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Journal : International Review of Humanities Studies

URBAN CULTURAL OMNIVORES, UPSCALING ETHNIC FOOD AND CULINARY REPRODUCTION IN MARCO AND SUNTIANG Tambunan, Shuri Mariasih Gietty; Widhiasti, Maria Regina; Bachrioktora, Yudi; Utami, Nila Ayu
International Review of Humanities Studies Vol. 4, No. 1
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Culinary practices have always been considered as social and cultural activities signifying ideas of continuity and transformation regarding one‟s culture and identity. As migration happens, people move from their hometown and recreate familiar food and flavors in their new home. Therefore, the study of culinary practices will reveal the dynamics of constant negotiation between having to trace back the familiar taste, for example by using inherited recipes, with the necessity to innovate and reproduce meals from their hometown with new ingredients and materials found in the new place. Furthermore, in an urban setting that has been heavily influenced with a variety of culinary practices from other locales in Indonesia or from other countries, culinary practices in Jakarta could no longer be analyzed as merely everyday activities as they have become an arena of contestation and negotiation. This research discusses how two up-scale restaurants, Suntiang (a Padangnese-Japanese fusion restaurant) and Marco (a self-proclaimed Padang peranakan restaurant), re-inscribe Padangnese cuisines and make new meanings on „old‟ traditional delicacies.
'WE ONLY WANT TO PLANT OIL PALM": AN ETHNOHISTORY OF ILLEGAL PEASANT’S OIL PALM PLANTATIONS IN MUARO JAMBI, JAMBI PROVINCE, INDONESIA Bachrioktora, Yudi
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The increasing global demand for vegetable oils and biofuels is a determining factor in increasing oil palm expansion in Indonesia. The current studies of Indonesia's oil palm expansion focus on companies' large-scale land acquisition. In this process, often called land grabbing, small peasants are excluded from the acceleration of oil palm expansion. This research focuses on the rarely discussed topic of the participation of small peasants in the palm oil production chain. Employing ethnohistory, this research unfolds the impact of oil palm expansion on small peasants and indigenous people, especially those who expand their plantations into the forest in Jambi Province. This research aims to show how peasants and indigenous peoples respond to the commercial crops boom in Indonesia.
RIUNGAN: REPRESENTATION OF MUSLIM BETAWI PINGGIR THROUGH THE PRACTICE OF EATING TOGETHER (A CASE STUDY OF KAMPUNG PONDOK PUCUNG, PONDOK AREN, SOUTH TANGERANG) Julianto, Gregorio Surya Abdi; Bachrioktora, Yudi
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Riungan is an eating-together event involving the kampung community as a form of religious worship and gratefulness/gratitude to God. Through an ethnography approach, with in-depth interviews and a literature review as a method, this research explores the relationship between the practice of eating together and cultural identity in riungan as held by the Muslim Betawi of Kampung Pondok Pucung. The result of this research shows that riungan has become a space to representation of the cultural identity of the Betawi Pinggir (peripheral Betawi), particularly emphasizing their cultural and Islam heritage. Through the types of food brought and the communal eating practices, the cultural identity influenced by Sundanese and Javanese cultures is revealed. The practice of riungan at the mosque, musalla, and residents' homes underscores that this food practice is not only a form of worship but also a means to strengthen social relationships within the Muslim community, thereby reinforcing their cultural and religious identity.
THE MIDDLE CLASS, THE YOUTH, THE HIGHWAYS: PRODUCTION OF SPACE AND URBAN MEMORY IN BLOK M, JAKARTA Novantara, Bimana; Bachrioktora, Yudi; Kurnia, Lilawati
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This paper examines the historical and contemporary dynamics of the Blok M area in Jakarta as a public space undergoing a process of spatial, cultural, and symbolic transformation. Using Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the production of space and then relating it to the discourse of urban memory according to Abidin Kusno, this study traces how Blok M developed from the modernist urban planning of Kebayoran Baru after independence to be the epicenter of youth festivity, then declined until it rose again through a place that utilized the memory of this area in the past. This study highlights how the politics of marginalization, cultural practices, and power discourses through infrastructure shape the meaning of an urban area in Jakarta. By analyzing historical narratives, visual artefacts, and urban planning policies, this article argues that changes in Blok M represent physical transformation and struggle over collective memory, middle-class identity, and power relations in the production of the contemporary urban space of Jakarta.