Word: indonesianness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...those days we ate our meat raw, like animals." The speaker is Viktor Jurubu, an Indonesian farmer in his 60s, who, in his T shirt and sarong, looks little like the cavemen he's describing. Except for his height, which is about 140 cm. In the world of anthropology, Jurubu's small size is big news because he and his 246 fellow villagers of Rampasasa on the remote island of Flores say they are descended from a tribe of tiny, hairy folk whom they call "the short people." "We didn't have knives but used rocks," he explains. "We didn...
...Today, it's the villagers of Rampasasa who are causing others to be, if not embarrassed, then at least flustered. Liang Bua is where a team of Australian and Indonesian scientists reported in Nature magazine last October that they had discovered the bones of seven individuals ranging in age from 13,000 to 95,000 years old. (Another set was found later.) Among the findings: a nearly intact skeleton that the anthropologists said belonged to an adult female who lived as recently as 18,000 years ago yet was only the size of a modern-day 6-year-old. Because...
...LIFTED. STATE OF EMERGENCY, in Indonesia's restive Aceh province, where a decades-long insurgency has cost more than 12,000 lives; in Jakarta. The expiration of the year-old state of emergency comes as the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (G.A.M.) negotiate a peace deal in the wake of the Dec. 26 tsunami, which killed more than 100,000 Acehnese. Although 38,000 government troops will remain on the ground, Bivitri Susanti, executive director of the Centre for Indonesian Law and Policy Studies, called the move "a very significant step for the reconstruction process...
...Harvard University does not teach the language nor culture of the world’s fourth most populous nation: Indonesia. Search the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Courses of Instruction and you emerge with three courses marginally related to the country—and not even one for the Indonesian language. We teach Bretton and Sumerian, Old Church Slavonic, and Pali— but have omitted Bengali, Javanese, Telugu, and Indonesian—which combined, are spoken by a total of 480 million people around the world. Though it’s true that Indonesia is an archipelago, we?...
...this is all stargazing unless there is increased scholastic activity within the United States itself. Currently, there are only three universities in America that teach Indonesian literature—and Harvard is not among them. Of over 3,500 American universities, there are fewer than 20 that teach the Indonesian language. Increased diplomatic contact does not arise in a vacuum—it requires strong domestic advocates. This already exists in Indonesia—a better relationship with the last superpower has obvious, tangible benefits. In America, such contact can most easily start in our universities, with their significant base...