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...John R. Bowen Abstract The idea of “mutual assistance” ( gotong royong ) in Indonesia has been the basis for political discourse concerning the nature of authority, the characteristics of village society, and the legitimacy of demands for labor by the state. This article traces the way in which...

...Clifford Geertz Some Social-Anthropological Obervations on Gotong Rojong Practices in Two Villages of Central Java . By Koentjaraningrat . Cornell Modern Indonesia Project Publications , 1961 . (Monograph Series). Structural Changes in Javanese Society: The Village Sphere . By D...

... space, it was simultaneously opened to state programs that promised to help the very people thought to live in kampungs , programs that then generated new internal boundaries within the neighborhood. An example of this dynamic is evident in Newberry's analysis of gotong royong , the mutual...

... the "freefight Liberalism" of "vulture capitalism," which had apparently characterized the Republic thus far, saying that it should be replaced by a more properly indigenous and morally superior spirit: Gotong Rojong. Only if the native Indonesian spirit of idealistic social service which animated the nation's...

... but reorients them, bringing the cosmic concerns of gods and demons within the compass of human kinship, within the home, even the bedroom. These observations lead to a discussion of general relations between folklore and classical traditions in India. On the Political Construction of Tradition: Gotong Royong...

... Asianism. Japan is nowhere mentioned in this foundational text, but Pancasila's emphasis on unity and consensus and a 1950 pamphlet by Sukarno stressing that at Pancasila's core is the “genuine Indonesian term” of gotong-royong (p. 302) are evidence of Greater Asianism's deep impress. While Sukarno...

..., and for conservatism in values and social structures, are thoughtfullly analyzed. The monograph as a whole is competent, reliable, and perceptive, a solid contribution to the growing body of descriptive literature on modern Indonesian society. Chicago HlLDRED GEERTZ Some Social-Anthropological Obervations on Gotong...

... analyzed. The monograph as a whole is competent, reliable, and perceptive, a solid contribution to the growing body of descriptive literature on modern Indonesian society. Chicago HlLDRED GEERTZ Some Social-Anthropological Obervations on Gotong Rojong Practices in Two Villages of Central Java...

... : British Broadcasting Corporation . Bowen John R. 1986 . “ On the Political Construction of Tradition: Gotong Royong in Indonesia .” Journal of Asian Studies 45 ( 3 ): 545 –61. Crary Jonathan . 1999 . Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture . Cambridge...

... Construction of Tradition: Gotong Royong in Indonesia .” Journal of Asian Studies 45 (May): 545 – 561 . Bowen John R. . 1988 . “Power and Meaning in Economic Change: What Does Anthropology Learn from Development Studies?” In Production and Autonomy: Anthropological Studies and Critiques...

... was gotong rojong, "a voluntary effort of a community working together for the benefit of the entire community or some member of it . . . also a common responsibility for the whole community" (p. 91). Ghoshal neither questions whether there was a prototypical Indonesian village, or even a Javanese one, nor...

... report on the military in Thailand, Burma, and Indonesia, and Jusuf Wanandi gives high marks to the political sagacity of the leaders in the ASEAN countries. The latter's analysis of Indonesian developments stresses cultural values such as musyawarah mupakat ("consensus building gotong royong ("mutual...

... interaction musjawarah (discussion), mufa\at (consensus), and gotong rojong (mutual cooperation), illustrates how the now discredited spokesman for an Indonesian nation attempted to mobilize a traditional social order on his behalf. In assessing the second criteria for ideological explanation of political...

... dan- The items reviewed here are exceptionally im- ger, but not the second. Hence there is rather portant. In his preface to the translation of too much in this book about "the whole Indo- President Soekarno's speech "Marhaen and nesian people," the revolutionary spirit, gotong Proletarian," Professor...

... with their time. It occurs to me that the centers' failings are one more example of a central 1154 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES government program based on the long outdated myth of gotong-royong in Javanese villages. Rosalia Sciortino writes about "Rural Nurses and Doctors: The Discrepancy between Western...

... Nationalism. His call for a system of government based on traditional modes of political interaction musjawarah (discussion), mufa\at (consensus), and gotong rojong (mutual cooperation), illustrates how the now discredited spokesman for an Indonesian nation attempted to mobilize a traditional social order...

... reviewed here are exceptionally im- ger, but not the second. Hence there is rather portant. In his preface to the translation of too much in this book about "the whole Indo- President Soekarno's speech "Marhaen and nesian people," the revolutionary spirit, gotong Proletarian," Professor Kahin relates...

... mas. Some social-an- MEARS, LEON A. Economic development in In- thropological observations on gotong rojong INDONESIA 701 practices in two villages of Central Java [by] Koentjaraningrat. Translated by Claire Holt. Ithaca, N . Y., Modern Indonesia Project, Southeast Asia Program, Dept. of Far Eastern...

... sociale des femmes VAN DEE KROEF, JUSTUS M. Conflicts of en Indon&ie. Revue socialiste 92 (1955), power in Indonesia. EW 9 (Apr. 1955), 489-96. 24-26. DEY, S. K. Gotong royong or alang alang? . Indonesia: paradoxes of independence. A draft scheme for community develop- South Atlantic quarterly 54 (July...

... a communal form of landholding and social life: The land surrounding the villages was the property of the village and was worked together. In other matters, too, for example in the building of houses, the residents helped one another and also worked together (Jv. gotong rojong Pre-Western waves of foreign...