Deconstructing Indonesia

Thanks to 100 folks joining the "Deconstructing Indonesia" first session! 🥳 Around 20 people offsite at Columbia University and the rest via Zoom. If you missed yesterday's session, here is the recording youtu.be/GCHKp9M8jRg?si…

This time, we will have a guest speaker coming from Leiden University! He’s Louie Buana, a PhD Candidate in History. The session will be on Thursday, 26th March 2026 at 8pm WIB / 9am EST. Join us at deconstructindo.com and see you on Thursday!

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What if “harmony” isn’t just a moral ideal, but a carefully engineered social system? We’ll unpack Javanese culture through the lens of anthropology, drawing on Koentjaraningrat’s classic work to understand how social order is produced, maintained, and challenged in Indonesia.

His recent publication “Indigenous Dialectics. On the Relation between State and Indigeneity” is published by Cornell University Press. The time for this session will be on Thursday, 26th February 2026 at 4pm-6pm WIB / 4am-6am EST / 10am-12pm Germany Time. See you on Thursday!

This week we will have a guest speaker coming from University of Bonn, Timo Duile! A short bio that he kindly shared with us: Timo Duile is a political scientist, Hegelian philosopher, and cultural anthropologist. He was born, studies Indonesia, writes about it, and will die.

- Culture in Transition: What happens to gotong royong, hierarchy, and tradition in the face of modernization and Western education. See you on Wednesday, bring your questions about culture, power, and what it really means to “get along"!

-Hierarchy in Everyday Life: How status, seniority, and respect are embedded in language itself through speech levels like ngoko and krama. - Rukun & Tepa Salira: Why harmony, tolerance, and self-restraint are not passive values, but active strategies for social stability.

Hi everyone! Due to the snowstorm, all facilities at Teachers College, Columbia University, are closed today. So our class will be FULLY ONLINE! See you via Zoom and stay warm, everyone! If you’re in NYC and need something urgent due to the snowstorm, please let us know, too!

- ⁠Living Structure: The roles of women as custodians of land and ceremony, and men as guardians and mediators (complementary, not hierarchical). See you this Monday! Join our WhatsApp group to get the link at deconstructindo.com 😉

This week, we’ll explore: - Nature as Teacher: How Minangkabau philosophy roots social structure in ecological observation, not biological determinism. - ⁠Power to “Conjugate,” Not Dominate: Why maternal authority here is about weaving social bonds, not controlling others.

What if one of the world’s largest matrilineal societies holds the key to reimagining social organization, while also being deeply Islamic?

Join our WhatsApp group on deconstructindo.com to get the Zoom link for the class! We look forward to see you all on Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 at 20.00 EST / Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 at 08.00 WIB sharp 😎

We will challenge this narrative by reimagining indigenity and Islam through cases of Bugis and Malay divination tables; which will be discussed by this week's collaborated speaker Auf from Coretanist, together with our own Alsya! Peek a lil sneak peek for the class 👀

Colonial imagination has long dictated the way we understand indigeneity, mostly as a passive recipient. Even though in reality, it's a constant negotiation. While Islam is imagined as a superficial foreign veneer that was imposed upon indigenous beliefs and culture

For those joining us offline, we’ll meet at the Info Center at The Met (please have your ticket ready, it’s free for students and pay-as-you-wish for NYC residents). If you’re joining us online, we’ll livestream! See you all this Friday and DM us if you've any questions!

For the Asmat, woodcarving is an act of remembrance, a bridge to the ancestors and a reaffirmation of life itself. This week we’ll learn about the creation myth of Fumeripits and connect the dots between mythology, art and cultural resilience in the ongoing suppression in Papua.

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This week, we'll discuss the multispecies as relationality! We will draw from case studies regarding two Indigenous communities, Wai Manu and Umbu Pabal, in Central Sumba. Looking forward to see you all at 19.00 WIB/07.00 EDT this Thurs, Dec 4, 2025 on Zoom!

Sneak peek for Thursday's class 👀