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Events
a lecture by
A/Professor Tamrin Amal Tomagola
University of Indonesia
Thursday October 18th 2007
Prince Phillip Theatre
Architecture Building
The University of Melbourne
Abstract
Lombok, especially since the launching of
decentralization reforms in 1999, has been the site of recent violence.
There are, however, grass-root signs of the potential for peaceful
ethnic coexistence in Mataram city, and to some extent, on the island as
whole. In this lecture Tamrin Amal Tomagola will present his research on
how different layers of affection based on kinship, religion and
ethnicity are played-out, negotiated, constructed and experienced by a
contemporary urban lower middle class Sasak community in the city of
Mataram, Lombok. He argues that despite on-going challenges, the
community has managed not only to keep inter-ethnic violence
under-control, but also to survive intact as a community.
Short Biography
Tamrin Amal Tomagola is currently a visiting Research
Fellow at KITLV, Leiden. He is working together with a team of Dutch and
Indonesian scholars on a larger project entitled 'In Search of Middle
Indonesia', which focuses on research with people, especially youth, of
lower middle-class in provincial towns. He is a Research Associate in
the Centre for Research on Inter-group Relations and Conflict Resolution
(CERIC), established by the University of Indonesia's Faculty of Social
and Political Sciences in co-operation with the Southeast Asia Studies
Program at Ohio University. He obtained his PhD in 1990 from the
University of Essex, UK, with a dissertation on ideology in Indonesian
women's magazines. Tamrin Tomagola is an acknowledged authority on
inter-group relations and communal conflict in Indonesia.
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