Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Online ISSN : 2424-1377
Print ISSN : 0563-8682
ISSN-L : 0563-8682
Volume 24, Issue 4
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  • Thee Kian Wie, Kunio Yoshihara
    1987 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 327-349
    Published: March 31, 1987
    Released on J-STAGE: February 28, 2018
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  • Sei Kuribayashi
    1987 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 350-376
    Published: March 31, 1987
    Released on J-STAGE: February 28, 2018
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  • Hiromitsu Muta
    1987 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 377-402
    Published: March 31, 1987
    Released on J-STAGE: February 28, 2018
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    To develop its economy at a high rate, Indonesia has to educate the personnel for the task. Also it is necessary for the integration and continuation of the country to diffuse the Indonesian language through out the country and to inculcate the Panca Sila spirit. Thus the enrichment and expansion of education has been one of the most important issues for the country.
     Due to the government's efforts to expand the capacity of elementary school in the 1970s, a huge influx of students has now reached the lower and upper secondary school levels. It is obvious that the government will have to extend its effort toward increasing the capacity of secondary and higher education as soon as possible.
     Although education is the source of national development, it wastes valuable resources and engenders frustration among unemployed people of high educational background if the supply of educated manpower greatly exceeds the demand. As it takes a long time to develop manpower at formal educational institutions, educational plans should be based upon the long-term prospect of the Indonesian economy and society.
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  • Shiro Momoki
    1987 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 403-417
    Published: March 31, 1987
    Released on J-STAGE: February 28, 2018
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    Society and state in pre-modern Vietnam were strongly influenced by those of China. Recent research indicates, however, that absolute rule supported by bureaucracy and Confucian ideology like that in the Chinese empire was not established until the 14th century. How, then, did earlier dynasties such as Lý become stabilized and gain control over semi-independent local powers?
     The foundation of the Ly dynasty did not put an end to frequent regional rebellions outside the Red River Delta, sometimes involving an alliance with another country. The framework of political integration under this Vietnamese dynasty, in which the central government of the Red River Delta controlled the northern mountains and the southern provinces, was barely established in the latter half of the 11th century. Moreover, the integration of the Red River Delta itself collapsed in a struggle among local powers on the fall of the Lý dynasty.
     Under these conditions, the central government could not dismantle the local military powers and construct a military bureaucracy. The submission of local powers, often symbolized by a ceremony of allegiance, was achieved only by means of personal demonstrations of power by the emperor or princes in expeditions or ritual travels to the local powers. Such demonstrations gradually came to be undertaken by persons close to the emperor and by the grand aristocrats.
     Ultimately, the stability of the Lý dynasty rested on the military actions of the “mandala overlord” in the Red River Delta and their spread to the aristocracy.
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  • The Samin Movement and Its Philosophy of Language
    Masato Fukushima
    1987 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 418-435
    Published: March 31, 1987
    Released on J-STAGE: February 28, 2018
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    The main objective of this paper is to analyse the logico-linguistic aspect of the religion of Adam in Java, which is usually called Saminism and known as an indigenous peasant movement against the Dutch colonial government.
     Most studies of this movement have tended to neglect its symbolic (including linguistic) peculiarity, owing to a lack of first-hand research on that topic. The field research done by the author in the Samin communities, which still exist around the Pati regency, reveals that their apparently bewildering usage of language, which has been believed to be merely a way to upset outsiders, is indeed based on a consistent philosophical world-view about the relationship between language and the nature of man, which they symbolize by the phrase ‘Adam kuwi ucap’ (Adam is utterance).
     By using arbitrary folk-etymology and special terminology, they construct a peculiarly closed linguistic sphere where every outer element that does not fit their belief is forcibly re-interpreted and reconstructed so as to harmonize with their Weltanschauung. Thus they build up their own linguistic world around the notion of centrality of man in this universe.
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