30 research outputs found
Geoarchaeology of the Soa Basin, Flores, Indonesia: New considerations on stratigraphy, chronology and palaeoenvironment
No full textThe Soa Basin, Flores contains abundant assemblages of stone tools and fossil remains, which occurred between Early Pleistocene and Middle Pleistocene. This study has used an interdisciplinary approach, integrating field and laboratory analyses, to examine geoarchaeological archives of the Soa Basin. Since the stratigraphic framework was still problematic, this study performed detailed investigations on temporal and spatial distributions of the lithological units by using lithofacies analysis and tephrostratigraphy that are combined with the 40Ar/39Ar dating technique to obtain reliable ages and establishing a new chronostratigraphical framework. The tephra records and additional chronological data demonstrate new considerations with regard to stratigraphic positions and the time of accumulation of artifacts and fossils and also permit a correlation of several important archaeological and/or palaeontological sites. The oldest Ola Kile Formation contains two pyroclastic density current (PDC) deposits, the Aesessa Ignimbrite (AEI) and Lowo Mali Ignimbrite (LMI), representing two major events of caldera-forming processes, derived from the Welas Caldera Complex (WCC) and the Keli Lambo Volcanic Complex (KLVC), respectively..
The Magnetostratigraphy and the Age of So’a Basin Fossil-Bearing Sequence, Flores, Indonesia
No full textDOI: 10.17014/ijog.5.3.221-234Three fossil-bearing intervals have been recognized in the Pleistocene So’a Basin, with the upper one holding important evidence of hominin fossils. The sequence also contains numerous in situ stone artifacts and fossils of other vertebrate taxa. Therefore, multiple dating techniques are crucial to secure the age of the fossil and artifact-bearing layers, especially the one with the hominin remains. This paper deals with the palaeomagnetic dating of the So’a Basin sequence to assist other dating methods that have been applied, and to refine the chronostratigraphy of the area. Palaeomagnetic sampling was conducted in four sections along a west to east transect. Four magnetozones can be recognized, consisting of two reverse and two normal polarity zones. By using the available radiometric ages as a guide and comparing the So’a Basin magnetostratigraphy with the Standard Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale (GPTS), it became clear that both reverse magnetozones are part of the Matuyama Chron, while the normal magnetozones are the Jaramillo subchron and the Brunhes Chron. These palaeomagnetic dating results support the available radiometric dates and refine the age of the fossil-bearing deposits of the So’a Basin.</p
PROPAGANDA: A STRATEGY TO SPREAD THE IDEOLOGY IN PAKISTAN IN THE NOVEL I AM MALALA BY MALALA YOUSAFZAI AND CHRISTINA LAMB (2013)
No full textAbstractThis study examines the analysis of propaganda in the literature as revealed in the novel I Am Malala. The purpose of this research is to analyze and depict Taliban's Taliban propaganda as a strategy to gain power in Pakistan. Their strongest effort is to spread propaganda throughout the community to the region. The propaganda theory, Jacques Ellul, is used to find out how the Taliban use propaganda as their strategy and to know the qualitative methods related to the description and explanation of the phenomenon of propaganda. Through this research, the author discovers the type of propaganda created by the author to clarify the conflict that has occurred between the Taliban and the community. Then, the author gives the propaganda purpose. This study implies how propaganda has become a social phenomenon of life and implicitly forms a perspective in viewing around the community.AbstractPenelitian ini mempelajari tentang analisis propaganda dalam literatur seperti yang terungkap dalam novel I Am Malala. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis dan menggambarkan propaganda Taliban yang dilakukan Taliban sebagai strategi untuk mendapatkan kekuasaan di Pakistan. Upaya terkuat yang mereka lakukan adalah menyebarkan propaganda ke seluruh masyarakat ke daerah. Teori propaganda, Jacques Ellul, digunakan untuk mengetahui cara Taliban menggunakan propaganda sebagai strategi mereka dan untuk mengetahui metode kualitatif yang berkaitan dengan deskripsi dan penjelasan fenomena propaganda. Melalui penelitian ini, penulis menemukan jenis propaganda yang diciptakan oleh penulis untuk mengklarifikasi konflik yang telah terjadi antara Taliban dan masyarakat. Kemudian, penulis memberikan tujuan propaganda itu. Penelitian ini berimplikasi bagaimana propaganda telah menjadi fenomena sosial kehidupan dan secara implisit membentuk perspektif dalam melihat sekitar masyarakat
Study of Propaganda in Literature as Revealed in Malala’s Novel “I Am Malala”
No full textThis thesis studied about the analysis of propaganda in literature as revealed in Malala’s novel “I Am Malala”. The aim of this thesis is to analyze and to describe the propaganda of the Taliban who will do anything to gain power in Pakistan. The strongest effort they are doing is spreading propaganda to the entire community in the
region. The theory of propaganda, Jacques Ellul, is used to find out the ways Taliban use propaganda as their strategy and to find out the kinds and purpose of propaganda
they use. The method of this research is qualitative method concerned with the description and explanation of propaganda phenomenon. Sociology of literature approach is used to connect the social issue occurred in the novel and the social condition of Pakistan the time the novel was published. In this thesis, the writer found three kinds of propaganda as strategy of the Taliban to carry out their actions in the novel; the first is integration propaganda
which is propaganda that use religion as a bridge, because religion is the doctrine of the strongest for all believers. The second is the horizontal propaganda which is done
through the directly individual approach. The third is vertical propaganda that uses mass media as the main tool for influencing the public. Those are the three kinds of propaganda used by Taliban to gain power and to give a doctrine to Pakistan society. Meanwhile, the writer also found the purpose of propaganda used by Taliban that wants to change the actions and expectations of the individual target. The Taliban show how hard they carrying out their propaganda and how hard a girl who called Malala also strongly opposed to the propaganda of them. The conclusion of this thesis is the writer gives explanation about the kinds of propaganda were created by the author to clarify the conflict that had occurred between The Taliban and the society. Then the writer gives the purpose of that propaganda. This thesis implicates how propaganda has become the social phenomenon in life and implicitly forms the perspective in looking at the surroundings
TAUHID SEBAGAI PARADIGMA DALAM PENDIDIKAN ISLAM
No full textThe striking difference between the science of religion and general science makes the cause of disintegration, resulting in the dichotomy of education. First, Westerners say it is not scientific in the eyes of religion because the object is not empirical. Second, general science is sensory while the science of religion is a hallucination but the source of the Qur'an and Hadist so that the belief system is still not one hundred percent. Third, objective science in religion can not necessarily be studied by modern enthusiasts, requiring a scientific message that can assure the existence of the religious knowledge of its source from belief. To be able to collaborate between the science of religion with general science. Then, the author tries to draw the red thread that both science has a synergy if it can be practiced together, especially science of monotheism with general science. The linkage between the science can be positioned namely rahmaniyah, takamuliyah, syumuliyah, tawzuniyah, privilege, wasaliyah, rabbaniyah and uswiyah. So they understand that it can be made a tool to be united without any interests. The result of the above study then this Paradigm requires that all entities between Earth and Heaven, Empiric and Ghaib entities, are integrated in a balanced development of theory and practice of learning.
Key Terms: Tawhid, General Knowledge, Paradigm, Islamic EducationPerbedaan yang sangat mencolok antara ilmu agama dengan ilmu pengetahuan umum menjadikan penyebab adanya disintegrasi, sehingga terjadi dikotomi pendidikan. Pertama, orang barat mengatakan tidak ilmiah dalam kacamata agama karena objeknya bukan empiris. Kedua, ilmu pengetahuan umum bersifat indrawi sedangkan ilmu agama bersifat halusianasi padahal sumbernya dari al Qur’an dan Hadist sehingga system kepercayaannya masih belum seratus persen. Ketiga, ilmu yang sifatnya objektif dalam agama belum tentu bisa dikaji oleh peminat kaum modern sehingga membutuhkan pesan ilmiah yang bisa menjamin tentang keberadaan ilmu agama sumbernya dari keyakinan. Untuk bisa mengkolaborasi antara ilmu agama dengan ilmu pengetahuan umum maka penulis mencoba menarik benang merah bahwa kedua ilmu tersebut mempunyai sinergi jika bisa diamalkan secara bersama terutama ilmu tauhid dengan ilmu umum. Keterkaitan antara ilmu tersebut bisa diposisikan yaitu rahmaniyah, takamuliyah, syumuliyah, tawzuniyah, istimroriyah, wasaliyah, rabbaniyah dan uswiyah. Sehingga mereka memahami bahwa it bisa di jadikan alat untuk bisa bersatu tanpa ada kepentingan apapun. Hasil dari kajian di atas maka Paradigma ini menghendaki agar seluruh entetitas antara Bumi dan Langit, entetitas Empirik dan Ghaib, terintegrasi secara seimbang dalm pengembangan teori dan praktek pembelajaran.
Kata Kunci: Tauhid, Pengetahuan Umum, Paradigma, Pendidikan Isla
Boosting innovative work behavior on local branded fashion: The evidence from Indonesia
No full textThis article analyzes the role of psychological empowerment as an intervening variable on the relationship between transformational leadership and employees innovative work behavior (IWB). This research used a quantitative approach with a total of 100 employees from local branded fashion businesses in Indonesia to fill out the questionnaires. The sample was taken using a non-probability sampling technique. This study adds to innovative work behavior literature by empirically testing the mediating role of psychological empowerment on transformational leadership and innovative work behavior relationship. This study resolves the research gap between transformational leadership and innovative work behavior with the concept of psychological empowerment.Este articulo analiza el papel del empoderamiento
psicológico como una variable interviniente en la
relación entre el liderazgo transformador y el
comportamiento laboral innovador de los empleados
(IWB). Se utilizó un enfoque cuantitativo con un total de
100 empleados de empresas locales de moda de
marca en Indonesia para completar los cuestionarios.
La muestra se tomó utilizando una técnica de muestreo
no probabilística. Este estudio se suma a la literatura
innovadora de comportamiento laboral al probar
empíricamente el papel mediador del empoderamiento
psicológico en el liderazgo transformacional y la
relación innovadora de comportamiento laboral y
resuelve la brecha de investigación entre el liderazgo
transformador y el trabajo innovador
An update of the stratigraphic framework of the So’a Basin on Flores, with implications for first hominin arrival and faunal turnover
No full textDORO MPANA: SITUS KUBUR DARI ABAD KE-13-14 MASEHI
No full textDompu or ‘dompo’ is a kingdom mentioned in Negarakertagama Book which dates to 1365 AD as one of the kingdoms Patih Gajah Mada wanted to conquer. Then, ‘Dompu’ reappears in Gowa Kingdom Chronicle in early 17th century AD. For three centuries it was unknown how Dompu Kingdom was. The findings of ceramics, pottery, human skeleton and dimpa stone at Doro Mpana, have given a hint of a community’s life and its culture in the past. This study aims to uncover the chronology of Doro Mpana as burial site and the burial cultural form. Data collected through excavation, observation and literature study. The data are analysed contextually related to the relation among archaeological data. To find out the absolute chronology, radiocarbon dating analysis was performed in the laboratory. The result shows the site came from 13th-14th century AD. The use of dimpa stones as grave markers is a characteristic of burial rituals, in addition to providing grave goods such as pottery and ceramics. The use of dimpa stones at Doro Mpana indicates the utilization of surrounding natural resources because the source of dimpa stones, which is diorite stones, found not far from the site. Dompu atau ‘dompo’ adalah nama sebuah kerajaan yang disebutkan dalam Kitab Negarakertagama yang berangka tahun 1365 Masehi, sebagai salah satu kerajaan yang ingin ditaklukkan oleh Patih Gajah Mada. Nama Dompu muncul kembali dalam kronik Kerajaan Gowa pada awal abad XVII Masehi. Selama tiga abad tidak diketahui bagaimana gambaran Kerajaan Dompu. Temuan keramik, gerabah, rangka, dan batu dimpa di Situs Doro Mpana, Dompu telah memberi petunjuk adanya sebuah kehidupan masyarakat dan budayanya di masa lalu. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengungkap kronologi dimanfaatkannya Situs Doro Mpana sebagai penguburan serta bentuk budaya penguburannya. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan metode ekskavasi, survei lingkungan, dan studi pustaka. Data dianalisis secara kontekstual terkait hubungan antardata arkeologi. Untuk mengetahui kronologi absolut dilakukan analisis radiocarbondating di laboratorium. Hasil analisis menunjukan situs berasal dari abad ke-13-14 Masehi. Penggunaan batu dimpa sebagai penanda kubur menjadi sebuah ciri khas dalam ritual penguburan di Doro Mpana, selain pemberian bekal kubur berupa gerabah dan keramik. Penggunaan batu dimpa di Situs Doro Mpana menunjukkan pemanfaatan sumberdaya alam sekitar karena sumber batu dimpa yaitu batu diorite ditemukan tidak jauh dari situs
Early evolution of small body size in Homo floresiensis
No full textRecent discoveries of Homo floresiensis and H. luzonensis raise questions regarding how extreme body size reduction occurred in some extinct Homo species in insular environments. Previous investigations at Mata Menge, Flores Island, Indonesia, suggested that the early Middle Pleistocene ancestors of H. floresiensis had even smaller jaws and teeth. Here, we report additional hominin fossils from the same deposits at Mata Menge. An adult humerus is estimated to be 9 − 16% shorter and thinner than the type specimen of H. floresiensis dated to ~60,000 years ago, and is smaller than any other Plio-Pleistocene adult hominin humeri hitherto reported. The newly recovered teeth are both exceptionally small; one of them bears closer morphological similarities to early Javanese H. erectus. The H. floresiensis lineage most likely evolved from early Asian H. erectus and was a long-lasting lineage on Flores with markedly diminutive body size since at least ~700,000 years ago.Full Tex
Unsicherheit trotz Sicherheitstechnik? Das Kreuz mit komplexen Konstellationen
No full text"Modern societies have massively invested in technologies that enforce safety, such as sensors, satellites, CCTV cameras, body scans, data mining and profiling software. In recent decades, digital technologies and communication media have pushed local systems of private control and public safe-guarding into transnational spaces of monitoring and surveillance. Surprisingly, the troubles with, and the costs of, deficiencies, accidents, data crimes, terroristic acts or catastrophic events, have not been reduced. On the contrary, the objective scope of risk and the subjective sense of insecurity seem to have increased. The contribution provides an answer to the question of why increasing technologies of safety does not automatically lead to an increased safety. As far as the social practices and processes of designing and instituting new technologies are concerned, this contribution argues further that a) the belief in 'ruly technology' b) the under-estimation of unplanned interferences in highly complex systems, and c) the neglect of human interagency within constellations of distributed agency can be made responsible for the perverse effects under certain conditions. Concerning the practices and institutions of securing social life, it is further argued that the ambiguity of what is called 'safety' or 'security', namely to care or to control, gives rise to a) an overwhelming material diversity of securing activities, b) a social fragmentation of interested actors and specialized views and c) a temporal and cultural variability of the scale of tolerable risk and of dangers that could and should be avoided. To conclude, the author gives some maxims and hints to politicians, researchers, designers, and managers of security systems on how to cope with the demonstrated paradoxes. They underline the openness of constellations and the experimental adaptation between diverse systems, instead of building perfectly pre-planned and closed systems. They prefer reflexive interactions and translations between different cultures of security, instead of unifying formalization and strong coupling." (author's abstract
