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Community
Development Approach in Aceh Reconstruction, Reflecting on Lessons
Learned for Yogyakarta
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Muamar Vebry, Chris Manu, Dr. Laine Berman |
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GAM's Party Good for Aceh's Peace, Stability170707
By Aguswandi |
The
writer is Consultant on Post Conflict in
Aceh. The view expressed here is a personal. |
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The
Urgency of Peace Education in Aceh|2505 07 By: Akbar Meirio | Peace worker in Aceh, also Worked in West Kalimantan and North Ireland. PEACE education should be targeted to three main segments: ex-combatant, government officers especially police and army and the public. |
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Let’s Dance Seudati
|230507 By: Fajran Zain | Graduate Student in Psychology, Ball State University, Indiana, USA. PEACE process in Aceh has to be saved as the conditions have not been conducive lately. |
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How effective is micro-credit in combating
poverty?
(The lessons learned from the Grameen Bank
in Bangladesh) By: Riswandi | The Aceh Institute | Researcher |
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The
Idea of Maqashid in Understanding Islamic Law|2102 07 |
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Aceh Sea: The Forgotten Diamond
| marine institute |1203 07
By: Hadi Sutedja |Shipping Industry Practitioner living in Banda Aceh Aceh has many opportunities in providing sea port services for both export and import commodities. |
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Initiating Justice, Building Equality
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By Zubaidah Johar | Aceh Woman Activist Gender equality is not within the context of biological structure (fate), rather, it is in the context of sociological structure (gender). The existing structure today still puts woman as object, subordinate to men, and second-class citizen. (Zubaidah Djohar, Acehnese Woman Activist). |
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Sharia Law in Today’s Contexts
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0702 07 By: Mashudi SR | Activist at Transformative Islam Study Center (elKIT) People who look Islam from new perspectives, are usually mapped as “they”, which is considered potentially to ruin “our” Islam. For example, “Islam Protestant”, as introduced by Fuad Mardhatillah, a scholar from Islamic state university of Ar-Raniry in Banda Aceh, became a controversy in Aceh Institute mailing list. However, Fuad Mardhatillah is yet to give detail explanations on what he means by “Islam Protestant”!. |
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Irwandi Starting to Spread ‘His
Net’
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02 07 By: M.Rizwan H.Ali | Lecturer at Social and Political Science Faculty, Malikussaleh University, Lhokseumawe Corruption cases in the BRR, ‘the new empire’ in Aceh, have not met its solution as the 11 December 2006 election cover up the matter. The empire seems not to be provoked by corruption allegations although there are many sizzling rumours flying around like dust covering tsunami affected areas. |
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Irwandi doesn’t have to be
another ‘Indonesian Governor’
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08 02 07
By: Nona Bahari | Former Acehnese Journalist, a freelance writer, now living in Dallas, Texas, USA Having been reading the history of Umar bin Abdul Aziz from various sources and books, I suggest Irwandi-Nazar not to be another ”Indonesian Governors”, which means imitating policies and style of today’s and previous governors in most part of Indonesia. |
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Women’s Role after Pilkada
| woman institute| 02 02 07 By: Zubaidah Djohar, social and political observer in Aceh Nevertheless, one question slips to our attention. Will the new government take account of women’s involvement? I consider the inquiry to be natural because it has been a public concern for a while. It does not belong only to women’s movement organizations, but applies to all who want to rebuild and build a new Aceh together. The concept requires restatement to avoid preconception that women’s role and contribution merely women’s concern. In fact women involvement is a common issue and is dedicated to create better life for all in Aceh. |
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Online Learning and Educational
Development in Aceh
| education institute| 01 02 07 By: Habiburrahim | Staff at The Center for Language and Teaching Staff Development, IAIN Ar-Raniry, Banda Aceh, Fulbright Graduate Student at Texas A&M, College Station, Texas, USA Email: habiburrahim@gmail.com The success of applying technologies to support online study in Aceh is affected by four fundamental elements: inadequacy of telecommunication infrastructure, high cost of technological devices, lack of qualified technicians, and high maintenance costs. |
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Politics
and Good Intentions: From Triage to Long Term and Participatory
Planning in Banda Aceh
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25 01 07 By: Leah Mayor | The author holds a PhD in Education from Cornell University. As the lack of cohesion and vision in rebuilding becomes more apparent, a call for inclusive development practices and participation has echoed against the continued planning efforts, along with this echo, a resurgence of funding proposals now call for reevaluation of programs. Many of these proposals call for little more than more community involvement and attention to government programs that were already in place before disaster struck. |
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Great
Expectations for Aceh Election
| Nov 13, 2006 By: Aguswandi |Dept of Politics, Law and Human Rights, Aceh Institute Aceh needs a visionary leader who is smart and brave enough to fight the acute problems in the province. Among the most acute challenges are corruption, bad governance, a badly functioning rule of law, weak capacity of institutions, poor strategic planning and an inability to absorb good development ideas. |
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Hopes
high for Acehnese to emerge from poverty
| Sept. 22 2006 By: Wolfgang Fengler and Ahya Ihsan, Jakarta Before the 2004 tsunami, Aceh was one of Indonesia's most neglected and isolated regions. Now, it is home to the largest reconstruction project in the developing world. The success of the reconstruction goes beyond economic recovery -- it is important for consolidating the peace agreement of August 2005. This has already made Aceh safe enough for economic activity to resume in previously dangerous areas. |
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ISLAM,
MUSLIMS & DEMOCRACY IN INDONESIA
|Sept. 12 2006 By: Zulkieflimansyah, Jakarta | The emotional plea made by Aguswandi for promoters of "civil Islam" to take a strong stand against so-called "conservative Islam" (Say No to Conservative Islam, The Jakarta Post, Aug. 30, 2006) therefore comes as somewhat of a surprise. As a human rights advocate and presumably a strong proponent for a democratic Indonesia, the refusal to acknowledge the plurality of voices within Indonesian Islam is unfortunate. |
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SAY
NO TO CONSERVATIVE ISLAM
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30, 2006)
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IDPs
and Poverty Problem: Aceh Conflict and Tsunami IDPs Mobility
and Its Spatial Statistics*)
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09 2006) |
By: Saiful Mahdi**) This paper discusses spatial interaction behavior of IDPs both from Aceh conflict and the tsunami, observing their mobility in relation to poverty problem and relief services provision. Some spatial statistics available before and after tsunami are analyzed to see how livelihood options dictated those IDPs mobility.
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presented at The 8th Indonesian Regional
Science Association (IRSA) International Conference, 18-19
August 2006, University of Brawijaya, Malang, East Java,
Indonesia |
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Could
the Danish Model be the future for Aceh?
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Economic
Development Key to Sustaining Peace in Aceh
| 040706 By: Aguswandi, Researcher at The Aceh Institute, Banda Aceh | Aceh actually needs less charity, and more investment in business and economic activities. The focus on rebuilding infrastructure is important, but there should be an increased emphasis on creative approaches to economic growth. Any rebuilding of the infrastructure should focus on strategic support for the kind of economic development that will benefit the Acehnese population at large. |
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The
Consultative Council of Aceh “Ulama”: History & Role In The Aceh
Society |
260606 By Muhammad Yasir Yusuf | Research Student, Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program (RMAP), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia. This influence is easily destroyed when ulama loses its credibility. The credibility of the ulama depends very much on their level of independence and morality; if there is too much cooperation with the rulers; people will turn away from the ulama to find their religious guidance somewhere else, resulting in ulama without power. If ulama far away from the government; the government will lost guidance. So ulama have to be in the middle between people and the government . Ulama can give guidance in people life and bring spirituality to a leadership but not by taking sides. |
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Helping
Tsunami Survivors Without Land
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Source The Jakarta Post June,
12 2006) By: Muammar Vebry | Researcher of Aceh Institute At this point, it is urgent for BRR to try an "experiment" and aim for a breakthrough to resolve the uncertainty. The agency must identify and provide applicable solutions. Aid for survivors who were renters prior to the tsunami is relatively more complicated compared to those whose houses were devastated. The most complex problem is where the houses for the landless survivors will be built. |
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The People of Aceh: An International Employer Perspective
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By: Freddie Rousseau | Employment Services, ILO (email: rousseauf@ilojkt.or.id) This is a slide presentation by ILO Banda Aceh in the seminar of ”The Role of Local Human Resources in Aceh Rehabilitation and Reconctruction” held by The Aceh Institute on March 18, 2006. Enter Here for Full Coverage >> |
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Tsunami
Response & Women |
040406 By: Mazalan Kamis (Post doctoral fellow at Department of Education, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Department of Education University Putra Malaysia, International Advisor of The Aceh Institute) & Saiful Mahdi (Graduate student in Regional Sciences, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Department of Mathematics, Syiah Kuala University, and Coordinator of The Aceh Institute In a catastrophic disaster like tsunami, unless concerted effort is organized to listen and response to women, then their plights can easily be overlooked. Both macro and micro levels of assistance must be address throughout the recovery period, and hence, as such supply of basic and woman-specific needs must continually be addressed so long as livelihood remains problematic. Besides failing to coordinate their relief activities, often times relief organizations are more geared towards satisfying their organizational needs instead of focusing more on the needs of the survivors. |
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What
do I think of local Staff in Aceh?
| 010406 By Cameron Noble | (Program Manager, Grass Roots Assistance for Aceh, Embassy of Jepang in Banda Aceh) Until recently, I was before based mainly in Meulaboh where finding qualified and experienced staffs was initially difficult. However, a team for my office had to be formed quickly so largely inexperienced but sincere staffs were recruited. Many staffs had lost everything in the tsunami but worked tirelessly to help others despite their own trauma and loss. |
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Outward-Looking
Aceh: A Key for Sustainable Peace
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160306 By: Saiful Mahdi | Ph.D student in Regional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. He is a lecturer at Syiah Kuala University and Coordinator of The Aceh Institute. He can be reached at saiful.mahdi@acehinstitute.org Aceh and, arguably, other entities in the early archipelago, raised and fall along history in line to how it put and look itself relative to the outside world. Late Isa Sulaiman, the foremost Aceh historian who perished in the tsunami, with historian Anthony Reid studied the fact that Aceh past was very much outward instead of inward-looking. |
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The
Traditional Image of Indonesian Islam in German Newspapers |
070306 By: Dr. Arndt Graf, Department of Indonesian and Oceanic Languages, Asia-Africa-Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 2001 in New York and Washington, both in Western and in Islamic countries, the perception of each other is increasingly thematized. How is the West perceived in Islamic countries? And what do Western societies know and think about Islamic cultures? In this article, I investigate a small part of that larger picture. My question is how Indonesian Islam is traditionally perceived in German dailies published during the 1980s. This short paper is restricted to a more or less descriptive approach, trying to establish a basis for a broader discussion involving approaches from various other disciplines (like Islamic studies or anthropology). |
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Dodaidi,
More than
Songs of Lullaby
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070206 By: Marlina Marzuki | Teaching staff at Lhokseumawe State Polytechnic Lyrics of the songs of dodaidi for Achenese people are not only as lullabies to send children to bed, but also have others certain purposes. As religious society, Acehnese also use the songs as religious education media for children. Furthermore some of the songs contain epic with hope and persuasion of mother or father to her baby to take part in good causes in the future. |
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From tsunami pledges to contribution:
Who is the most generous?
| 040106 By: Saiful Mahdi | Coordinator of Aceh Institute Country wise, Japan is the most generous in tsunami commitment, contributing 502.5 million already, or 8.2 percent of total tsunami aid, followed by the UK and the US with almost the same amount of 136 and 134 million USD, each making up 2.2 percent of the total 6.8 billion. Under the three countries are Germany, Canada, European Comission (ECHO) and Norway with commitment or contribution ranging from 129 million down to 80 million dollars |
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On
Importance of Knowledge On The Coastal Response After The Tsunami on
26 December 2004: A Note For The Inhabitants of Banda Aceh |
201205 By Ella Meilianda | Ella Meilianda is a junior teaching staff of Civil Engineering Department of Engineering Faculty of Syiah Kuala University. At present she is a Ph D student in Water Engineering & Management group, University of Twente, the Netherlands. |
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The
Aceh Conflict and the Roles of the Civil Society
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By: Kamarulzaman Askandar | Professor in Peace Studies, International Board of Advisor The Aceh Institute. | Acehnese struggle for independence is probably one of the longest and bloodiest separatist insurgencies in Asia...Full Coverage > |
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Aceh, the Crucial Step (The Jakarta Post/ January 31, 2006) |
| Jakarta Considers Price of Peace (International Herald Tribune/Monday, January 30, 2006) | |
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Tsunami Refugees Might Stay in Camps Until
2007 (Pdf 11.8 KB - Nov 18,2005) |
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ADB Respond on Jakarta Post Report (Pdf 25 Kb - JP Nov.16, 2005) |
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Homes Remain Elusive for Acehnese on Idul
Fitri (Pdf 50 Kb - JP Oct 31, 2005) |
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By: Muammar Vebry Researcher in Regional Planning and Environmental Studies, Aceh Institute (PDF Size-54,3 KB) |
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Aceh's early heroines ignored
by history books (JP/210499) By: Danny L Yatim |
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By: Saiful Mahdi Other > Coordinator of The Aceh Institute |
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When Study becomes a Prickly Way By: Dr. Salmawaty |
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By: Nazli Ismail | nazlis@lycos.com |
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By: Taufik Abdullah |
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The Impacts of War on
Education in Aceh By: Oleh: Saifuddin M. Yunus | |
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Issues of Sustainable Building Material By Muammar Vebry |