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SEKARANG TERSEDIA/NOW OUT: MALAPETAKA DI INDONESIA oleh MAX LANE

May 16, 2012 Leave a comment

SEKARANG TERSEDIA/NOW OUT: MALAPETAKA DI INDONESIA oleh MAX LANE diterbitkan oleh Djaman Baru, hubungi: djamanbaroe@gmail.com

“POEM”: MELBOURNE TODAY

April 24, 2012 Leave a comment
Asphalt coloured sky drops its cold dull wet sheet
Soggy grass, shoe indented mud, splashed socked feet
Coat and scarf helpless against the deep chilled air
Human, after scavenging a wage in alienated work,home alone in a nice warm lair.
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PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Southeast Asian Politics And Society

March 12, 2012 Leave a comment

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)

Date

Topic

Speaker

March 21

 

The prospects for Peace in Papua:  dialogue – domestication and co-option

Dr Richard Chauvel, Victoria University, Melbourne

http://www.cfses.com/staff/rchauvel.htm

April 4

 

“Elite rule and messianism in the Philippines: the myth of populism and “civil society engagement”

 

Dr Ben Reid, School of Geography and Environmental Science,

Faculty of Arts, Monash University. Recently returned from the Philippiones.

http://monash.academia.edu/benreid

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.

May 30

 

Analyzing East Timorese Politics: 4 views on the political map of the 2012 election landscape.

 

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

www.maxlaneonline.com

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ARTIKEL: Sejarah Orde Baru dan Indonesia – Max Lane

December 3, 2011 1 comment

Pertama sekali saya belajar sejarah Indonesia ialah pada tahun 1967 dan 1968 di Sekolah Menengah Atas di Sydney, Australia, kemudian di Department of Indonesian and Malayan Studies, University of Sydney tahun 1969-72. Pada saat itu sejarah Indonesia Merdeka baru berlangsung 22 tahun. Daripada 22 tahun itu, 5 tahun adalah sejarah revolusi (fisik), kemudian ada periode selama 16 tahun yang berakhir pada tahun 1965, dan kemudian 2 tahun Orde Baru. Pada saat itu, sejarah Indonesia Merdeka masih pendek. Sejarah pra-Indonesia – dari sejak Kartini sampai 1945 – sebenarnya juga bukan periode yang berjangka panjang.

Buat dosen-dosen saya zaman itu, menyusun kurikulum sejarah tak terlalu pusing dengan hanya adanya 22 tahun tsb. Di Indonesia sendiri, tentu saja, Indonesia Merdeka belum ada “sejarah” sama sekali. Periode 1945-67 masih sangat kini buat kaum intelektual, aktivis maupun rakyat.

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NOVEMBER, 2011: Where Max is Speaking.

October 28, 2011 Leave a comment

This schedule will be updated regularly and can be accessed by clicking “Where Max is Speaking” just under the banner of this blog, on the far right.

November, 2011

November 2, UniversitasParamedina: ” “Economic Crisis in Europe and United States; A respond from Globalist Perspective in IR”, Graduate School of Diplomacy. Consortium on Indonesian Foreign Policy.

November 8, Singapore: Singapore as Hub for A Democratic Nusantara

November 11: “”Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s 30 year long writer’s block:  the present absence of Indonesia’s revolutionary vernacular?” : – Conference: GREAT ASIAN WRITERS AND VERNACULAR LITERATURES IN POST-COLONIAL  PERSEPECTIVE, Departrment of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore.

November 14: “Asia Africa: two blocks or three blocks: the relevance of Sukarno;s OLDEFOS versis NEFOS today.” , Center for Global Civil Society Studies (PACIVIS) , University of Indonesia. Conference: BANDUNG SPIRIT CONFERENCE.

November 21-25 Lectures at Gajah Mada University on Indonesian political history. (internal)

November 26 (TBC): Launching of Indonesian edition of CATASTROPHE IN INDONESIA by Max Lane. http://www.seagullindia.com/books/detailviewnew.asp?prodid=3625

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Reflections and “poems” on Indonesia and on politics on a Sunday in Melbourne

August 14, 2011 Leave a comment

I

Writer’s block
Its stopped the clock
Is it a matter of will?
Or a matter first of paying every bill?

II

Blank sheet
Erased of earlier etches
broken nib, blunt pencil, unconnected keyboard
Bugs in the software

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Poem: Jakarta worker

July 2, 2011 1 comment

blood shot eyes, blood shot eyes, blood shot eyes
four hours commute through chafing wind by motor bike each day?
12 hours shift?
sleeplessness from heat and crowded quarters, crying child, weary wife?
counting bills and income again and again and again?
blood shot eyes, blood shot eyes, blood shot eyes

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Sajak: pemandangan perjalanan (pergi jauh?)

July 2, 2011 Leave a comment
Tembusi korden debu polusi, simfoni klakson dan bising campur azan
memandang seribu dua ribu toko dan kios marhaen
sepeda mebel kursi roda plastik-plastikan soto dan foto presiden-presiden
Lewatkan entah rombongan atau khalayak nuju entah pula kemana sesak-sesak di metro-mini
Pengamen berumur 12 tahun main gitar-gitaran di lampu merah
Jendela membingkai pemandangan semua
sampai juga negeri lain di satu negeri: Mall
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Poem: Jakarta Child Asleep

July 2, 2011 Leave a comment
breathing asleep ,sandwiched head on back of dad in front
cars truck and buses shiting their dirty breath
young eyelids closed protecting sight from the chafing whizzing wind
mum’s arms circle child and husband heading home one among the swarm
one hit from the monsters that rule the road, child will wake but grazed or broken by asphalt
not enough squeazed weary at work, the journey home no less a risk.
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Sajak: Anak Jakarta Tertidur

July 2, 2011 Leave a comment
nyenyak terapit kejepit dua orang tua nuju pulang
sunyi, bernafaskan asap diberakkan bis, truk dan mobil
kelopaknya mata amat muda tutup berlindung dari angin kencang
semoga nggak kesenggul macet-macet, motor bisa jadi jatuh dari labil
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