Do children spend too much time in schools? Evidence from a longer school year in Indonesia

I examine the effects of a longer school year in Indonesia on grade repetition, educational attainment, employability, and earnings. I exploit an arbitrary rule that assigned students to a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978–1979, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. I find the longer school year decreases the probability of grade repetition and increases educational attainment; it also increases the probability of working in formal sectors and wages later in life. These results suggest the length of school years in Indonesia is not too long.     

论英国在太平洋战争中的双重使命

太平洋战争初期，英国在东南亚的殖民统治被摧毁，英国对日宣战，英国从消极抗战到有限参战，到战争结束时积极抢占东南亚殖民地，表现出英国参战的双重性。英国最初想借美国之力夺回自己在东南亚的殖民地，后又担心被美国取而代之，因此英国一直在对日战争中走钢丝，经中美英三方不断协调。才最终确立了英国在东南亚战场的责任，但英国始终把重返东南亚作为其参战的条件，使它的对日作战打上殖民主义烙印。     

论师陀小说《结婚》的租界叙事

在长篇小说《结婚》中,师陀以结婚这一主题为脉络,展示了租界化上海的独特层面。《结婚》和上海租界文化之间有着密切的关系,它揭示出租界深层的文化特性,并且渗透着殖民的因子,这些都凸显出师陀的文化立场和精神困境。     

殖民主义遗产与非洲高等教育——撒哈拉以南非洲法语国家高等教育发展的历史考察

殖民主义时期,法国在撒哈拉以南非洲实施的教育同化政策对这些法语国家的高等教育发展产生了长期不利的影响。这些不利的影响主表现为:高等教育成本高昂,入学机会严重不足,科学与技术在高等教育中受到忽视,非洲本土语言在高等教育中被边缘化。     

种族和解与诗学对话——论印尼文、华文双语诗集《印度尼西亚的轰鸣》

出版于2000年的印尼文、华文双语诗集《印度尼西亚的轰鸣》是印尼华文文学的重大事件,它体现了印尼种族问题的深刻变化,也是印尼文和华文两种语言的诗歌进行诗学对话和文化互文的独特文本。印尼原住民诗人和华文诗人通过关于种族问题的历史反思,表达了种族和解和文化融合的愿望,从而展开了印华诗学的对话。     

印尼正规小学华文教材使用及本土华文教材编写现状研究

本文通过实地调查、访谈以及文献研究等方式考察和分析了印尼小学华文教材的使用情况,指出了印尼小学在教材使用及编写上存在的问题,并依此提出相应的解决对策,以期提高教材使用及编写的效果,促进华文教学的发展。     

Performing Bandung: China’s dance diplomacy with India,Indonesia, and Burma, 1953–1962

While dance was a common element of international diplomacy activities around the world during the 1950s and early 1960s, scholars have only recently begun to focus attention on this topic, especially as it concerns relationships forged beyond those of the Cold War superpowers. Using previously unexamined historical materials such as rare photographs and performance programs, dancer biographies, autobiographies and personal interviews, unpublished institutional histories, and contemporary periodicals, this article demonstrates not only that dance was an integral part of China’s inter-Asian cultural exchange between 1953 and 1962, but also that the PRC developed a distinct approach to dance diplomacy. Through a series of exchanges with India, Indonesia and Burma, China’s foreign ministers and dancers developed and refined a method of dance diplomacy in which the primary goal was to learn from, rather than export to, these neighboring countries. This approach harnessed the affective power of embodied aesthetic culture to literally “perform” Bandung ideals, namely, cooperation and mutual respect among Asian nations and an anti-imperialist cultural stance. Through the establishment in 1962 of the Oriental Song and Dance Ensemble, the PRC institutionalized this model of dance diplomacy, expanding it to include the entire Third World. Bandung-era dance diplomacy initiatives of the 1950s and early 1960s not only supported important new international alliances and political movements, but also asserted China’s self-identity as part of the East in the way that challenged Eurocentric ideals previously entrenched in China’s domestic dance field.     

The History of Modern Organized Badminton and the Men’s Team Thomas Cup Tournaments, 1948–1979

Modern organized international badminton began with the founding of the International Badminton Federation (IBF) in 1934, consisting of nine founding member associations. The inaugural men’s Thomas Cup tournament began in 1948 when 10 countries took part. Malaya won the Cup four times in 1949, 1952, 1955, and 1967. When Indonesia took part in the tournament for the first time in 1957, there were 19 competing teams. Indonesia won the triannual tournament seven times from 1957 to 1979. Throughout the 11 Thomas Cup tournaments, only two Asian countries have won the Cup. The only European country, Denmark, qualified to play in the finals five times without a single win. Malaya (later known as Malaysia), Indonesia, and Denmark became leading Thomas Cup teams because they produced singles and doubles players that won many All-England Badminton Championship titles. The winners of these titles were generally considered the world champions. The key sources of information for this research consisted of the IBF annual statutes for listing of participating nations, tournament programmes, and rare specialized books on badminton and the Thomas Cup competition. English language newspapers such as the Singapore Free Press and the Straits Times published historical match results for checking the secondary data collected.     

Indonesia’s original sin: mass killings and capitalist expansion, 1965–66

Following an aborted coup attempt in October 1965, the Indonesian military organized what turned out to be one of the most horrifying massacres of the twentieth century. More than half a million people were killed while hundreds of thousands of others were detained for years in prison camps throughout the country. There are two major points that this paper attempts to make. First, that the killings are in fact a case of state violence despite of the efforts to make it look like spontaneous violence. Second, that the killings are crucial to the expansion of capitalism in Indonesia. Using Marx’s concept of ‘primitive accumulation’, it attempts to show that the mass killings and arrests, the expropriation of people from their houses and lands, and the elimination of working‐class political formations, are integral parts of an economic strategy of the New Order.