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This book is a remarkable study of a contemporary Javanese millenarian community based on a careful and nuanced exposition of the ideas of this community and its leader, Embah Wali, who looked to the coming of the Just King (Ratu Adil) in the person of the Sultan of Yogya. In the Blitar region (East Java), where the community is centred, Embah Wali and his followers created a world in which wayang functioned as the basis for an interpretation of living and being in the world. Adept in linguistic manipulation of the Javanese language, Embah Wali and his disciples created a world of meaning that was unique to their community. The author tells the story of Embah Wali and his followers, describes the phases of their movement and relates these developments to the turbulent social and political events that have occured in Java over more than a half century from the 1930s through the 1980s. This first-hand study of a Javanese messianistic movement contributes to our understanding of Javanese rural culture and politics. As a Javanese from Blitar, Raharjo Suwandi was fortunately positioned to be able able to study and interpret this movement in the midst of its most lively period and then to follow its development to the death of its founder.

Award-winning book showcases case studies uncovering the exploitation of labor and class in the Global South Winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy—Paul A. Baran Memorial Award for original work regarding the political economy of imperialism, Value Chains examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South. Focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains, this book offers a deft empirical analysis of unit labor costs that is closely related to Marx’s own theory of exploitation. Value Chains uncovers the concrete processes through which multinational corporations, located primarily in the Global North, capture value from the Global South. We are brought face to face with various state-of-the-art corporate strategies that enforce “economical” and “flexible” production, including labor management methods, aimed to reassert the imperial dominance of the North, while continuing the dependency of the Global South and polarizing the global economy. Case studies of Indonesian suppliers exemplify the growing burden borne by the workers of the Global South, whose labor creates the surplus value that enriches the capitalists of the North, as well as the secondary capitals of the South. Today, those who control the value chains and siphon off the profits are primarily financial interests with vast economic and political power—the power that must be broken if the global working class is to liberate itself. Suwandi’s book depicts in concrete detail the relations of unequal exchange that structure today’s world economy. This study, up-to-date and richly documented, puts labor and class back at the center of our understanding of the world capitalist system.

In light of the concern about banking instability under complete financial deregulation, this paper models the relationship between the central bank and commercial banks in the context of a loan insurance scheme. Includes a bibliography. The author is a former PhD student at the ANU's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.

The life and Mi'raj of Muhammad, Prophet, d. 632.

Grammar and teaching of Indonesian language.

Buku Metodologi Penelitian ini disusun untuk membantu mahasiswa dalam menyusun rencana atau proposal penelitian. Dalam penyusunan karya ilmiah diperlukan pengetahuan dan pemahaman teknik dan metode penelitian. Buku Metodologi Penelitian ini menguraikan terkait dengan identifikasi masalah serta perumusan masalah, tujuan penelitian, kajian pustaka, kerangka konsep dan variabel penelitian serta hipotesis yang merupakan unsur-unsur penting dalam merencanakan proposal penelitian. Penjelasan tentang metode penelitian disajikan secara ringkas terkait rancangan penelitian yang digunakan, populasi, sampel dan teknik sampling, pengumpulan data, instrument penelitian, skala pengukuran serta validitas dan reabilitas instrumen penelitian. Dalam buku ini juga menjelaskan secara singkat teknik analisis dan penyajian data serta jenis uji statistik parametrik maupun uji statistik non parametrik.

Study on semantics in Indonesian language.

Hidup adalah perjalanan. Perjalanan hidup adalah jejak Langkah. Meniti detik-detik mengantar napas. Kadang puas, kadang. Juga kosong. Kadang gairah, kadang gelisah, kadang terengah-engah. Tiap saat bertambah, Waktu melesat. Berjalan pesat. Sebelum malaikat mencabut jiwa, badan “halus” yang diisi dan dipengaruhi oleh ruh, keluar dari badan. Dikembalikan saat dibangkitkan. Terpercik niat untuk menambah ikan kecil di samudera luas: menulis. Catatan perjalanan, mengusik dan belajar sejarah, ada enigma sejarah, dan belajar dari sejarah. Menggugah, mengasyikan terkait dan terkait dakwah, khususnya para wali dan ulama besar membawa ke Nusantara pada awal Islam. Pembawa rahmat dan pembuka hidayah, berupa ilmu dan kebenaran, pengetahuan. Saya berupaya menguak sejarah spiritualitasnya. Strategi dan taktiknya untuk mendapatkan taufiknya.