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Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation flows for everyone. Did someone have to design Bali's water temple networks, or could they have emerged from a self-organizing process? Perfect Order--a groundbreaking work at the nexus of conservation, complexity theory, and anthropology--describes a series of fieldwork projects triggered by this quest...
"This dictionary is meant primarily as a tool for English speakers who need to know Indonesian and who deal with Indonesian writings. The aim has thus been to give comprehensive coverage to forms a foreigner might run across in Indonesian readings, from this era or from the past, but excluding classical Malay literature, Much of the Indonesian written production (written and otherwise) contains slangy, colloquial, and regional forms, and we have not excluded such forms. On the other hand we have confined the listing of dialectical forms only to those likely to be widely known...The dictionary should also be useful to Indonesians who wish to learn English equivalents of Indonesian words, but it has not been developed primarily for that purpose, because many English words can only be defined by a sequence of Indonesian words." from Introduction.
Delapan tahun lebih saya terlibat secara konsepsional maupun operasional atau bahkan secara fisik dalam penanganan darurat bencana di dalam maupun di luar negeri. Buku Satu Nyawa Hilang Adalah Sebuah Tragedi ini menyajikan gambaran penanganan dampak 18 kejadian bencana sebagai bahan perenungan dan pengendapan batin kita yang makin percaya bahwa ancaman bencana sudah ada di bawah telapak kaki kita saat berdiri. Upaya menghimpun ingatan yang tercecer, yang sudah terlindas oleh ruang dan waktu yang terus bergerak dinamis, bukanlah pekerjaan yang mudah. Merekonstruksi kejadian yang pernah kita lihat, dengar, dan rasakan di lapangan ternyata cukup menyita waktu dan energi. Dalam buku ini saya ber...
This work builds on the research for my PhD in the Department of Politics and Public Policy, the Flinders University of South Australia. Many people and institutions have contributed to complete my study. I cannot mention all of them here, but I have to mention a few. Associate Professor Janet McIntyre, the principal supervisor and academic adviser during my research higher degree study. She encouraged me to better understanding human value-rationality, contexts and pragmatism in the issues of power and democracy. Dr Craig Matheson has expanded my understanding of rational irrationality in voting that shaped my work at the early stage. Prof Dr Yogi Sugito (the former Rector of Universitas Br...