Pujo Semedi
Biographic Data
| ID | 233830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pujo Semedi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pujo |
| FAMILY NAME | Semedi |
| SIGNATURE | SEMEDI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitas Gadjah Mada |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9063-8240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Celebrating Twenty Years of Tandem Research Training in Indonesia and Germany
In July 2024, the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg (UFR), Germany, and the Department of Anthropology at the Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia, celebrated together the 20th anniversary of their joint Tandem Research Training Programme. This hybrid event brought together 100 alumni from many parts of the world as well as colleagues from various disciplines and partner institutions who have contribu…
Ecological Degradation, Climate Change and New Islamic Piety: Potato Cultivation in Upland Java
Since the 1980s, agricultural land in the uplands of Java has been converted into potato fields to meet rising domestic demand. The adoption of potatoes has transformed the character of farming villages in these upland areas: villages that were once poor now appear prosperous and modern. The farmers' houses are well‐built, and each hamlet has an impressive, beautiful mosque. However, this potato boom has its downsides: serious ecological impacts,…
Developmental Refusal and Farmers’ Vulnerabilities in Central Kalimantan Peatlands
The conversion of peatlands in Central Kalimantan into an intensive food crop production area places farmers in a vulnerable position. Their clear vulnerability stems from their reliance on the market and their exposure to harmful agricultural chemicals. Additionally, government policies promoting the migration of farmers into the peatlands, based on the assumption that local farmers lack the capacity to improve their own circumstances, have crea…
Semangat Kritis
Research on severe mental illness in Indonesia: A scoping review
Indonesia is a country of immense socio-cultural and economic diversity in Southeast Asia. Over the past century, Indonesia epitomized a colonial and post-colonial scientific laboratory for developing early interventions in international health, transcultural psychiatry, and Global Mental Health (GMH). Psychological and psychiatric anthropology have greatly benefited from research on the interplay between culture, mental health, and illness in In…
No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone
This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the government or corporations. Drawing on field research in West Kalimantan in 2010–15, the article outlines…
Envisioning Climate Politics From Below: Rural Indonesia in the Shadow of Climate Change
Climate Change is political ‘all the way down’. Yet, the nature of the ‘everyday politics’ emerging from below as climate change impacts rural societies remains underexamined. How do increasing climate variability and climate policies shape agrarian politics and rural futures? How, in turn, do agrarian politics, practices and aspirations for specific rural futures influence the perception of climate change and the implementation of climate polici…
The Price of Beauty: Assessing an environmental education program about traded songbirds in Indonesia
Out of Agriculture: The 1850s - 2010s Java and Southern Germany Compared
Dari Redaksi
Obituary Kodiran
Dari Redaksi
Sojourn Symposium: On Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia s Oil Palm Zone, by Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi
Agar Tidak Menjadi Hantu di Kampung Sendiri
Rubber, Oil Palm and Accumulation in Rural West Kalimantan, 1910s - 2010s
The article argues that social tensions in Indonesian oil palm cultivation have social origins internal to the communities that have adopted oil palm, and it traces some of these origins back across several processes of land conversion. In the early 20th century, the adoption of rubber among West Kalimantan farmers led to the privatization of land tenure and wealth accumulation in the hand of village traders, tokeh, that eventually caused social …
A Power Approach and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Yogyakarta
In Indonesia, a power approach was operationalised in efforts to manage the coronavirus outbreak. In the six months since the spread of the virus began, what can be seen is that this approach has given rise to a behavioral paradox within the community. Tumulutous and clamorous measures were undertaken by the community in the first four months of the pandemic, where the rate of infection was still small. In the following months, when the rate of i…
Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone
Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone examines the social and environmental transformations wrought by the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations in Indonesia. The book analyzes how corporate power operates on the ground, shaping the lives and livelihoods of communities living within and around plantation concessions. Authors Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi draw on extensive ethnographic research in West Kaliman…
Sakpada-Pada. Jalan Tengah Kesetaraan di Pedesaan Jawa, 1850 – 2010
This study discusses the praxis of human equality among mountains farming communities in petungkriyono Subdistrict, Pekalongan, Central Java, through long-term historical-ethnographic observations on local political and economic activities in village head election and livestock raising. Village communities are always divided by hierarchical social structures between ordinary citizens and the elite. From time to time the elite and the rich continu…
Palm Oil Wealth and Rumour Panics in West Kalimantan
The expansion of palm oil cultivation to the hinterlands of West Kalimantan has brought new wealth at an unprecedented rate, but has recently been accompanied by a spread of moral panic, especially among the Dayak. ‘Poverty is the devil's closest companion’ ancient wisdom tells, although increased material affluence creates its own social problems as well. For the Dayak, the growth of wealth through oil palm plantations is achieved through diffic…
Between Land Grabbing and Farmers' Benefits: Land Transfers in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Rapid growth of oil palm cultivation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia has increased both the pace and size of land transfers from farmers to big companies and city-based investors. This process has been widely conceptualised as 'top-down land grabbing' but this perspective largely neglects the agency of the farmers. This paper seeks to shed light on the agency of farmers with respect to how they respond to land transfer schemes. Through a study of l…
Andrew Beatty, A shadow falls; In the heart of Java
In this feature we highlight a recently launched book. We invite specialists in the field to comment on the book, and we invite the author to respond to their comments. In this issue we focus on Andrew Beatty's, A shadow falls; In the heart of Java. Those invited to comment on the book are Puja Semedi, Michael Peletz and Edwin Wieiringa. Registered readers may participate in the debate
Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone
Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone examines the social and environmental transformations wrought by the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations in Indonesia. The book analyzes how corporate power operates on the ground, shaping the lives and livelihoods of communities living within and around plantation concessions. Authors Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi draw on extensive ethnographic research in West Kaliman…
Between Land Grabbing and Farmers' Benefits: Land Transfers in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Rapid growth of oil palm cultivation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia has increased both the pace and size of land transfers from farmers to big companies and city-based investors. This process has been widely conceptualised as 'top-down land grabbing' but this perspective largely neglects the agency of the farmers. This paper seeks to shed light on the agency of farmers with respect to how they respond to land transfer schemes. Through a study of l…
Palm Oil Wealth and Rumour Panics in West Kalimantan
The expansion of palm oil cultivation to the hinterlands of West Kalimantan has brought new wealth at an unprecedented rate, but has recently been accompanied by a spread of moral panic, especially among the Dayak. ‘Poverty is the devil's closest companion’ ancient wisdom tells, although increased material affluence creates its own social problems as well. For the Dayak, the growth of wealth through oil palm plantations is achieved through diffic…
Andrew Beatty, A shadow falls; In the heart of Java
In this feature we highlight a recently launched book. We invite specialists in the field to comment on the book, and we invite the author to respond to their comments. In this issue we focus on Andrew Beatty's, A shadow falls; In the heart of Java. Those invited to comment on the book are Puja Semedi, Michael Peletz and Edwin Wieiringa. Registered readers may participate in the debate
Palm Oil Wealth and Rumour Panics in West Kalimantan
The expansion of palm oil cultivation to the hinterlands of West Kalimantan has brought new wealth at an unprecedented rate, but has recently been accompanied by a spread of moral panic, especially among the Dayak. ‘Poverty is the devil's closest companion’ ancient wisdom tells, although increased material affluence creates its own social problems as well. For the Dayak, the growth of wealth through oil palm plantations is achieved through diffic…
Between Land Grabbing and Farmers' Benefits: Land Transfers in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Rapid growth of oil palm cultivation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia has increased both the pace and size of land transfers from farmers to big companies and city-based investors. This process has been widely conceptualised as 'top-down land grabbing' but this perspective largely neglects the agency of the farmers. This paper seeks to shed light on the agency of farmers with respect to how they respond to land transfer schemes. Through a study of l…
Sakpada-Pada. Jalan Tengah Kesetaraan di Pedesaan Jawa, 1850 – 2010
This study discusses the praxis of human equality among mountains farming communities in petungkriyono Subdistrict, Pekalongan, Central Java, through long-term historical-ethnographic observations on local political and economic activities in village head election and livestock raising. Village communities are always divided by hierarchical social structures between ordinary citizens and the elite. From time to time the elite and the rich continu…
A Power Approach and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Yogyakarta
In Indonesia, a power approach was operationalised in efforts to manage the coronavirus outbreak. In the six months since the spread of the virus began, what can be seen is that this approach has given rise to a behavioral paradox within the community. Tumulutous and clamorous measures were undertaken by the community in the first four months of the pandemic, where the rate of infection was still small. In the following months, when the rate of i…
Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone
Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone examines the social and environmental transformations wrought by the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations in Indonesia. The book analyzes how corporate power operates on the ground, shaping the lives and livelihoods of communities living within and around plantation concessions. Authors Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi draw on extensive ethnographic research in West Kaliman…
Agar Tidak Menjadi Hantu di Kampung Sendiri
Rubber, Oil Palm and Accumulation in Rural West Kalimantan, 1910s - 2010s
The article argues that social tensions in Indonesian oil palm cultivation have social origins internal to the communities that have adopted oil palm, and it traces some of these origins back across several processes of land conversion. In the early 20th century, the adoption of rubber among West Kalimantan farmers led to the privatization of land tenure and wealth accumulation in the hand of village traders, tokeh, that eventually caused social …
Sojourn Symposium: On Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia s Oil Palm Zone, by Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi
Out of Agriculture: The 1850s - 2010s Java and Southern Germany Compared
Dari Redaksi
Obituary Kodiran
Dari Redaksi
Developmental Refusal and Farmers’ Vulnerabilities in Central Kalimantan Peatlands
The conversion of peatlands in Central Kalimantan into an intensive food crop production area places farmers in a vulnerable position. Their clear vulnerability stems from their reliance on the market and their exposure to harmful agricultural chemicals. Additionally, government policies promoting the migration of farmers into the peatlands, based on the assumption that local farmers lack the capacity to improve their own circumstances, have crea…
Semangat Kritis
Research on severe mental illness in Indonesia: A scoping review
Indonesia is a country of immense socio-cultural and economic diversity in Southeast Asia. Over the past century, Indonesia epitomized a colonial and post-colonial scientific laboratory for developing early interventions in international health, transcultural psychiatry, and Global Mental Health (GMH). Psychological and psychiatric anthropology have greatly benefited from research on the interplay between culture, mental health, and illness in In…
No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone
This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the government or corporations. Drawing on field research in West Kalimantan in 2010–15, the article outlines…
Envisioning Climate Politics From Below: Rural Indonesia in the Shadow of Climate Change
Climate Change is political ‘all the way down’. Yet, the nature of the ‘everyday politics’ emerging from below as climate change impacts rural societies remains underexamined. How do increasing climate variability and climate policies shape agrarian politics and rural futures? How, in turn, do agrarian politics, practices and aspirations for specific rural futures influence the perception of climate change and the implementation of climate polici…
The Price of Beauty: Assessing an environmental education program about traded songbirds in Indonesia
Celebrating Twenty Years of Tandem Research Training in Indonesia and Germany
In July 2024, the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg (UFR), Germany, and the Department of Anthropology at the Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia, celebrated together the 20th anniversary of their joint Tandem Research Training Programme. This hybrid event brought together 100 alumni from many parts of the world as well as colleagues from various disciplines and partner institutions who have contribu…
Ecological Degradation, Climate Change and New Islamic Piety: Potato Cultivation in Upland Java
Since the 1980s, agricultural land in the uplands of Java has been converted into potato fields to meet rising domestic demand. The adoption of potatoes has transformed the character of farming villages in these upland areas: villages that were once poor now appear prosperous and modern. The farmers' houses are well‐built, and each hamlet has an impressive, beautiful mosque. However, this potato boom has its downsides: serious ecological impacts,…
Asian Studies and History (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economy (4 works) · Oil Palm Production and Sustainability (4 works) · Palm oil (4 works)