Buku Bedugul dari Angkasa menyajikan tampilan citra satelit kawasan dataran tinggi Bedugul dari Pulau Bali yang dilengkapi dengan foto on-ground serta narasi semi-ilmiahnya. Selain itu, buku ini juga dilengkapi dengan uraian singkat mengenai pengindraan jauh dan sistem informasi geografi serta informasi menarik dari aspek etnografi seputar sejarah kampung Candikuning sebagai cikal bakal kawasa…
This special issue presents discussions of the role and meaning of religion for Korean society. Covering wide-ranging time periods, the authors explores with their own cases four major characteristics of Korean religion: Creativity, Greater Responsiveness, Adaptability, and Prophethood. Their topical religious traditions include Neo-Confucianism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Korean new religious…
The project reported on in this monograph has been concerned with the archaeology of the Batanes Islands, an archipelago that must have been settled quite early in the process of Austronesian dispersal from Taiwan southwards into the Philippines. A multi-phase archaeological sequence covering the past 4000 years for the islands of Itbayat, Batan, Sabtang and Siayan is presented, extending from …
Fokus penelitian ini adalah mengenai studi iklim masa lampau dengan menggunakan arsip karang Scleractinia atau disebut juga karang batu dari genus Porites. Kombinasi karang hidup dan mati menyediakan data iklim secara kontinu dari masa kini ke ribuan tahun bahkan ratusan ribu tahun lampau dengan resolusi bulanan. Kandungan geokimia karang dapat digunakan untuk merekonstruksi suhu permukaan laut…
Covid-19 has highlighted limitations in our democratic politics – but also lessons for how to deepen our democracy and more effectively respond to future crises. In the face of an emergency, the working assumption all too often is that only a centralised, top-down response is possible. This book exposes the weakness of this assumption, making the case for deeper participation and deliberation…
Historians have long lamented the lack of contemporary documentary sources for the Islamic middle ages and the inhibiting effect this has had on our understanding of this critically important period. Although the field is richly served by surviving evidence, much of it is hard to locate, difficult to access, and philologically intractable. Presenting a mixture of historical studies and new edit…
In modern societies the functional differentiation of medicine and religion is the predominant paradigm. Contemporary therapeutic practices and concepts in healing systems, such as Transpersonal Psychology, Ayurveda, as well as Buddhist and Anthroposophic medicine, however, are shaped by medical as well as religious or spiritual elements. This book investigates configurations of the entanglemen…
"The Bugis Chronicle of Bone is a masterwork in the historiographical tradition of South Sulawesi in Indonesia. Written in the late seventeenth century for a very specific political purpose, it describes the steady growth of the kingdom of Bone from the fourteenth century onwards. The local conquests of the fifteenth century, closely linked to agricultural expansion, give way to the long confli…
Seperti yang kita ketahui, penggunaan pupuk kimia secara berkesinambungan untuk pertanian dapat membawa dampak negatif berupa pencemaran tanah. Oleh karena itu, LIPI telah berupaya mencari suatu solusi terhadap permasalahan tersebut dengan mengembangkan pupuk organik hayati (POH). Buku ini akan memaparkan hasil dari proyek percontohan pertanian dengan aplikasi POH yang telah dilakukan LIPI di k…
Seventy years have passed since the end of the Asia-Pacific War, yet Japan remains embroiled in controversy with its neighbors over the war’s commemoration. Among the many points of contention between Japan, China, and South Korea are interpretations of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, apologies and compensation for foreign victims of Japanese aggression, prime ministerial visits to the Yasukuni S…