SEKARANG TERSEDIA/NOW OUT: MALAPETAKA DI INDONESIA oleh MAX LANE diterbitkan oleh Djaman Baru, hubungi: djamanbaroe@gmail.com
The second round vote for the President of Timor Leste has been announced. The two candidates were Lu’olo (Francisco Guterres), a candidate put forward by FRETILIN and Taur Matan Ruak (José Maria Vasconcelos), a non-party candidate, being supported by Xanana Gusmao, current prime minister and president of the political party, National Council for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT). In the first round there were 12 candidates, Lu’Olo and Matan Ruak were the top two scoring 28% and 23% respectively. Other candidates who had relatively strong showings were current president, Jose Ramos Horta, who was a non-party candidate as well as Fernando de Araújo, president of the Democratic Party (PD), and currently speaker of the parliament. The PD has been a member of the current coalition government led by Xanana Gusmao and the CNRT. Both Araujo and President Horta scored similar votes at around 18%.
In the second round Matan Ruak (TMR) won with 61% to Lu’olo’s 39%. (Figures rounded).
This was a very strong win for TMR, beyond what the figures show: however it is a win that still leaves some basic questions unanswered. Below are some notes on based on observations from afar and chats with contacts in TL on the elections, and on the prospects for new emerging forces to play a role.
At a raising of the PST flag in a village Timor, 2011.
Reading the results?
The absence of any ongoing, reliable polling processes as well as of an extensive media, including district based media, makes it very difficult for the outside observer (and perhaps also even Timorese political actors) to know for sure what the mass of the population are thinking about politics. The majority of the population lives in rural village communities, more-or-less based on subsistence agriculture, geo-politically separated from the gossip-intense hot house of Dili (and even Bacau). An outside observer, such as myself, is very dependent on information and judgments of Timorese contacts, in whose judgments one has confidence.
FRETILIN’s failure to rebuild after 2007 vote collapse Read more…
Critical Perspectives on
Contemporary Southeast Asian Politics And Society:
Politics and International Studies, Victoria University and Asia Institute, University of Melbourne
2012 Seminar Series, convened by Dr Max Lane
This seminar series, organised by the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and Politics and International Studies, Victoria University , is aimed at creating a forum for following and discussing contemporary political, economic and social developments in the Southeast Asian region. It is hoped that the series, which began in 2nd Semester 2011, will continue into the long-term. The series draws on presenters based in Melbourne, as well as in other parts of Australia and overseas.
While presentations are encouraged that relate directly to a researcher’s current specific research focus, the series is also keen to hear presentations on contemporary developments that flow from lecturers’ and researchers’ general knowledge of the region and their ongoing observation and analysis of developments.
This semester’s program of six seminars includes presentations on Indonesia, including West Papua, the Philippines, Thailand and Timor Leste. Presenters include intellectuals from Indonesia and Timor Leste visiting Australia.
Seminars are held at 5pm on a Wednesday. The presentation by Avelino Coelho, from Timor Leste, will be on a THURSDAY. Most seminars will be held in Room 321, Asia Institute, Level 3, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Swanston Street, University of Melbourne.
For further information: please contact Asia Dr Max Lane (maxwell.lane@vu.edu.au ) or Dr Michael Ewing (mce@unimelb.edu.au)
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Date |
Topic |
Speaker |
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March 21 |
The prospects for Peace in Papua: dialogue – domestication and co-option |
Dr Richard Chauvel, Victoria University, Melbourne |
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April 4 |
“Elite rule and messianism in the Philippines: the myth of populism and “civil society engagement”
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Dr Ben Reid, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Faculty of Arts, Monash University. Recently returned from the Philippiones. http://monash.academia.edu/benreid |
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THURSDAY, April 26 |
History of the Timorese state and politics today |
Avelino Coelho (Shalar Kosi FF) State Secretary for Energy Policy, Timorese government; Marxist intellectual; chairperson of the Socialist Party of Timor. |
| May 9 | The struggle for popularizing history in Indonesia |
Bonnie Triyana, editor HISTORIA magazine, Indonesia; Journalist, author and historian and historian. |
| May 23 | Marx and Weber in Bangkok |
Professor Kevin Hewison, Uni of North Carolina (Chapel Hill); Visiting Professor of Asian Studies, Singapore Management University; author and researcher on Thai politics. |
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May 30 |
Analyzing East Timorese Politics: 4 views on the political map of the 2012 election landscape.
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Professor Damien Kingsbury, Deakin University http://www.deakin.edu.au/deakin-speaking/user/13 Assoc Prof Michael Leach, Swinburne University http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lss/staff/view.php?who=mleach Dr Helen Hill, Community Development, Victoria University http://www.vu.edu.au/about-vu/our-people/helen-hill Dr Max Lane - Politics and International Studies, Victoria University |
sejuta masalah
berbicara minta jawaban
sejuta derita
menjerit minta pengakhiran
kekuasaan diatas
membawa celaka!
ya, sudah tahu itu
terus gimana kalau begitu?
kebolongan
bergema rhetorika
sunyi
kosong bunyi
Sepanjang keluar dari Jakarta sumpek-sumpek rumah di pinggir rel
Realitas sudah menjadikan lingkungkan tak lebih dari sebuah sel
Kemiskinan bekerja sebagai sipir yang menjaga ketat
Kereta api lewat menuju tempat yang lebih indah, hati hanya tambah kesumat.
Reproduced from Journal of Contemporary Asia, Volume 41, Issue 3, 2011
Review by Prof James Peacock, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill).
The simmering discontent throughout Indonesia regularly overflowed throughout October and November. There were student protests against the Yudhoyono government, attacking corruption, economic injustice and political manipulation of local government, in cities including Jakarta, Jogjakarta, Cirebon, Samarinda (in Borneo), Makassar, Surabaya and Kediri.
There were also demonstrations in Papua, after an incident in which police disbanded a political meeting in Jayapura, killing at least six people. Hundreds of others were arrested, ordered to strip to their shorts and made to squat in the sun for a long period. Days later demonstrations demanded a referendum on the region’s status, including an option for independence.
Pada Desember 10, seorang lelaki berumur 22 bernama Sondang Hutagalung meninggal dunia akibat 98% dari tubuh terbakar. Sulit membayangkan rasa sakit yang dideritakannya selama melawan maut di rumah sakit. Yang lain daripada yang lain, lelaki muda ini tidak kebakar dalam sebuah kecelakaan tetapi membakar diri.
Dia tidak meninggalkan sebuah surat yang menjelaskan niatnya dia tentang tindakan mengambil nyawanya sendiri dengan cara yang penuh penderitaan ini. Mungkin Sondang mau menunjukkan rasa cemasnya yang dalam bahwa sebagian besar rakyat Indonesia masih menderita kemiskinan. Sondang aktif di organisasi mahasiswa Himpunan Advokasi-Study Marhaenis Muda untuk Rakyat dan Bangsa Indonesia (Hammurabi). Dia juga memimpin komunitas Sahabat Munir. Dia membakar diri di depan Istana Kepresidenan, mungkin ingin mengatakan presiden Yudhoyono sebagai kepala pemerintahan yang “gagal mensejahterakan rakyat.” Mungkin juga dia terinspirasi oleh kasus seorang pedagang kaki lima Tunisia (Marhaen Tunisia) yang melakukan hal yang sama yang kemudian memicu pemberontakan oposisi di negeri tersebut, sehingga Presidennya jatuh.
Bisa saja terjadi – dan memang sudah terjadi – debat atau diskusi tentang benar atau salahnya tindaknya Sondang ini. Tetapi mengingat rekor kegiatan Sondang, minimal kita harus menghormati dia dan mengenangnya sebagai orang yang sanggup mengorbankan nyawanya dan menderitakan kesakitan fisik yang luar biasa dalam harapan bahwa ini akan berguna buat rakyat Indonesia.
Karena itu aku salut pada saudara Sondang, mahasiswa Universitas Bung Karno yang pernah gerak buat kaum marhaen dan korban pelanggaran HAM. Saya membaca juga bahwa dia pernah juga terlibat aktivitas solidaritas dengan rakyat Papua korban kekerasan. Sekali lagi salut!
Dinamika Menghadapi Kegagalan Mensejahteraan Rakyat
Di Morocco kasus orang membakar diri memicu sebuah pemberontakan oposisi yang massif. Di Indonesia belum jelas sepenuhnya bagaimana nanti dampak daripada tindakan Sondang. Teman-teman mahasiswanya dari UBK sudah mengaraknya ramai-ramai ke kuburan. Ada versi bahwa lagu DARAH JUANG yang didedikasikan ke Sondang. Universitas mengangkatnya dengan pemberian gelar kehormatan. Mahasiswa-mahasiwa menyatakan tekad untuk meneruskan perjuangannya Sondang melawan pimpinan hedonis. Simpati sangat meluas, meski juga ada yang mempertanyakan tindakannya sebagai perbuatan politik. Kita belum tahu sepenuhnya bagaimana warisan perbuatan dia ke depan. Read more…
We were talking about food last night and a memory came back to me – for the umpteenth time.
Narrow and dark and most of all hot. If I ended up at a back table, 3 or 4 metres inside, the sweat would pour from forehead and my hair would be wet enough to comb again in just 20 seconds. And the prickly heat itchiness would invade. Better to get a table at front, and visit only at night. So narrow, maybe 2 or 3 metres, and even narrower at the front – maybe one metre or 1.5 metres. It was narrower at the front because half the width was taken up with the kitchen. Sitting at the front one was almost being on the footpath. Sabang Street, in central Jakarta, in 1969 was a fun street. It was almost all restaurants, cafes and other eateries, with a row of Chinese owned general stores – also selling smuggled gin – and another row of photocopy shops, so needed for all the documents necessary for almost every activity in Indonesia.
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