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A new blog post: an excerpt of Esping-Andersen's book "Politics Against Markets" & a short explanation on why it's a hidden gem of political theory. In short, his book provided a clear & persuasive theoretical basis for social democratic strategy.
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Not a single indonesian deserves to fly the flag of palestine, to speak of palestinian liberation, or post watermelon on their social media. None.
Mahasiswa Usir Paksa Rohingya di BMA Aceh, Tangis Pengungsi Pecah
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Supporters of anies baswedan are whitewashing HRS records, especially his involvement in FPI, his organisation's records of opposing religious pluralism, religious minorities, not to mention morality vigilantism/rackeetering. Anies supporters are as idiotic as 02's supporters.
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Contrast this with the legislative candidates from the labour party. You have domestic workers, factory workers, urban poor, etc who were forced by circumstances to become activists, organisers, and union leaders to advocate for their own & other people's socioeconomic rights.
kalo u gak tau ngapain nyaleg????????? Nanti pas u nyaleg u mau ngapain kalo gak tau??????????????????????????????
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The new Indonesian Labour Party was officially listed as a participant for the 2024 general election. The party is formed by an alliance of the largest labour union confederations (KSPSI, KSPI, KSBSI), the Indonesian Farmers' Union (SPI), and other civil society organisations.
Sejarah Partai Buruh No. Urut 6 Sebagai Peserta Pemilu Untuk 2024 di KPU - RI (14/12/2022)
#WeAreTheWorkingClass
#PartaiBuruh
#KelasPekerja
#klaspekerja
#BuruhBersatu
#PartaiBuruhMenang
#NegaraSejahtera
#WelfareState
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Whatever the results, fight like hell. Fight for yourself, your friends, family, loved ones, and your co-workers. Fight for the strangers whose names you don't know, for those who are similar to you, and for those different from you. The road to social democracy is still long.
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A bold move by an HR person to publicly declare their intention to violate the indonesian constitution, human rights law, and labour laws on individual's equal access to jobs without discrimination. Usually they tend to be more covert (e.g. alleged blacklist of union activists).
Gen-Z model begini udah kutandain karena aku bagian Recruitment, ga akan kuizinin masuk di kantorku. Kalau ada teman HR yang nanyain soal medsos checking, akan kusodorin thread ini. Oya, tentu kuscreenshot dulu dong, misal diapus. Alasannya? Here I tell you...
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So anies baswedan agrees to crush "communism", "marxism", "secularism", "religious blasphemy", etc but in reality he is very pluralistic, intellectual, and tolerant. So does that mean that he is a liar who is willing to say or agrees to anything as long as he got the votes?
mungkin kang
@zenrs
bisa bikinin pakta integritas versi intelektual buat mas anies sepakati.
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The suburban area around tangerang was a land giveaway from soeharto to private real estate developers during the new order. You are standing on the corpse of weak state capacity hollowed out by privatisation, clientielist goverance, and politically-disorganised citizens.
Ruang terbuka✅
Gratis ✅
Bisa dikunjungi siapa saja✅
Bisa diakses transportasi umum✅
Banyak makanan minuman✅
Terimakasih Pemkot Tangsel karena sudah GA NGAPA-NGAPAIN untuk menyediakan ruang publik bagi warganya sendiri
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Homeownership ideology is a disaster. They copied singapore but without doing anything to increase housing supply in the cities. You solve the housing crisis by legalising dense, multi-family housing in urban areas & protection of tenant rights.
Siap-siap, Gaji Pekerja Swasta Dipotong Simpanan Tapera per Tanggal 10
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The "indonesia kaya sumberdaya alam" is a myth. A nation's wealth is determined not by its natural resources, but its ability to mobilise whatever resources at its disposal (natural, human, technology) to upgrade its productive capacities & improve its people's well-being.
This is such a bad myth. Indonesia bukan negara kaya sumber daya alam.
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Many indonesians are still not mature when it comes to politics. Treating politics, politicians, or political parties like fandom, virtue-signalling mechanisms, or worse as something "dirty" (kotor) to be avoided in the name of some moral purity.
“jaminan ruang demokrasi utk masyarakat dlm mengkritik kalo si ini kepilih”
“Nyesel banget milih ini partai”
Ayolah, kan ini bisa jadi diskusi yg produktif. Kritik PB oke aja. Mungkin krn eksklusif ke casenya mereka, sedangkan mekanisme CF ini beragam tergantung lanskap kawasan
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Congratulations to indonesian economists, technocrats, policy experts, and academics for helping foster this kind of discourse: political representatives are only reserved to people with higher education & regular people without higher education don't deserve to be politicians.
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That there is no tenant protection laws, nor any political movement advocating for it, in Indonesia is the result of pervasive home-ownership ideology: the view that rental housing is merely "transitional" or "for the poor", and thus an illegitimate form of housing tenure.
Meanwhile, a private rental unit in Jakarta:
Windowless since decades ago. The location is just 500 m behind the most expensive addresses in Jakarta.
The state does not provide any protection and subsidies to tenants.
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Never forget that ben anderson's proposal to counter against the kramanisation of the indonesian language (which was once revolutionary & egalitarian) is to replace it with the jakartan dialect. Hands down one of the greatest troll of the indonesian social science.
Tahukah kamu bahwa menurut Anderson (1990), stratifikasi bahasa Jawa menjadi ngoko, kromo, dan kromo inggil adalah upaya elit keraton mempertahankan hegemoni dan menciptakan mistisisme untuk kelas atas pasca kolonialisme yang telah merenggut kekuasaan politik pada waktu itu.
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Is "skill mismatch" a real problem? Yes
Does the mainstream discourse problematise the issue correctly? No
Are employers full of themselves when claiming of "skill mismatch"? Probably yes
Is it an urgent problem to be addressed? No
Does solving it also solve unemployment? No
My new article is out on
@ConversationIDN
: .
Narasi skills mismatch berpotensi menstigma pelamar kerja sambil terus menormalisasi kebobrokan perusahaan. Dalam narasi ini, peran institusi pendidikan rentan direduksi sekadar menghasilkan tenaga siap kerja.
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Social justice is not about creating a society where everyone can access higher education to achieve economic security, but creating a society where everyone has economic security without the need to access higher education.
Opini kamu tentang pendidikan tinggi yang bisa membuat kamu ada di posisi ini?
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The fetishisation of "hard" science (STEM) is the other side of the same anti-science coin. It understands science, not as a way of thinking or processes, but as a technical tool. And if one sees through a technical lens, other perspectives are just problems to be bludgeoned.
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Yes, but when I wrote this piece a year ago, showing that small (informal) businesses paid lower wages than larger businesses, have worse working conditions due to informal labour relations, etc, everyone was having a meltdown & calling me names.
Selalu sedih kalau baca cerita soal gaji karyawan F&B di timeline. Kayaknya belakangan makin suram karena (selain pandemi) ketentuan di UUCK memberikan pengecualian upah minimum bagi Usaha Kecil Mikro. Nah, F&B banyak masuk kategori ini. “Legal” deh ngasih upah dibawah UMK ☹️
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"Neohistoria" spreads false anti-communist myth that legitimise mass killings. There was never any proof except for circumstancial evidence that the communist party was involved in the kidnapping & killings of army generals in 1 october 1965. There was no "red terror".
Pasca terjadinya Teror Merah oleh Partai Komunis Indonesia pada 30 September dan 1 Oktober 1965, situasi dalam negeri kacau, ditambah kondisi ekonomi yang semakin memburuk, sehingga ketidakpuasan merebak di mana-mana.
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A thread on DPR and DPRD candidates from the labour party that are worth considering for the 2024 general election (please due to also check their backgrounds & track records yourself to make up your mind):
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My take regarding the recent changes to Jaminan Hari Tua (JHT). The JHT function more as a substitute for unemployment insurance (UI) due to an absence of UI in Indonesia. Until a more inclusive & comprehensive UI exist, the changes are harmful to workers.
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My piece in
@indoprogress
on small business fetishism in Indonesia. Small business have lower productivity, lower wages, employ insecure informal workers. The dominance of small business in Indonesia is a symptom of a dysfunctional economy that is hostile to the working class.
“UMKM adalah pilar penting dalam membangun ekonomi bangsa.”
Selalu ada narasi yang membesar-besarkan peran usaha kecil dalam perekonomian negara. Ketimbang mendorong solidaritas terhadap buruh, narasinya malah jatuh pada romantisasi kesuksesan para wirausahawan.
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"Actually, its not HRS that is directly responsible for those actions"
I want you to ask yourself what does it says that a person thought its fine or did not raise objection when an organisation they're closely affiliated with are persecuting religious/social minorities.
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There is a common viewpoint among the socioeconomic middle strata that they are being disproportionately extorted through taxation without receiving any welfare benefits. Ignoring all explicit/implicit subidies for them & implying the poor have it real good with bansos welfare.
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Indonesians, especially the highly educated types, secretly have anti-poor/class bias. The veneration of formal education & credentialism is downstream from the fact that the lower classes are less likely to have them & so can be excluded from the political/public policy process.
Sekilas kritik ini seperti deja vu utk konteks Indonesia, tapi para ahli kesehatan global ini tdk pernah mengkritik si bos NHS "karena dia bukan dokter", tapi fokusnya selalu kepada bagaimana dia memperlakukan sistem kesehatan, sebuah NHS, selayaknya bank. Dua sistem berbeda.
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Education policies are not my forte. But its inarguable that there are numerous problems with the Indonesian education system. This is an excellent overview by Andrew Rosser that are useful to understand what are the problems & its impacts to students.
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You can sort of imagine the kind of human capabilities and potential that can be unleashed if only society doesn't collectively decide that a large proportion of the population must live in abject poverty & economic insecurity.
Aku terpesona dengan drivel ojol ini yang ketika senggang menunggu pesanan resto/penumpang, beliau belajar Python dari buku O'Reilly menggunakan handphone nya.
Beliau bercerita pernah masuk di dunia Front-End dan ikut kelas gratis, tapi beliau belum dapet "konsep" nya.
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If criticism of anies & anies' political coalition makes his supporters defensive or permissive on actual public issue records. I am sorry, you are no different than PSI politicians who are so blinded by their support for jokowi, they now support his political dynasty & prabowo.
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The Urban Poor Consortium & Jaringan Rakyat Miskin Kota had a long record of advocating the interests of urban poor in Jakarta. Help them as nuch as you can.
@projectm_org
had written few articles on their advocacy efforts:
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2)
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"Out of 1.078 teenagers having birth, 976 were not married." This doesn't show that yogyakarta has the highest "free sex" rate. It just implies that yogyakartan teenagers are (probably) less likely to use contraceptives than other cities.
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I am fascinated by indonesian leftist discourse on a purely discursive basis. In this case, the argument that some people (urban poor) lack the privilege to golput is then responded by arguing that other people (west papuans) lack the privilege to not golput.
Btw, golput jangan cuma dilihat dalam pemaknaan yg individualistik. Di realitas lain, golput itu keputusan kolektif yg berasal dari proses demokrasi. Justru, gak semua privilege dan bisa afford untuk memilih dan berkontrak parsial. Misal 👇
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@gyupuppiy
It's an extrajudicial execution & bad. If you support the execution, you are no better than FPI footsoldiers who are willing to break laws & persecute minorities in the name of religious morality.
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@SirupPisangIjo
You can say he changed his viewpoints (doubtful) without whitewashing his actual political track records. It's not that difficult. You are no different than PSI politicians whitewashing prabowo's track records just because suddenly jokowi supports him.
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Its difficult for me to blame the "government" as responsible for romanticising small businesses when in fact they are dandhy laksono's & farid gaban's (two prominent journalist/activist & populist figures) whole schtick.
Masalahnya, yg paling meromantisasi UMKM itu pemerintah.
Di UU Cipta Kerja, Usaha Kecil Mikro (Menengah nggak termasuk), dilegalkan untuk ngasih gaji dibawah upah minimum, cukup “kesepakatan” dengan standar yang nyaris nggak ada.
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Obviously the poor & low income groups are more economically disadvantaged than you white-collar middle income groups who are currently studying abroad.
Upper class: punya uang unlimited, semua gak masalah.
Lower class: ada subsidi, bantuan, dan fasilitas seperti KIP
Middle class: gak punya cukup uang, gak ada bantuan, elu tuh gak diajak.
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Continuing the tradition of romanticising mass actions, even referencing may 1968 france is very appropriate. After 1968, the vote for france's socialist parties collapsed & the conservative de gaullist party won an electoral landslide.
Salah satu slogan revolusi mahasiswa Prancis 1968 adalah "Sous les pavés, la plage (di bawah jalanan, pantai)."
Melihat foto ini, saya pikir kita bisa melanjutkan slogan itu mjd "Sous les pavés, la plage. Au-dessus, l'arc-en-ciel (di bawah jalanan, pantai. Di atasnya, pelangi)."
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My two cents on 2024 election:
1) "jokowi's effect" is real = pro-jokowi shift to prabowo but party votes unchanged
2) money & bansos politics reciprocity is significant
3) education level effect is small
4) depoliticisation of voters = ensuring the effect of all above is strong
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Anies supporters think they are being clever are they? Mentioning the km50 execution, showing pictures of prabowo, jokowi, other political elites fraternising with the anti-ahok actions. It doesn't work on me: i despise all of them equally. Inc. Ahok.
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The road to the welfare state in indonesia is steep because most people still believe that it is the responsibility of individuals, and not society or the state, to provide economic security or social care for their families. Believing otherwise is seen as "western values".
Makanya penjelasan sandwich generation itu gak masuk di boomer dan early X. Karena itu yang mereka lakukan untuk survive. Sandwich generation jadi terasa berat karena diiterasi hari ini sama values western.
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Next week, I will be starting my master studies in economic policy at SOAS. It's been a long journey, but it's just another signpost pointing to another arduous road ahead. Here's for survival.
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What people think "middle class" is: the people in the middle of the national income distribution
What the "middle class" actually is: people in the top 20% of national income distribution
You are a single worker earning jakarta's minimum wage? Congrats, you are "middle class".
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In the 1960s uneducated peasants, organised by the communist party, were able to do social research on rural inequality that was used to promote land reform. Urban workers & lower class women were politically educated. They were later killed, jailed, tortured by the army in 1965.
@poordeimos
@silvaaa100
@fariss_rachman
@AzvinHutama
Bener sih, idealnya sih sebelum reformasi masyarakat kita sudah mengalami aufklarung seperti Eropa abad pertengahan. Karena belum tercerahkan semua hasilnya demokrasi pun jalan di tempat dan bahkan cenderung mengalami kemunduran
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That "marxism-leninism" and "communism" are legally banned ideologies is not that big of an obstacle for the growth of socialist politics if you are willing to think creatively, pragmatically, flexibly, and shed some of the ideological marxist dogmatism.
Blok oposisi liberal / kiri di Indonesia bisa kuat, kalau bisa ajarin kerangka berpikir politiknya, bisa bikin program kaderisasi secara ideologi sama dengan PKS dan kawan-kawan.
Lha ideologinya aja di larang. Mau gimana coba
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Reminder that the communist party was able to teach uneducated peasants about political economy & social research. The result is the "seven village devils" report on rural class inequality. Uneducated peasants in the 1960s did better research than most college students today.
Penceramah agama lebih populer dibanding dosen/akademisi adalah penjelasan kenapa Vietnam bakal menjadi negara terbesar di ASEAN dalam beberapa dekade ke depan meninggalkan Indonesia jauh di belakang.
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You don't hate asian education system. You hate not having a big welfare state & a strong labour market that can reduce economic inequality while ensuring economic security across an individual's life cycle
It’s okay kalo punya perbedaan pandangan ya
Tp IMO, pendidikan model ‘asia’ gini berasa banget toxicnya pas anak udh mulai dewasa
Lulus kuliah harus segera kerja -> dapet gaji besar -> kirim sebagian ke orang tua -> naik gaji terus sampai tak terhingga -> investasi ortu balik
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A pro-worker & pro-family agenda would entail:
1) Public childcare provision
2) Public social insurance-based gender equal paid parental leave
2) State-funded monthly child/family allowance
3) Free public health insurance for children
4) Free pre-K & primary + secondary school
Pemerintah mulai panik karena angka kelahiran mulai turun, tapi nggak mau menyentuh inti masalah. Mulai dari beban pengasuhan yg hanya diletakkan pada perempuan sampai harga² barang & layanan yg semakin mahal. Yg dilakukan malah menakuti dan guilt-tripping, khususnya pd perempuan
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Indonesian student activists/movements never learn. Why do they refuse to learn? Are they attracted to the movement because they want to achieve power to bring lasting & institutionalised changes, or are they attracted to the movement because of the aesthetics of resistance?
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This is the conservative welfarism under esping-andersen's typology: social welfare & care provisions are primarily the responsibility of the family (more specifically, wives/female family members). The aim of social policy is to reinforce the traditional/family institutions.
Menteri Sosial Tri Rismaharini menolak konsep panti jompo. Menurutnya, itu bukan bagian dari budaya Indonesia.
#newsupdate
#update
#news
#quote
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It's hard to believe that this book existed because benedict anderson was banned from indonesia (his original expertise) by the soeharto's regime, leading anderson to more seriously research about other southeast asian countries & eventually to the question of nationalism.
Benedict Anderson’s, “Imagined Communities,” was published 40 years ago in 1983. Given the current times, a bit surprising that not much has been written, as far as I know, on the fortieth anniversary of the book.
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Economists keep erasing the history of labour movement & social movements from the lower classes in advocating for material improvements. It's the blue-collar workers in the factories & shops that presently joining unions, mobilising in the streets, and demanding policy reforms.
Kelas menengah adalah certified complainer kalau kata bang Chatib Basri. Ini jelas typical tweet kelas menengah dan complainnya valid. Uang yg kita bayarin harus jadi sesuatu. Selama air keran belum bisa diminum, kita berhak bertanya bayar air PAM buat apa, misal.
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This is not remotely true if you define "middle class" as professional white-collar workers. Lots of (women) urban factory/blue-collar workers also need child care services considering that their parents or relatives are, well, in their villlages or different cities than them.
Kenapa?
Karena isu Tempat Penitipan Anak ini yaa isunya kelas menengah yang suami dan istri bekerja, merantau, dan tidak bisa bekerja sama dengan orang tua/mertua mereka sehingga mereka butuh intervensi/bantuan 3rd party untuk menjaga anak-anak mereka.
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For those who are interested, here are some useful sources that can serve as an introduction to the welfare state. As a rejoinder, I also wrote a 2900 words draft paper (hopefully can be published soon) that articulates my views on the welfare state:
@anak_lorongmks
@cappimpong
@faris_sina
@muh_ridha
@zahraamalias
1) Why we need the welfare state ()
2) Universal social insurance is sound economics ()
3) Welfare State: Introduction ()
4) World Social Protection Report 17-19 ()
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In a normal & well-functioning society, if you want to make social changes you don't join an NGO. You join a political organisation supporting a common policy agenda hell-bent on attaining power & controlling the state so you can prosecute your desired policy agenda.
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@tanikelana
Some studies:
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In short: 1) property developers are politically connected to Suharto 2) low capacity & commitment from the government 3) ideology of homeownership
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PP 36/2021 on Wage (based on the "Job Creation" omnibus law) give small businesses (UMK) exemptions on paying the provincial minimum wage as long as it isn't lower than (at the provincial level):
1) 50% of average monthly per capita expenditure
OR
2) 125% of poverty line
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Indonesia mengajar was adapted from the US teach for america program. TFA was part of the so-called education reform movement that sought to blame low quality education outcomes on teachers & public sector unions instead of the underfunding of schools, poverty, and inequality.
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The success of vietnam can be traced to (1) land reforms pursued by vietnam communists even during the war; and (2) 1980s doi moi pro-market reforms of economic liberalisation & export-oriented industries. Two key combinations for economic development, among others.
Vietnam itu founding father-nya begini; kurus kering gaya sederhana tapi actual war leader sukses ngusir Prancis & Amerika
Founding father Indon gayanya doang militeris hobi nempel piagam di baju, tp hobinya kawin.
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If you include compulsory social security tax (Provident Fund) of 17-20%, the top marginal income tax rate is around 42%. Their income tax is also broader, median income of S$4000/month is in 7% income tax bracket. Indonesia 5% tax bracket first hit 1.5x average monthly income.
Ternyata di Singapore PPh maksimal 22% tapi air keran bisa diminum, ada pengolahan limbah, kemana2 bisa pake mrt, bahkan ada tahura gede banget.
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People lashing out because other people pointed out that their moral & philosophical frameworks are often incoherent. They are already explicit: why do indonesians only support victims of oppression when they are constructed as "having the same religion" but not the others?
Memang sulit dimengerti, mengapa jurnalis dan cofounder
@projectm_org
ini sedemikian nyinyir thdp isu Palestina dan menggunakan bahasa ledekan thdp orang-orang beriman.
Kenapa kalian harus memunculkan narasi seperti ini di saat kemanusiaan kita semua sedang diuji?
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Thread: Class Dynamics and Agrarian Change in Indonesia
In Indonesia, agrarian conflicts are normally defined as open conflicts between rural villagers & "peasantries" against the encroachment or land grab by capital or the state. (e.g. ) 1/
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Maybe someone can explain to me why the NGO/intelligentsia types consistently fall back on nativism, agrarian romanticism, and hatred of urban migrant population whenever they talk about social problems in yogyakarta.
Dampak penyusutan kawasan pertanian bagi petani bukan cuma masalah lahan, tapi juga masalah biaya produksi, pilihan profesi, bahkan masalah relasi dengan para pendatang.
Reportase oleh Finlan Adhitya Aldan dan Abidah Naqiya.
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Indonesia does not have an adequate legal framework to manage refugees, such as by not ratifying the 1951 convention on refugees. As a result, refugees don't have any legal rights or entitlements & the state effectively outsource refugee management to (under-resourced) people.
Udah hampir 14 tahun nerima gelombang kedatangan pengungsi, ngurusin mereka, masakin, ngasih makan dengan ekonomi yang sebenarnya gak dalam kondisi berlebihan juga.
Eh, aktivis Twitter fafifu dari menara gading, gimana warga Aceh harusnya bersikap.
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"Bangun industri nasional" is a common slogan among labour union movements. The only social groups explicitly opposed to industrialisation as a policy agenda are environmentalists, anarchists, rural/agrarian populists, and university students.
mohon arahan diksi mana yang bagus buat memperhalus diksi "industrialisasi" sehingga lebih mudah diterima masyarakat umum, khususnya kelas pekerja
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Mohammad Hatta: "Besides political democracy, there need also economic democracy. If not, mankind isn't yet free, there is no equality & fraternity. Because the goal of Indonesian democracy is social democracy, encompassing the whole environment which determines mankind's fate."
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If you think that IISMA program is bad because it disproportionately distributes public resources to people from high socioeconomic status, you guys are not going to believe about the distributional outcomes of making higher education tuition free.
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My opinion is that "vote the individuals not the party" because PB leadership is surprisingly responsive to criticism from their cadres, membership base, and even outsiders (public). They reversed their decision to support one of the presidential candidate after public criticism.
Ini serius banyak yang mau milih Partai Buruh yang mengajukan ketua Kadin penyusun omnibus yang juga pemilik konsesi besar lahan IKN sebagai cawapres gini?
Sehat?
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Based on my twitter experience this is not exclusive to foreign-uni graduates but applies to *many* if not *most* highly-educated indonesians. Classist/anti-poor bias, reverence to credentialism, etc. implicitly view the poor & low SES indonesians as politically irredemable.
Semoga tetap belajar menyimak dengan rendah hati & menghindari jd lulusan foreign uni kek gini 🙏
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"Since when the narrative changed"? UGM had always tried to associate themselves with the power that be. Since mbah kusno's era when they declared themselves as "socialist campus", to participating in the mass killings of 1965, and later becoming the tool of suharto's regime.
Dulu aku inget banget pertama kali masuk UGM langsung dapet selebaran BPPM Balairung "Selamat datang mahasiswa biasa di kampus yang biasa-biasa saja". Nggak lama kemudian Forum Selasar FISIPOL bikin
#UGMMintaMaaf
. Kemudian paling riuh ada aksi nggruduk rektorat bertajuk Balada
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The myth of agrarian populism
Dari 138 juta orang berpenghasilan, pegawai/buruh cuma 36%.
Dari 17 sektor yang paling menyerap tenaga kerja, justru pertanian, kehutanan, perikanan (alam).
Aneh kalau pembangunan justru merusak sektor yang paling banyak kasih makan orang.
Selengkapnya
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Jan breman is a great labour scholar so its nice if his research is translated to Indonesian. However, Indonesians tend to know him for his research on colonial labour even though he is more renowned for his study on informal labour, both in Indonesia and especially in India.
Prof Jan Breman akan kembali mnerbitkan bukunya utk publik Indonesia ttg kolonialisme dan rasisme. Naskah sedang diterjemahkan dr bhs Bld ke Indonesia. Saya mendapat kehormatan utk ikut memeriksa terjemahan dan menulis kata pengantarnya. Buku akan diterbitkan oleh
@pustakaobor
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The idea that political changes come from the "complaining middle class" is suspect to me. Not true in Indonesian case (see Hadiz & Murdoch school). The militant Indonesian communist movements had labourers & peasants as its social base, not exactly the imagined "consumer class".
Berikut artikel saya di Kompas, 20 Oktober 2023, “ Keadilan yang Terusik dan Pembangunan Ekonomi” .
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You have it backwards. They have high taxes IN ORDER TO FINANCE good public spending. But the determinants for public spending are not "good governance" or "anti-corruption" but the strength of the labour union movement & the social democratic parties. Politics, not technocracy.
Pengen memberlakukan pajak kaya negara-negara nordik, tapi fasilitas publik kaya burik.
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So rather than start from a political objective & then discussing the best way to achieve them, etc, it becomes a game of identifying the least privileged people. The "correct" strategy then depends on what those people are supporting & alternative proposals can be invalidated.
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In contrast to ILO, BPS classifies ALL wage workers (minus casual workers) as formal workers. However, the nuanced categorisation in the Sakernas survey shows a large portion of the "formal wage workers" lack a written contract: the main characteristic of informal employment.
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PB's position on contract farming, regardless of whether you agree or not, makes more sense if you consider that the farmer's union (SPI) is their core founding organisation. SPI & independent farmers likely would oppose monopsonistic practices & prefer producers' independence.
While I disagree (or didn’t understand) PB stance on contract farming, it doesn’t make me regret voting them.
I think it is good that political party discuss substantial matter like this on public. Now what they need is being open to other pov, especially from farmer themselves.
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The widespread age-based discriminatory hiring practices by employers debunks the "skill mismatch" myth. Older workers would have more "skills" or "experience" than younger workers due to on-the-job training & skill acquisition. Yet, employers prefer more to hire younger workers.
Tulisan terbaru saya tentang bagaimana diskriminasi usia dalam lowongan pekerjaan merugikan pekerja, terutama pekerja kontrak dan perempuan.
Monggo dibaca, sekaligus untuk menyambut International Women's Day besok~
via
@ConversationIDN
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Regardless of your opinion on the labour party or said iqbal, tactical voting (i.e. voting for individual progressive candidates) for the labour party is important. Check your labour party DPR & DPRD candidates. If they sounds good, vote them. If not, feel free not to.
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Muchtar habibi often joked that public administration is the most conservative discipline in Fisipol...but also the potential to be the most progressive. Because the object of study is public admin & policies: their direct role in organising society, economy, and thus capitalism.
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You solve economic insecurity through the welfare state (provide social insurance + raise consumption) & economic development (provide jobs + raise income). Not by providing free higher education.
Bapakku (pensiunan guru) bilang pendidikan adalah tangga mobilitas vertikal kondisi sosial-ekonomi seseorang. Dengan mempersulit akses pendidikan, misalnya menetapkan UKT mahal & pinjaman berbunga, tangga itu dipreteli. Artinya, ada upaya untuk merawat kesenjangan.
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If it's not misusing maths as a substitute for good writing, the bodyshaming, egregious conf paper, now this.
Go read alessandra mezzadri, sara stevano, and the new feminist political economy. Intersectionality is not your diversity equity inclusion liberal identity politics.
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A new blog post: half of Indonesians are non-workers who either do not work (unemployed, carers, students) or should not work (children, elderly, disabled).
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If you think about it, indonesian economists & technocrats basically have the same belief as 19th century javanese peasants: believing that many of our problems can be solved if only an enlightened & wise ratu adil would show up and rule the country.
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One reason for my contempt to indonesian agrarian scholar/activist circles: despite wealth of historical & contemporary evidence of class inequality & oppression *within* rural society, they insist on publicly maintaining the (misleading) image of "harmonious" rural society.
Jadi, ingat di kalangan aktivis agraria. Dulu sy mengusulkan dibuka kembali debat mengenai agrarian question in neo liberal era sekaligus soal pilihan taktis dan strategis para aktivis dlm mengahadapi kebijakan neolib. Eh, malah dihujat oleh aktivis senior agraria.
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I love that he hid the social security tax because we can directly infer how much his gross monthly income based on their rates. But paying Rp6 million in income taxes put you at Rp39-47 million a month. Or more than 10x the average salary of employees in indonesia.
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Indonesian liberals & atheists keep wishing "if only indonesians had become enlightened". But when many indonesians did get enlightened (embrace marxism, self-organise, fight against capitalists & landlords) they instead cheered when the army & religious fanatics crushed them.
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No, but if your political framework consists entirely of "what the governing parties support or oppose" instead of having a coherent policy positions, then yes you don't have coherent political philosophy.
Jokowisme menurutku nggak harusnya dimaknai sebagai ideologi penghamba Jokowi sebagai seorang individu—seperti Marxisme yang penerapan ideologinya berdasarkan pada pemikiran & ide-ide intelektual Karl Marx.
Selama ini kita nggak melabeli Marxist sebagai pengkultus Marx, kan?
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I wrote a piece that basically implies we should build a universal welfare state (). Prabowo's agenda effectively poisons the welfare state discourse in indonesia by negatively-polarising people to oppose higher taxation, social spending, and universalism.
Gue harus ucapin terima kasih ke Prabowo.
Berkat dia diskusi mengenai program makan siang gratis dan ketahanan pangan (food estate) di Indonesia jadi mundur puluhan tahun gara-gara visi dan implementasi kedua ide itu ga jelas.
To the point yang 'liberal' jadi ngelakuin means
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Presentation of research from
@indoprogress
about agrarian class dynamics in contemporary rural Indonesia. Those who study agrarian & rural political economy, especially in Indonesian context, might be interested to join in.
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I've been compiling some data on civil servants monthly basic wage (gaji pokok). When compared to the provincial minimum wage (UMP), I found a declining ratio between the lowest basic wage of civil servants & the UMP. By 2019, UMP > the lowest civil servant basic wage (Gol. 1a).
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Oh my god I felt the second-hand embrassment 😭😭😭
Apparently someone copy/pasted 100% of one of my co-authored articles on state capitalism in chatGPT, and published it lol
The original version is here
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I have just the right book that fits with nolan's directorial style of multiple timelines/point-of-views, suspense/thriller, and plot-driven narrative
What dense 700-page Pulitzer Prize-winning history book should Chris Nolan adapt for film next?
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Singapore is often seen as an example of low taxation country with taxation of 14-16% of GDP. But common measurement excludes mandatory payroll tax to the Central Provident Fund (CPF). As Peter Lindert noted, Singapore's taxation is around 21-25% of GDP when accounting for this.
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The funniest welfare policy discourse is that american socialists are fighting for medicare4all as an explicitly "socialist" program but $4k gdp per capita indonesia already has an equivalent of medicare4all but people hated it because of "neoliberalism" or payroll tax reasons.
won't include BPJS in the list of grievances because there's a huge difference between "we cut some of your pay to make sure you and everyone get free healthcare now" and "we cut some of your pay and *maybe* *some people* can get an *affordable* house *sometime around 2027*?"
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Some points on the welfare state discourse:
1) Distinction b/w "welfare state" & "social protection" etc is pure vibes
2) Both politics & economic matters for welfare state
3) welfare state expansion in IDN requires changes in both economic structure (i.e. development) & politics
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Once you read about how uneducated rural labour, under the BTI & PKI, were able to conduct sophisticated rural social research, you realise how little meaning academic/education credentials are. You will forever be sceptical of those who used them as a cudgel in an argument.
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They incorrectly define gramsci's concept of "organic intellectuals". Reveals how elitism, anti-intellectualism, and the ideology of "moralist" activism, devoid of organic ties with the labouring class, is still hegemonic within the student movement or whatever-the-f-is-this.
lengkapnya:
Demokrasi harus dikawal oleh banyak pihak. Big respect utk teman2 di Jogja🙌
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Under a capitalist economy, NGO is just another capitalist firm & voluntary work is just another (unpaid) work:
Ada ya orang kerja di NGO apalagi proyek humanitarian, tapi kesadaran buat bayar pekerja dengan layak aja kagak ada. Nol besar.
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Others, however, might be more skeptical due to the lack of clear & concrete policy platforms () or because the party is dominated by conservative unions with records of cooptation by elites & internal bureaucratisation/elitism ().
International Labour Day 2022 was commemorated by the Labour Party as a "May Day Fiesta" at the Bung Karno Sports Stadium (GBK) in Jakarta on May 14. An estimated 30-60 thousand workers attended the fiesta.
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