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Mozaik Humaniora
Published by Universitas Airlangga
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Mozaik Humaniora is a journal that focuses on the scope of humanities and accepts articles on cultural studies, linguistic and literary studies, as well as philology and historical studies.
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Fifty Shades of White: Cosmopolitan Whiteness of Korean-Indonesian YouTube Beauty Vloggers Shafira Bella; Gesang Manggala Nugraha Putra
MOZAIK HUMANIORA Vol. 26 No. 1 (2026): MOZAIK HUMANIORA VOL. 26 NO. 1
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.20473/mozaik.v26i1.93088

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This article examines how Korean-Indonesian beauty vloggers Sunnydahye and Han Yoo Ra construct their self-branding on YouTube to appeal to Indonesian audiences, and how their content contributes to the renegotiation of beauty standards in Indonesia. Despite growing scholarship on digital beauty culture in Asia, the role of cross-cultural micro-celebrities in reproducing racialised beauty ideals on YouTube remains underexamined in the Indonesian context. Drawing on Saraswati’s (2013) concept of cosmopolitan whiteness and theories of micro-celebrity, aspirational labour, and aesthetic labour, this study employs textual analysis of the most-watched beauty-related videos on the vloggers’ YouTube channels. The analysis reveals that both vloggers exploit their Korean-Indonesian cultural identities to position themselves as authoritative beauty intermediaries. Their content consistently promotes flawless, lighter skin as the ideal through skincare routines, makeup tutorials, and photo-editing guides, reproducing whiteness under substitute terms such as clear, blemish-free, and glowing. While Sunnydahye attempts to accommodate Indonesia’s cultural diversity, most notably by producing a Korean makeup tutorial for hijab-wearing women, Han Yoo Ra’s tutorials are primarily directed at Peranakan and East Asian communities within Indonesia. Together, their videos reinforce a narrow and racialised vision of feminine beauty, blurring inter-Asian differences while repackaging Korean whiteness as a universally aspirational aesthetic.
Inflectional Morphology in Uab Meto Language Cluster L: Generative Morphological Study Efron Erwin Yohanis Loe
MOZAIK HUMANIORA Vol. 25 No. 1 (2025): MOZAIK HUMANIORA VOL. 25 NO. 1
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.20473/mozaik.v25i1.40551

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This study aims to find and explain the types of inflectional affixes in the Uab Meto language and their meanings. The Uab Meto language consists of two types, namely Uab Meto cluster L and R with their respective distribution areas and uses by their speakers. The object of this study is the Uab Meto language cluster L used in South Central Timor Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province. The research is focused in Bijaepunu Village, North Molo District, South Central Timor Regency. This study uses morphological theory by Aronoff & Fudeman (2011). The research approach used is a qualitative descriptive approach. Data collection methods refer to the listening and speaking methods with their respective techniques. The data is obtained used the observation and interlocution method. The data is collected by interviewing and recording directly from native speakers of the Uab Meto language cluster L who live in Bijaepunu Village. In this study, three types of inflectional affixes were found and all three function as suffixes. The three types of inflectional suffixes, namely the inflectional suffixes  /-n/, /-in/, and /-sin/ which are found in use in the basic lexemes of nouns and verbs. The results of the analysis of the three types of inflectional suffixes /-n/, /-in/ and /-sin/ in the Uab Meto language cluster L show a plural grammatical meaning when added to the basic lexeme and accompanied by omissions and phoneme shifts. The grammatical meaning of the inflectional suffixes /-n/, /-in/ and /-sin/ when added to the basic lexeme of nouns, explains that the object referred to is more than one and when added to verbs, explains actions that are done more than once or repeatedly.
Indonesian Feminism: The Development of Career Women and the Objectification of Pornography 1983—2008 Ismail Rahman Al Badri
MOZAIK HUMANIORA Vol. 25 No. 1 (2025): MOZAIK HUMANIORA VOL. 25 NO. 1
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.20473/mozaik.v25i1.66683

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Feminism as an idea of social justice has been one of the hottest topics of all time. Feminism is a set of social transformation ideologies that aim to create a better world for women through social equality. This research aims to examine how far feminism has developed in Indonesia through case analyses of the development of career women and objectification pornography, particularly in the period 1983—2008. This research uses historical method with feminism theory approach. Data was collected from both primary and secondary sources. Primary sources consist of newspapers, photographs, laws, and interviews with historical witnesses. Secondary sources consisted of books and scientific journals. The results showed that the efforts made for the equal consisted of books and scientific journals. The results showed that the efforts made for the equal status of women and men were implemented in the addition of heavy burdens for women. The role of women is channelled in the form of exploitation. There is a doctrine that no matter how far women go outside the home, they will still be burdened at home. The development of career women also opens up space for women to be dragged into the dark world of pornography. This brings women unconsciously internalised to submit themselves to become victims of sexual harassment.  The situation is enough to make it contradictory to what involves legal reform in liberal feminism, or independence in radical feminism.
Sedentarization, Acculturation, and Revival of Orang Laut (Sama-Bajau) Communities in Sabah, the Sulu Sea, and Sulawesi in Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries Heru Mulyanto
MOZAIK HUMANIORA Vol. 25 No. 2 (2025): MOZAIK HUMANIORA VOL. 25 NO. 2
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.20473/mozaik.v25i2.70825

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Sea-oriented communities known as Orang Laut or Sama-Bajau are often portrayed as static, yet their settlement, livelihoods, and identity have changed markedly since the nineteenth century. Earlier studies mostly examine single sites or single periods. This article synthesizes published ethnographic and historical studies to compare these changes in Sabah and the Sulu Sea, in Sulawesi (Wakatobi), and, as a comparison case, among the Duano of Jambi, from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. It applies the historical method (heuristics, verification, interpretation, and historiography) in a comparative case-study design based on secondary sources and one supplementary field observation made in June 2022. Four processes are identified. First, sedentarization, driven by government resettlement programs in the Philippines and by shifts in lifestyle and livelihood among the Duano, whose language was mastered by only two people in June 2022. Second, diversification of livelihoods into fishing, farming, craft, and port labor, although farming remained marginal: on Sanga-Sanga Island only two of about fifty Tungkalang families held farmland in a study published in 1962. Third, acculturation, shown by intermarriage, religious syncretism, and cooperation with Iranun and Balangingi raiders at the bases of Pandassan and Tempasuk; direct evidence of Iranun–Bajau intermarriage is thin. Fourth, identity revival among the Bajo of Wakatobi. Change was not uniform, and it reflects both external pressure and community agency. The findings rest on secondary literature and should be tested against archival and field data.
The Instability of Japanese Colonial Gaze in Takami Jun’s Short Stories Dewi Anggraeni
MOZAIK HUMANIORA Vol. 25 No. 2 (2025): MOZAIK HUMANIORA VOL. 25 NO. 2
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.20473/mozaik.v25i2.73405

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Previous research on Japanese imperialism has mainly concentrated on how it mirrors the Western colonial gaze, which portrays colonized populations as inferior. This study argues that the Japanese colonial gaze, particularly towards Southeast Asian inhabitants, exhibited instability, oscillating between feelings of superiority and inferiority. This duality emerged because Southeast Asia was already subjected to European colonial rule prior to Japanese occupation, which cast a persistent shadow of Europeanness as the ultimate Other within Southeast Asian society. To support this argument, the study analyzes the instability of the Japanese colonial gaze in three short stories by Takami Jun (1907—1965), reflecting his experiences traveling to the Dutch East Indies and serving as a nanpōchōyōsakka in Burma (now Myanmar). The stories examined are “Amoi no Yōhai Shiki,” “Shominzoku” (both first published in 1941), and “Nōkana no Koto” (first published in 1944). Utilizing Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic framework, this analysis explores the instability of the Japanese colonial gaze through the motif of language barriers as a symbol of “the other’s reverse gaze,” and the transformation from racial prejudice to introspective attitudes. This study employs a textual analysis method, linking it to the historical context of Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies and British colonial policy in Burma. Additionally, it examines the literary context in Japan regarding the representation of Southeast Asia in the early 1940s. This research also adds to previous studies by addressing the diversity and complexity of the discourse surrounding Japanese imperialism.