Geger Riyanto
Biographic Data
| ID | 905138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geger Riyanto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geger |
| FAMILY NAME | Riyanto |
| SIGNATURE | RIYANTO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0764-6635 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wounding charity and charity diplomacy: The dynamics of Mormon Christian charity in Indonesia
Interreligious aid is a contentious issue in Indonesia. Muslim recipients feel compromised when receiving Christian charity as such aid creates uncomfortable indebtedness. This tension is further complicated by a history of antagonistic relationships between Christians and Muslims. This article attempts to delve deeper into these complexities by focusing on the case of Mormon Christian charity. In practice, Mormon Christian charity creates a pecu…
Bonding, Bridging, and Bypassing: Understanding Ethnic Politics in Diverse Societies
For scholars, observers, and activists concerned with Indonesia’s post-authoritarian political landscape, Colm A. Fox’s book offers important insights into the country’s ethnic politics. In additio...
Cultivating extractive bodies: Labor frontiers and the social reproduction of nickel workers in North Maluku, Indonesia
Anxious Millenarians: Envisioning the end in post-conflict Maluku
This article explores contemporary millenarian expectations among the Muslim Buton in Maluku and their struggle to navigate a precarious post-conflict coexistence. As a marginalised ethnic group, excluded from land ownership and the adat structure, the Buton hold on to narratives about the revelation of their true history. These narratives, woven into their everyday conversations and practices, offer a promise of a better and more respected futur…
Various visions of the industrialized future: Anxiety, aspiration, and Chinese nickel investment in Indonesia
Indigeneity as a sphere of differences: State enclosure and counter-enclosure of rural spaces in Indonesia
Indigenous people are often perceived as being tied to specific bounded territories and leading ecologically sustainable lives that are distinct from their modern counterparts. This imagery stems from the fact that indigeneity, as argued in this paper, emerges in response to state enclosure. Modern states violently exert full, flat, and even land control over certain territories. The common manner through which this control is countered is by inc…
Sharing a mythical being: Migrants, autochthonous communities and the reproduction of myth in northern Seram (Indonesia)
This article examines a commonly shared myth in northern Seram (Indonesia) about a half-snake, half-human being called La Ode Wuna. The myth presumably originated in southeast Sulawesi, but the same theme can be found in the myths of numerous communities in central Maluku. The transmission of the La Ode Wuna myth from southeast Sulawesi to Seram has been enabled by continuous mass migration between the two regions. However, it is also constantly …
Mocking while working with problematic representations: The irony of ethnographic sensibility in Indonesia
In this essay, I contemplate the value of ethnography by reflecting on my experience and that of other anthropology-trained individuals who engage with public socio-ecological issues in Indonesia. While these issues are portrayed as urgent and are packaged with established representations of people and communities, ethnographic engagement produces representations that are at odds with them. Nevertheless, anthropology-trained individuals in Indone…
Beyond Sedentary Bias: An Ethnographic Reflection of Deforestation in Seram, Eastern Indonesia
AcknowledgementThe author would like to thank the Asia Research Centre, Universitas Indonesia, through which, with the support of The Packard Foundation, the data and insights for this article were obtained.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Suspicion and Overlapping Orders of Precedence: Imagining Secret History in Founder‐Focused Societies of Eastern Indonesia
This article describes how the dominant order of precedence in Seram, eastern Indonesia is challenged by the suspicion of the existence of a secret history. In a context where being the original founder is of importance and the sequence of predecessors' arrival is the basis of orders of precedence, such a suspicion evokes a hopeful possibility for marginal communities that the present social order is false and vulnerable to the abrupt revelation …
Assimilating Stranger, Exemplifying Value
Ultimate value is rarely fully realized as people have to maintain a balance between values in their everyday life. Robbins (2015) notes, however, that it may be perfectly exemplified through ritual. In this paper, I want to show that the perfect exemplification of a value that fundamentally matters to a society may otherwise be attained through the incorporation of an overwhelming stranger. Anthropologists have shown that the presence of a poten…
The Social Potentiality of Secrets
As someone who carried fieldwork in Seram Island, Eastern Indonesia, I found anthropological works on secrets to offer compelling comparisons to my finding. Since Georg Simmel (2009), secrets have often been noted for their potential to generate social formation. What is of importance, particularly, is their concealment and divulgence. The sharing of secrets requires mutual trust, which bonds the participants involved in the interaction or group.…
Revelation and Misunderstanding: Buton millenarianism and the interchange of cosmological tropes in North Seram, Maluku, Indonesia
This article considers the millenarian disposition among the Buton of North Seram sub-district, Maluku. Particular focus is paid to how the Buton interpret their inclusion in indigenous cosmologies, given their current precarious and humiliating existence. In Maluku, the Buton have long been regarded as lower-class people, outsiders who are excluded from local cultural schematics and are both socially and legally vulnerable. Instead of simply see…
Bermain-main dengan Kebenaran Sejarah: Kontestasi Kedudukan dan Produksi Sosial Narasi Awal Mula
Dalam pemahaman umum, kebenaran adalah hal yang lekat dengan kemasukakalan. Asumsi ini pun mempengaruhi satu tren pemikiran dalam antropologi sebagaimana terlihat dari adanya kecenderungan di antara beberapa pengkaji untuk menyejajarkan cara kerja mitos dengan ilmu pengetahuan atau memperlakukan subjek kajian sebagai pihak yang rasional dan terobsesi memecahkan kontradiksi. Berkaca dari dua kasus yakni mitos asal-usul orang Buton di Pulau Seram d…
Selo Soemardjan Sang Penerjemah: Subjektivitas dalam Asal-Usul Cara Berpikir Sosiologis di Indonesia
This paper was written against a background of interest to trace the formation of sociological ways of thinking that tend to legitimize power in Indonesia. During the preparation, I found problems in the perspective commonly used in researching the formation process of knowledge; knowledge is considered a form of power. Such approach is problematic because it denies subjectivity – which includes cognitive activity and experiences that are owned o…
Memperhitungkan Sejarah-sejarah Mikro Disiplin Sosiologi
Indigeneity as a sphere of differences: State enclosure and counter-enclosure of rural spaces in Indonesia
Indigenous people are often perceived as being tied to specific bounded territories and leading ecologically sustainable lives that are distinct from their modern counterparts. This imagery stems from the fact that indigeneity, as argued in this paper, emerges in response to state enclosure. Modern states violently exert full, flat, and even land control over certain territories. The common manner through which this control is countered is by inc…
Memperhitungkan Sejarah-sejarah Mikro Disiplin Sosiologi
Selo Soemardjan Sang Penerjemah: Subjektivitas dalam Asal-Usul Cara Berpikir Sosiologis di Indonesia
This paper was written against a background of interest to trace the formation of sociological ways of thinking that tend to legitimize power in Indonesia. During the preparation, I found problems in the perspective commonly used in researching the formation process of knowledge; knowledge is considered a form of power. Such approach is problematic because it denies subjectivity – which includes cognitive activity and experiences that are owned o…
Bermain-main dengan Kebenaran Sejarah: Kontestasi Kedudukan dan Produksi Sosial Narasi Awal Mula
Dalam pemahaman umum, kebenaran adalah hal yang lekat dengan kemasukakalan. Asumsi ini pun mempengaruhi satu tren pemikiran dalam antropologi sebagaimana terlihat dari adanya kecenderungan di antara beberapa pengkaji untuk menyejajarkan cara kerja mitos dengan ilmu pengetahuan atau memperlakukan subjek kajian sebagai pihak yang rasional dan terobsesi memecahkan kontradiksi. Berkaca dari dua kasus yakni mitos asal-usul orang Buton di Pulau Seram d…
Revelation and Misunderstanding: Buton millenarianism and the interchange of cosmological tropes in North Seram, Maluku, Indonesia
This article considers the millenarian disposition among the Buton of North Seram sub-district, Maluku. Particular focus is paid to how the Buton interpret their inclusion in indigenous cosmologies, given their current precarious and humiliating existence. In Maluku, the Buton have long been regarded as lower-class people, outsiders who are excluded from local cultural schematics and are both socially and legally vulnerable. Instead of simply see…
The Social Potentiality of Secrets
As someone who carried fieldwork in Seram Island, Eastern Indonesia, I found anthropological works on secrets to offer compelling comparisons to my finding. Since Georg Simmel (2009), secrets have often been noted for their potential to generate social formation. What is of importance, particularly, is their concealment and divulgence. The sharing of secrets requires mutual trust, which bonds the participants involved in the interaction or group.…
Suspicion and Overlapping Orders of Precedence: Imagining Secret History in Founder‐Focused Societies of Eastern Indonesia
This article describes how the dominant order of precedence in Seram, eastern Indonesia is challenged by the suspicion of the existence of a secret history. In a context where being the original founder is of importance and the sequence of predecessors' arrival is the basis of orders of precedence, such a suspicion evokes a hopeful possibility for marginal communities that the present social order is false and vulnerable to the abrupt revelation …
Assimilating Stranger, Exemplifying Value
Ultimate value is rarely fully realized as people have to maintain a balance between values in their everyday life. Robbins (2015) notes, however, that it may be perfectly exemplified through ritual. In this paper, I want to show that the perfect exemplification of a value that fundamentally matters to a society may otherwise be attained through the incorporation of an overwhelming stranger. Anthropologists have shown that the presence of a poten…
Beyond Sedentary Bias: An Ethnographic Reflection of Deforestation in Seram, Eastern Indonesia
AcknowledgementThe author would like to thank the Asia Research Centre, Universitas Indonesia, through which, with the support of The Packard Foundation, the data and insights for this article were obtained.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Sharing a mythical being: Migrants, autochthonous communities and the reproduction of myth in northern Seram (Indonesia)
This article examines a commonly shared myth in northern Seram (Indonesia) about a half-snake, half-human being called La Ode Wuna. The myth presumably originated in southeast Sulawesi, but the same theme can be found in the myths of numerous communities in central Maluku. The transmission of the La Ode Wuna myth from southeast Sulawesi to Seram has been enabled by continuous mass migration between the two regions. However, it is also constantly …
Mocking while working with problematic representations: The irony of ethnographic sensibility in Indonesia
In this essay, I contemplate the value of ethnography by reflecting on my experience and that of other anthropology-trained individuals who engage with public socio-ecological issues in Indonesia. While these issues are portrayed as urgent and are packaged with established representations of people and communities, ethnographic engagement produces representations that are at odds with them. Nevertheless, anthropology-trained individuals in Indone…
Various visions of the industrialized future: Anxiety, aspiration, and Chinese nickel investment in Indonesia
Indigeneity as a sphere of differences: State enclosure and counter-enclosure of rural spaces in Indonesia
Indigenous people are often perceived as being tied to specific bounded territories and leading ecologically sustainable lives that are distinct from their modern counterparts. This imagery stems from the fact that indigeneity, as argued in this paper, emerges in response to state enclosure. Modern states violently exert full, flat, and even land control over certain territories. The common manner through which this control is countered is by inc…
Wounding charity and charity diplomacy: The dynamics of Mormon Christian charity in Indonesia
Interreligious aid is a contentious issue in Indonesia. Muslim recipients feel compromised when receiving Christian charity as such aid creates uncomfortable indebtedness. This tension is further complicated by a history of antagonistic relationships between Christians and Muslims. This article attempts to delve deeper into these complexities by focusing on the case of Mormon Christian charity. In practice, Mormon Christian charity creates a pecu…
Bonding, Bridging, and Bypassing: Understanding Ethnic Politics in Diverse Societies
For scholars, observers, and activists concerned with Indonesia’s post-authoritarian political landscape, Colm A. Fox’s book offers important insights into the country’s ethnic politics. In additio...
Cultivating extractive bodies: Labor frontiers and the social reproduction of nickel workers in North Maluku, Indonesia
Anxious Millenarians: Envisioning the end in post-conflict Maluku
This article explores contemporary millenarian expectations among the Muslim Buton in Maluku and their struggle to navigate a precarious post-conflict coexistence. As a marginalised ethnic group, excluded from land ownership and the adat structure, the Buton hold on to narratives about the revelation of their true history. These narratives, woven into their everyday conversations and practices, offer a promise of a better and more respected futur…
Asian Studies and History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Cultural and Religious Practices in Indonesia (3 works)