Academic literature on the topic 'Church and state Indonesia Flores Island'

This essay details how an “intuitive reading” of the Book of Ruth by a group of HIV carriers from Flores island, Indonesia, renewed their faith. The men caught the virus as economic migrants and then proceeded to give it to their wives on returning home sick. Rejected by family and by many members of the clergy, they have formed their own support group. Coming from the interior, most were not regular church goers before contacting the virus. Some years ago they began reading the Scriptures regularly once a month. They easily identified with Naomi and Ruth, with their failed migration, and with the tactics they were forced to use in order to survive on returning to Bethlehem. Members of the HIV support group, largely unsupported by the institutional Church or by their extended families, have discovered in reading the Bible together a liberating Word that has rekindled a deep personal faith in the God of compassion. Kata-kata kunci: HIV, perantau, migran, ODHA, Support Group, Syering, Kitab Suci, Rut.

In May 1934 Nehru and Sukarno were both in detention. Nehru was in Dehra Dun jail sentenced to two years after having been found guilty of making a seditious speech. Sukarno, also arrested for sedition, was in exile on the island of Flores. For both men it was a period of reflection and analysis, a time to review the progress of the nationalist movement and make some assessment of their own contributions to it. Nehru, more given to introspection than Sukarno, composed his autobiography during this time, and continued with the historical studies he had commenced during earlier prison terms. Sukarno in exile spent much of his time getting to grips with Islam, primarily, it would appear, to prepare arguments to convince the leaders of the Islamic movements in Indonesia of the compatibility of Islam with modernization and progressive political action. In this respect, like Jinnah, he was attracted to the figure of Kemal Attaturk whose general outlook on the relationship between state and religion he endorsed.

Fishing fleets in South East Asia have recently experienced unprecedented expansion. Consequently, catches and regional diversity have dramatically decreased throughout the Indian Ocean. Regional governments and conservation organizations blame the local fishermen and their use of damaging fishing practices for the present state of resources. However, many of these institutions endorse a narrow perspective on bioeconomic governance and human action (rational action choice) that compromises the understanding of resource use and exploitation among small-scale fisheries. Over the last few decades, there is a growing recognized tradition that points to the importance of ecological systems of knowledge, uncertainty representation, and traditional skills, in conceptualizing processes of environmental decision-making and the likelihood of introducing successful sustainability practices. In line with this perspective, this article presents preliminary findings regarding resource use decision-making processes among Endenese fishing villages in central Flores Island, Indonesia. Grounded on 22 months of ethnographic, experimental and ecological research (semistructured interviews, participant observation, visual surveys, probability and uncertainty assessments), and exploring local cognitive representations of marine processes, climate, ichthyology and the role of luck, this article discusses the current economic representations of small-scale fishers as avid maximizers. It concludes by emphasizing the need to further explore the role of mental models and beliefs regarding uncertainty in motivating fishing effort to design adequate conservation and governance programs.

Genesis 1:26 and 2:15 state that the Church as an integral part of mankind receives mandate from God to preserve the earth which He created good. The earth which once was good but now is facing a crucial environmental problems, such as nature pollution and global warming; which is caused by human indiscretion in managing the earth; become the impetus for this paper to examine whether the Church has been being eco – theology enough and also to explore the Church’s involvement in maintaining the nature as an environment for every creature. In order to accomplish the objective of this paper, hence the question of whether the Church is still actively carrying out God’s mandate as the steward and caretaker of the earth, becomes the main issue that will be discussed and answered in this research. The selection of the Church of the Nazarene population was determined on the basis that in the perspective of Missio Dei, and the statute of the Church of the Nazarene, the Church plays a role in carrying out God’s Mission through environmental preservation. Java island is appointed as the population based on facts that Java island is the most densely populated area in Indonesia which is vulnerable to environmental damage. The research was conducted with the biblical study approach on the key verse and undertaking evaluation of the Church’s role through a survey method to measure its involvement in environmental issues with various approaches that are possible to be implemented in 5.0 era. The result of the research is expected to become a turning point for the Church’s involvement to be more effective in overcoming environmental problems around the Church. The recency of the research compared with the previous one lies on the implementation aspect of Missio Dei of the Church of the Nazarene, and its relevance towards the Church’s responsibility in preserving the earth. Kejadian 1:26 dan 2:15 menyatakan bahwa Gereja sebagai bagian integral dari umat manusia mendapat mandat dari Tuhan untuk memelihara bumi yang diciptakanNya baik. Bumi yang semula baik adanya, namun kini menghadapi masalah lingkungan hidup yang krusial, seperti pencemaran alam dan pemanasan global; yang diakibatkan oleh ketidakbijaksanan manusia dalam menata bumi; menjadi pendorong dari paper ini untuk menelisik apakah Gereja sudah cukup ber eco – theology (berteologi alam) dan juga untuk mengeksplorasi bagaimana keterlibatan Gereja dalam memelihara alam sebagai lingkungan hidup setiap makhluk. Dalam rangka mencapai tujuan paper ini, maka pertanyaan apakah Gereja masih menjalankan mandate Tuhan sebagai pengelola dan pemelihara bumi secara aktif, menjadi issue utama yang akan dibahas dan dijawab dalam penelitian ini. Pemilihan populasi Gereja Kristen Nazarene ditentukan atas dasar bahwa dalam perpektif Missio Dei, dan Tata Dasar Gereja Kristen Nazarene; Gereja berperan menjalankan Misi Allah melalui melestarikan lingkungan hidup. Pulau Jawa ditentukan sebagai populasi dengan dasar fakta bahwa Pulau Jawa merupakan area dengan populasi terpadat di Indonesia yang rentan terhadap kerusakan lingkungan. Penelitian dilakukan dengan pendekatan studi biblika atas nats kunci dan melakukan evaluasi atas peran Gereja melalui metode penelitian survey untuk megukur keterlibatannya dalam issue–issue lingkungan hidup dengan berbagai pendekatan yang memungkinkan untuk diimplementasikan di di era 5.0. Hasil penelitian diharapkan dapat menjadi titik balik keterlibatan Gereja lebih efektif dalam mengatasi masalah lingkungan hidup di sekitar Gereja. Kebaharuan penelitian dibandingkan penelitian sebelumnya terletak pada implementasi aspek Misio Dei Gereja Kristen Nazarene, dan relevansinya terhadap tanggungjawab Gereja dalam memelihara bumi.

The Journal of Disaster Research (JDR) has published many special issues in addition to its regular issues. These special issues have included various papers that have covered disasters comprehensively. Among them, the Special Issue on “Tsunami Forces and Effects on Structures” in Vol.4 No.6, 2009 and the Special Issue on “Uncertainties in Tsunami Effects” in Vol.11 No.4, 2016 include practical papers on tsunami disasters which are sure to contribute greatly to tsunami disaster control. The members of the JDR editorial board have unanimously agreed to present this second JDR Award to the editor of the special issues: Harry Yeh Professors, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University, USA I met Professor Harry Yeh for the first time while doing a field survey on the earthquake and tsunami that struck Flores Island, Indonesia in December 1992. He was already a world-renowned researcher, known for his theoretical tsunami research based on accurate hydraulic experiments. I remember that I was deeply impressed with his energetic attitude towards the survey as he worked to reveal phenomena on the disaster site. Since then, I have accompanied him on various disaster surveys, and I have listened to his unique and significant opinions on tsunami studies at many conferences. The two special issues mentioned above reflect his broad range of knowledge and experience. On behalf of the JDR editorial board, I wish to thank Professor Harry Yeh for his efforts and to congratulate him as the winner of the second JDR Award. Tomoyuki Takahashi Professor, Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences, Kansai University, Japan

AbstractEastern Indonesia is one of the world’s most complex regions in terms of tsunami hazards, as it accommodates numerous seismic and non-seismic tsunami sources with a history of deadly tsunamis. This study is an effort to enhance tsunami hazard knowledge in eastern Indonesia where limited data and analyses exist. We provide a brief understanding of eastern Indonesia’s tsunami hazards by modelling selected deterministic tsunami scenarios from tectonic, submarine mass failure (SMF), and volcanic sources. To our knowledge, this is the first time that tsunami hazards modelling from such diverse sources in Indonesia has been performed. Our methodology is a deterministic tsunami hazard analysis considering credible tsunami sources from historical and contemporary data, modelling them using state-of-the-art simulation tools. We modelled two Mw7.8 tsunamigenic earthquake scenarios on the Flores back-arc thrust, one rupturing the basal fault (FBT-BF) and the other rupturing the splay fault (FBT-SF), showing that the two scenarios produce maximum tsunami amplitudes of $$\sim$$ ∼ 5.3 m and $$\sim$$ ∼ 4.2 m, respectively, which are comparable to the deadly 1992 Flores tsunami. We modelled potential SMF-generated tsunamis in the Makassar Strait with SMF volumes of 5 $$\hbox {km}^3$$ km 3 and 225 $$\hbox {km}^3$$ km 3 which yielded maximum tsunami heights of $$\sim$$ ∼ 1.1 m and $$\sim$$ ∼ 4.3 m along the eastern coast of Kalimantan Island and $$\sim$$ ∼ 2.9 m and $$\sim$$ ∼ 11.1 m along the west shore of Sulawesi Island, respectively. The 1871 Ruang volcanic tsunami is studied through existing historical documents and a source model is proposed comprising a flank collapse with volume of $$0.10\ \mathrm{km}^3$$ 0.10 km 3 . Such a source model successfully reproduced the 25 m runup reported in a historical account.