Academic literature on the topic 'Maphilindo'

Artikel ini menyingkap karya seni yang dihasilkan oleh kumpulan Pangrok Sulap bertajuk Maphilindo. Pangrok Sulap merupakan sebuah kumpulan yang terdiri daripada beberapa orang pengkarya yang amat prolifik menghasilkan karya cetakan teknik woodcut. Kajian khusus tentang karya seni cetakan yang bertajuk Maphilindo dipilih kerana memaparkan isu budaya dan sosial. Karya ini menggambarkan harapan tentang kesatuan budaya yang terkandung dalam gagasan kesatuan Maphilindo, iaitu Malaysia, Filipina dan Indonesia. Ketiga-tiga buah negara yang terlibat dalam penubuhan gagasan Maphilindo memberi kesan kepada budaya dan kehidupan sosial masyarakat tempatan. Pengkarya menggunakan seni cetakan untuk memberi gambaran dan pendedahan tentang kesedaran orang awam tentang isu ini. Penulis menggunakan Teori Ikonografi oleh Erwin Panofsky (1972) dalam menghurai setiap elemen seni visual yang diketengahkan oleh pengkarya dalam karya cetakan. Data-data yang terdiri daripada elemen formal dianalisis melalui tiga tahap analisis iaitu primer, praikonografi dan makna ikonografi. Kajian ini mendapati bahawa karya ini memaparkan elemen kesatuan yang selaras dengan budaya dan sosial antara negara Malaysia, Filipina dan Indonesia. This article reveals the artwork produced by the Pangrok Sulap group titled Maphilindo. Pangrok Sulap is a group consisting of several very prolific works producing woodcut prints. This special study of printed artwork titled Maphilindo was chosen because it presents cultural and social issues. This work also illustrates the hope of cultural unity contained in the idea of Maphilindo unity, namely the countries of Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. The three countries involved in the establishment of Maphilindo ideas have an impact on the culture and social life of local communities. The artist uses printed art to give an idea and exposure to the public’s awareness of the issue. The author used Erwin Panofsky’s Theory of Iconography (1972) to decipher visual art elements centered by the works in print. Data consisting of formal elements is analyzed through three stages of analysis e.g. primary, preiconography and iconography meaning. The study found that this work presents elements of unity that align with culture and social between Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is the first organisation of such scope in the region, and one of the oldest in the world. Explaining its longevity are the principles and working methods that have been embodied in the organisation since its inception in 1967. Amongst the most prominent, and least studied, of these has been the so-called ASEAN Way. This thesis traces the troubled origins of ASEAN as an organisation, and the place in it of this paramount principle. It does so by examining its watershed period, defined here as 1945-1968. This is achieved by focussing on the many sources of dissonance and disharmony that had characterised the Southeast Asian region before ASEAN’s inception, and most strongly so in the Cold War period. Despite this, the thesis suggests, the countries of the region were constantly searching for ways in which some degree of harmonisation, and solid forms of working relations between quite diverse states, could be achieved. The thesis looks at the historically important staging posts of regional cooperation by examining interactions between countries in ASEAN: the formation process of the Association of Southeast Asia (ASA) and Maphilindo, both of which should be regarded as the forerunners of ASEAN, in addition to the formation of ASEAN itself. In the ASA, the practice of ‘consultation’ was regarded as important to ensure regional cooperation. The practices of ‘face-saving behaviour’ and ‘informality’ were added to these through the subsequent association of Indonesia, Malaya and the Philippines (Maphilindo). Maphilindo also introduced the idea of ‘working together’, this being written in its charter. In the period between the ending of the three-way dispute after the collapse of Maphilindo and the formation of ASEAN, the working method of ‘shelving thorny issues’, on which no compromise could be achieved, emerged. The thesis shows that the latter was first brought into the settlement process of the territorial dispute over Sabah, which was in important respects the catalyst for the formation of ASEAN. The thesis also looks at the settlement process employed in the so-called Corregidor affair, which occurred only one year after the establishment of ASEAN, and was most important in shaping the working nature of the new association. In the course of the settlement process of the Corregidor affair, ASEAN first exercised in a loosely, and flexibly, integrated way all four of the above-mentioned practices, and did so under the overarching principle of ‘working together’; a notion that in some significant ways defines the ASEAN Way.
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of History and Politics, 2010