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Humaniora
ISSN : 08520801     EISSN : 23029269     DOI : 10.22146/jh
Core Subject : Humanities,
Humaniora focuses on the publication of articles that transcend disciplines and appeal to a diverse readership, advancing the study of Indonesian humanities, and specifically Indonesian or Indonesia-related culture. These are articles that strengthen critical approaches, increase the quality of critique, or innovate methodologies in the investigation of Indonesian humanities. While submitted articles may originate from a diverse range of fields, such as history, anthropology, archaeology, tourism, or media studies, they must be presented within the context of the culture of Indonesia, and focus on the development of a critical understanding of Indonesia’s rich and diverse culture.
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Conflicting Ecologies: The Uneasy Ethics of Growth and Preservation Gilang Mahadika
Humaniora Vol 38, No 1 (2026)
Publisher : Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/jh.113628

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This article is currently available as an in-press release. All editorial procedures have been completed in accordance with the journal's policies, and the manuscript has been officially accepted following multiple rounds of revision. It is presently undergoing layout and production processing. For reference, the manuscript is provided in its in-press version, where the final journal formatting has not yet been applied. Click this link to proceed with the manuscript.
Gender Performativity in Dance Movements within the Islamic Sharia Environment in Aceh Zulfikar Zulfikar; Budi Rajab; Rini Soemarwoto
Humaniora Vol 38, No 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/jh.114207

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This article is currently available as an in-press release. All editorial procedures have been completed in accordance with the journal's policies, and the manuscript has been officially accepted following multiple rounds of revision. It is presently undergoing layout and production processing. For reference, the manuscript is provided in its in-press version, where the final journal formatting has not yet been applied. Click this link to proceed with the manuscript.
Book Review: Film Style in Indonesian Cinema, 1998–2018 Vincent Pacheco
Humaniora Vol 38, No 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/jh.114949

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This article is currently available as an in-press release. All editorial procedures have been completed in accordance with the journal's policies, and the manuscript has been officially accepted following multiple rounds of revision. It is presently undergoing layout and production processing. For reference, the manuscript is provided in its in-press version, where the final journal formatting has not yet been applied. Click this link to proceed with the manuscript.
The Conditional Acceptance of K-pop Cross-gender Dance Performers by Indonesian Viewers on the YouTube Platform Arifatus Sholekhah
Humaniora Vol 38, No 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/jh.114975

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This article is currently available as an in-press release. All editorial procedures have been completed in accordance with the journal's policies, and the manuscript has been officially accepted following multiple rounds of revision. It is presently undergoing layout and production processing. For reference, the manuscript is provided in its in-press version, where the final journal formatting has not yet been applied. Click this link to proceed with the manuscript.
Caught in Between: Family Caregivers and the Ethics of Severe Mental Illness Care Aan Kurniawan; Irwan Martua Hidayana; Bagus Hargo Utomo
Humaniora Vol 38, No 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/jh.115227

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Family caregiving for individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) is frequently regarded as a central element of community-based mental health systems, especially in settings where services are limited or fragmented. This study investigates the practice and negotiation of caregiving in everyday life in Jakarta, Indonesia, utilising an ethnographic case study approach. In-depth interviews were conducted with family caregivers recruited through a peer-support network. Five cases are presented to examine how caregivers make decisions over time in response to crisis, relapses, treatment, household demands, and evolving relationships. Drawing on care ethics, particularly Joan Tronto's framework, the analysis demonstrates that caregiving is not a static role or a fixed set of tasks. Rather, it is a context-dependent practice that requires ongoing judgment, with caregivers continuously adjusting their actions amid risk, ambiguity, and constraint. Across cases, care takes multiple forms, including direct daily tasks, monitoring and guidance, household adaptation, and delegation to paid helpers. The findings indicate that care evolves over time through turning points, periods of stability, and episodes of disruption. This article contends that “good care” cannot be defined solely by symptom control or clinical improvement. In the cases examined, care also encompasses maintaining social relationships, preserving household stability, managing uncertainty, and sustaining the caregiver’s capacity to continue providing care. By tracing these everyday negotiations, the study contributes to care ethics and mental health research by illustrating how family caregiving is enacted, contested, and sustained within unequal social and institutional contexts.
Conservation Beyond Species: Biopolitics of Saltwater Crocodile Rehabilitation Program Finlan Adhitya Aldan
Humaniora Vol 38, No 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/jh.117940

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This article discusses the categorisation of non-human life and the biopolitics of wildlife conservation by examining the case of saltwater crocodiles in a wildlife rescue centre on Bangka Island, Indonesia. Through lively ethography, I will show how crocodiles unsettle the idea of species—a scientific technology used to categorise living beings based on biological features—by actualising their bodily power. In the conservation landscape, crocodiles interact with each other within spaces bounded by cages—infrastructures intended to control animals during rehabilitation—which give way to lively actions: killing, mating, and even idling. I argue that these actions force humans to think about new ways to categorise crocodiles. I call this vernacular category, a mode of categorisation that is co-shaped by the entanglements between humans and non-human others, and mediated by the technoscientific infrastructures that encompass them. Vernacular categories operate outside the state’s logics and are always in constant political dialogue with the state’s desire to keep saltwater crocodiles alive because of their protected status, which demands the use of species-based category in the first place. The vernacular categories, in turn, create new, mutated practices of rehabilitation, which simultaneously serve and contradict the state’s imagination of wildlife conservation.
Navigating Ethics and Morality in Contemporary Indonesia Agung Wicaksono; Elan Lazuardi
Humaniora Vol 38, No 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/jh.123928

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In the early 1980s, the Indonesian military—and subsequently, the wider public— perceived tattoos as markers of low morality. This perception was legitimized by the reckless association of tattooed individuals with criminal actions or unlawful activities (Barker, 1998). Such narratives underpinned state-sanctioned violence, most notably through the Petrus ("penembak misterius" or "mysterious shooters") military operation, which targeted individuals with tattoos (Barker, 1998). Today, public and state attitudes toward tattoos have shifted considerably: tattooing is now practised across generations, religious affiliations, and ethnic groups, often without provoking moral panic. Drawing on Foucault’s ideas of problematization (see Mattingly 2018), this shift can be seen as the outcome of ongoing redefinitions and contestations of the moral meanings once inscribed on the tattooed body.Tattoos are just one example of how ideas of the moral and ethical self are continually reshaped. This Thematic Edition consists of 5 original research articles, 1 empirical report, and 2 book reviews that explore how ethics and morality are practised, contested, and theorised across diverse Indonesian settings and history. Papers interrogates dominant moral frameworks - whether legal, state-driven, religious, or customary (adat), and simultanously highlighte alternative ethical imaginaries that emerge in response to social change and moral uncertainty at the current moment of post-authoritarian Indonesia.

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