There is a different Linux product but nothing from
dtSearch for the Mac world. In academic settings,
some users have access to machines running various
operating systems,so I'd suggest that loyal Mac users
not give up on dtSearch too easily.  And academic
departments not using the Windows platform might
have budget money for just one Windows machine
(computer prices are near all-time lows now).

Here is the dtSearch FAQ page for the desktop product:

http://support.dtsearch.com/faq/default.htm

and the dtSearch menu page:

http://www.dtsearch.com/menu.html

and the dtSearch What's New page:

They cover just about all the technical issues
and will help anyone interested navigate the site.

askSam is a similar program to dtSearch:

http://www.asksam.com/

Some favor it.  I used it before learning about
dtSearch.  But so far as I know, there are only
Windows versions of askSam.

I know almost nothing about the Mac world but
did type

macintosh database

in Google and saw Macintosh database managers
in some number.  But I didn't study the results
to see if there are _free-form text-search_ Macintosh
databases.  Y'all who would like them, do a search.  :-)

By the by, indonesian-studies is meant for all
things related to Indonesian studies, not just
use of the Internet for research on Indonesia.
As membership increases, I am especially hoping for
(civil) substantive discussions, announcements and
commentary on new publications, planned conferences,
field reports, a question-answer service, and other
features not routinely found on other similar lists.

Feel free to post anytime along these lines to:

indonesian-studies@yahoogroups.com

Best
John

John MacDougall
johnmacdougall@...

Dear John,
Congratulations on this initiative. I¹m most grateful for your sharing of
expertise on the use of the Internet for research on Indonesia. One question
on this one: presumably dtSearch is only available on Windows, not on the
Macintosh, is that right?
Best,
Charles

On 17/7/03 7:33 AM, "John MacDougall" <johnmacdougall@...> wrote:

> Those huge online databases?  Nice, eh.
> Want one?  Ten?
> You can easily create research databases on your own PC.
> A single massive one with all your files.
> Or smaller ones for each of your research projects.
> Database size is limited only by your disk space.
> You can retrieve the info you need in seconds.
> You can take much of the tedium out of analyzing
> research data you have collected.
>
> Not a whiz with computer software?
> You don't need to be.
> Can't program in any computer language?
> You don't have to?
> Not a great online searcher?
> No more worries.
>
> All you need is a nice free-form text-search program
> which indexes all text in virtually any kind of file
> you have and then creates a database out of it all.
> A program like dtSearch (one of several available,
> just happens to be the one I use).
>
> The company has an incredibly helpful Web site:
>
> http://www.dtsearch.com/
>
> The product of interest is called dtSearch Desktop
> with Spider.  It does cost US$199.  But this investment
> returns dividends rapidly.  It installed effortlessly
> on my Windows PC.  The manual was thin and perfectly
> clear.  I set up my first database for an Indonesia
> project in ten minutes.  The latest version, available
> for purchase online, has even more features than mine.
>
> Like the Internet itself, this kind of tool can --
> nay, should -- revolutionize how we analyze interview
> notes, field observations, emails, Web pages (anything
> textual) we want to use in producing an article or
> paper.  It saves energy. It saves time.  It saves paper.
> Expensive toner or printer ink.
>
> I occasionally ask researchers if they are using a
> program like this on their PCs.  Very few do.
> This is a big mistake.  If you are not using this
> sort of program, you are _far_ less productive
> than you might be.  Your work does not reach the
> quality it could.
>
> It doesn't matter if you are a late adopter.
> It doesn't even matter if you just got Internet access.
> It doesn't matter if you lack confidence doing
> anything that sounds like 'techie' stuff.
>
> You doubtless use the Internet in your research
> (in some degree). A great leap forward (more help
> coming on this list).  Now you need to complete the
> next revolution in scholarly research which the Internet
> has begun.  Buy and use dtSearch or a similar
> program in your _current_ research project/s.
>
> Just a few anecdotes.  An Australian colleague who
> edited a magazine on Indonesia often got calls from
> reporters who needed particular pieces of information.
> Did he reply, I'll have to get back to you?  No.
> Still on the phone line, he found the info immediately
> using the dtSearch database he'd created.
>
> Two days ago I got a request for an old Kompas article
> from a graduate student in Australia.  A frequent
> user of the 'apakabar' database. But the article
> wasn't there.  It wasn't on Kompas' site.  It wasn't
> anywhere on ther Internet, period.  Using 'natural
> language' searching (one of umpteen types available
> in dtSearch), I looked into my personal Indonesia
> database.  I found the article in about a minute
> and emailed the student a copy.
>
> I was once asked to sketch the career of a certain
> Indonesian general. I maintain a personal dtSearch
> database encompassing  the Indonesian military.  I
> searched for his name.  There were a lot of articles which
> let me put together a fairly complete picture of
> his positions, what he did in each, his promotions,
> and the like.
>
> A key point I forgot to mention.  dtSearch (like
> many of these programs) is language-neutral.  It
> indexes words in Indonesian as effortlessly as
> English.  Or Dutch.  Or Portuguese.  Any language
> in Roman script.
>
> You can even browse the index it creates and see
> how many times any word (even mis-spelled 'words')
> occur in the database, a very useful aid in devising search
> strategies.
>
> Nothing replaces a good research plan, or a library,
> or field work.  But for what comes next ...
>
> Explore the site, try the demo:
> http://www.dtsearch.com/
>
>
> Best
> John
> johnmacdougall@...
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Those huge online databases?  Nice, eh.
Want one?  Ten?
You can easily create research databases on your own PC.
A single massive one with all your files.
Or smaller ones for each of your research projects.
Database size is limited only by your disk space.
You can retrieve the info you need in seconds.
You can take much of the tedium out of analyzing
research data you have collected.

Not a whiz with computer software?
You don't need to be.
Can't program in any computer language?
You don't have to?
Not a great online searcher?
No more worries.

All you need is a nice free-form text-search program
which indexes all text in virtually any kind of file
you have and then creates a database out of it all.
A program like dtSearch (one of several available,
just happens to be the one I use).

The company has an incredibly helpful Web site:

http://www.dtsearch.com/

The product of interest is called dtSearch Desktop
with Spider.  It does cost US$199.  But this investment
returns dividends rapidly.  It installed effortlessly
on my Windows PC.  The manual was thin and perfectly
clear.  I set up my first database for an Indonesia
project in ten minutes.  The latest version, available
for purchase online, has even more features than mine.

Like the Internet itself, this kind of tool can --
nay, should -- revolutionize how we analyze interview
notes, field observations, emails, Web pages (anything
textual) we want to use in producing an article or
paper.  It saves energy. It saves time.  It saves paper.
Expensive toner or printer ink.

I occasionally ask researchers if they are using a
program like this on their PCs.  Very few do.
This is a big mistake.  If you are not using this
sort of program, you are _far_ less productive
than you might be.  Your work does not reach the
quality it could.

It doesn't matter if you are a late adopter.
It doesn't even matter if you just got Internet access.
It doesn't matter if you lack confidence doing
anything that sounds like 'techie' stuff.

You doubtless use the Internet in your research
(in some degree). A great leap forward (more help
coming on this list).  Now you need to complete the
next revolution in scholarly research which the Internet
has begun.  Buy and use dtSearch or a similar
program in your _current_ research project/s.

Just a few anecdotes.  An Australian colleague who
edited a magazine on Indonesia often got calls from
reporters who needed particular pieces of information.
Did he reply, I'll have to get back to you?  No.
Still on the phone line, he found the info immediately
using the dtSearch database he'd created.

Two days ago I got a request for an old Kompas article
from a graduate student in Australia.  A frequent
user of the 'apakabar' database. But the article
wasn't there.  It wasn't on Kompas' site.  It wasn't
anywhere on ther Internet, period.  Using 'natural
language' searching (one of umpteen types available
in dtSearch), I looked into my personal Indonesia
database.  I found the article in about a minute
and emailed the student a copy.

I was once asked to sketch the career of a certain
Indonesian general. I maintain a personal dtSearch
database encompassing  the Indonesian military.  I
searched for his name.  There were a lot of articles which
let me put together a fairly complete picture of
his positions, what he did in each, his promotions,
and the like.

A key point I forgot to mention.  dtSearch (like
many of these programs) is language-neutral.  It
indexes words in Indonesian as effortlessly as
English.  Or Dutch.  Or Portuguese.  Any language
in Roman script.

You can even browse the index it creates and see
how many times any word (even mis-spelled 'words')
occur in the database, a very useful aid in devising search
strategies.

Nothing replaces a good research plan, or a library,
or field work.  But for what comes next ...

Explore the site, try the demo:
http://www.dtsearch.com/


Best
John
johnmacdougall@...

Timor Timur?  Gone.
It's now Timor-Leste.
But not entirely forgotten, though news flow about it has declined.
And the Timorese press does not write about many touchy subjects.
For current news in English, a good source remains the east-timor
list on Topica:

http://www.topica.com/lists/east-timor@igc.topica.com/read

or the berita-bhinneka list on Yahoo

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/berita-bhinneka/messages

Both have little search boxes for previous messages (though
the searches don't _seem_ to cover messages removed by the
host system due to these lists exceeding allowed capacity).

For 1990-2002 news in English _and_ Indonesian on Timor
the 'apakabar' database remains a good bet.  It is hosted
both by Ohio University and Hamline University at:

http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/search/search.html

http://www.hamline.edu/apakabar/s.html

(search engines of differing capabilities are used at each site).

Then there are the free-form news search engines like Google

http://news.google.com/ (English)

and alltheweb where you can search for items in any language (quite a few at
once)

http://www.alltheweb.com/?cat=news&cs=utf-8&type=all&q=&_sb_lang=any

-- or now, only in Indonesian (though with far fewer sources at the moment)

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=news&cs=utf-8&type=all&q=&_sb_lang=id

(if these alltheweb links don't work for you, just go to
http://www.alltheweb.com --
hit the News tab and type your query term.  If you want to set up non-English
searches like Indonesian, you should first hit Custom Preferences, then Language
in the next screen, where you can set your language preferences in many ways).

A key point to remember when researching Timor-Leste on the net --
different search terms (all appropriate) will yield different results.

Consider at least these query terms:

timor
east timor
timor-leste
RDTL (not yet in international fashion, though Google's
_Web_ search tab returns much surprising material)

Scholarly papers on Timor can be found on the Web using the same
tricks ('hacks') I've suggested for Indonesia in previous messages here on
indonesian-studies.

Meanwhile, I've collected a small number of  such articles and papers
from the Southeast Asia selected readings page on the IndoPubs site:

http://www.indopubs.com/seaco.html

I append here a short list of some diverse titles from that source.

Best
John
johnmacdougall@...

_________________________________________

Maria José Albarran de Carvalho - East Timor and Portugal: Present Challenges,
Reciprocal Visions
http://www.consulportugalsydney.org.au/_nonav/ALBARRAN.htm

Amnesty International - Timor-Leste: A New Police Service, A New Beginning
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA570022003

Paige Johnson Tan - East Timor: Political Society, Parties, and Democracy
http://www.geocities.com/johnson_paige2002/PolsocpartiesdemocET.html

Nancy Lutz - Constitutionalism as Public Culture in East Timor
http://www.indopubs.com/lutz.txt

Nancy Lutz - Colonization, Decolonization and Integration: Language Policies in
East Timor
http://www.uc.pt/Timor/language.htm

Joseph Nevins - The Making of 'Ground Zero' in East Timor in 1999
http://www.jsmp.minihub.org/News/14_10N_02.pdf

US Department of State - Human Rights Practices: East Timor
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18241.htm

National Democratic Institute - East Timor: Government Within Reach
http://www.accessdemocracy.org/NDI/library/1542_et_gov_010103.pdf

Joao Saldanha and Michael Salla - East Timor Facing the Future
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/etsg/briefs/proc1.rtf

Human Rights Watch - Justice Denied for East Timor
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/timor/etimor1202bg.htm

Six new selected readings were added today to the IndoPubs
Indonesia selected readings page:

http://www.indopubs.com/inco.html

They can be accessed from there or from this message (if your browser permits).

Sharing scholarly and thoughtful essays and papers on Indonesia is
something we should encourage on this list.  If you know of such work
which should be given such recognition, just email me its URL or send it
to me as a file if it's not yet on the public net.

Or announce -- even comment -- on it yourself in a posting to:

indonesian-studies@yahoogroups.com

Best
John

John MacDougall
johnmacdougall@...

______________________________________________


Ross McLeod - After Soeharto: Prospects for Reform and Recovery in Indonesia
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/pubs/Indonesia_0503.pdf

Amnesty International - Indonesia: Old Laws - New Prisoners of Conscience
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engasa210272003

Human Rights Watch - A Return to the New Order: Political Prisoners in
Megawati's Indonesia
http://hrw.org/reports/2003/indon0703/

Julia Suryakusuma - The Indonesian Psyche: Loss of Soul of a People and Nation
http://www.indopubs.com/psyche.rtf

Julia Suryakusuma - Indonesian Perceptions of the West
http://www.indopubs.com/perceptions.rtf

Julia Suryakusuma - Ambon: Petualanganku dengan ALRI
http://www.indopubs.com/ambon.rtf

While there are many more non-academic Indonesianists (an awful word,
who thought it up) than academic ones, 'Indonesian studies' will usually
first conjure up the academy.  Unfortunately, this quickly leads to a focus
only on area studies centers and programs (generally on the decline,
though not everywhere).  Worse, it then leads to centers just in one's
own country -- or countries well-known for 'Indonesian studies.'

All right, let's assume for now I have not created some straw men.
And let's acknowledge the honorable place of academic Indonesian
studies.  But how do we find 'Indonesian studies?'

Google wants to come to the rescue!

It has a special page set up for searching the domains of  individual
university sites:

http://www.google.com/options/universities.html

Hit any university's name on the page and you get taken to a box
which allows you to do 'deep searches' of  Web sites within that
university's domain.  'Deep searches' refers here not only to
Google's full-text page searching (as distinct from, say, Yahoo's
searches of only titles and descriptions on Web pages,
a different kind of search engine).  It refers to special arrangements
Google has made with each university to allow its crawlers (search
robots called googlebots) to explore more of a university's sites than
would otherwise be possible.

Universities can signup online by hitting Sign Up Now! at:
http://services.google.com/googleuniv/login
which lists the basic advantages of the program.
Google also provides a very comprehensive program FAQ at
http://services.google.com/univ_faq.html

The program is free.  Yes, free.

It's also a work-in-progress.  So far mainly American universities
have signed up.  But other universities not yet signed up and not
American can still be searched by users like by going to Google's
homepage search box at http://www.google.com/ and then using
the special site: syntax to do a Web search.  For example, the
University of Malaya is not on Google's list right now (at least
I didn't see it).  But its home URL is known (university URLs
are easy to find via Google if unknown).

So in Google's general search box we will type:

site:www.um.edu.my indonesia

(that's site colon with no space, then a space and some keyword)

One gets's 60 pages in the search results, probably far less than is
there and far less than if the University of Malaya were a member
of Google's program.  But what's there is still very helpful in
finding out what's going on Indonesia-wise at UM.

Looking at a Google member program's site like Yale directly
from Google's special page listing member universities gives
an extensive picture of what's going on Indonesia-wise there.
Clicking on Yale in Google's list and then typing just the
general keyword indonesia (one can also be much more
specific) yields 1,670 pages in the search results.

Try it.  The usefulness of the page and the program become
quickly apparent.  I'll append just a few tids from the results.
But nothing's like searching yale.edu by yourself.

You work at a university?  Ever searched all its Web pages?
Not signed up yet for Google's free program?
Do us all a good deed.  :-)

Best
John

John MacDougall
johnmacdougall@...

____________________________________

Southeast Asia Collection at Yale: Country Resources: Indonesia
www.library.yale.edu/southeastasia/indonesia.html

Economic Growth Center Collection - Indonesia
www.library.yale.edu/socsci/egcindon.html

Yale University Library
www.library.yale.edu/southeastasia/serials.html

SEAS Faculty
www.yale.edu/seas/Faculty.htm

PDF]Recent Publications October 2002 Michael Dove
www.yale.edu/forestry/bios/dovepubs.pdf

Yale Anthropology | People | Faculty | Linguistic | J. Joseph ...
www.yale.edu/anthro/people/faculty/jerrington.html

Recent (even non-recent) dissertations are a prime source of new
scholarship on Indonesia.  Most never result in books and are underservedly
neglected.

Those resulting in books often take years to appear and often are
substantially abridged.

There are numerous online sources to discover new dissertations (called
theses in some countries).  For now let me just focus on UMI Dissertation
Services (which focuses on North American dissertations) since it has had
for some years a _public_ net site.  Persons not affiliated with universities
have access to it.  The basic URL is:

  http://www.il.proquest.com/hp/Support/DExplorer/

Clicking on the Dissertation Express box takes you to a screen which
allows non-academic individuals to search titles for the entire UMI
database.  Abstracts though don't appear.  Often you won't miss
them.  Maybe I have just been lucky in my selections.  :-)

Clicking on the ProQuest box takes you to a screen which contains
search tools to titles _and_ abstracts for the past two years.  The
entire database is available only by subscrription using this route.

You can complete entire transactions through either point of entry.

In any cases, the general UMI price schedule can be found by
clicking on the Ordering box.  A variety of formats are available.
As an independent scholar, I prefer unbound paper.
Compared to many book prices nowadays, dissertations
are comparative bargains.

Let's just sample how it works by using Dissertation Express'
ordering processing for individuals.  Eventually a search box
will appear.  I typically resort to typing keywords of interest
in the Titlles box.  This results in a list of dissertations matching
the keyword.  For each, you can click for the full citation.

Typing kalimantan (caps don't matter), I got 40 hits, including
some apparent gems like:

Violence and politics in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Davidson, Jamie Seth;, PhD. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 2002.
462 pp. Advisor: Lev, Daniel S.

Appropriation of cultural symbols and peasant resistance:
A case study from east Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Urano, Mariko;, PhD. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, 2002.
264 pp. Advisor: Brumberg, Daniel

The politics of ethnic identity among the Sungkung of
West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Kustanto, Johannes Baptis Hari;,
PhD. YALE UNIVERSITY, 2002. 261 pp.
Advisor: Errington, J. Joseph

You can always check sites like Amazon.com to see if book versions
exist of any dissertations you might want to order.

You can also see pretty quickly the proportion of dissertations
produced by Indonesians and non-Indonesians on any given
subject.

Going through ProQuest gives you more sophisticated search
options (you can see them quickly for yourself).  You can, for example,
search by author if you know someone who might have just
completed (or hoped to complete) a disseryation.

Besides allowing _multiple_ keywords, an important search option
in ProQuest is the ability to search the abstracts themselves.
After all, your keyword might  not be in the title at all.
This added search option also lets you see
with some certainty which subjects have been avoided in the past
two years.  Try searching abstracts for keyword aceh.

Searching just keyword indonesia in abstracts yielded 63 citations.
I'll just append a few enticing ones.

These remarks by no means exhaust techniques for searching
in the public versions of the UMI dissertation database.

As more librarians and annual compilers come on the list, we'll get better
and fuller guidance than this briefest of introductions.

Best
John

John MacDougall
johnmacdougall@...


Islam and civil society in Indonesia: The case of the Nahdlatul Ulama
by Bush, Robin;, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 2002, 379 pages

Engendering industrialization: The feminization of factory work in Indonesia
by Caraway, Teri Lynn;, PhD
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, 2002, 298 pages

Democracy and donors in Indonesia
by Clear, Annette Marie;, PhD
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 2002, 497 pages

Streams of least resistance: The institutionalization of political parties and
democracy in
Indonesia
by Johnson, Elaine Paige;, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, 2002, 826 pages

Dear all,

There's an interesting report on how cheap oil
contributes to the destruction of forest. You can
request the report by emailing the author, Sven
<S.WUNDER@...>.

You can download a summary of this report in .pdf
format (549kb) at the following url:
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/pdf_files/Books/Oil_Wealth.pdf


http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/scripts/default.asp?ref=media/release/2003/2003_06_23\
.htm&pr=_self

MEDIA RELEASE 2003

June 23, 2003

CHEAP OIL ON WORLD MARKET COULD STEP UP DESTRUCTION
OF RAINFORESTS IN TROPICS, WARNS NEW REPORT

New Research by Leading International Forestry
Nonprofit Comes to Surprising Conclusion
That Oil and other Cash Wealth Can Slow Destruction of
Rainforests

Related document: Oil, Macroeconomics and Forests:
Assessing the Linkages

JAKARTA, INDONESIA (Monday, 23 June 2003) - A new
report released today by one of the world's leading
international forest research centers comes to the
startling conclusion that producing oil and minerals
actually helps some countries protect most of their
forests and the exotic animal and plant species that
live there. The report was produced by the
Indonesian-based Center for International Forestry
Research (CIFOR). CIFOR does not receive funding from
oil or mining companies.

Since practically one half of all tropical forests are
in countries that rely heavily on petroleum and
mineral exports for their incomes such as Venezuela,
Gabon, Ecuador, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea, this
conclusion has huge implications. Over 12 million
hectares of natural forest, corresponding to the size
of Greece, are lost in the tropics every year.

"The prospect of Iraqi oil flooding the world market
over the next few years and pushing down gasoline
prices is music to the ears of consumers. But our
research has found that it could be devastating for
tropical forests," said Sven Wunder, author of the
report, who is an economist at CIFOR.

The report, titled Oil Wealth and the Fate of the
Forest: A Comparison of Eight Tropical Countries,
argues that high incomes from oil and minerals can
relieve pressure on forests in several ways. High
revenues from oil and mineral exports strengthen
exporters' national currencies. The resulting changes
in exchange rates makes it less attractive to invest
in activities associated with forest-destruction such
as farming in forested areas and logging. Oil-rich
governments increase spending on urban development.
That stimulates the urban economy and attracts people
out of the jungle and into the cities, allowing
forests to come back-or at least deforestation to go
down, according to the report.

"When developing countries get higher prices for their
oil and mineral exports, it usually makes agriculture
and logging less profitable," said Wunder. "If people
can earn more money from oil and mineral activities-or
the government bureaucracies and construction booms
they finance-
those people are less likely to cut down forests to
farm."

When oil and mineral revenues fall and economic crisis
follows, everything works in reverse, potentially
causing widespread deforestation, says the report.
Currencies weaken, making logging and the expansion of
farming into forest areas more profitable. Unemployed
urban workers move back to the countryside where they
can hunt for bushmeat and clear forests to grow crops.


Environmentalists have campaigned for years against
the damage inflicted on forests by oil and mineral
companies slashing through virgin jungle to build
drilling platforms, worker camps, helipads, and access
roads. According to the new report, however, such
negative direct impacts resulting from mining and
petroleum are only part of the story. "The indirect,
forest-protecting macro-economic effects oil wealth
brings greatly outweigh the direct negative impacts
associated with oil production and mining. The crucial
factor is how governments spend their oil wealth,"
Wunder said.

Other Types of Cash Infusions Also Protect Rainforests

The implications of this analysis go far beyond
minerals and petroleum. "The key lesson from this
research is not that oil and mining are good for
forests, but rather that changes in commodity prices,
exchange rates, and wage rates frequently have a much
greater impact on the environment than most people
realize," said Wunder. "Even though these effects are
indirect and invisible to the eye, they can actually
be quite large."

Wunder points out that the positive impact on forests
does not have to come only from an increase in oil or
mineral wealth. Indeed, many types of capital inflows
can have the same beneficial effects on forests as oil
and mineral revenues. As Kristalina Georgieva, the
Director of the World Bank's Environment Division, and
author of the foreword to the report notes, "other
international capital transfers, like bilateral
credits, aid or debt relief, can have similar impacts"
as oil and mineral revenues and can also help to
alleviate pressures on forests.

"People have been arguing for some time about whether
relieving the large level of foreign debt held by many
developing countries would help them save their
forests," said Wunder. CIFOR's study suggests in most
cases it would, especially in the poorest countries of
Africa. "This is also true of foreign direct
investment or the money sent home by immigrants living
in the United States or Europe," continued Wunder.

The results of CIFOR's study also lend weight to
critics of economic austerity programs involving large
currency devaluations. According to CIFOR's Director
General, David Kaimowitz, "If developing countries are
forced to devalue their national currencies as part of
some International Monetary Fund program, this will
make it much more profitable to cut down the forest.
That may be good for the economy, but it spells
trouble for forests."

Cases in Point: Gabon and Venezuela

Few countries illustrate the impact of oil wealth on
rainforests better than the sparsely populated Central
African nation of Gabon. Up until the 1970s, most
Gabonese lived, farmed, and hunted in villages in the
forest. After oil revenues shot up during the first
oil crisis in the mid-1970s, however, people moved to
the cities, giving up their thatched huts for suburban
houses-and in the case of the elite, French champagne
and high rise buildings of Libreville, the country's
capital.

Most people living in Gabon, which came to be known as
the "African Emirates," stopped farming and ate
imported food instead. This has not necessarily been a
wise development strategy, especially since oil
resources are slowly drying up, which will make it
necessary to develop alternative income sources.

But for forests, it has been excellent news, according
to Wunder. In many rural areas of the interior, oil
wealth has caused a dramatic rural exodus, and forests
have grown back in abandoned fields. One village chief
named Mbouila Thaopile described the process like
this, "Nobody lives here anymore. The young are
leaving and the elephants and gorillas run freely
through our gardens, destroying what little we grow to
eat."

As a result, "forest cover in Gabon has basically
remained unchanged since 1970, probably with marginal
net reforestation," according to the report, whereas
the average tropical country loses its forest at a
speed of about 1% per year.

In other cases the story is slightly different. In
Venezuela, for example, when oil first became
important back in the 1920s, the country initially
went through a process similar to Gabon. People moved
massively to the cities, abandoning the rural areas.
Forest area markedly increased up to 1950. But, after
World War II, unlike Gabon, the government used large
amounts of its oil money to build roads into the
jungle and promote cattle ranching, at the expense of
forests. So, deforestation started to pick up, even
though it remained much lower than in other forested
countries. The difference for forests was how the
governments used their oil wealth.

Given Wunder's controversial conclusion that oil and
mineral exports can be good for forests, some critics
might think that this report is out to promote the big
oil companies. However, Wunder emphasizes that the
positive indirect benefits for forests from oil and
mining do not justify mining companies unnecessarily
damaging the environment.

"Environmentalists should not misinterpret this
report. The research in no way excuses companies using
destructive mining practices that excessively damage
the environment. But the report does say that unless
governments adopt extremely land-extensive and
forest-damaging policies, oil and mining will benefit
forests through a range of powerful macro-economic
effects," Wunder said.

For further information, contact:
Ellen Wilson, Preeti Singh or Joe Sutherland (in U.S.)
at
+1 301 652 1558 or psingh@... or
Greg Clough (in Indonesia) at +62 251 622622, email:
g.clough@...


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on-line. I coudn't even find a Javanese-Indonesian dictionary in Gramedia.

Thanks for all of this John. Your messages have been very helpful and
equally entertaining.

Best,

Rick Kraince



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Richard G. Kraince
Ohio University

kraince@...





>From: "John MacDougall" <johnmacdougall@...>
>Reply-To: indonesian-studies@yahoogroups.com
>To: "indonesian-studies" <indonesian-studies@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [indonesian-studies] Shopping with Froogle
>Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:06:00 -0400
>
>Google sponsors an incredible (beta, but very safe)
>site called Froogle. That's a play on the word 'frugal.'
>
>Froogle is a special search engine that looks up anything being
>sold on the net.
>
>Playing with Froogle at http://froogle.google.com/
>is a lot of fun, and it can teach you more than you
>ever could want to know.  Google even has a Froogle
>FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page in case
>you want to become a Froogle know-it-all.  See
>http://froogle.google.com/froogle/about.html .
>There is also a Froogle advanced search page at
>http://froogle.google.com/froogle_advanced_search
>
>Enough.  For now, let's not be too serious.
>Let's go shopping.
>
>Suppose we want to buy Indonesia.  Not for sale?
>Don't be so sure.  Just type indonesia (Google ignores
>capital letters) in Froogle's search box.  Shock!
>338,000 items for sale.  Just peruse the output to
>get some sense of what's out there.
>
>Then you can get down to your real interests.  Try
>searching Froogle for
>
>indonesia books
>
>Wow!  What a selection.  Books you never knew existed.
>
>Then type
>
>indonesia music
>
>Stupefying!  All kinds of Indonesian music.
>
>Try
>
>indonesia food
>indonesia travel
>
>and so on.  Then you can shop for
>
>sumatra
>kalimantan
>medan -- yes, please shop for Medan  :-)
>
>One caution.  Shopping for
>
>bali
>
>will bring up some surprises.
>
>Well, it's only a beta version search engine.
>Don't ask for the moon.
>
>What, you typed
>
>moon
>
>in Froogle?  836,000 items.
>
>Better use the little Narrow Results by Category menu on the top left.
>Or the Narrow by Price boxes on the top right.
>
>Be frugal now!
>
>Salam
>John
>
>John MacDougall
>johnmacdougall@...
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Google sponsors an incredible (beta, but very safe)
site called Froogle. That's a play on the word 'frugal.'

Froogle is a special search engine that looks up anything being
sold on the net.

Playing with Froogle at http://froogle.google.com/
is a lot of fun, and it can teach you more than you
ever could want to know.  Google even has a Froogle
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page in case
you want to become a Froogle know-it-all.  See
http://froogle.google.com/froogle/about.html .
There is also a Froogle advanced search page at
http://froogle.google.com/froogle_advanced_search

Enough.  For now, let's not be too serious.
Let's go shopping.

Suppose we want to buy Indonesia.  Not for sale?
Don't be so sure.  Just type indonesia (Google ignores
capital letters) in Froogle's search box.  Shock!
338,000 items for sale.  Just peruse the output to
get some sense of what's out there.

Then you can get down to your real interests.  Try
searching Froogle for

indonesia books

Wow!  What a selection.  Books you never knew existed.

Then type

indonesia music

Stupefying!  All kinds of Indonesian music.

Try

indonesia food
indonesia travel

and so on.  Then you can shop for

sumatra
kalimantan
medan -- yes, please shop for Medan  :-)

One caution.  Shopping for

bali

will bring up some surprises.

Well, it's only a beta version search engine.
Don't ask for the moon.

What, you typed

moon

in Froogle?  836,000 items.

Better use the little Narrow Results by Category menu on the top left.
Or the Narrow by Price boxes on the top right.

Be frugal now!

Salam
John

John MacDougall
johnmacdougall@...

I've posted the following recent articles on the Indonesia 'course'
(selected readings) page of my own site:
http://www.indopubs.com/inco.html .

Anyone may access them easily from there -- or from this
message.  (I still can't predict with certainty what the Yahoo software
will do to postings' formats, so, no guarantees.)

Paige Johnson Tan - Streams of Least Resistance: The Institutionalization of
Political Parties and Democracy in Indonesia
http://www.geocities.com/johnson_paige2002/Chapter8web.html

Paige Johnson Tan - The Anti-Party Reaction in Indonesia: Causes and
Implications
http://www.geocities.com/johnson_paige2002/AntiParty.html

Julia I. Suryakusuma and Paige Johnson Tan - Leading Indonesia On
http://www.geocities.com/johnson_paige2002/VanZorge.html

Julia I. Suryakusuma and Paige Johnson Tan - A Reminder of Past Pledges
http://www.geocities.com/johnson_paige2002/ReminderofPastPledges.html

You can find much more by and about both by searching Google.

Julia (a list member) has sent me several more not-yet-netted articles
in the form of attachments which I will try to make available within
the next few days.

Salam
John
johnmacdougall@...

Why messages on Google on this indonesian-studies list?
First, many academics express frustration with Web-searching.
Second, some 'timeless' messages seemed appropriate in the
early few-members stage of the list.

So just a few more Google messages.  Bear with me.  :-)

(Of course, nothing to stop anyone posting serious, substantive
stuff now -- that's one aspect of how I hope the list will evolve.)

When you type multiple keywords in Google's Web search box,
Google invisibly puts an AND between them.  Typing
mpr amien rais
or (thank you Bung Elceem)
mpr "amien rais"
brings you a humongous list of Web pages about Amien Rais
during his time as the MPR supremo.

Sometimes, you may want an OR instead of AND when searching.
This, like many other Google features I've mentioned, can be done
from Google's very user-friendly advanced search page
http://www.google.com/advanced_search
or you can put the OR (or ORs) right in the main Google search box.
Google wants you to capitalize them there though.

Using OR should be helpful in searching for words with alternative
spelling if you want want all available Web pages on your query.
For example, you might type
srivijaya OR sriwijaya
If you just typed srivijaya, you'd get a smallish (by Google standards)
set of mainly English-language pages.
If you just typed sriwijaya, you'd get a huge set of  mainly Indonesian-
language pages.
Using OR brings you both sets of pages (and also makes pages where
both spellings occur appear only once in your search results).

I use this example since I remember an article where an academic author
used just srivijaya as the search term in an experiment to see how well
this subject could be researched on the next.  Not too well, was the general
conclusion.  But if sriwijaya alone, or both spellings with OR separating
them had been used, the conclusion, I believe, would have been much
more encouraging (since there are so many more 'sriwijaya Web pages.'

Try similar experiments with these word pairs:

soeharto suharto
soekarno sukarno
aceh atjeh
cina tjina
pramoedya pramudya

For present purposes, I don't recommend playing with the pair:
java jawa

java brings you not only the island but oodles of pages on the
computer language of that name.  There are ways around
this problem -- but, that's another day.

Salam
John
johnmacdougall@...

--- In indonesian-studies@yahoogroups.com, "John MacDougall"
<johnmacdougall@c...> wrote:

>
> What about TNI activity in Aceh Utara?
>
> site:kompas.com aceh utara tni
>
> That brings 863 articles to peruse.
>
> In the year 2003 only?
>
> site:kompas.com aceh utara tni 2003
>
> Down to 240.  About as focused as Kompas' own search engine.
>


John
you can get a more focus search by using " ", eg "aceh utara". This
search the word as a unit - rather than searching Aceh and Utara
separately.

elceem

To find what Kompas has published on, say, Aceh, you visit the print
Kompas page http://www.kompas.com/kompas-cetak/  and use its
little search box in the upper-right corner -- right?

Well, that does get you somewhere.  Typing aceh in the search box
brings 300 articles.  Surely Kompas has printed more than 300
Aceh articles, you say.  True.  But the search engine used is set
at a ceiling of 300 hits.  If you type jakarta -- better covered in
Kompas columns -- you still get 300 hits.

The great value of using Kompas' own search tool is that the maximum
300 articles returned appear sorted in _reverse chronological order_.
That's a mighty help for the contemporary-oriented.

But if you need more history, you can use Google's _site search_ hack.
Go to http://www.google.com/ and be sure the Web tab is highlighted.
In the search box, type

site:kompas.com aceh

You currently get 11,400 hits.  Quite a lot more than Kompas offers.

Praise Google.  It has cached older Kompas pages no longer
available on the Kompas site.  Just hit 'Cached' in any search
result of interest.   Your search keywords are brightly colored.
Each a different color.

There are many ways to search within this huge output, but for now
one simple way is just to add word(s) to the site search hack, say:

site:kompas.com aceh utara

Now you are down to 2,450 hits.

What about TNI activity in Aceh Utara?

site:kompas.com aceh utara tni

That brings 863 articles to peruse.

In the year 2003 only?

site:kompas.com aceh utara tni 2003

Down to 240.  About as focused as Kompas' own search engine.

Google has a general limit in Web searches of 10 keywords
at a time.  The limit _may_ be smaller when _site search_ is
used.  I've not done this experiment.  You try it if you need
10 keywords.

Experiment.  Use your imagination in selecting keywords to find
just the articles you may want to read.

By the way, the _site search_ tool works for _all sites Google has
crawled_.  Try searching one of special interest to you.

A caution.  Even Google's crawlers -- googlebots -- don't
catch every article on sites which update pages frequently.  Especially
news sites.  So just don't assume you have everything the site has
ever published about your keywords.

Salam
John

John MacDougall
johnmacdougall@...

In the July 3 Straits Times, Felix Soh gives some publicity to the terrorism
database developed at IDSS in Singapore (that's http://www.ntu.edu.sg/idss/ ).
While it's not fully clear from Felix' story how easy the conditions of  access
are for local and foreign scholars, it amounts to a (mainly open source)
treasure trove
on terrorism networks in Indonesia now being even further filled in by trials
connected to the Bali and Makassar bombings.  IDSS makes available for
download some of its working papers at
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/idss/research_04.htm .
Sidney Jones of ICG has also produced several seminal reports on the networks in
Indonesia -  see especially the very controversial Ngruki network report at
http://www.crisisweb.org/projects/showreport.cfm?reportid=733 some parts
of which were plainly superseded -- polite word -- by the later more thoroughly
realist report on how JI operates at
http://www.crisisweb.org/projects/showreport.cfm?reportid=845 .
Perhaps there's some mutual ICG-IDSS cross-fertilization of ideas
in all this.  For a bunch of other papers on this whole subject, you can
peruse my own Indonesia and Southeast Asia 'courses' pages at
http://www.indopubs.com/inco.html and
http://www.indopubs.com/seaco.html .
Warning -- none of this is light reading.

Salam
John
johnmacdougall@...

PS - This message in ascii format -- let's see what the Yahoo software
does with it.  It's quite readable here in my mail program.  Remember, too --
the indonesia-studies list is set to reject attachments, so don't put them
in your own postings.
______

From Straits Times, July 3, 2003:
          Mining for terror
             By Felix Soh
             IT WAS like searching for a needle in the haystack, but eventually,
             the needle yielded itself.
             Careful sieving of data on the thousands of madrasahs or religious
             schools in Indonesia eventually put researchers on the trail of four
             which echoed with the fiery rhetoric of violent jihad, or holy war.
             Among the quartet of extremist madrasahs was the Pondok Al-Mukmin in
             the village of Ngruki in Solo, Java, headed by Abu Bakar Bashir, the
             64-year-old cleric with the toothy grin and snow-white beard now on
             trial for treason.
             He proved to be the leader of Jemaah Islamiah, the South-east Asian
             'franchise' of Osama bin Laden's terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda.
             The Pondok Al-Mukmin, which has several hundred boys and girls in
             residence, is an Internet-age madrasah. It provides lessons on jihad
             on the Internet.
             The data on Indonesia's extremist madrasahs, mined painstakingly
             from multiple sources, was collated and then analysed by researchers
             in the Political Violence and Terrorism Programme at Singapore's
             Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS).
             The information was released to the Indonesian government together
             with the suggestion that madrasahs in the country be audited to
             staunch the fomenting of violence and hatred.
             Other information on terrorism in Indonesia was also given to the
             Jakarta government and the country's media, diplomats,
             decision-makers and policy-makers.
             DELIVERING TANGIBLES
             NO IVORY-TOWER research outfit, the IDSS programme is fast
             developing into the leading resource on South-east Asian terrorism.
             It is a concrete manifestation of Singapore's contribution to the
             global fight against terrorism, delivering tangibles like training
             courses for law enforcement and other agencies engaged in fighting
             terrorism. The programme's specialists are consulted by regional
             governments. They are also being used increasingly by agencies in
             the region to train their staff.
             The Terrorism Database is the centrepiece. Probably the best in the
             world for data on the Asia-Pacific area, it is accessible to serious
             researchers and will be operational by the end of the year.
             'By developing such a programme, we have made Singapore a
             significant node in the establishment of a global response to the
             current terrorist threat,' said Mr Barry Desker, director of IDSS.
             The programme is his brainchild.
             'The existence of a core group of experts in IDSS enables us to
             comment intelligently on this issue, participate in debates on the
             nature of the terrorist threat as well as outline responses which
             can be taken by regional governments affected by these
             developments.'
             The programme has attracted the world's foremost authority on
             Al-Qaeda - its head is Associate Professor Rohan Gunaratna, author
             of Inside Al-Qaeda: Global Network Of Terror, which CBSNews.com said
             is the most comprehensive study ever done on the terrorist
             organisation.
             Dr Gunaratna has interviewed more than 200 terrorists, including
             Al-Qaeda members, in dozens of countries, and read countless
             transcripts of intercepted communications, including calls made by
             Osama himself.
             The London Sunday Times describes him as 'one of the few qualified
             to talk with authority about Al-Qaeda'.
             Another staff member is Ms Elena Pavlova, who is the manager
             (research) of the IDSS programme's Terrorism Database. A Bulgarian
             educated at Harvard University, she was previously research
             associate with the Investigative Project, a US data collection
             centre on the activities, ideologies and structures of radical
             Islamic terrorist groups.
             The IDSS was set up in 1996 after the end of the Cold War and during
             a time of global geostrategic flux. Its primary role was to research
             the impact and implications of the quick changes in the post-Cold
             War era on Singapore's security and defence.
             But as old threats recede, new ones surface. Sometimes, they do not
             recede but mutate into new shapes, just like terrorism - the raison
             d'etre for the institute's Political Violence and Terrorism
             Programme.
             REAL-TIME IMPACT
             THE timing is impeccable. The eyes of the world's security community
             are currently on the Asia-Pacific because the centre of gravity of
             terrorism has shifted from the Middle East to the region, where
             there are 30-40 active terrorist groups.
             Said Dr Gunaratna: 'The focus is on South-east Asia, which is our
             strength. We know the groups operating in the region intimately,
             both indigenous and foreign.'
             The Terrorism Database, which is third-generation (the first- and
             second-generation databases were developed by America's Rand
             Corporation, a think-tank), is the most critical component of the
             programme.
             The region lacks information on terrorist organisations, how they
             think and behave and how best to control and manage those
             organisations.
             Most of the information on terrorist organisations comes from open
             sources. But they have to be collected, collated and analysed, both
             from primary and secondary sources.
             In the database are about 100 profiles of terrorist groups in
             South-east Asia which provide a wealth of details from every
             possible angle - from motivation to fund-raising and from tactics to
             modus operandi.
             While the imagery is that of the Terrorism Database as the brain of
             the programme, the heart is its public information campaign and the
             hands and legs its training courses.
             'Terrorism is actively supported by less than 1 per cent of any
             population. As long as governments can maintain the support of the
             public, there will be a constant flow of information from the public
             to law enforcement and intelligence agencies which, in turn, will
             enable governments to detect, disrupt, degrade and destroy terrorist
             organisations,' said Dr Gunaratna.
             The programme provides training, courses and briefings for law
             enforcement and other agencies engaged in fighting terrorism. The
             training is provided both in Singapore and in other countries.
             Everything is very much oriented towards making real-time impact.
             'We don't want to do anything that is not policy-oriented; we don't
             do research for the sake of research,' said Dr Gunaratna.
             'We speak to all governments, think-tanks, media organisations and
             other opinion makers. The policy is to release relevant information
             to the public domain periodically.'
             In the end, the funds and effort pumped into the Political Violence
             and Terrorism Programme is a worthwhile investment.
             As Dr Gunaratna put it, the security of Singapore can never be
             ensured by building walls around the country but by reducing the
             threat of terrorism in the immediate neighbourhood.

             Felix Soh writes regularly on security and defence issues.

This fellowship might be of interest to some Indonesian
journalists:

"The World Press Institute (WPI) annually offers a four-month
journalism fellowship to ten journalists from countries around
the world.  WPI's mission is to foster understanding about the
role and responsibilities of a free press in a democracy.  The
WPI program provides immersion into the governance, politics,
business, media, journalistic ethics and culture of the United
States for experienced international journalists, through a
demanding schedule of study, travel and interviews throughout
the country. The 2003 program runs from July 14 through
October 31.

Applicants must

* have at least five years of full-time news experience
* be fluent in all aspects of English
* provide several written essays
* provide three letters of recommendation
* submit at least three samples of their work."

The deadline for the 2004 program is December 31, 2003.

This description is taken from the web site of the World Press
Institute (http://www.worldpressinstitute.org) where you can find
lots more information as well as application forms.

Liz Coville

A special Google search page has an innocent enough title: Language Tools.
But what it can do for researchers is actually quite sensational.

Referring to it directly may be easier than following the brief discussion
in this message:

http://www.google.com/language_tools

Basically, on this single page, Google lets you search pages written in many
languages, including some very important in Indonesian studies, such as Dutch,
French, German, Japanese, Malay, Portuguese, and, of course, Indonesian.
Plus the Scandinavian languages and Arabic.

Right below this option, Google then offers searches of  Web sites located on
servers in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Indonesia, Norway,
Sweden, Finland and Denmark (a country variation on the first option).

Next Google offers to machine-translate snippets of text from German, French,
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese into English.  It also works in the reverse
direction, English into these languages.  Output quality is best for words and
phrases and is good for getting gists of meaning as one advances into
copy-and-pasted paragraphs.

If you want a whole Web page translated into English from German, French,
Italian,
Spanish or Portuguese, Google then offers a box in which you key in (or
copy-and-paste)
the page's address (URL).  A machine-translation is returned quite quickly.

Then if you prefer to use a non-English interface for Google Web, Image,
Discussion
Groups, or the human-made Directory, Google's offerings just keep expanding.
As of this writing, besides all the languages mentioned so far, there are also
interfaces in Javanese, Sundanese, Malay and Arabic.

Finally, Google presents a set of countries in which it has established full
Google
sites, including places like the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
These sites have a button you can click on which lets you search only
sites in these countries, all of of which produce significant scholarship on
Indonesia.

So, if you have just been using Google's standard English user interface, you
have missing quite a lot.

Summarizing, using the Language Tools page, you can retrieve pages and articles
in non-English languages and even get some of your search results translated
into
English.

While there are many ways to find public online scholarly papers using Google,
one method I've tried which works fairly well is to type in Google's search box

(author's name, with or without quotes) (pdf or doc)

pdf returns Acrobat files and doc returns Word files.  Most papers put up
on the net appear to be in these two formats.

So one can start with Google English and type something like

"martin van bruinessen" pdf
or
martin van bruinessen doc

and get back a treasure trove of  very high quality scholarship.

Then you can repeat the procedure in non-English Google interfaces,
which one(s) depending on the nationality of the author or the country
in which the author's works often appear.

Salam
John

John MacDougall
Editor, Indonesia Publications
johnmacdougall@...

Missing your print copies of Excerpta Indonesica?  Patience.
The KITLV's long-running abstracts periodical of all-things-
in-Indonesian-studies is scheduled to go online free in September,
according to the KITLV periodicals Web page:

http://www.iias.nl/institutes/kitlv/periodicals.html

Here's the relevant excerpt:

EXCERPTA INDONESICA GOES ON-LINE!
Since 1970 Excerpta Indonesica has been keeping Indonesianists
  informed on new publications in Indonesian studies by publishing
abstracts of recent articles on Indonesia in the social sciences
and humanities. As of 2003, Excerpta Indonesica will be available
  as an on-line abstract database (currently under construction)
via our catalogues.

The printed version of Excerpta Indonesica will cease to be published.
This means that issue no. 66 (December 2002), is the last Excerpta
Indonesica to appear in print. We are confident that the loss
of the printed issue will be regarded as a relatively small one,
since access to Excerpta Indonesica on-line be completely FREE.

We anticipate that with this change of policy Excerpta Indonesica
will reach out to a much larger audience and will attract many more
users. We thank all subscribers over the many years of Excerpta
Indonesica's existence as a printed journal, and hope to meet
you on-line on this site!

Excerpta Indonesica is scheduled to go online in SEPTEMBER 2003

Consulting Editor:
Drs. S. Koolhof

Editors:
R.L. Robson- McKillop B.A.
Dr. E. Ebing


Frequency:
two issues annually (July and December)

From both the well-known Google English Web interface
http://www.google.com/ or the Indonesian version
http://www.google.com/intl/id/ which searches the whole
Web or just pages in Indonesian (you get to choose),
one can run a little 'Google hack' based on searching
only URLs (Web addresses) rather than entire sites.

This is a real help in locating quickly net sources on
regions in Indonesia.  For example, in the Google Web
search box, type

allinurl:(keyword)

The keyword can be any region in Indonesia, such as

allinurl:sulawesi

No space before or after the 'allinurl' (search all URLs)
instruction or its following colon.

Try it with the region of your choice.  And if you use the
Indonesian interface, try it separately on the whole Web
option and the Indonesian pages only option.

There are a lot of little Google hacks like this.

Salam
John

John A. MacDougall
Editor, Indonesia Publications
johnmacdougall@...