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Ketahanan Toleransi Orang Jawa: Studi tentang Yogyakarta Kontemporer
No full textThis paper aims to elaborate the tolerance discourse in Yogyakarta through restricted research pertaining that issue within the society of Yogyakarta. Since the beginning, the society of Yogyakarta has been practiced brotherhood, fraternity and tolerance in many ways. In early 1990s, however, some Islamist group has been growing at the city in which a number of Islamic schools and hospitals were built in some area in Yogyakarta. Religious mass organizations that have existed previously, for instance Muhammadiyah, in some cases, distressed by Islamist group movements. The organizations seem to be victimized by the militants and they were vulnerable from recent renewing Islamism in global context. Surprisingly, in society itself, a number of local wisdom that has to do with tolerance discourse still spreads enormously. It’s dealt with verbal speech (pitutur) generating from predecessor to successor inhabitant, from Mataram Kingdom to recently, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY)
Sosiologi Keuangan: Dulu dan Kini
No full textMichael Power, a financial economist, asserts that amid the current global financial crisis what we required is a sociologist of finance. In history, the most important contributions of sociology of finance is to provide views of how people create and gave meaning to money and, vice versa, how people being made and constituted by money. In addition to being the engine of change towards modern civilization, money can also undermine and even destroy the fundaments of society. This paper provides a succinct review on the history of sociology of finance in an attempt to find its relevancy today
Lembaga Keuangan Mikro dan Pengentasan Kemiskinan: Kasus Lumbung Pitih Nagari di Padang
No full textThis study explores the advent of microfinance institution that has been an important development in recent years. Through case study on one microfinance institution namely lumbung pitih nagari located in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, this study found that the existence of the micro credit institute has been influenced by several factors such as state regulations. In 1997, the central bank of Indonesia (BI) carried out regulatory reforms in order to reduce the risk of bank failures. This regulation in fact has weakened the role of microfinance institutions in giving financial services to small-medium enterprises (SMEs). However, in the reformation era, many local microfinance institutions emerge as the Ministry of Cooperation and Small-Medium Enterprises has officially given support for the betterment of SMEs through soft loan mechanism. LPN has been one of its kind which is able to run profitably and at the same time to facilitate credit for SMEs in the region
Tradisi, Ekonomi-Politik, dan Toleransi Yogyakarta
No full textThis article aims to illustrate that cultural reproduction is always in the interplay with politic and economic system within societal structure. Therefore, the effort to understand the meaning of cultural symbol has to be accompanied by the attempt to explore the political and economic interests that shape the cultural practices. The Yogyakarta people undoubtedly perceive religion practices as more than cultural practices. The article will demonstrate that dispute in religious matters have never become the main trigger of conflict between religious groups. In most cases, the tension is driven by the clash of political and economic interests between the dominant and non-dominant groups. Thus, acknowledging the political-economic interests helps us to understand the ways in which we can further promote religious tolerance while remain aware of the possibility to produce the counterproductive results
Modal Sosial dan Dinamika Usaha Mikro Kecil
No full textThe results of this research prove there is a statistically positive relationship between social capitals with increasing revenue. Social capital had a positive role for physical capital and education, as well as its contribution in creating greater business profits. The study also found the influence of social capital (23%), physical capital (11%) and capital or other variables (66%) for business profits. In conclusion, social capital as an asset has the potency to complement or replace the business assets, as we know it in today’s modern business world. In order to be an asset, it is necessary to establish a forum to provide certification of social capital on SME so it would work together with other economic assets in business activities