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Achieving sustainable development has been confronted with many challenges both coming from the society and institution, and what we mean by the institution is not limited by the state government only. Sustainable goals are expected from relations of mutual dependence between society and institutions (such as governments and international organizations), which we call as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ratified by the member states of the United Nations. The idea of inclusive development is multifaceted, but ultimately it places emphasis on the social, ecological, and political spheres of development at the national and regional levels. In this context, this paper addresses the question what do the challenges of building a just and inclusive society as part of goal 16 of SDGs in ASEAN and then elaborate from a specific case study of Indonesia on the challenge and obstacles of the building just and inclusive societies. Although the main topic is discussing the challenge of the implementation, this paper also discusses how some regulations, structures, and values within the state have also been a driving factor of SDGs 16 implementation. To analyze and frame the SDGs implementation and its challenges, the paper uses the social control theory from Durkheim. This paper finds that, while SDG implementation performs well in terms of social inclusion in the local community (a smaller area of development), it performs poorly in terms of human rights and tolerance. This paper suggests that there is a risk of failure in the actual implementation of SDG Goal 16 in a large and diverse country like Indonesia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the past 20 years, divorce has increased in Indonesia. Indonesian statistics show that divorces initiated by women exceed those by men. One issue that is often neglected is how socioeconomic differences also play a role in this matter. Drawing on our collaborative research on Muslim divorces in Indonesia, this paper focuses on the interplay between divorce strategies and socioeconomic differences among Muslim couples. Our in-depth interviews with 93 Muslim men and women and 19 judges from Islamic courts show that class differences shape distinctive dynamics of divorce among Muslim Indonesians. Couples from less educated, lower-income backgrounds accept marriage dissolution more easily, with women becoming much less tolerant of men's behaviors such as infliction of domestic violence, infidelity, and failure to provide financial support. Educated, middle-class urban couples divorce for similar reasons but tend to experience a lengthier process accompanied by complex layers of conflict. Many educated women's narratives emphasize their ability to support themselves through working, and a desire to be free of a bad marriage at any cost. Class and education thus contribute to significant differences in the experience and trajectories of divorce in Indonesia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the factors which cause the violation of the Governmental Decree No. 6 of 2012 on Cattle Control at Palu City by cattle owners. This research was conducted at South Palu, especially at the North Birobuli District using the qualitative-naturalistic method. The results of this research show that the society has not yet obeyed the Regional Decree No. 6 of 2012 on Cattle Control at Palu City area due to some factors: (1) the new values of the Regional Decree No. 6 of 2012 is against the old values of the cattle owners; (2) the cattle owners do not have an understanding of the stipulations which apply nor do they understand the social change which is currently happening; (3) The attitudes and behaviors of the policeofficers and the changemakers were inconsistent and rather discriminative; and (4) the disobedience may cause health problems which are anthrax, nail and mouth disease, or other diseases to the cattle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: For countries to contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 3.1 of reducing the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030, identifying the drivers of maternal mortality is critically important. The ability of countries to identify the key drivers is however hampered by the lack of data sources with sufficient observations of maternal death to allow a rigorous analysis of its determinants. This paper overcomes this problem by utilising census data. In the context of Indonesia, we merge individual-level data on pregnancy-related deaths and households’ socio-economic status from the 2010 Indonesian population census with detailed data on the availability and quality of local health services from the Village Census. We use these data to test the hypothesis that health service access and quality are important determinants of maternal death and explain the differences between high maternal mortality and low maternal mortality provinces. Methods: The 2010 Indonesian Population Census identifies 8075 pregnancy-related deaths and 5,866,791 live births. Multilevel logistic regression is used to analyse the impacts of demographic characteristics and the existence of, distance to and quality of health services on the likelihood of maternal death. Decomposition analysis quantifies the extent to which the difference in maternal mortality ratios between high and low performing provinces can be explained by demographic and health service characteristics. Findings: Health service access and characteristics account for 23% (CI: 17.2% to 28.5%) of the difference in maternal mortality ratios between high and low-performing provinces. The most important contributors are the number of doctors working at the community health centre (8.6%), the number of doctors in the village (6.9%) and distance to the nearest hospital (5.9%). Distance to health clinics and the number of midwives at community health centres and village health posts are not significant contributors, nor is socio-economic status. If the same level of access to doctors and hospitals in lower maternal mortality Java-Bali was provided to the higher maternal mortality Outer Islands of Indonesia, our model predicts 44 deaths would be averted per 100,000 pregnancies. Conclusion: Indonesia has employed a strategy over the past several decades of increasing the supply of midwives as a way of decreasing maternal mortality. While there is evidence of reductions in maternal mortality continuing to accrue from the provision of midwife services at village health posts, our findings suggest that further reductions in maternal mortality in Indonesia may require a change of focus to increasing the supply of doctors and access to hospitals. If data on maternal death is collected in a subsequent census, future research using two waves of census data would prove a useful validation of the results found here. Similar research using census data from other countries is also likely to be fruitful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Epidemiology provides insights about causes of diseases and how to control them, and is powered by surveillance information. Animal health surveillance systems typically have been designed to meet high-level government informational needs, and any incentives for those who generate data (such as animal owners and animal health workers) to report surveillance information are sometimes outweighed by the negative consequences of reporting; underreporting is a serious constraint. This problem can persist even when modern advances in information and communications technology (ICT) are incorporated into the structure and operation of surveillance systems, although some problems typical of paper-based systems (including timeliness of reporting and response, accuracy of data entry, and level of detail recorded) are reduced. On occasions, however, additional problems including sustainability arise. We describe two examples of a philosophical approach and ICT platform for the development of powerful and sustainable health information systems that are people-centred and do not exhibit these typical problems. iSIKHNAS is Indonesia's integrated animal health information system, and PIISAC is a sustainable secure research platform based on full production data from participating commercial Chilean aquaculture companies. Epidemiologists working with these systems are faced with interesting new challenges, including the need to develop skills in extracting appropriate surveillance outcomes from large volumes of continually-streaming data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Timor-Leste the fight against Indonesian occupation, social conservatism, the persistence of ethnic and cultural mores and the prioritisation of caste and adat have shaped gender relations in both public and private life. In the early struggle for power after independence women fought long and hard for recognition as important political actors and concomitantly the implementation of a policy of affirmative action to ensure their place in the new National Parliament—a battle initially sidelined and defeated by primarily international political androcentricity. Recent achievements of almost 30 per cent representation of women in the National Parliament demonstrate that women have come a long way in a very short time.1 Nevertheless, the problems of regional political and socio-economic incorporation have impeded the establishment of a full and complete citizenship for women. This paper considers how the politics of culture and traditional mores in a post-conflict situation can determine and shape the political struggle for gender equity both within and across the different generations of Timorese men and women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

1I would like to express my deep gratitude to Professor V.T. King, University of Hull, and Dr Fiona Kerlogue, Horniman Museum, who offered many suggestions for this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the tension between the materiality of information and communications technologies and the hyperreality which they are thought to produce. The setting for our analysis is Indonesia, where the most recent innovations in communications technologies co-exist alongside ancient - but still functional - 'predecessor' devices. Building upon Benedict Anderson's work on late-colonial Indonesia and Chandra Mukerji's work on seventeenth-century French formal gardens, we examine how the national imaginaries specific to Suharto's New Order state are embedded in the materiality of the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the e-discourse surrounding the dream of a Dutch scientist, Dr X, to create a human genetic databank in Bandung, Indonesia. Not only did Dr X hope to fulfil his dream of placing Indonesia on the genetic world map, he also aspired to set up the largest biomedical research centre in Indonesia, using blood samples gathered from various laboratories, medical centres and the jungle. His most important project was to study genes for familial syndromes, such as cancers and forms of mental retardation, some of which are considered to be specific for certain ethnic groups in Indonesia. Much has been written on the targets of the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP), but the incentives for and motives of geneticists to set up biobanks are little understood. Many works have 'framed' scientists as imperialists, Orientalists, racists and positivists or hailed them as explorers of humanity, pioneers of science and saviours of mankind. By analyzing Dr X's e-letters to fellow scientists, academics and politicians, I claim that the validity of such theories depends on whether they sufficiently take into account the institutional embedding. An institutional approach to biobanking should incorporate an assessment of socioeconomic inequalities, both on an international and national level, public healthcare needs, research regulation, and differences in academic cultures from a comparative perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses key issues concerning the government proposal to nominate the Pura Besakih temple complex as a World Heritage Site. Political aspects of the disputed nomination; Processes by which World Heritage Sites are nominated and accepted; Implications for sociological studies of Indonesia.

After World War Two many Dutchmen perceived the Japanese occupation of 'their' Dutch East Indies in the light of their own experience with German rule during 1940-1945. In how far and in what respects were the two occupations similar? In this paper an analysis is presented of the ways in which the occupant in both cases utilized negative sanctions, could depend on certain sources of authority, and saw fit to manipulate various autochthonous elites with positive sanctions. Such a comparison makes sense not only in view of its historical and actual political significance, but also as a contribution to the development of a sociology of occupation of conquered territories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: The objective of this study is to obtain population norms and to assess test-retest reliability of EQ-5D-5L and WHOQOL-BREF for the Indonesian population. Methods: A representative sample of 1056 people aged 17–75 years was recruited from the Indonesian general population. We used a multistage stratified quota sampling method with respect to residence, gender, age, education level, religion and ethnicity. Respondents completed EQ-5D-5L and WHOQOL-BREF with help from an interviewer. Norms data for both instruments were reported. For the test-retest evaluations, a sub-sample of 206 respondents completed both instruments twice. Results: The total sample and test-retest sub-sample were representative of the Indonesian general population. The EQ-5D-5L shows almost perfect agreement between the two tests (Gwet’s AC: 0.85–0.99 and percentage agreement: 90–99%) regarding the five dimensions. However, the agreement of EQ-VAS and index scores can be considered as poor (ICC: 0.45 and 0.37 respectively). For the WHOQOL-BREF, ICCs of the four domains were between 0.70 and 0.79, which indicates moderate to good agreement. For EQ-5D-5L, it was shown that female and older respondents had lower EQ-index scores, whilst rural, younger and higher-educated respondents had higher EQ-VAS scores. For WHOQOL-BREF: male, younger, higher-educated, high-income respondents had the highest scores in most of the domains, overall quality of life, and health satisfaction. Conclusions: This study provides representative estimates of self-reported health status and quality of life for the general Indonesian population as assessed by the EQ-5D-5L and WHOQOL-BREF instruments. The descriptive system of the EQ-5D-5L and the WHOQOL-BREF have high test-retest reliability while the EQ-VAS and the index score of EQ-5D-5L show poor agreement between the two tests. Our results can be useful to researchers and clinicians who can compare their findings with respect to these concepts with those of the Indonesian general population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The EQ-5D is one of the most used generic health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) instruments worldwide. To make the EQ-5D suitable for use in economic evaluations, a societal-based value set is needed. Indonesia does not have such a value set.Objective: The aim of this study was to derive an EQ-5D-5L value set from the Indonesian general population.Methods: A representative sample aged 17 years and over was recruited from the Indonesian general population. A multi-stage stratified quota method with respect to residence, gender, age, level of education, religion and ethnicity was utilized. Two elicitation techniques, the composite time trade-off (C-TTO) and discrete choice experiments (DCE) were applied. Interviews were undertaken by trained interviewers using computer-assisted face-to-face interviews with the EuroQol Valuation Technology (EQ-VT) platform. To estimate the value set, a hybrid regression model combining C-TTO and DCE data was used.Results: A total of 1054 respondents who completed the interview formed the sample for the analysis. Their characteristics were similar to those of the Indonesian population. Most self-reported health problems were observed in the pain/discomfort dimension (39.66%) and least in the self-care dimension (1.89%). In the value set, the maximum value was 1.000 for full health (health state '11111') followed by the health state '11112' with value 0.921. The minimum value was -0.865 for the worst state ('55555'). Preference values were most affected by mobility and least by pain/discomfort.Conclusions: We now have a representative EQ-5D-5L value set for Indonesia. We expect our results will promote and facilitate health economic evaluations and HRQOL research in Indonesia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Three Delays Model has proven a useful framework for examining barriers to seeking obstetric care and preventing maternal and child mortality. This article demonstrates the applicability of the Three Delays Model to the case of civil registration in rural Indonesia and examines ways that efforts to strengthen civil registration services can draw on lessons from maternal and child health programming. Twenty focus group discussions were conducted using a participatory ranking exercise in four Indonesian districts. Focus groups were stratified into four groups: (1) government officials involved in civil registration, (2) civil society organization members that assist communities in civil registration, and (3) female and (4) male community members. Transcripts were analyzed using constant comparative method and thematic analysis, revealing barriers that communities commonly faced in accessing civil registration services. In examining the categories and themes related to these barriers, the research team found a significant overlap with the factors and phases of the Three Delays Model. Participants were delayed from seeking registration services by a range of sociocultural factors and by the perceived inaccessibility and poor quality of services. Once they decided to seek care, long distances to services and poor transportation options delayed their access to registration offices. Finally, a series of bottlenecks in service provision created extended delays once applicants reached registration offices. Ownership of civil registration documents in Indonesia remains exceptionally low, with just over half of children and youth possessing a birth certificate. To strengthen civil registration and health systems more generally, it is important to understand the factors that enable and constrain civil registration, how these factors relate to one another, and how they change over a child’s life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The double burden of malnutrition affects many low and middle-income countries. This study aimed to: a) determine temporal trends in the prevalence of underweight, stunting, and at risk of overweight/ overweight or obesity in Indonesian children aged 2.0–4.9 years; and b) examine associated risk factors. Design: A repeated cross-sectional survey. This is a secondary data analysis of waves 1, 2, 3, and 4 (1993, 1997, 2000, and 2007) of the Indonesian Family Life Survey, which includes 13 out of 27 provinces in Indonesia. Height, weight and BMI were expressed as z-scores (2006 WHO Child Growth Standards). Weight-for-age-z-score <-2 was categorised as underweight, height-for-age-z-score <-2 as stunted, and BMI-z-score >+1, >+2, >+3 as at-risk, overweight and obese, respectively. Results: There are 938, 913, 939, and 1311 separate children in the 4 waves, respectively. The prevalence of stunting decreased significantly from waves 1 to 4 (from 50.8% to 36.7%), as did the prevalence of underweight (from 34.5% to 21.4%). The prevalence of ‘at-risk’/overweight/obesity increased from 10.3% to 16.5% (all P<0.01). Stunting and underweight were related to lower birth weight, being breastfed for 6 months or more, having parents who were underweight or had short stature, and mothers who never attended formal education. Stunting was also higher in rural areas. Being at-risk, or overweight/obese were closely related to being in the youngest age group (2–2·9 years) or male, having parents who were overweight/obese or having fathers with university education. Conclusions: The double burden of malnutrition occurs in Indonesian children. Development of policy to combine the management of chronic under-nutrition and over-nutrition is required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Duck populations are considered to be a reservoir of Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus H5N1 in some agricultural production systems, as they are able to shed the virus for several days without clinical signs. Countries endemically affected with HPAI in Asia are characterised by production systems where ducks are fed on post-harvest spilled rice. During this scavenging process it is common for ducks to come into contact with other duck flocks or wild birds, thereby providing opportunities for virus spread. Effective risk management for HPAI has been significantly compromised by a limited understanding of management of moving duck flocks in these countries, despite of a small number of recent investigations. Here, for the first time, we described the management of moving duck flocks and the structure of the moving duck flock network in quantitative terms so that factors influencing the risk of HPAIV transmission can be identified. By following moving duck flock farmers over a period of 6 months in Java, Indonesia, we were able to describe the movement of flocks and to characterise the network of various types of actors associated with the production system. We used these data to estimate the basic reproductive number for HPAI virus spread. Our results suggest that focussing HPAI prevention measures on duck flocks alone will not be sufficient. Instead, the role of transporters of moving duck flocks, hatcheries and rice paddy owners, in the spread of the HPAI virus needs to be recognised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study empirically investigates the influence of bridging organizations on governance outcomes for marine conservation in Indonesia. Conservation challenges require ways of governing that are collaborative and adaptive across boundaries, and where conservation actions are better coordinated, information flows improved, and knowledge better integrated and mobilized. We combine quantitative social network analysis and qualitative data to analyze bridging organizations and their networks, and to understand their contributions and constraints in two case studies in Bali, Indonesia. The analysis shows 1) bridging organizations help to navigate the ‘messiness’ inherent in conservation settings by compensating for sparse linkages, 2) the particular structure and function of bridging organizations influence governing processes (i.e., collaboration, knowledge sharing) and subsequent conservation outcomes, 3) ‘bridging’ is accomplished using different strategies and platforms for collaboration and social learning, and 4) bridging organizations enhance flexibility to adjust to changing marine conservation contexts and needs. Understanding the organizations that occupy bridging positions, and how they utilize their positionality in a governance network is emerging as an important determinant of successful conservation outcomes. Our findings contribute to a relatively new body of literature on bridging organizations in marine conservation contexts, and add needed empirical investigation into their value to governance and conservation in Coral Triangle nations and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the research project conducted by a team from the Center for Political Studies (LIPI) on the dynamics of the Gampong institution under Aceh's Special Autonomy status in Indonesia. It notes that Indonesia is undergoing social and economic transformation and is taking place in the village, or nagari to use the Minagkabau term. Furthermore, this article looks at the dynamics of the gampong in Aceh as a social institution through seeing the altering context surrounding the gampong from time to time and how all these formed the realities of the gampong. According to the author, this study includes four main elements of the qualitative method including interview, participant observation, document and literature analysis, and focus-group discussions.

The article presents an investigation on the genealogical model of Savu, Eastern Indonesia. It notes that Savu had little to offer in the past in terms of valuable goods including spices, resins, or precious wood and was bypassed by the traders, most notably the Portuguese and Dutch colonial powers that were active in the region. Furthermore, this issue also mentions James Fox and Nico Kana who published a research about the Savu people and their means of living. Moreover, Savu, according to the author, was an excellent field to research memory process in a society that until recently had not recorded its traditions. The article also mentions the geographical setting, historical background, and the social organisations that make up Savu.

Discusses key issues concerning the aesthetics, design and motifs of Jambi batik in Indonesia. Difference between Jambi and Javanese batik; Uses of the textiles; Implications for sociological studies of Indonesia.

Presents an essay which reflects on the plays of masks and selves in the dances and the life of Didik Nini Thowok, and the resonances between dance and life. Importance of tradition if it is seen as a kind of rootedness in existing artistic and social structures, values and sensibilities that survive from the past and live and change in the present; Significance of seeing Didik's dances in the context of the contemporary artistic landscape; Emphasis on how individual people are involved with the arts, and how their individual life experiences and personal concerns and passions shape their involvement.

The independence of Indonesia in 1949, the subsequent worsening of relations with the Netherlands and, finally, the evacuation of Dutch New Guinea in 1962 as the last colonial territory in the East, deprived Dutch anthropologists of most of their one-time work and research domains. As compensation, many former colonial administrators and government researchers received secure positions in Dutch universities and ethnological museums. Until the mid-1960s, the development of the social sciences in the Netherlands was marked, like Dutch society and culture as a whole, by a self-confidence turned complacency. In the social sciences, this smugness was manifest in frequent, extremely optimistic appraisals of the progress and future of the discipline and, not to be forgotten, of its practitioners. One did not worry, society progressed, science progressed and the position of social scientists was secure, their work seemingly useful, and well paid. A few years later, however, this idyllic situation was rudely disturbed.

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