Melani Budianta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3921990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melani Budianta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melani |
| FAMILY NAME | Budianta |
| SIGNATURE | BUDIANTA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Indonesia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Critical Cultural Literacy as a Path to Reconciliation: A Literature Review of Teacher Agency in Post-Conflict Cultural Education in Maluku, Indonesia
This study examines how secondary-school teachers in post-conflict Central Maluku, Indonesia, enact cultural education to advance critical cultural literacy and social cohesion. Using a qualitative design, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 teachers, classroom observations across six schools, curriculum-document review, and field notes from school and community ceremonies (e.g., pela gandong village alliances; sasi resource-managemen…
A Liveable Kampung: The Challenges of Urban Expansion in Greater Jakarta and East Nusa Tenggara
Gender, Islam and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia
This Open Access book explores the complex interplay between gender, Islam and sexuality in Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population. The authors offer a fresh look at the tensions between the local and the global through a wide range of cultural expressions and productions, including fashion, Islamic dating, popular literature, and videos on YouTube. The book is grouped around three core themes: sexuality and violence, h…
Tubuh sebagai Resistansi Subaltern dalam Novel Perempuan yang Menangis Kepada Bulan Hitam Karya Dian Purnomo
This study examines the subaltern issues that befall female characters in the novel Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam (2020) by Dian Purnomo. The subaltern issue is motivated by the captured marriage culture in Sumba, Indonesia, which harms women. In connection with the capture marriage culture, women's bodies become essential to their lives. This research aims to reveal the subaltern position of Sumba women in the novel. The theory used…
The Cinematic Othering of Sitting Bull in the Adaptation of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
The marginalization of particular groups or people as a result of the idea that one group or person is better than another is known as the "othering" process. This article discusses how a film adaptation of Dee Alexander Brown’s book on Native American history, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (BMHWK) performs this act of othering. First of all, it is done by negatively portraying the heroic figure in the book. Sitting Bull, a Teton Dakota Chief who…
Critiquing the Discourse on Women in the Edo Era: Intertextual Studies of Ariyoshi’s Hanaoka Seishū No Tsuma
Under the Tokugawa clan, Japanese women’s position was declined throughout the Edo era (1603–1868). Almost one century afterwards, a female writer called Ariyoshi Sawako (1931–1984) raised the issue of female position in the Edo era through the novel Hanaoka Seishū no Tsuma (HSNT). This article will focus on two things. First is the exploration of the discourse of women in the Edo Era through three texts written during the era. The second part of…
Reclaiming women’s space
Reading Spatial Governmentality, Understanding Mentality of Violence in Lampuki, Puya ke Puya, and Dawuk
Post-Reform Indonesian novels such as Lampuki by Arafat Nur, Dari Puya ke Puya by Faisal Oddang, and Dawuk by Mahfud Ikhwan critically question the problem of governmentality, inviting us to ponder upon how works of literature formulate a social change in terms of state crisis, economic uncertainty, and other instabilities. The theme of spatial governmentality in the form of conflicts due to land appropriation/acquisition and land use, shows the …
Trisutji Kamal’s Loro Jonggrang: A Cross-Cultural Dissonance
Trisutji Kamal, whose career spanned five decades, was one of the oldest and longest-performing Indonesian female classical composers. Her music is tinged with a unique character, stemming from the way she inserted Javanese nuances into the Western framework of her art. To discuss this musical style, the authors analysed one of her most well-known compositions in the form of an opera, called Loro Jonggrang. The article examines how the two differ…
Trisutji Kamal's Music in Four Periods
This article maps the works of Indonesian female music composer and pianist, Trisutji Kamal, whose career spanned 7 decades. The composer who died in March 2021, was celebrated for the Islamic element of her works. Using the whole oeuvre of her music, personal interviews and historical research, this article argues that the religious element comprises only one period out of the four periods identified in her long career. The article contends that…
Smart kampung: Doing cultural studies in the Global South
As megacities are rising in developing countries, Indonesia in the 2010s shifts attention toward marginalized urban and rural villages. This paper observes cultural movements arising from kampung as locus of critical engagement with the complexities of the Global South in the twenty-first century. Examining three kampungs in Java, I reveal how the community-driven act of cultural commoning reactivates local practices to correct unwanted effects o…
Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World: Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and inter-disciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area studies. Asia and the Pacific are the particular …
Culture, power and identity The case of Ang Hien Hoo, Malang
This paper discusses the intricate relations between culture and identity in a web of larger power structures of politics and the market by looking at the ways in which the Indonesian Chinese attach themselves to a local performing arts tradition. The paper focuses on the history of the wayang orang amateur club called Ang Hien Hoo in Malang, East Java, which emerged from a Chinese diaspora burial association, to attract national limelight in the…
In memoriam Benedict Anderson Kunming, Yunnan, 26 August 1936 – Batu, East Java, 13 December 2015
Precarious cosmopolitanism: Work migration and cultural belonging in a globalized Asia
The strong presence of migrant workers and the emergence of transnational mixed families from the region in Singapore and other Asian capital cities is one of the undercurrents of inter-Asia globalization. The term ‘inter-Asian globalization’ here refers to various forms and daily realities of transnational exchanges within the region, as Southeast Asian workers migrate following the flow of capital, meet other workers in the region, make familie…
Shifting the geographies of knowledge: The unfinished project of Inter‐Asia Cultural Studies
In March 2009 I was invited to give a lecture on the cultural diversity in Asia for an International Forum of Universities held in Rome, Italy. Before the forum started, all foreign scholars, mostl
Beyond the Stained Glass Window: Indonesian Perceptions of the United States and the War on Terror
Diverse Voices: Indonesian Literature and Nation-Building
Indonesian Literature vs. New Order Orthodoxy: The Aftermath of 1965֠1966
Decentralizing Engagements: Women and the Democratization Process in Indonesia
Discourse of cultural identity in Indonesia during the 1997-1998 monetary crisis
Indonesian women's responses to violence: Towards an alternative concepts of human security
The crises and conflicts - political, religious, ethnic - that have beset Indonesia from 1998 resulted in an escalation of violence against women, to which Indonesian women have responded by forming alliances for peace. The following articles and extracts document alliances among Indonesian women of different cultural backgrounds. They also document their strategies and actions for peace in Indonesia and justice for all Indonesian women
Discourse of cultural identity in Indonesia during the 1997-1998 monetary crisis
Precarious cosmopolitanism: Work migration and cultural belonging in a globalized Asia
The strong presence of migrant workers and the emergence of transnational mixed families from the region in Singapore and other Asian capital cities is one of the undercurrents of inter-Asia globalization. The term ‘inter-Asian globalization’ here refers to various forms and daily realities of transnational exchanges within the region, as Southeast Asian workers migrate following the flow of capital, meet other workers in the region, make familie…
Shifting the geographies of knowledge: The unfinished project of Inter‐Asia Cultural Studies
In March 2009 I was invited to give a lecture on the cultural diversity in Asia for an International Forum of Universities held in Rome, Italy. Before the forum started, all foreign scholars, mostl
Smart kampung: Doing cultural studies in the Global South
As megacities are rising in developing countries, Indonesia in the 2010s shifts attention toward marginalized urban and rural villages. This paper observes cultural movements arising from kampung as locus of critical engagement with the complexities of the Global South in the twenty-first century. Examining three kampungs in Java, I reveal how the community-driven act of cultural commoning reactivates local practices to correct unwanted effects o…
Discourse of cultural identity in Indonesia during the 1997-1998 monetary crisis
Indonesian women's responses to violence: Towards an alternative concepts of human security
The crises and conflicts - political, religious, ethnic - that have beset Indonesia from 1998 resulted in an escalation of violence against women, to which Indonesian women have responded by forming alliances for peace. The following articles and extracts document alliances among Indonesian women of different cultural backgrounds. They also document their strategies and actions for peace in Indonesia and justice for all Indonesian women
Decentralizing Engagements: Women and the Democratization Process in Indonesia
Diverse Voices: Indonesian Literature and Nation-Building
Indonesian Literature vs. New Order Orthodoxy: The Aftermath of 1965֠1966
Beyond the Stained Glass Window: Indonesian Perceptions of the United States and the War on Terror
Shifting the geographies of knowledge: The unfinished project of Inter‐Asia Cultural Studies
In March 2009 I was invited to give a lecture on the cultural diversity in Asia for an International Forum of Universities held in Rome, Italy. Before the forum started, all foreign scholars, mostl
Precarious cosmopolitanism: Work migration and cultural belonging in a globalized Asia
The strong presence of migrant workers and the emergence of transnational mixed families from the region in Singapore and other Asian capital cities is one of the undercurrents of inter-Asia globalization. The term ‘inter-Asian globalization’ here refers to various forms and daily realities of transnational exchanges within the region, as Southeast Asian workers migrate following the flow of capital, meet other workers in the region, make familie…
In memoriam Benedict Anderson Kunming, Yunnan, 26 August 1936 – Batu, East Java, 13 December 2015
Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World: Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and inter-disciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area studies. Asia and the Pacific are the particular …
Culture, power and identity The case of Ang Hien Hoo, Malang
This paper discusses the intricate relations between culture and identity in a web of larger power structures of politics and the market by looking at the ways in which the Indonesian Chinese attach themselves to a local performing arts tradition. The paper focuses on the history of the wayang orang amateur club called Ang Hien Hoo in Malang, East Java, which emerged from a Chinese diaspora burial association, to attract national limelight in the…
Smart kampung: Doing cultural studies in the Global South
As megacities are rising in developing countries, Indonesia in the 2010s shifts attention toward marginalized urban and rural villages. This paper observes cultural movements arising from kampung as locus of critical engagement with the complexities of the Global South in the twenty-first century. Examining three kampungs in Java, I reveal how the community-driven act of cultural commoning reactivates local practices to correct unwanted effects o…
Trisutji Kamal's Music in Four Periods
This article maps the works of Indonesian female music composer and pianist, Trisutji Kamal, whose career spanned 7 decades. The composer who died in March 2021, was celebrated for the Islamic element of her works. Using the whole oeuvre of her music, personal interviews and historical research, this article argues that the religious element comprises only one period out of the four periods identified in her long career. The article contends that…
Reading Spatial Governmentality, Understanding Mentality of Violence in Lampuki, Puya ke Puya, and Dawuk
Post-Reform Indonesian novels such as Lampuki by Arafat Nur, Dari Puya ke Puya by Faisal Oddang, and Dawuk by Mahfud Ikhwan critically question the problem of governmentality, inviting us to ponder upon how works of literature formulate a social change in terms of state crisis, economic uncertainty, and other instabilities. The theme of spatial governmentality in the form of conflicts due to land appropriation/acquisition and land use, shows the …
Trisutji Kamal’s Loro Jonggrang: A Cross-Cultural Dissonance
Trisutji Kamal, whose career spanned five decades, was one of the oldest and longest-performing Indonesian female classical composers. Her music is tinged with a unique character, stemming from the way she inserted Javanese nuances into the Western framework of her art. To discuss this musical style, the authors analysed one of her most well-known compositions in the form of an opera, called Loro Jonggrang. The article examines how the two differ…
The Cinematic Othering of Sitting Bull in the Adaptation of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
The marginalization of particular groups or people as a result of the idea that one group or person is better than another is known as the "othering" process. This article discusses how a film adaptation of Dee Alexander Brown’s book on Native American history, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (BMHWK) performs this act of othering. First of all, it is done by negatively portraying the heroic figure in the book. Sitting Bull, a Teton Dakota Chief who…
Critiquing the Discourse on Women in the Edo Era: Intertextual Studies of Ariyoshi’s Hanaoka Seishū No Tsuma
Under the Tokugawa clan, Japanese women’s position was declined throughout the Edo era (1603–1868). Almost one century afterwards, a female writer called Ariyoshi Sawako (1931–1984) raised the issue of female position in the Edo era through the novel Hanaoka Seishū no Tsuma (HSNT). This article will focus on two things. First is the exploration of the discourse of women in the Edo Era through three texts written during the era. The second part of…
Reclaiming women’s space
Gender, Islam and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia
This Open Access book explores the complex interplay between gender, Islam and sexuality in Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population. The authors offer a fresh look at the tensions between the local and the global through a wide range of cultural expressions and productions, including fashion, Islamic dating, popular literature, and videos on YouTube. The book is grouped around three core themes: sexuality and violence, h…
Tubuh sebagai Resistansi Subaltern dalam Novel Perempuan yang Menangis Kepada Bulan Hitam Karya Dian Purnomo
This study examines the subaltern issues that befall female characters in the novel Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam (2020) by Dian Purnomo. The subaltern issue is motivated by the captured marriage culture in Sumba, Indonesia, which harms women. In connection with the capture marriage culture, women's bodies become essential to their lives. This research aims to reveal the subaltern position of Sumba women in the novel. The theory used…
A Liveable Kampung: The Challenges of Urban Expansion in Greater Jakarta and East Nusa Tenggara
Critical Cultural Literacy as a Path to Reconciliation: A Literature Review of Teacher Agency in Post-Conflict Cultural Education in Maluku, Indonesia
This study examines how secondary-school teachers in post-conflict Central Maluku, Indonesia, enact cultural education to advance critical cultural literacy and social cohesion. Using a qualitative design, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 teachers, classroom observations across six schools, curriculum-document review, and field notes from school and community ceremonies (e.g., pela gandong village alliances; sasi resource-managemen…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Asian Studies and History (12 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Indonesian (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · History (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Art (6 works)