“Pacaran, Yuk!”: Sebuah Studi Kasus Mengenai Proses Percintaan di LINE PLAY, Our Avatar World

This article will explain about the love process of the players that occurs in a chat-based online game called LINE PLAY - Our Avatar World. LINE PLAY is an online game that aims to interact by bringing a player closer to another player who is distant and foreign, including virtual dating. The case studies are taken from virtual dating experiences carried out by LINE PLAY players whom are members of a “BROTHERHOOD” group, namely, Momo, Sapi, Rio, and Emeng. They were represented by an avatar in the LINE PLAY world. This research was conducted online and offline for 1 year and 2 months. In Online data research, my avatar, Volans and I conducted participatory observations and interviews to get to know the respondents in LINE PLAY. In Offline data research, I met the respondents in real life by conducting interviews in Dago, Bandung, West Java. In this research, I found that LINE PLAY as a virtual space is a serial world for someone which doing a virtual dating. That is, when players date virtually, there are many options for virtual spaces that are similar to the steps of someone who takes in finding a girlfriend in the real world. So, it becomes an imitation for a player to look for a girlfriend virtually. Also, LINE PLAY is also an extension of a player in virtual dating, represented by an expansive, playful avatar that makes it interesting to play

YouTube Sebagai Arena Produksi dan Reproduksi Kultur Hip-Hop

This article discusses the so-called YouTube rapper phenomenon, a new subgenre of hip-hop music whose emergence was caused by YouTube. Rap or hip-hop, which has a long history of intergroup resistance from stage to stage, has now moved to YouTube as a new battleground, producing the YouTube rapper subgenre. This article shows that the hip-hop community was very responsive to YouTube, which was their new stage, alongside Discord and Facebook as more textual media employable for debate and discussion. This article argues that YouTube has the capacity to become a center of hip-hop capitalization in Indonesia, as in elsewhere, because it was proven to be able to produce and reproduce the culture of hip-hop

Ideologi Bahasa dan Diskursus Identitas dalam Permainan Roleplay Bilingual di Twitter

The emergence of new interaction spaces on the internet opened up to the creation of computer-mediated discourse which includes language use in various forms of conversation. This paper describes how discourse developed in role-playing game community on Twitter as a discourse community. Generally, there were three different roleplaying groups based on the use of language: Indonesian, English, and bilingual roleplaying group. This paper focuses on the use of English and Indonesian language among bilingual roleplayers. This language practice was based on language ideologies regarding a dichotomy of ‘in-context’ and ‘out-of-context’ in role-playing game. The use of English was commonly associated with ‘in-context’ situation in which players were entirely immersed into their character. On the contrary, the use of Indonesian language represented ‘out-of-context’ condition in which players detach themselves from their character to express some aspects of their self in real life. However, these opposing poles seemed to merge in the identity construction of bilingual roleplayers as reflected on the ‘decent roleplayer’ discourse. Thus, this paper also explores the relationship between language practice and identity through the way bilingual roleplayers position themselves in interactions

Pengetahuan Tradisional tentang Kesehatan dan Pemenuhan Hak Kesehatan Reproduksi Perempuan Bawean

Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan pengetahuan tradisional tentang kesehatan dan pemenuhan hak kesehatan reproduksi perempuan Bawean di tengah-tengah perkembangan sistem layanan kesehatan modern. Mereka lebih banyak menerapkan pengetahuan dan praktik tradisional dalam memenuhi kesehatan dan hak kesehatan reproduksi mereka lewat sistem medis naturalistik, mulai dari haid hingga proses kehamilan dan kelahiran. Dukun bayi yang dikenal dengan sebutan Balian masih menjadi pilihan untuk persalinan, meskipun fasilitas layanan kesehatan di Pulau Bawean relatif lengkap dan modern. Kuatnya nilai-nilai patriarki terlihat dari cara pandang dan pola tindakan yang menempatkan tubuh dan kesehatan perempuan dalam diskursus tubuh, khususnya tubuh medis, yang cenderung abai terhadap aspek psikokultural dalam pemenuhan hak-hak kesehatan reproduksi perempuan

Hidup dalam Transit: Representasi Diri Digital Pengungsi Muda Oromo di Instagram terhadap Rekonstruksi “Refugeeness” dalam Interaksi antara Pengungsi dan Audiens

The representation of refugees and asylum seekers should not be bounded to media’s depiction of it. This paper focuses on refugees’ self-representation on Instagram, one of the most used social media platforms in the world, which cannot be understood separately from their daily life as refugees. Drawing from the observation of young Oromo refugees, I find that Instagram—and other social media—are used as a form of online participation to fill their days in transit. Other than offering the Oromo youths access to entertainment and new insights, Instagram also provides a space in which they can build and maintain relationship and it allows them to talk about and for themselves with photos, videos, and captions. They do this by celebrating their mundane moments as well as accessing and expressing happiness through the platform. Their posts also affect the audience or other users who know them as refugees and have online and offline interaction with them. They evoke a peculiar reconstruction of refugeeness. This paper offers a view of refugeeness as something constantly reconstructed and a thorough as well as contextual understanding of the lives of refugees, especially urban refugees who live in a transit country

The Dynamics of Abortion Treatment as an Effort of Harmonization between the Modern and the Traditional Medical System

This article explored the phenomenon of abortion within which a health issue is embedded, both in modern medicine and traditional medicine which is very close to the culture of the local community. It described efforts of abortion treatment that act as a bridge between the roles of modern medicine and traditional medicine in the Yogyakarta region. Apart from the stigma of local community regarding abortion by women with unwanted pregnancy, this article aimed to eliminate inappropriate conceptions and practices that stem from misinterpretations of developments in science, technology, and media. Abortion at least represents a narrative and context in the medical studies, as well as opens up space for discussing the concept of women’s body health. The phenomenon of handling abortion in Yogyakarta with the ‘home abortion’ system through advertisements for ‘late menstruation’ or ‘late months’ has become part of the issue of women’s reproductive health. This step of self-abortion finally emerged with its optimism as a form of harmonization between modern medicine and traditional medicine in a broader context

Sando Pea: Between Tradition and Health Challenge among Kaluppini Indigenous People

This article explored the phenomenon of abortion within which a health issue is embedded, both in modern medicine and traditional medicine which is very close to the culture of the local community. It described efforts of abortion treatment that act as a bridge between the roles of modern medicine and traditional medicine in the Yogyakarta region. Apart from the stigma of local community regarding abortion by women with unwanted pregnancy, this article aimed to eliminate inappropriate conceptions and practices that stem from misinterpretations of developments in science, technology, and media. Abortion at least represents a narrative and context in the medical studies, as well as opens up space for discussing the concept of women’s body health. The phenomenon of handling abortion in Yogyakarta with the ‘home abortion’ system through advertisements for ‘late menstruation’ or ‘late months’ has become part of the issue of women’s reproductive health. This step of self-abortion finally emerged with its optimism as a form of harmonization between modern medicine and traditional medicine in a broader context

The Sixth Sense that Gives Burdens: Narratives and Explanations on the ‘Gifted People’s Encounters with the Supernatural

In Jakarta, stories of people experiencing ghosts were not uncommon or peculiar. For some people, a given sixth sense allows them to gain advantages by communicating with the supernatural—this is considered as a gift. But, this ‘gift’ carries a side-effect, that is, the bearers may often get disturbed by ghosts due to their own supernatural sensitivity. To protect themself from supernatural disturbances, the bearers have to refrain from committing certain actions and have to constantly and solemnly pray. However, if they find the disturbances unbearable, they may visit a spiritual healer who has more power in controlling the supernatural. This paper aims to highlight the narratives on ghostly encounters and disturbances of people with a sixth sense. The featured narratives were of four people with a sixth sense from different backgrounds and statuses. They all lived in Jakarta. It focuses on their life histories as well as their beliefs on the supernatural. Despite their different personal histories, all informants conveyed that they have endured significant painful experiences before becoming susceptible to ghostly disturbances. It was then evident that their intriguing ghostly encounters were one of the results of their distressing past events. However, cultural beliefs denied and/or concealed the underlying issue and regarded it as a mere supernatural phenomenon. This raises a question on the conceptualization of mental health problems and its categorization cross-culturally; should a cultural symptom be classified as a mental health problem

Spectactorial Sisterhood: Relasi Sosial Pengguna Second Account di Instagram

Instagram is a popular image based social media platform. Usually, users have their own accounts for their personal profile to be viewed publicly. As Instagram features develop, users may have more than one account. Accounts that are specific to certain circle of friends are called “second accounts” and treated as private accounts used to express and relate through images. In this social media ethnography, seven subjects shared their experiences through uploaded images, videos and texts. They have the awareness to avoid relationships and gazes in their main account by building a different subjectivity in their second account. Contents on their second account are stories shared with their most trusted people. The dynamics of second account show different relations expressed through visual cues in Instagram, which I will call “spectatorial sisterhood” here

Daun Bungkus dan Hegemoni Kaum Laki-laki: Riset Etnografi di Masyarakat Irarutu, Papua Barat

Sexual behavior among Papuans known as unique. One of the unique sexual behavior that can be found is a bungkus “wrap”. Bungkus is the traditional technology to enlarge the male genitals using leaves which Papuans known as daun tiga jari. Hegemony and the value of masculinity that characterize sexual activity, expressed in order to wrap up behavior. These activities is to make  as strong men to do sexual activity. That  is not a myth. As the embodiment of the values of masculinity, wrap done by  male and adolescent. As a behavior, action to wrap up not  free from health risks. Packaging is not really going to result in damage to the genitals. Unsafe sexual behavior people who are wrapped, at risk for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV / AIDS. Recognition of female sex workers due to the use of wrappers is an indication of this risk. Socially, the phenomenon wrap also are at risk of Domestic Violence. Meanwhile, the Government is not doing more related to the bungkus phenomenon  a lot done Papuans. All that will make Papuans in Kaimana expressive sexual behavior as vulnerable people