A Description of Ternate Malay

Ternate Malay is a local variety of Malay in Ternate, a small island in the Maluku Utara province in eastern Indonesia. The majority of speakers live in Ternate town, where it serves as mother tongue as well as a means of communication between people of various ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. In the last few decades there is a growing scholarly interest in local Malay varieties, particularly in the eastern part of Indonesia. This article is a short description of Ternate Malay based on the idea that words in Ternate Malay receive their meaning in the combination with other words and that the linguistic context as well as the non-linguistic situation in which they occur, determine the most suitable interpretation of utterances. It is shown how certain words facilitate the determination of the interpretation

Image of Woman in Indonesian Folktales: Selected Stories from the Eastern Indonesian Region

In Indonesia, a folk tale is used as a medium of entertainment as well as a teaching tool for children. Parents read folktales to their children at night. Folktales are used in the text of Indonesian lessons at the elementary education level. However, Indonesian folktale is suspected of being gender-biased. Although there is research on this subject, there is still little research on Indonesian folktales originating from Eastern Indonesia. Previous research conducted is still focused on the western region of Indonesia, for example, Java and Sumatra Island. This study aims to understand how women are depicted in Eastern Indonesian folktales, especially to understand the objectification of female characters. Based on the results of our research, we argue that many female characters in Eastern Indonesian folktales are subject to objectification. The objectification of female figures is carried out in the form of women as objects of sexuality, women as a medium of exchange of power, and women being passive and working in the domestic sphere. This finding shows that the folktale of Eastern Indonesia cannot be separated from patriarchal ideology. These stories show that women in the imagination of the Indonesian people still occupy an inferior position compared to men. Furthermore, the female characters also experience objectification and inequality as in folktales from Western Indonesia. The patriarchal point of view in folktales has deep roots and spreads in Indonesia. Research proves that the ideology of folktale is not always in harmony with the ideal values?? that exist in society. It takes a critical attitude towards the selection of stories that will be conveyed to childre

Tradition and monotheism in eastern Indonesia

Nusa Tenggara Timor, a south-eastern province of Indonesia, is populated mainly by Christians. The Alor-Pantar Archipelago has a majority of Protestant inhabitants who were baptized by Dutch Calvinists in the first half of the twentieth century. In addition, there are some coastal enclaves that have been inhabited by Muslims for centuries. In some areas, such as in the headland of Muna (Tanjung Muna) forming the northeast of Pantar Island, there is an even greater diversity of monotheistic religions, with some Catholic families living next to Protestants and Muslims. All adherers of the three religious faiths living at Tanjung Muna share core elements of the local adat, which consists of core rules relating to social behavior. It is believed that the ancestors will notice transgressions of these rules, and may use their supernatural power to punish their human descendants. In Indonesia, the term adat was first used by Muslims to distinguish the non-Islamic practices from Muslim faith (Keane 1997:260-261). This is definitely not the case in the village of Pandai at the coast of Tanjung Muna, where Islam tolerates ancestral worship. The same is true for the Catholics in the inland village of Helangdohi, who do not only tolerate but even support such customs. Some villagers from Helangdohi had become acquainted with this kind of Catholicism on the nearby island of Flores, where ancestral worship is encouraged by the missionaries of the Societas Verbi Divini (SVD). The attitude of Protestantism, at least in the Alor Archipelago, is quite the contrary of the permissive views held by Catholicism and Islam. In the 1930s the Protestant-Calvinist missionaries banned any kind of ancestral worship and destroyed most relics (Dalen 1928: Picture 1). These drastic measures demanded the disavowal of the ancestors, including the destruction of heirlooms and omitting of rituals

Riddling traditions in eastern Indonesia and East Timor: some preliminary notes

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Sustainable Agro-Industrial Ecology Concept of the Madura Island

Madura as one small island in East Java Province, Indonesia faced many challenges due to limited transportation connectivity, limited water resources and karst geology. Due to this reasons, the Government of Indonesia proposed a strategic plan to improve the development of the island to Surabaya, the largest port for the Eastern of Indonesia. It was started with building the Surabaya – Madura (SuraMadu) Bridge with 5.7 km length in 2003. The bridge was finally completed in 2009, improving the traffic flow into the island and development of Madura Island. Unfortunately, the strategy would not be comprehensive without strategic development of the Madura Island, especially in Bangkalan District (Kabupaten Bangkalan). The Central Government has proposed a Green Industry with zero waste and clean energy concept. This industry and port would process the agriculture products from Madura for the export and Eastern part of Indonesia market. Therefore, an industrial ecology concept was needed to achieve the sustainable green industry for Eastern of Indonesia

Power Law Signature in Indonesian Population

The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in two regional terms, i.e.: kabupaten and kotamadya. It is interestingly found that the rank in all kabupaten respect to the population does not have fat tail properties, while in the other hand; there exists power-law signature in kotamadya. We analyzed that this fact could be caused by the equal or similar infrastructural development in all regions; nevertheless, we also note that the first 20 kabupatens are dominated in Java and Sumatera. Furthermore, the fat tail character in the rank of kotamadya could be caused by the big gap between big cities one another, e.g.: Jakarta, Surabaya, and others. The paper ends with some suggestions of more attention to infrastructural development in eastern regional cities

Determinan Rumah Tangga dan Malaria dengan Metode Pohon Klasifikasi di Kawasan Timur Indonesia

The Riskesdas or Basic Health Research 2013 showed prevalence of malaria in 15 provinces in eastern Indonesia were above the national average. The higher prevalence of malaria were mostly located in Eastern Indonesia as East Nusa Tenggara or (Nusa Tenggara Timur/NTT), West Nusa Tenggara or Nusa Tenggara Barat/NTB), Papua, West Papua, Maluku and North Maluku. The study aimed to determine characteristics of household members confirmed of malaria in Eastern Indonesia based on secondary the Riskesdas 2013 data. It was a further analysis of Riskesdas 2013, with a sample of 41,040 households in the Eastern of Indonesia. Method of analysis was by classification tree analysis. Classification tree optimally provided 10 simpuls. It showed that the majority of 20.8% households infected by malaria had free health care in last year, located in rural, high economy status, use mosquito bite prevention, higher education among heads of families, and professional occupation such as civil/miliatary/police/enterprises. It concludes by classification tree analysis that the highest probability of household members infected malaria in eastern Indonesia was 30.5%, common in households that had free health carein last year and higher education among heads of families. It needs socialization on standard confirmation of malaria by blood examination, especially among heads of households with lw education, low socioeconomic and in aeras with minimum health access

Pelaksanaan Program Tol Laut PT Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia

Sea Highway is one of the Indonesian government's programs that aimed at reducing price disparities that occur between the West Indonesia (especially Java) and the East Indonesia with the use of sea transport. The government appointed PT Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia (PELNI) to run the Sea Highway program started from November 2015 by providing ships with the scheduled system from the western of Indonesia to the eastern of Indonesia and vice versa. This study was held to analyze the implementation of the PT PELNI's Sea Highway program especially in aspects of routes, frequency, and volume of the transported vessel, which only restricted from Surabaya to Eastern Indonesia's route. The results show that the route and frequency of Sea Highway are running consistently, while the volume is increasing if it's compare with the first time it started. The 3 aspects of Sea Highway (route, frequency, volume) influence each other; therefore it's suggested for government to improve the efficiency of those three aspects so the Sea Highway's purpose in reducing price disparities in Eastern Indonesia can be achieved maximally. Moreover, the research results also show that Sea Highway program never takes the private shipping company's commercial route