Hendrikus Paulus Kaunang

• Master of Arts
• Universitas Gadjah Mada

This monograph reflects on the implementation of and lessons learned—both theoretically and practically—from the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS)’ three-year program on “Co-designing sustainable, just and smart urban living in Indonesia” (2019-2021). The first of the three years was the most active, when we planned the overall pro...

Comics culture has a long precedence in Indonesian art tradition. Earlier visual art appeared in the Hindu-Buddhist temples and in the colonial period. Once, Indonesian comics enjoyed the golden age in the 1970s and 1980s in which the comics sought inspiration from local legends and wayang themes. However, the flood of Western and Japanese comics e...

It is an adage Indonesians renowned for hospitality. An online media identified five virtues of Indonesian hospitality, i.e., smiley, sociable, polite, helpful people, and the virtue of mutual helpfulness (suka bergotong royong). If any of those are closer to the truth, why is Indonesia’s social media so noisy, rowdy and pugnacious? Do we live doub...

https://bersaksi.id/penengah-informasi-sebagai-keramahan-media-sosial/ Jika orang Indonesia bangsa yang ramah, mengapa ruang media sosial (medsos) kita begitu berisik, bising dan garang? Terlebih di tengah kekhawatiran global terkait penyebaran wabah COVID-19, muncul pula bentuk kecemasan lain yang diakibatkan oleh begitu banyaknya hoax dan inform...

The present article is a research report on the discourse of religious blasphemy in connection with digital practices in Indonesia. It sought to understand the shift of public participation in shaping the discourse that understood within the framework we identified as "monitory society." The research employed qualitative approach by using several m...