SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia articles from October 2002

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia archives from October 2002

Civil society in Indonesia: the potential and limits of Muhammadiyah.
October 1, 2002... Muhammadiyah is an Indonesian Islamic social organization well known for providing education and health services. It views these activities as the best way for propagating Islam, empowering the ummah and improving the social conditions of...

The Indonesian Islamic debate on a woman president.
October 1, 2002... Monday, 23 July 2001: The otherwise overcrowded streets of Jakarta remained remarkably quiet. Indonesia was about to have its fifth president after gaining independence. During a special session the MPR (Peoples' Consultative Assembly), the...

"He is your garment and you are his ...": religious precepts, interpretations, and power relations in marital sexuality among Javanese Muslim women.
October 1, 2002... The operating assumption for this paper is that sexuality is a cultural construct and not altogether biological and immutable. (1) Another assumption is that the teachings of the Qur'an on sexual equality and reciprocity may not always apply in...

Looking beyond bien che: the considerations of young Vietnamese graduates when seeking employment in the doi moi era.(official employment)
October 1, 2002... In the late 1980s Vietnam embarked on a programme of economic restructuring known as doi moi (1)--literally, "renovation". Doi moi is an attempt to transform the centralized economic system to a market-oriented economy by implementing an...

Transborder business: the "capital" input in Singapore enterprises venturing into ASEAN and beyond.
October 1, 2002... The economic landscape of Singapore represents a remarkable paradox. On the one hand, it has been extremely successful throughout most of the last three decades with growth rates that make Western economies look pale in comparison. On the other...

Socio-economic change and rural entrepreneurs in pre-crisis East Java, Indonesia: case study of a Madurese upland community (1).
October 1, 2002... The 1970s economic boom in Indonesia, fuelled by state oil income, was accompanied by agricultural modernization and infrastructure development in the rural areas of Java. Earlier studies have documented that relatively well-off farming...

The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Edited by Robert W. Hefner. University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. xi, 319 pp. In recent years, heated debates over multiculturalism in the West have focused attention on the role of informal politics in shaping citizenship discourses. This...

Southeast Asian Urbanism: the Meaning and Power of Social Space.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By Hans-Dieter Evers and Rudiger Korff. New York: St. Martin's Press and Munster: Lit Verlag, 2000. 268 pp. Dominating the book's front cover is a close-up photograph of a towering greyish, gothic-like monument. Taken from the base of the...

Jakarta-Batavia: Socio-Cultural Essays.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Edited by Kees Grijns and Peter J.M. Nas. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2000. 349 pp. Jakarta-Batavia is an attempt to examine current socio-cultural research on Jakarta. Jakarta has developed significantly, from the provincial capital of...

Modern Trends in Islamic Theological Discourses in Twentieth Century Indonesia: A Critical Survey.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By Fauzan Saleh. Leiden: Brill NV, 2001. 343 pp. Fauzan Saleh's book, Modern Trends in Islamic Theological Discourses, is important for at least two reasons. First, after the 11 September tragedy, in the United States, Islam including that...