Rethinking access,success and student retention in Open and Distance Learning

The focus of this paper is access problems distance students encounter when required to use the Internet for their studies, and how such problems influence the students’ ability to gain access to higher education. Empirically, the paper is informed by a qualitative case study of a Master’s programme in public administration offered to a group of students in a relatively remote area of Indonesia. It shows how access problems certainly become a challenge for such students, not only because of the absence of technology but also because of social constraints related to the presence of technology. However, as there are often no proper alternatives, new technology may well be considered a step forwards for such students, even if the new technology to some extent creates serious problems.     

马来西亚与印度尼西亚华人政策比较

马来西亚华人的经济状况和社会政治地位较之印度尼西亚华人要好得多,其重要原因之一是马来西亚的华人政策比印度尼西亚宽松。通过两国华人政策的对比,分析两国华人政策差异的原因及造成的不同后果,并对两国的华人政策前景与走向做出分析与预测。     

印尼华文课堂教学问题观察及探讨

文章从微型教学和课堂观摩观察入手,对印尼华文课堂教学中的词语教学、课文和语法教学、课堂教学技能、分技能教学中存在的问题提出了自己的看法,并对目前华文教学和师资培训提出建议。     

Learning in the contact zone: revisiting neglected aspects of development through an analysis of volunteer placements in Indonesia

Development rhetoric sometimes appears to take little account of the contingencies of relationships, activities and events, as if human interaction and understanding is being written out of the process. At the same time, practices such as volunteering, which foreground the human subjects involved in development, are often ignored by development professionals, despite (or perhaps because of) the high proportion of development agency staff who are themselves former volunteers. In this paper, a framework is developed which foregrounds this interactive and human dimension, illuminating its significance more clearly in the development process. This way of looking at development processes is the result of a four‐year field‐based study of volunteer teachers, hospital staff and development workers from the global North working with colleagues in Indonesian schools, hospitals and non‐government organizations. Working and interacting together is seen to involve participants in an active and often conflictual learning process. Through three typical stages (awareness of contradiction, transgression and negotiation), volunteers and their colleagues learn about the social boundaries in the context in which they participate, and about how they and other participants are themselves positioned in relation to these boundaries. The argument proposed here is that opportunities for such contextualized and emergent learning is essential if participants in development are to engage in robust and well‐informed collaborative actions in a particular development context.     

Novel mechanisms of scalability of financial services in an emerging market context: Insights from Indonesian Fintech Ecosystem

Global Fintech phenomenon is driven by new technological innovations that attempt to unbundle and deconstruct conventional business models in the financial services sector. Existing research on platforms focus on platform leadership, governance, generativity and modularity, as well as their impact on agility and innovation. However, there are limited empirical studies, to explore the role of platform operators in providing scalable financial service delivery to a broader population. This study aims to enhance the understanding of an emerging Fintech landscape in Indonesia which is characterized by heterogeneous, dynamic and evolving network of organizations and the innovative mechanisms by which the scalability of financial services could be enhanced. Our study suggests that the mechanisms of platformization, decentralization, localization and democratization by Fintech platform operators positively impact the scalability of financial service delivery. This study has significant implications for policy makers especially in emerging markets who are seeking to scale, facilitate and govern the Fintech revolution, and for Fintech practitioners in the design of technology-enabled delivery of financial services.     

苏加诺执政时期印尼政治发展道路特点及反思

随着1945年日本宣布无条件投降并从殖民地撤出军队,印度尼西亚民族独立运动的领袖苏加诺当选为印度尼西亚第一任总统。用参考文献的方法从历史分段的角度对苏加诺执政时期政治发展道路进行总结,并从中归纳出特点。对这一有着特殊历史意义的政治发展道路进行深入了解和分析,有助于理解当今印度尼西亚的政治和外交政策,同时对于我国加深对于这一东南亚大国的全方面了解有着重要作用。     

印度尼西亚地理标志保护与管理研究

中国与印尼地理标志保护合作有重要的经济和政治意义。研究印尼地理标志保护的法律依据、保护的产品种类、管理机关、地理标志注册程序,认为在Trips协议下,中国与印尼在地理标志保护的对象主要以农产品、食品、工艺品为主,互认互保合作有一定的产品基础,但首先要解决商标法模式与专门法模式的衔接问题。     

印尼中小学灾难教育实施样态的分析与启示

在全球自然环境不断恶劣以及人口急剧膨胀的背景下,自然灾害和人为灾害发生的频率越来越大,世界各国被迫进入灾害频发的风险性社会。印尼政府高度重视灾难教育,2010年制定了一项“减少灾害风险”的国家战略,构建了颇具特色的灾难教育体系。该国的灾难教育确立了以提升学生灾难素养为宗旨的目标,兼顾知识性目标、技能性目标以及情感态度性目标;选取海啸、洪水、地震、滑坡、火灾等灾害为主要教学内容,以螺旋式分模块、分学段地组织教学内容;借助学科课程渗透、专门课程、“自我发展项目”等多样化的途径实施灾难教育;着力开发“境域化”与“多样化”的灾难教育资源。这对于我国灾难教育目标的设置、内容的选择与编排、实施模式的选择以及资源的开发具有一定的借鉴意义。