tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285314912024-03-13T07:03:12.939+07:00~Inaya RakhmaniInaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.comBlogger244125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-49065117009436180342021-07-19T21:45:00.013+07:002021-07-20T11:10:15.708+07:00Badge of HonourIt’s been some time since I posted anything. What with COVID-19 and everything that has left us with even more disorientation than the ordinary...I am on my 12th year teaching now, and the age gap between my 18 year old students and I is growing wider. Quite factually.Every year, my new students ask if I knew what I wanted to do for a living since I was their age (18 yo)?Every year, my last year Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-59936059131983497222020-09-20T20:46:00.002+07:002020-09-20T20:46:23.793+07:00100 wordsThis post was written as part of the “Foundations to Writing” Class; and if I cannot do what I teach, I do neither. I am a 38 year old mother of one, whose sense of self is less and less shaped by expectations—be it from myself or other people. Decades of mistakes and messiness have allowed me the space to be comfortable in my own skin, with all the scars and blemishes. Increasingly, Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-31824448477974441552019-10-11T09:45:00.002+07:002019-10-11T09:46:03.682+07:00On Being Alone Together
Research has shown that there is an increase
in loneliness in the 21st century. This systemic problem is the socio-psychological
effect of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation which has shaped hyper-competitive
individuals. However, human beings, as most mammals, are social beings. We are
evolutionarily ingrained to live socially while our society, in the past two
centuries, has developed inInaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-56758569294908054722019-09-27T09:49:00.001+07:002019-09-27T10:12:32.755+07:00A Call for the Politics of RedistributionAs part of this week's Foundations to Writing Class that I am teaching, I'd like to talk about politics and young people in a digital world by taking the case of Indonesia.
After Indonesia's Reformasi, the largest demonstration took place at capital city Jakarta on 2 December 2016. The mass movement, in which young people comprise of most of the participants, was coined as the 212 rally; Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-75401794301052723272019-09-13T09:32:00.002+07:002019-09-13T09:44:40.452+07:00Teaching in a Digitally Converged WorldI am writing this post together and in solitude with my students from the Foundations to Writing Class. The class is part of the International Undergraduate Class in Communications. They are first year students and the session was aimed to practice writing.
Fig. 1. Foundations to Writing Class 13 September 2019.
Source: Author.
They work in groups each week; choosing topics in relation to Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-60809899164351797822016-10-02T11:22:00.001+07:002016-10-02T11:30:16.231+07:00Rumah IkanSelama dua bulan terakhir, kami bertiga kerja sama merawat aquarium. Marah-marah, berantem, bocor, tumpah, ketawa, cengengesan, ngaso.Lalu belajar kalau ikan, seperti makhluk hidup umumnya, akan muncul perilaku lucu ketika aquarium terawat (pH air seimbang, filter dibersihkan, makan tidak berlebihan). Ada yang kejar-kejaran.Yang introvert keluar dari balik kayu.Kalau kita datang, mereka Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-84749930899682393432016-04-08T08:03:00.000+07:002016-04-08T08:03:49.953+07:00Insularitas Akademik di IndonesiaKetika saya memulai studi doktoral tujuh tahun lalu, saya sangat kesulitan menemui literatur mengenai kajian sosio-historis Indonesia yang ditulis oleh orang Indonesia yang layak dikutip sebagai sumber akademik. Akhirnya, daftar pustaka tesis saya mayoritas berbahasa Inggris. Hal ini mengganggu saya bertahun-tahun, yang pernah saya tulis di sini dan di sini.
Perasaan tidak nyaman ini berlanjut Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-61933484595253633762015-06-21T08:22:00.000+07:002015-06-21T08:44:01.507+07:00Keluarga Komersial (OK. Video)
Last Monday (15/6), I got the chance to exchange views with the crowd at OK Video, which was really enriching (not to mention a breath of much-needed fresh air outside of campus). I sat in a couple of panels, although I didn't manage to get more time off from the office. But all in all it was really fun, and I thought of sharing.
Sources linked.
While I was reading up for Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-43051558011581235532014-05-06T16:07:00.000+07:002014-05-06T16:07:32.581+07:00Change Begins at HomeAs part of my Indonesian civil servant recruitment (CPNS), I had to do a complete health check at a local State Hospital. I was ready to go through an inefficient, bureaucratic experience of a day (which was the reason why I had procrastinated for a year before actually doing it). To keep my sanity, I told myself to approach it as ethnographic research :p.
After being pointed to several mistakenInaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-50587817314963575662014-01-12T11:22:00.002+07:002014-01-12T14:50:02.896+07:00Let the Bubble Burst
"Don’t
handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
Robert A. Heinlein
I first read
that quote, or precisely retweeted it, from a dear friend of mine, Endah
Triastuti (@dektitut). I began reading about the person saying it, Heinlein, a
science fiction writer. The themes he raised in his work have been greatly
about non-conformity, liberty, and self-reliance.
I write this
post Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-80836887392224775452013-11-27T17:32:00.000+07:002013-11-27T17:40:21.719+07:00Siapakah Sang ‘Imperialis’ Budaya?<!--StartFragment-->
Resensi Buku (Kompas, 24 November 2013, hlm 19)
Judul Buku:
Countering MTV Influence in Indonesia and Malaysia
Penulis:
Kalinga Seneviratne
Penerbit:
ISEAS
Cetakan: I,
2012
Tebal: xxiii
+ 278 halaman
ISBN:
978-981-4345-23-1
Siapakah Sang ‘Imperialis’ Budaya?
OLEH INAYA
RAKHMANI
Bagi warga
perkotaan, hanya dengan melihat logo M kuning melengkung mungkin Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-25404882189249827092013-07-13T11:14:00.000+07:002013-07-13T11:32:12.856+07:00A Pause
Yesterday was my son's, Malik, Kindergarten orientation day. As the teachers were presenting the semester outline to the parents, the children who were there started doing their own thing (like five year olds usually do). Malik's class mate Aisha (pseudonym) began drawing.
She had really clear strokes and was very detailed. She described to me that she was at her house. "Look at the roof!" Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-49911568438746079052013-03-02T10:29:00.000+07:002013-03-02T10:29:37.675+07:00Publikasi Ilmiah dan Solusi Jangka PendekA repost of my article in Kompas newspaper, 25 February 2013 on why Indonesian scholars are not writing; available online here.
Karena kurang optimalnya Surat Edaran Ditjen Dikti No 152/E/T/2012 yang mewajibkan doktor memublikasikan karya ilmiah, tahun ini kewajiban tersebut akan diperketat.
Strategi yang diambil Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi (Ditjen Dikti) secara teknis juga menarik. Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-35051348755717392052012-10-14T13:27:00.003+07:002012-10-14T17:09:44.358+07:00Present in PresenceTo those living in cities with high usage of smartphones, this may be a common sight:
A group of friends, eating together, but busily typing on their phones. Taking pictures of each other, smiling to the small, built-in camera. Quickly going back to their phones, posting the pictures on the social media space they're part of. Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Path. They would periodically Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-63052836247708954782012-04-07T13:55:00.009+07:002012-04-07T14:40:32.848+07:00On Soulmate(s)There are many views on soulmates. Plato, in the Symposium, told the story of how Zeus, fearing the power of humans, split them in two - making them spend their entire lives searching for the other half. In Abrahamic religions, soulmates are generally believed to be predestined, one for each, and kept by building marriages to maintain order and fairness. Postmodern views on soulmates break them Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-79517909973914762212011-12-11T11:35:00.004+07:002011-12-11T12:52:19.223+07:00Collective Moderation and Online DiscussionsWhen I was an undergrad student, I dabbled in debating. Having little passion in competition (pardon me), I didn't really embrace the art. But I've always enjoyed following the structure of logical arguments that each debater performed. Although I personally think that it is more relevant to build a mentality of discussing and opening minds rather than the concept of winning and losing that is Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-40304511498133495192011-11-14T11:08:00.000+07:002011-11-14T11:10:55.508+07:00On Why There Are Few Indonesians in Indonesian Studies"Sekarang ini 90 persen publikasi dalam jurnal akademis tentang Indonesia ditulis bukan oleh orang yang tinggal di Indonesia. Hal ini, menurut Indonesianis Anthony Reid, menjadikan Indonesia negara yang paling tidak efektif menceritakan dirinya sendiri kepada dunia. Satu ironi yang perlu diubah." (Tempo, 14-20 November 2011)This week's Tempo was exceptional for me. The magazine mapped out Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-75443290801642797272011-10-19T22:02:00.005+07:002011-10-22T10:22:38.242+07:00That of JayapuraOnce again, as part of my PhD thesis, I travel to another part of Indonesia: Jayapura, Papua. After completing data collection at SMAN 4 Jayapura, the vice principal asked me to fill in one of the ‘affirmative classes’ (i.e. classes designed for indigenous Papuans, funded by the local government under the special autonomy law). I had expected them to be particularly intelligent, being students ofInaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-14236844569981981562011-10-03T10:36:00.002+07:002011-10-03T10:59:00.309+07:00Questioning Religious DividesNote: Article published at Inside Indonesia. Unfortunately it doesn't include the recent FPI-SCTV debacle. More reading here.A recent film supporting religious pluralism stirs public debateInaya RakhmaniIn April 2011, thousands of Indonesian film-goers flocked to director Hanung Bramantyo’s latest film with the intriguing title of ‘?’ (Question Mark – in Indonesian, Tanda Tanya). Hanung has hadInaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-32220295714780692432011-09-10T11:06:00.009+07:002011-09-10T13:41:50.507+07:00Kompas TV, the TV Industry and the Issue of Local Identity@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } After built up curiousity, I spent the morning watching the newly launched Kompas TV. Although the station's broadcasting permit is still in question, it has begun airing since Friday, 9 September 2011. The Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-17258485055622365542011-08-25T11:43:00.004+07:002011-08-25T12:26:25.179+07:00Stand Up Comedy IndonesiaYesterday evening, I finally had the chance to see Stand Up Comedy Indonesia. Like other 'anything new' in Jakarta, it is quickly becoming a burgeoning scene where those in their twenties and thirties flock to be part of the trend. Or so I had thought.
A few years back while I was writing a paper, I came across journal articles on humour studies. Before you throw an encyclopedia at my head for Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-481220375089820092011-08-24T10:01:00.003+07:002011-08-24T14:44:26.811+07:00That of Banda AcehFor the last phase of my PhD data collection, I travel around the country (Denpasar, Banda Aceh, Jayapura, Makassar, Jayapura, Banjarmasin, and, err, Jakarta) to explore the dynamics between Islam, national identity, and television culture among young Indonesians. I have completed my Denpasar and Banda Aceh visits and, as usual, what I've learned so far - although far from finished - has made Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-60671264609901723432011-07-31T19:50:00.001+07:002011-07-31T19:52:52.767+07:00Islam is Losing the European War on MulticulturalismBy Pankaj MishraA few summers ago, I traveled to the central Swedish uplands for a conference. On the face of it, the subject “What Is the West?” seemed promising. What, indeed, was the West in the age of intensified globalization and mass immigration?“Multiculturalism,” variously defined, had been under attack by centrist politicians trying to outflank extreme-right-wing parties across Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-79025490338407156522011-07-24T19:37:00.005+07:002011-07-26T09:17:20.652+07:00The Delusion of Being Free of Labels"Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries."Leo TolstoyAnd here is my effort.Staying at a resort budding with tourists on their holidays, my son Malik and I were waiting in a crowded lobby for the elevator to reach our floor. To kill boredom, we counted the floor numbers appearing above its doors. I guess it was Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28531491.post-58449108807461573632011-07-05T10:36:00.002+07:002011-07-05T11:02:31.773+07:00An End to This"If I said in November last year that in seven months all Arab dictators will be overthrown or in the process to be, you would think I'm out of my mind. If I said in 1989 that communism will crumble in Moscow, you would think I'm crazy."George Galloway on advocating for an Israeli-Palestinian nation state;where both could coexist peacefully and be equal in the eyes of the lawTempo July 2011 (Inaya Rakhmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970983737636872692noreply@blogger.com2