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Contact Name
Asep Muhammad Iqbal
Contact Email
jassr@uinsgd.ac.id
Phone
+6282129451616
Journal Mail Official
jassr@uinsgd.ac.id
Editorial Address
Ruang Pusat Kajian Ilmu Sosial Asia Lantai 2, Gedung FISIP, Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung Jalan AH Nasution 105, Cipadung, Cibiru, Bandung, Indonesia 40614
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Kota bandung,
Jawa barat
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Journal of Asian Social Sciences Research
ISSN : 27219399     EISSN : -     DOI : doi.org/10.15575/jassr
Core Subject : Social,
Journal of Asian Social Science Research is a peer-reviewed and open access publication since 2019. It aims to contribute to the development of Asian social science by providing a forum for researchers, academics and policy-makers to publish their research on the broad problems on Asian social science. The Journal seeks to publish original research articles and review papers that deal with issues in Asian social science including sociology, anthropology, political science, public administration, education, communication studies, media studies, religious studies, history, and cultural studies. The journal also has strong interest in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies on social science in Asia and related to Asia. The Journal is published twice a year by the Centre for Asian Social Science Research, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung, Indonesia. The Journal only publishes manuscripts in English.
Articles 82 Documents
Editor’ Introduction: Agency, Aspiration, and Social Transformation in Contemporary Asia Asep Muhamad Iqbal
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 7 No. 1 (2025): Journal of Asian Social Science Research
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Abstract This editorial introduction presents JASSR Vol. 7, No. 1 (2025) as a reflection on how people across contemporary Asia navigate change under pressure. Rather than treating acceleration, mobility, conflict, and digitalization as abstract regional trends, it foregrounds the everyday practices through which students, migrants, minority communities, language learners, and women educators make choices within unequal social conditions. The issue brings together studies on AI use among international students, informal railway settlements in the Philippines, the Naxalite conflict in India, Indonesia–Malaysia historical relations, Korean language learning among Indonesian students, and Afghan women teachers’ professional resilience. Taken together, these articles show that social transformation is shaped not only by states, markets, and institutions, but also by ordinary acts of learning, settlement, memory, solidarity, and aspiration.
Editors’ Introduction: Recognition, Dignity, and Lived Governance in Contemporary Asia Asep Muhamad Iqbal
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 6 No. 2 (2024): Journal of Asian Social Science Research
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JASSR Vol. 6, No. 2 (2024) examines how people across Asia encounter power in everyday life and seek dignity within changing institutions. Moving from the Manipuri and Bishnupriya communities in Bangladesh to Benda Kerep village in Cirebon, from Indonesian Islamic higher education to narcotics law reform, from resettled rural workers in Vietnam to becak drivers’ views of Sharia enforcement in Aceh, the issue asks how identities are defended, traditions are adapted, gendered barriers are challenged, laws are reimagined, livelihoods are rebuilt, and religious regulations are judged from below. Together, the articles show that governance is not experienced only through formal policy, but lived through recognition, exclusion, adaptation, negotiation, and the everyday search for fairness.
Editors’ Introduction: Labour, Care, and Just Transitions in Contemporary Asia Asep Muhamad Iqbal
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 6 No. 1 (2024): Journal of Asian Social Science Research
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This  JASSR Vol. 6, No. 1 (2024) presents the themes of labour, care, and just transitions in contemporary Asia. It approaches the issue as an inquiry into how digital, climate, energy, poverty-reduction, and care transitions reshape everyday lives, redistribute risks, and raise questions of fairness. The articles examine short-video entrepreneurship among Chinese smallholder farmers, climate education in Indonesia, Laos’s hydropower geopolitics, community resource mobilization among Dao households in Vietnam, and childcare facilities for working mothers in Dhaka. Together, they show that transition is not only a matter of technology, policy, or growth, but also a social process experienced through labour, welfare, ecological awareness, gender equality, community capacity, and the uneven burdens of development.
Editors’ Introduction: Legitimacy, Recognition, and Everyday Judgment in Asian Societies Asep Muhamad Iqbal
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 5 No. 2 (2023): Journal of Asian Social Science Research
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Abstract This editors’ introduction presents JASSR Vol. 5, No. 2 (2023) as an inquiry into legitimacy, recognition, and everyday judgment in Asian societies. The issue brings together studies on populist party politics in India and Japan, Indonesia’s Chinese minority, public perceptions of Rodrigo Duterte’s leadership in the Philippines, customer satisfaction models in e-commerce, women’s education under the Taliban, and Qur’anic family life in Afghanistan. Together, the articles show how power becomes credible, contested, or morally judged in concrete social settings. The issue highlights the value of Asian social science that connects institutions, markets, families, public debates, and lived experience.
Editors’ Introduction: Belonging, Recognition, and Negotiated Futures in Asian Social Life Asep Muhamad Iqbal
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 5 No. 1 (2023): Journal of Asian Social Science Research
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This issue of the Journal of Asian Social Science Research approachescontemporary Asia through the intertwined questions of belonging andrecognition. The five articles gathered here examine Indonesian atheists’search for civic moral ground, educational exclusion among the Hazarapeople in Afghanistan, misogynic culture in South Korea, IndonesianMuslim diaspora in Western countries, and more than five decades ofIndia–Bangladesh relations. Although they differ in subject matter, nationalsetting, and method, they share a common concern with how individuals,communities, and states negotiate dignity, legitimacy, and voice withinunequal social worlds.
Editors’ Introduction: Learning, Adaptation, and Fragile Social Orders across Asian and Adjacent Worlds Asep Iqbal
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 4 No. 2 (2022): Journal of Asian Social Science Research
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Journal of Asian Social Science Research, Volume 4, Number 2, 2022, brings together five articles that ask how people and institutions respond when familiar arrangements become unsettled. The issue moves across South Africa, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Lombok, and the Maldives. Its geographical range extends beyond Asia in the opening article, but its intellectual concern remains consistent with the journal’s broader mission: to understand social life comparatively, carefully, and with attention to human experience. The word that best captures this issue is not crisis, though crisis is present. It is adaptation. Students adapt to new freedoms and risks. Educational institutions adapt to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Communities adapt local resources into new forms of collective action. Religious traditions adapt through historical encounter and social negotiation. Democratic institutions adapt, or fail to adapt, under domestic instability and regional influence. In each case, adaptation is not automatic. It is shaped by infrastructure, personality, gender, history, leadership, belief, community networks, and power.
Editors’ Introduction: Power, Plurality, and Democratic Imagination in Asia Asep Iqbal
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 4 No. 1 (2022): Journal of Asian Social Science Research
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This issue of JASSR (Vol. 4, No. 1, 2022) presents a reflection on how power is organized, normalized, and challenged across different Asian contexts. The issue brings together studies on centrism in social media research, school leadership and identity politics in multicultural Indonesia, adat courts in Indonesia’s judiciary system, Muslim social movements in early twentieth-century Cirebon, and democratic erosion in India. Together, the articles show that institutions and ideas cannot be understood only through formal structures or public rhetoric. They must also be examined through history, culture, exclusion, resistance, and lived experience. The issue highlights the value of Asian social science that is historically attentive, conceptually critical, and ethically responsive to struggles over plurality, justice, and democratic life.
Editors’ Introduction: Crisis, Connectivity, and the Work of Social Repair in Asia Asep Iqbal
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 3 No. 2 (2021): Journal of Asian Social Science Research
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Journal of Asian Social Science Research (JASSR), Volume 3, Number 2, 2021, appears in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet it is not only a pandemic issue. The pandemic is present as context, pressure, and historical condition, but the articles gathered here are interested in something wider: how societies respond when existing arrangements are tested. They ask how institutions learn, how information systems fail or adapt, how vulnerable groups are included or left behind, how small enterprises mobilize digital tools, and how digital capitalism reorganizes labour and value. This issue is therefore about crisis, but also about connectivity. Connectivity appears as administrative learning through overseas training, as information flow during an infodemic, as the fragile link between people with intellectual disabilities and public services, as online consumption networks for small and medium enterprises, and as platform-mediated labour on YouTube. In each case, connection offers possibility, but never without hierarchy. It can enable coordination and survival, yet it can also reproduce exclusion, misinformation, dependency, and alienation.
Editors’ Introduction: Authority, Plurality, and Public Life in a Changing Asia Asep Iqbal
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021): Journal of Asian Social Science Research
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How do societies negotiate authority when familiar institutions are unsettled by environmental pressure, technological change, religious contestation, democratic uncertainty, and the search for public trust? This issue of the Journal of Asian Social Science Research (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2021) invites that question through six studies grounded largely in Indonesia, but relevant to wider Asian debates. The articles examine environmental challenges and the social study of religion; the symbolism of hijab in the Tarbiyah movement; the involvement of the Indonesian National Armed Forces in the Citarum Harum water-governance project; the social dimensions of education in the era of the Internet of Things and the COVID-19 pandemic; higher education, national character, and religious moderation; and public legitimacy in the 2020 West Sumatra regional election. What connects them is not a single topic, but a shared attention to how public life is organized through institutions, beliefs, symbols, policies, technologies, and civic trust.
Editors’ Introduction: Authority, Gendered Agency, and Political Negotiation in Asia Asep Iqbal
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020): Journal of Asian Social Science Research
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The issue of the Journal of Asian Social Science Research (JASSR), Vol. 2, No. 2, 2020, asks us to pay attention to the different faces of authority, not as abstractions, but as lived arrangements that shape political loyalty, gendered aspiration, religious commitment, and everyday conduct. It brings together five studies that are diverse in subject but closely connected in their deeper concern. They examine the political crossover of Islamic conservatism in Indonesia’s 2019 presidential election, the changing dynamics of local elections in post-Suharto Indonesia, the experiences of Muslim women academics in Indonesian state Islamic higher education, the role of women in Tablighi Jamaat’s masturah propagation in East Java, and Haji Hasan Mustapa’s Malay etiquette guidebook for Acehnese people under Dutch colonial rule. Read together, the articles show that power is never sustained by formal institutions alone. It depends on symbols, narratives, networks, gendered expectations, local brokerage, moral discipline, and historical memory.