Indonesia: The Troubled Giant Question 1: What political factors explain Indonesia’s poor economic performance? What economic factors? Are these two related? The impeachment of the Indonesian dictator Suharto is widely considered one of the most exciting political happenings of recent years. Indonesia is the world’s fourth biggest country‚ with a population of 202 million people; Suharto had ruled the country with an iron fist for about 32 years. The fact that his absolute
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Student ID No. 10133166 Choose one social problem’ and consider society’s response to that social problem. In this essay I am going to attempt to define the term social problem’ and what it might mean in today’s western society. The essay will then provide an overview of what mental illness might be and mean to the sufferer. In an effort to further understand why mental illness might be considered a social problem‚ the use of language’ will be discussed in the context of how in the past
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Reflection Paper #3 Social Problems in Communist China China is a country that is plagued with many social problems. Some of them go back many years and others are new to the horizon‚ thanks to years of not addressing the obvious. Three serious social problems that are of particular concern are the current state of suicides‚ the impending gender imbalance and the violation of human
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Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Webster University Vienna Fall 2011 RESEARCH PAPER: CULTURAL COERCION IN INDONESIA Literature review of Murray Li‚ Tania (1999): "Compromising Power: Developement‚ Culture‚ and Rule in Indonesia". In: Cultural Anthropology 14(3)‚ pp. 295-322 Vienna‚ 11.12.2011 Gregor Čorokalo Introduction The age of globalization that we currently live in has certainly brought many changes to both our environment and the ways in which we live our lives. The process
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CASE ANALYSIS: INDONESIA-THE TROUBLED GIANT I. Time Context Indonesia is a large country in the Southeast Asia. It has been in steady growth economically under the leadership of Suharto but experiencing unfair treatment by the government as the president favors those of his colleagues in many aspects. Due to Asians financial crisis debt of considerable value has been incurred and lead to economic downturn. Recovery was in 2004‚ upon inauguration of a democratic president but wasn’t enough to answer
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and more than 200 different languages. Consequently this part of the world gave many different cultures‚ traditions‚ and way of lives. Despite this diversity‚ Indonesia today has a common bond that united them all into one nation‚ one language‚ and one people. Due to this diversity‚ conflicts are unavoidable. However‚ the people of Indonesia have been able to overcome their differences. The spirit of musyawarah (to deliberate or confer)‚ mufakat (to agree)‚ and gotong-royong (mutual assistance) that
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A social problem is qualified as a problem “if the public or some segment of the public perceive the condition as a problem‚ and it exists when there is certain objective condition and society define it problematic.” (Nasibov) An on-going social problem among universities across the country involves college fraternities and hazing. Hazing is an issue that consistently reemerges. A large percentage of hazing incidents result in serious injuries‚ or at times‚ death. Any event that causes death and
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Indonesia - The Troubled Giant Indonesia is a vast country. Its 220 million people are spread out over some 17‚000 islands that span an arc 3‚200 miles long from Sumatra in the west to Irian Jaya in the east. It is the world’s most populous Muslim nation - some 85 percent of the population count themselves as Muslims -but also one of the most ethnically diverse. More than 500 languages are spoken in the country‚ and separatists are active in a number of provinces. For 30 years this sprawling
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INDONESIA Introduction: The Republic of Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world comprising 17‚504 large and small tropical islands fringed with white sandy beaches‚ many still uninhabited and a number even still unnamed. Straddling the equator‚ situated between the continents of Asia and Australia and between the Pacific and the Indian Oceans‚ it is as wide as the United States from San Francisco to New York‚ equalling the distance between London and Moscow. Indonesia has a total population
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In today’s society we have a lot of social problem that includes religion‚ politics and money. Everyone knows that those are the three things you can’t talk about on a date or family dinners. In the past decade a big social problem we have around the world is texting and driving. There are many evidence that say that texting and driving is a bigger social problem than people think it to be. Most of these evidenced are backed up by surveys‚ research involving eliciting information from respondents
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