... to imbricate Javanese spiritual geographies with the contemporary scientific discourses of plate tectonics. fixism Indonesia Japan Kuhn Thomas mobilism plate tectonics Rudwick Martin Wegener Alfred Central Java East Indies East Java Europe Hamengkubuwono Sultan Java Martius Carl von Surakarta...

...This chapter explores the impact of financial crisis on the poor in Indonesia. It demonstrates that in the first year of the crisis, poverty rose by between 50 and 100 percent, real wages declined by around 40 percent, and household per capita consumption fell by around 15 percent. The crisis...

..., are bank runs in which foreign lenders in the form of short-term debt withdraw. Indonesia during the Asian Crisis, Argentina in 2001-2, Spain in the Euro crisis, and the US in 2007-2008, all have some special features, but upon examination are bank runs. depositor withdrawals Geithner Tim Lehman Brothers...

... longitudinal survey data collected before and after two major shocks in Indonesia: the 1998 financial crisis and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. First, it is hard to identify shocks that are unanticipated and uncorrelated with other factors that affect human capital outcomes. Second, focusing on child health...

.... The chapter is organized as follows. Section 6.2 presents an overview of the capital inflow episode in the context of Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand, by emphasizing the relationship between the capital inflows and the growth of monetary aggregates. Section 6.3 summarizes the policy...

...In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drum beat to make a man get up and dance. Every day, men there—be they students, pedicab drivers, civil servants, or businessmen—breach ordinary standards of decorum and succumb to the rhythm at village ceremonies, weddings, political...

..., Thailand, Korea, and Indonesia. Estimated regression equations are used to conduct a simulation analysis of how capital inflows would have behaved had the monetary authorities of these countries adopted a currency basket peg system instead of the de facto dollar peg system. The simulation analysis...

... against work-related injuries, and government-provided health insurance. East Asian countries in the sample are Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. GDP is measured in 1996 U.S. dollars. For columns (1), (3), and (4), dependent variable is log SI % of GDP. For column (2), dependent...

... those of the World Bank. This chapter evaluates the impact of the 1997 economic crisis on the poor people in Indonesia. The analysis reveals that price increases have affected the cost of living of poor households disproportionally; the effects differ in urban and rural households. This chapter argues...

... drastically to curtail their lending to the affected Asian countries following the Thai devaluation, appears to have played a role in spreading the crisis, particularly to Indonesia, Malaysia, and South Korea. Second, only Malaysia and South Korea appear to have any significant trade links to Thailand. Thus...

... by Hasan Poerbo—a leading Indonesian advocate of community participation in mass-housing projects—and the ways this imaginary worked to counter the dominant vision of technological and economic change in Suharto's New Order Indonesia of the 1970s and 1980s. civil society New Order Indonesia Hatta...

... counterpublics ICT information and communication technology Institute of Technology Bandung ITB Jasanoff Sheila nationalism politics of freedom Suharto New Order Indonesia Suhardiman Basoeki World Summit on the Information Society WSIS authoritarian rule hobbyists National Agency for Assessment...

...The goal of this paper is to reflect on what Shweder calls a “cultural psychology” of trauma-related disorders, based on the author’s work in post-conflict Aceh, Indonesia, beginning 2008. Psychiatric categories, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, have long been ‘good to think...

.... displacement of populations conservation and forests age of reserves adjacent lands and Southeast Asia agricultural knowledge exchange within war biological and chemical warfare and forest management by Africans versus Europeans Indonesia Communist Party in Malaysia Malaya anthropogenic environment...

...In an era of explosive urban poverty and declining congressional support for American bilateral aid programs in the early 1970s, the World Bank took a more active role, beginning in Senegal and moving subsequently to Tanzania, Zambia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and more. Bank officials shared...

..., as MNC theory predicts? Second, if so, what are the determinants of the productivity of plants? Most automobile firms in Indonesia were established by the country's major conglomerates as a joint venture or under a licensing agreement with foreign (principally Japanese) automakers. The chapter first...