Indonesia

attorney general's office banned textbooks that do not represent "historical truth", leading officials to burn thousands of textbooks that failed to mention PKI in 2007. It demonstrates anti-communist rhetoric absolutely still holds power today in Indonesia. It is still widely used both to legitimize the current establishment and as a scapegoat for the country's problems. In the documentary, the survivors and victims' family members show strong hope for justice. They want to bring closure to his…

celebrations on April 1st, 2016 where the Indonesian Students Club hosted an Indonesian cultural night. This event, held once a year, took place at UIUC’s Lincoln Hall and was attended by many students, town people and even the Acting Consulate General of Indonesia in Chicago. Many of the performers were of Indonesian decent and they performed traditional Balinese dances accompanied by traditional music. There were also traditional instrument performances during the show. This show had a lot of…

analysis information center (cdaic). After reviewing the data of CO2 emissions for the country of Indonesia, there are a few details which grabbed my attention. The first feature noticed was the year of 1921 in which gas first began to emit in Indonesia. This effected the beginning of the graph/data totals, resulting with lower numbers (shown in figure 3). Liquid was by far the largest contributor for Indonesia towards fuel emissions. From the offset, it increased at a steady high rate almost…

One of the main species of interest in Indonesia is shrimp, vannamei is the dominantly farmed species. Figure 4 below shows that shrimp makes the highest earnings in export value on a per kg basis among fish and seaweed that are produced in an outstanding quantity. Establishment of vannamei has revived the industry and strengthen shrimp’s position as Indonesia’s main fishery export commodity by value. It is estimated that 2011 shrimp export contributes around USD 1.5 billion contrast to around 1…

In 1960, the term of Newly Industrializing Economies (NIEs) has been introduced world widely due to the massive growth of industrialization in Asia. Indonesia, whose economic growth were about 6 percent a year, joined to the NIEs together with Malaysia and Thailand. One specific characteristic of these countries was an huge improvement of the export of a manufacturing sector as the industrialization has integrated to the international trade (Trade and Development Report, 1996). The manufacturing…

Those three challenges may impede the achievement of economy, efficient, and effectiveness in state asset management. Civil society needs to be involved in take care of state asset. The Government of Indonesia has many assets in the form of land widespread in many places. Especially for the idle land, it is very easily occupied if land supervision is weak. Land that has been occupied by the community become useless for the government because the government…

FOMAL EDUCATION AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN INDONESIA Finding balancy between cognitive ability and character in education system. Here in Indonesia, people have realised the importance of education. People know already that education is needed to move forward, to succeed in the future. This thinking has brought Indonesia to higher level of education. Government started to invest more in education, created programs, and revising things to educate the nation more and more. The effort brought a…

Like many countries around the world, Indonesia has undergone a slough of different leaders, regimes, and systems of government throughout its seventy-year history. The most recent transition of government took place in October 2014, when President Joko Widodo was sworn in after winning a July election with just over 53% of the total vote. This election marked the first time that Indonesia’s leader did not emerge from the country’s elite class or the military and continued the recent and of…

certainty. In Indonesia, policy uncertainty is the most recent…

During the reign of President Soeharto, the second president of Indonesia, Indonesian governmental system was unitary state with authoritarian system. At this era, the administrative system was set into a hierarchical system; from the higher level to the lowest level namely central government, provinces, cities (kota) and rural regencies (kabupaten), districts (kecamatan), and urban neighborhoods (kelurahan) and villages (desa); with a large number of military officer designated in many…