IKAT : The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
The Journal strives to provide new, rigorous and comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Southeast Asia through inter-disciplinary perspectives. Its scopes includes but is not limited to economic welfare, institutional knowledge production, history, political transformations and the social development of information and communication technology in the region. Contributors may focus on an in-depth individual country analysis or on comparing a multi-country case study. Given the mission statement of CESASS, contributors are encouraged to submit empirical, methodological, theoretical, or conceptual articles about Southeast Asia through the eye of social sciences.
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<![CDATA[Revealing Millennials’ Networks in Discussing Maritime Issues within the Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government ]]>
<![CDATA[Tatak Setiadi]]>
<![CDATA[ IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol 4, No 2 (2021): January ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/ikat.v4i2.60912
<![CDATA[Millennials' networks within the triple helix of University-Industry-Government show unusual communication structures and are challenging to be revealed. Using the direct and online written interview with the millennials found about 817 relations (edges) to 347 actors (nodes) in total. Analysis by Social Network Analysis (SNA) found: (1) the dominant issues of the maritime human resources are about future work prospects and specialties field, imbalance of supply and demand of maritime human resources, and improvement needed of industry's human resources (2) the dominant skill issue is capacity building and continuous learning, (3) the highest degree of centrality and closeness centrality has resulted from Industry, (4) the highest betweenness centrality and eigenvector centrality has resulted from University, (5) there is moderate positive correlation of ages to closeness centrality and weak negative correlation to eigenvector centrality, (6) there is a moderate positive correlation of education levels to closeness centrality, (7) there is a weak negative correlation of gender to eigenvector centrality, and (8) there is a statist relation of the triple helix in discussing maritime issues.]]>
<![CDATA[Considering the Role of Money and Gifts in the (Re)-construction of Motherhood and Family Among Indonesian Transnational Female Domestic Workers ]]>
<![CDATA[Diah Irawaty]]>
<![CDATA[ IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol 4, No 2 (2021): January ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/ikat.v4i2.61570
<![CDATA[Most studies on female migrants as money earners claim that this new context of labor exhibits two distinct realms of either the commodification of love and care or the expression of care where money and emotion intertwine in maintaining family relationships and in creating reciprocity and exchange. I explore different modes of using money and gifts in addition to the major framework of economization of emotion and the emotionalization of money. I differentiate the gifts from money as it refers to non-cash gifts or in-kind gifts. This paper investigates other cultural contexts and social-political dynamics that possibly induce the construction of different roles of money and gifts. It assesses the kinship strategies and mechanisms female migrants, and their stayed-behind children develop in response to physical separation by sending money and gifts and their resistance to the state’s dominant version of the family and money. This paper elaborates how money and gifts connect to women’s identity as transnational mothers to redefine their parenting roles as main economic providers and their identity as transnational family members. It has some bearing on creating a new identity as women that might be not akin to the state’s gender politics and the politics of family as well as state maternalism. The study interrogates how sending and receiving money and gifts in a transnational family engenders transformation in the construction of the family and motherhood. I analyze how the practice of sending money and gifts challenges the state’s politics of traditional family and gender by examining how sending money and gifts frequently gains legitimacy with the migrant mothers’ claim of having a good family even though they do not adhere to traditional family norms. ]]>
<![CDATA[The Cross-Border Insolvency in the Execution of Bankrupt Assets Outside Indonesian Jurisdiction: A Comparative Study with Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines ]]>
<![CDATA[Putu Eka Trisna Dewi]]>
<![CDATA[ IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol 5, No 1 (2021): July ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/ikat.v5i1.64157
<![CDATA[Insolvency institutions have an important role in realizing legal certainty in the settlement of debt and credit disputes, which is one of the risks that arise from the rapid development of international business transactions. Bankruptcy cases containing foreign elements are called cross-border insolvency. The problems that arise in cross-border insolvency are more complex, especially regarding the execution of assets of bankrupt debtors situated outside Indonesia's jurisdiction. This study uses a doctrinal legal research method with a statutory approach. Bankruptcy in Indonesia is regulated in Law Number 37 of 2004 concerning Bankruptcy and Postponement of Debt Payment Obligations. In this law, the execution of assets of bankrupt debtors outside the jurisdiction of Indonesia has not been regulated so that the curator as the body appointed to carry out the execution cannot carry out the task as mandated by the law. The non-executable assets of the bankrupt debtor outside the jurisdiction of Indonesia have caused the bankruptcy estate (de boedel) ineffective; therefore, creditors do not receive a maximum payment related to debtor's debt. For this reason, Indonesia needs to adopt the UNCITRAL model of law on cross-border insolvency or to make bilateral and/or multilateral agreements that are reciprocal in nature related to the execution of bankrupt debtors' assets located outside Indonesia's jurisdiction. ]]>
<![CDATA[Reforming the Tourism Promotion Board for an Effective Tourism Promotion in Indonesia: A Legal Perspective ]]>
<![CDATA[Anak Agung Gede Duwira Hadi Santosa]]>;
<![CDATA[Putu Devi Yustitia Utami]]>;
<![CDATA[I Made Marta Wijaya]]>
<![CDATA[ IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol 5, No 1 (2021): July ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/ikat.v5i1.64562
<![CDATA[The Indonesia/Regional Tourism Promotion Board (or I/RTPB) is an agency having duties to assist the development of the tourism sector. Since its establishment, it has not been able to play an optimal role in performing its duties and responsibilities. The purpose of this study is to find out and understand the institutional arrangements for the I/RTPB in the current legislation and to find out and formulate the ideal form of the I/RTPB in accelerating its functions especially for the recovery of the tourism sector in the post-pandemic context. This article uses a doctrinal research method with a statutory approach. The study shows the problem of the provisions on the I/RTPB in the Tourism Law in Chapter X from Article 36 to Article 49. To properly function for the economic recovery after the pandemic, there is a need to restructure the I/RTPB as an independent body with a mandate in the field of tourism promotion. ]]>
<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples in Regional Institutions: A Comparative Perspective between ASEAN and the Arctic Council ]]>
<![CDATA[Muhammad Dwiki Mahendra]]>
<![CDATA[ IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol 5, No 1 (2021): July ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/ikat.v5i1.64922
<![CDATA[The study of Indigenous People is a vast subject and it is continuously growing. Indigenous Peoples often lack formal recognition over their lands, rights, and at worst, their identities hence they are often undermined by the government and international law. Such things were possible since the recognition of Indigenous Peoples is varied and depends on each national or regional perspective. Within Southeast Asia’s regional organization, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), no reference to the Indigenous Peoples was made on its founding document. This paper focuses on the issue of Indigenous Peoples by comparing the position of Indigenous Peoples within the framework of ASEAN to Arctic Council. By qualitatively analyzing relevant references on ASEAN, Arctic Council, and Indigenous Peoples, this article aims to understand the stark differences of how ASEAN and Arctic Council recognize the Indigenous Peoples within each region. Such understanding is necessary to drives ASEAN and its member states to accommodate broader rights to Indigenous Peoples.]]>
<![CDATA[Achieving the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in Forestry Sectors: Challenges for Indonesia ]]>
<![CDATA[Etheldreda E.L.T Wongkar]]>
<![CDATA[ IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol 5, No 1 (2021): July ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/ikat.v5i1.64974
<![CDATA[Indonesia's determination in realizing the Nationally Determined Contribution target as a follow-up to the Paris Agreement resulted in concrete steps in climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts, one of which is through social forestry. This paper aims to describe the various efforts to achieve Indonesia's targets on both conditional and unconditional, as well as the application and linkage of social forestry schemes to climate change will. This research produces two conclusions. First, those conditional and unconditional targets are related in their implementation, primarily related to the development of Indonesian legislation and capacity building in achieving Nationally Determined Contribution targets. Second, namely that after the issuance of the MoEF Decree No. 83/2016, social forestry regulations in Indonesia have begun to accommodate ecological elements, although the nature are still partial in every policy momentum and are still not in line with the scope of activities of REDD+. Several critical issues that need to be followed up are the absence of uniform and applicative carbon measurement and calculation methods for beneficiary communities and national forest carbon certification system for social forestry areas, legal challenges on the recognition of Indigenous People rights, also political-economic challenges.]]>
<![CDATA[The Prevention of Peatland Fires in Indonesia: ‘Law in Action’ to Implement the ASEAN Haze Treaty ]]>
<![CDATA[Myrna A Safitri]]>
<![CDATA[ IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol 5, No 1 (2021): July ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/ikat.v5i1.65027
<![CDATA[Signed in 2002, the ASEAN Haze Treaty is expected to reduce transboundary haze pollution and improve regional environmental governance. Indonesia plays a vital role in the implementation of the Treaty's goals. It has the largest forest and peatland area in Southeast Asia. Yet, its repeated forest and land fires had often caused transboundary pollution. Since 2016 the Indonesian Government has improved its national laws and strengthened institutional aspects of peatland protection. The peatland ecosystem is essential because it is prone to burning. Unfortunately, few studies describe how these policy changes have impacted fire prevention in degraded peatland ecosystems. This article scrutinizes the political factors behind the legal and institutional changes in Indonesia's peatland governance during 2016-2020. The theory of legal culture becomes the primary reference in this regard. This article then identifies six predominant factors in peatland law improvement: strong leadership, improved coordination at the national and sub-national levels, making operational directives, establishing a specialized Government institution dealing with peatland restoration, law enforcement, and the strength of civil society in doing public oversight.]]>
<![CDATA[Sijori-GT Economic Cooperation for Three Decades: Examining Malaysia’s and Singapore’s FDI Commitments to Riau Islands ]]>
<![CDATA[La Ode Nazaruddin]]>;
<![CDATA[Qisthina Aulia]]>
<![CDATA[ IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol 5, No 2 (2022): January ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/ikat.v5i2.66485
<![CDATA[The Singapore-Johor-Riau Growth Triangle (Sijori-GT) was initiated by the government of Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia in 1989. It took advantage of complementarities among the involved regions. The peripheral regions were expected to reap benefits and gain spillovers from the extended metropolitan region of Singapore. In the age 30 years of the growth triangle, many scholars found great progress and challenges of the subregional economic cooperation such as unbalanced development and the assumably weak commitment of the participating countries in the Riau Islands. This research has the aim to investigate the tenable commitments of Singapore's and Malaysia's Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the Riau Islands. Using statistical data from Indonesia's Ministry of Investment from 1990 to 2020, this study compared FDI in Riau Islands by origin, and Singapore's and Malaysia's FDI by sector and subsector. The data was analyzed using the independent sample t-test for two-variable comparison and analysis of variance (posthoc test) for multiple-variable comparison. Finally, this study found that: firstly, the investment of Singapore was larger than that of Malaysia in the Riau Islands; secondly, Singapore specialized in its investment in the manufacturing sector having a better comparative advantage while Malaysia specialized in its investment in the non-manufacturing sector with potential assumed capabilities in halal-related sectors. The lesson-learned from Singaporean and Malaysian case is that dependence will determine the long-run commitment in subregional cooperation.]]>
<![CDATA[Negotiating Sexuality: Indonesian Female Audience towards Pornographic Media Content ]]>
<![CDATA[Mashita Phitaloka Fandia Purwaningtyas]]>;
<![CDATA[Cheryl Kanza Athallia Wibowo]]>
<![CDATA[ IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol 5, No 2 (2022): January ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/ikat.v5i2.70077
<![CDATA[As one topic deemed controversial in Indonesia, pornography is mainly discussed for its effect on teenagers as it is explicitly segmented for adult audiences. Nevertheless, it remains problematized when it comes to female audiences as sexual desires only belong to men according to the normativity of Indonesian society. This condition stereotypes female as not a “good woman” if they happened to watch porn. Engaging with the theory of pornography as sexual empowerment for women and applying new ethnographic method, this paper examines how Indonesian female audiences perceive pornographic media content and how it impacts their sexuality as a woman who lives in Indonesian patriarchal society. The study finds that women, on one side, are highly aware that they, too, have sexual desires just the same as their male counterparts. On the other side, they are also highly concerned about how people around them judge women who like sex or watch porn in particular; hence, it affects their sexual expression in their daily life. Furthermore, watching porn has made them negotiate their sexuality as women to try to make sense of their sexual fantasy and reality.]]>
