Workshop Program
South East Asian Frontiers (SEAF) Workshop Series #1:
Highlands
Virtual and on-site at Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta
18th - 20th August, 2022
Day 1, Thursday, 18th August 2022
08.15 – 08.30 Opening ceremony
08.30 – 10.00 Keynote 1: Tania Murray Li (online)
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 12.30 Panel 1 Representation of Highlands and Highlanders
Discussant : Muzayin Nazaruddin (Universitas Islam Indonesia –
University of Tartu)
Chair : Holy Rafika Dhona (Universitas Islam Indonesia)
Presentations :
Name Institution Paper Title
Mark Dizon Department of Negative Spanish Colonial Representations of
History, Ateneo de the Philippine Highlands’ Climate
mdizon@ateneo.edu Manila University
Geger Riyanto Heidelberg University Being Migrants and Ancient Siblings of the
First People: Representations of Uplanders
geger255@gmail.com and Existential Security Among the Butonese
of North Seram
Puji Hastuti Center for Population, Agabagisme as Frontier Ethnic Political
BRIN Movemet in Hulu Sembakung, North Borneo
pujisht@gmail.com
Kustri Sumiyardana, Indonesian National Mountains in Old Javanese Letters as
Yohanes Adhi Satiyoko Research and Inspiration and Contemplation of the Poets in
Innovation Agency Creating Literary Works
kustrisumiyardana@gmail. (BRIN)
com
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
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13.30 – 15.00 Panel 2 Political Economic Change in Highlands
Discussant : Micah Fisher (Hawaii University at Manoa)
Chair : Sindhunata Hargyono (Northwestern University)
Presentations :
Name Institution Paper Title
Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, École française Cradles of Creativity: The Deep Past of
Michael P. Leadbetter d'Extrême-Orient Southeast Asia’s Highlands
jarrah.sastrawan@efeo.net The University of Oxford
Yifan Zhang School of Philosophy, The Cases of the Chin-Mizos and the
Renmin University of Nagas on the Myanmar-Indian Border:
zyf_2006_2006@hotmail.com China Integration, Imagination, and
Identification
Salmina Wati Ginting Department of Jambur: The Change and Continuity of
Architecture, Universitas the Architecture of Karo
salmina.wati@usu.ac.id Sumatera Utara
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 – 17.00 Panel 3 Political Economic Change in Highlands II
Discussant : Sari Damar Ratri (Northwestern University)
Chair : M. Fathi Rayyani (BRIN)
Presentations :
Name Institution Paper Title
Wasisto Raharjo Jati Research Centre for “Narimo ing pandhum”: How Highlander
Politics, BRIN Women Perceive Poverty as a Destiny
wasisto.raharjo.jati@brin.go.id in Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta
Hayu Dyah Patria Mantasa Diet Transformation of the Tenggerese
Indigenous People in the Enclave of
hayu.dyah@gmail.com Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park,
Indonesia
Muhammad Al Center for Arboreal Living as a Sustain Wisdom
Mujabuddawat Environmental Tradition in Rural Area on Seram Island,
Archaeology, Maritime Maluku
muha275@brin.go.id Archaeology, and
Cultural Sustainability,
BRIN
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Day 2, Friday, 19th August 2022
08.15 – 09.45 Panel 4 Scientific Practices in Highlands
Discussant : Anthony Medrano (Environmental Studies Program,
Yale-NUS College)
Chair : Luthfi Adam (Monash University Indonesia)
Presentations :
Name Institution Paper Title
Gani Jaelani Department of History and Climbing the Vulnerability: Highland
Philology, as the Healthy but Scary Place
gani.jaelani@unpad.ac.id Universitas Padjadjaran
Geoffrey Bill University of Delaware Troubled Translations: Ethnobotany
and Highland Natures in Twentieth
gbil@udel.edu Century Sumatra
Ruel V. Pagunsan Department of History, Summiting Mindanao: Colonial
University of the Philippines Naturalizing and the Production of
rvpagunsan@up.edu.ph Diliman Philippine Ecological Archives
09.45 – 10.00 Coffee break
10.00 – 11.30 Panel 5 Highlands and Religious Change
Discussant : Imam Ardhianto (Universitas Indonesia)
Chair : Sari Damar Ratri (Northwestern University)
Presentations :
Name Institution Paper Title
Budi Agustono, Hisarma Department of History, Religious Conversion and Cultural
Saragih University of Sumatera Utara Tensions in the Simalungun
agustono_budi@yahoo.com Highlands
Department of History
Education, University of
Simalungun Indonesia
Yayuk Windarti Department of Gift for Ancestors, for Kin: Knitting
Anthropology, Universitas Kinship and Modernization of
yayuk.windarti@ui.ac.id Indonesia Religion in Tengger Society
Rusyanti, Nurul Laili, Badan Riset dan Inovasi The Highland of Liwa 1000 Years
Desril Rhiva Shanti Nasional (BRIN) Ago: Religious Perspectives and Its
Changing
rusyanti08@gmail.com
11.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Keynote 2: Michael Eilenberg (online)
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15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 – 17.30 Panel 6 Conservation and Environmentalism in Highlands
Discussant : Faizah Zakaria (Nanyang Technological University)
Chair : M. Fathi Rayyani (BRIN)
Presentations :
Name Institution Paper Title
Didid Haryadi, Pratama Department of Sociology, Women and the Highlands:
Yudha Pradheksa Brawijaya University Community Knowledge, Meaning of
Resistance to Environmental Justice
haryadidid@gmail.com Department of Science and in Lakardowo Village
Technology Studies,
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
Joe J. Figel, Renaldi Fulbright Scholar Tiger Conservation in the Gayo
Safriansyah, Said Fauzan Highlands of Aceh Province,
Baabud Leuser International Sumatra, Indonesia
Foundation
joe.figel@fulbrightmail.org
Jop Koopman Department of Social and The Implementation of Awiq-Awiq
Cultural Anthropology, Vrije for the Protection of a Forest in
j.n.koopman@vu.nl Universiteit Amsterdam Kakong, Lombok
Paul Thung Brunel University London The Management of Visibility on a
Resource Frontier in West
paul.thung@brunel.ac.uk Kalimantan, Indonesia
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Day 3, Saturday, 20th August 2022
08.30 – 10.00 Panel 7 Highlands and Development
Discussant : Mona Chettri (independent scholar)
Chair : Sindhunata Hargyono (Northwestern University)
Presentations :
Name Institution Paper Title
Morida Siagian Department of Onan and the City of Balige
Architecture,
morida@usu.ac.id Universitas Sumatera
Utara
Lidya Lestari Sitohang, Department of Krayan Highland: Space of Boundary
Lothar Smith, Geography, State Re(production) through Infrastructure
Martin van der Velde University of Surabaya Developments
lid.sitohang@gmail.com Department of
Geography, Planning and
Environment, Radboud
Universiteit
Karyamantha Surbakti Research Center for Cultural Tourism Development at Huaulu
Environmental Highlands Community in Seram Island,
manthatorong@gmail.com Archaeology, Maritime Maluku, Indonesia
Archaeology, and
Cultural Sustainability,
BRIN
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 12.00 Panel 8 Natural Hazards and Social Resilience in Highlands
Discussant : Fadjar Ibnu Thufail (BRIN)
Chair : Holy Rafika Dhona (Universitas Islam Indonesia)
Presentations :
Name Institution Paper Title
Rubangi Al Hasan, Abdul Research Center for Collective Food and Sambi: Disaster
Rohman, Mawardi Culture and Humanity, Preparedness on Food Security of a
BRIN Local Community on the Slope of Mt.
ruba001@brin.go.id Rinjani, Indonesia
rubhasan@yahoo.com Plan International
Indonesia Foundation
Tuget Karya Youth Club,
North Lombok
Anang Hermawan Department of The Nexus of Traditional Beliefs and
Communication, Religion in Eruption Resilience: The
ananghermawan@uii.ac.id Universitas Islam Phenomenon of Mt. Merapi Slope
Indonesia Communities, Indonesia
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Maiza Elvira, Fauzi Eka Islamic State Institute of Bukittinggi, the Survival of the City of
Putra Bukittinggi Tourism in the Midst of Local Wisdom
and Natural Disasters
maizaelvira@gmail.com
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Keynote 3: Timo Maran (online)
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 – 17.30 Panel 9 Governing Southeast Asia Highlands
Discussant : Andreas Weber (University of Twente)
Chair : Luthfi Adam (Monash University Indonesia)
Presentations :
Name Institution Paper Title
Aditya Kiran Kakati The International Inviting and Evading States: A ‘Vacuum’
Institute for Asian Studies in Highland Zomia After Global War
aditya.kakati@graduateinstit (IIAS), Leiden University (1945) in the Indo-Burmese Border-
ute.ch worlds
Pattarat Phantprasit Independent researcher A Promising Future Awaits: How
Highlanders Became ‘Thais’ during the
pattaratphant@gmail.com Cold War Period in Thailand
Karen Heikkilä, Anthony Global Development Forest Reserves as Frontiers of
Williams-Hunt Studies, University of Indigeneity: Semai Orang Asli
Helsinki Investments of Work, Cultural Use and
karen.heikkila@helsinki.fi Identity in the Bukit Tapah Forest
Kenraak Orang Asli Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia
NGO, Malaysia
Macario Lacbawan Department of Cultural “Uki ni inam!” (Your Mother’s Vagina!):
Anthropology, Uppsala Shame as Power in the Governing of
macario.lacbawan@antro.uu. University Indigenous Land in Highland Philippines
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