Word: indonesianness
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...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...
...foot inside the labyrinthine Museum of Comparative Zoology. The museum is quite a world unto itself, with its desolate corridors, dusty books, and distressing posters of magnified frogs. Wandering, I soon found the Professor of Icthyology, who bid me into his office, where I was to sit my Indonesian language placement exam...
...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...
...event was supported by 16 on-campus organizations: the Asian American Association, Asian American Brotherhood, Asian American Women’s Association, Chinese Students Association, Korean Association, Korean International Student Association, Harvard Philippine Forum, Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship, Harvard Vietnamese Assocation, Hong Kong Society, Indonesian Students Association, Japan Society, Organization of Asian American Sisters In Service, Taiwanese Cultural Society, Singapore and Malaysian Association, and the South Asian Association...