Pataya: suatu Tinjauan Konstruksi Tempat Ngãbãr Komunitas Gay di Surabaya

Tempat ngèbèr sebagai tempat pertemuan laki-laki gay terseba —meskipun relatif terselubung—di berbagai tempat tempat publik di seluruh Indonesia. Tempat ngèbèr sebagai salah satu titik utama dalam konstelasi dunia gay berfungsi tidak hanya untuk mencari pasangan hubungan seksual, tapi juga untuk bersosialisasi, membuka diri, dan mendapat penerimaan. Surabaya memiliki banyak tempat ngèbèr yang cukup dikenal di kalangan laki-laki gay, dengan Pataya sebagai satu tempat ngèbèr terbesar. Namun dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, tampak adanya Perubahan-Perubahan yang menyebabkan Pataya tidak lagi sehidup dulu. Melalui metode partisipasi observasi dan wawancara non-formal, kajian ini berupaya untuk memahami bagaimana Pataya menjadi pilihan tempat ngèbèr di Surabaya, Perubahan-Perubahan apasaja yang terjadi dan menyebabkan penyusutan kehidupannya. Dari penelitian ini, diharapkan ada penelitian lanjutan untuk mempelajari adaptasi-adaptasi yang terjadi atau dapat dilakukan di luar situs ngèbèr.Keywords: space, place, sexuality, cruising, gay, ngèbèr, Surabay

Pataya: suatu Tinjauan Konstruksi Tempat Ngèbèr Komunitas Gay di Surabaya

Tempat ngèbèr sebagai tempat pertemuan laki-laki gay terseba —meskipun relatif terselubung—di berbagai tempat tempat publik di seluruh Indonesia. Tempat ngèbèr sebagai salah satu titik utama dalam konstelasi dunia gay berfungsi tidak hanya untuk mencari pasangan hubungan seksual, tapi juga untuk bersosialisasi, membuka diri, dan mendapat penerimaan. Surabaya memiliki banyak tempat ngèbèr yang cukup dikenal di kalangan laki-laki gay, dengan Pataya sebagai satu tempat ngèbèr terbesar. Namun dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, tampak adanya Perubahan-Perubahan yang menyebabkan Pataya tidak lagi sehidup dulu. Melalui metode partisipasi observasi dan wawancara non-formal, kajian ini berupaya untuk memahami bagaimana Pataya menjadi pilihan tempat ngèbèr di Surabaya, Perubahan-Perubahan apasaja yang terjadi dan menyebabkan penyusutan kehidupannya. Dari penelitian ini, diharapkan ada penelitian lanjutan untuk mempelajari adaptasi-adaptasi yang terjadi atau dapat dilakukan di luar situs ngèbèr

THE ASEAN-5 FUTURE CURRENCY: MAASTRICHT CRITERIA

In this recent decade, many of the economists and policymakers attempted to investigate the suitability of the East Asian region to form a currency union and based on the European countries experience as a benchmark. This study aims to investigate the long-run real convergence in GDP per capita growth among Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines, over 1978 to 2004. The Dickey-Fuller (DF) and Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) unit root tests were conducted at first difference of GDP per capita for each country; the results demonstrated that all countries GDP per capita are stationary at first difference. The results of the Bound Testing Approach (Auto-Regression Distributed Lag (ARDL)) indicated that there is a long run relationship between variables in the Maastricht Criteria. The results showed that interest rate, inflation rate and the debt ratio experience that negative relationship to the GDP per capita. However, the exchange rate and surplus (or deficit) ratio shown the positive related to the GDP per capita. Therefore, the findings showed the ASEAN 5 countries have fulfilled the Maastricht Criteria with consistent to expected sign(s) except for Singapore’ exchange rate and Indonesia’s debt ratio. Hence, those ASEAN 5 countries in this study have potential to form a single currency.Monetary Union (MU), Bound Test (ARDL), Maastricht Criteria, Single Currency

C2O and Frontyard: hacking the archives to design community spaces in Surabaya and Sydney

© 2019, Luke Bacon, Kathleen Azali, Alexandra Lara Crosby and Benjamin Forster. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify shared themes and concerns of two local and critical archives by comparing their design and day-to-day practice. Design/methodology/approach: The action research has drawn on the experience of collaboration between a Sydney-based community space (Frontyard) and the Surabaya-based co-working community (C2O) over one year. Each space houses a small physical library of books, which is the focus of this analysis. Findings: Hacking has emerged as a key value of both archives. A hacking approach has shaped the design of each space and the organisation each archive. Hacking frames the analysis of each collection in this study. Practical implications: Pragmatic and political understanding of such archives have implications for better quality and more authentic exchange between the communities that make use of these libraries in Indonesia and Australia. Originality/value: While some work on local critical archives has been done in Indonesia and Australia, no research to date has made specific comparisons with the aim of sharing knowledge. Because these archives are often temporary and ephemeral, documenting the work that goes into them, and their practitioners’ perspectives, is urgent, making possible shared knowledge that can inform the ways communities make decisions about their own heritage

Autonomous path planning through application of rotated two-parameter overrelaxation 9-point Laplacian iteration technique

Autonomous path navigation is one of the important studies in robotics since a robot’s ability to navigate through an environment brings about many advancements with it. This paper suggests the iteration technique called half-sweep two-parameter overrelaxation 9-point laplacian (HSTOR-9P) to be applied on autonomous path navigation and aims to investigate its effectiveness in performing computation for path planning in an indoor static environment. This iteration technique is a harmonic function that solves the Laplace’s equation where the modelling of the environment is based on. The harmonic functions are an appropriate method to be used on autonomous path planning because it satisfies the min-max principle, therefore avoiding the occurrence of local minima which traps robot’s movements, and that it offers complete path planning algorithm. Its performance is tested against its predecessor iteration technique. Results shown that HSTOR-9P iteration technique enables path construction in a lower number of iterations, thus, performs better than its predecessors

Squirrel cage induction motor scalar control constant V/F analysis

In constant V/f control technique it is assume that the stator resistance and leakage inductance drops are negligible, especially at high speed and small load. In other words, the back emf is comparatively large at high speed and hence these voltage drops can be neglected. By maintaining constant V/f, constant Eg/f and hence constant air-gap flux is assumed. This assumption is however invalid at low speeds since a significant voltage drop appears across the stator impedance. The terminal voltage, V no longer approximates ag. By using MATLAB Simulink, the open-loop constant V/f is simulated. It is shown that the performance of the drive deteriorates at low speeds. The improvement in the performance by applying voltage boost is shown and discussed

THE ASEAN-5 FUTURE CURRENCY: MAASTRICHT CRITERIA

In this recent decade, many of the economists and policymakers attempted to investigate the suitability of the East Asian region to form a currency union and based on the European countries experience as a benchmark. This study aims to investigate the long-run real convergence in GDP per capita growth among Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines, over 1978 to 2004. The Dickey-Fuller (DF) and Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) unit root tests were conducted at first difference of GDP per capita for each country; the results demonstrated that all countries GDP per capita are stationary at first difference. The results of the Bound Testing Approach (Auto-Regression Distributed Lag (ARDL)) indicated that there is a long run relationship between variables in the Maastricht Criteria. The results showed that interest rate, inflation rate and the debt ratio experience that negative relationship to the GDP per capita. However, the exchange rate and surplus (or deficit) ratio shown the positive related to the GDP per capita. Therefore, the findings showed the ASEAN 5 countries have fulfilled the Maastricht Criteria with consistent to expected sign(s) except for Singapore’ exchange rate and Indonesia’s debt ratio. Hence, those ASEAN 5 countries in this study have potential to form a single currency

Financial integration and the ASEAN-5 equity markets

The existence of long-run relationships among the ASEAN-5 equity markets is empirically investigated. This study utilized weekly data spanning January 1988 to August 1999. The results of Granger noncausality test due to Toda and Yamamoto (Journal of Econometrics, 66, 225-50, 1995) reveal that the Singapore equity market was not affected by other markets except by the Philippines in the long run. This result shows that there exist opportunities for beneficial international portfolio diversification within the context of the Asean-5 equity markets

Emerging infectious disease implications of invasive mammalian species : the greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula) is associated with a novel serovar of pathogenic Leptospira in Ireland

The greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula) is an invasive mammalian species that was first recorded in Ireland in 2007. It currently occupies an area of approximately 7,600 km2 on the island. C. russula is normally distributed in Northern Africa and Western Europe, and was previously absent from the British Isles. Whilst invasive species can have dramatic and rapid impacts on faunal and floral communities, they may also be carriers of pathogens facilitating disease transmission in potentially naive populations. Pathogenic leptospires are endemic in Ireland and a significant cause of human and animal disease. From 18 trapped C. russula, 3 isolates of Leptospira were cultured. However, typing of these isolates by standard serological reference methods was negative, and suggested an, as yet, unidentified serovar. Sequence analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA and secY indicated that these novel isolates belong to Leptospira alstonii, a unique pathogenic species of which only 7 isolates have been described to date. Earlier isolations were limited geographically to China, Japan and Malaysia, and this leptospiral species had not previously been cultured from mammals. Restriction enzyme analysis (REA) further confirms the novelty of these strains since no similar patterns were observed with a reference database of leptospires. As with other pathogenic Leptospira species, these isolates contain lipL32 and do not grow in the presence of 8-azagunaine; however no evidence of disease was apparent after experimental infection of hamsters. These isolates are genetically related to L. alstonii but have a novel REA pattern; they represent a new serovar which we designate as serovar Room22. This study demonstrates that invasive mammalian species act as bridge vectors of novel zoonotic pathogens such as Leptospira