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Introduces Indonesia, describing its history, geography, culture, everyday life, educational system, cuisine, language, and religion, as well as discussing traditional regional costumes, music, and dance.
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Characteristics of Radical Change Management in The Trangsan Sukoharjo Furniture Industry: Market Expansion, Production System, Human Resources Quality
To maintain its existence, change is definite in every organization. The furniture industry in Indonesia has experienced dynamic changes in terms of production rate, sales, and export volume to foreign markets. After being hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the rattan industry in Trangsan Village, Sukoharjo, Indonesia is now starting to rise. This study used a case study approach, which allows researchers to examine cases using the data collected from observations, interviews, and reports. Based on the results of observations and interviews conducted by researchers, the first step of change is expanding the market share from local to international with a focus on producing export-quality products. The second stage of change is changing the production system. The third step is creating products that are distinctive from other industries supported by the production quality control department to create quality and diverse products. The fourth stage is improving human resources and increasing employees' skills. The fifth stage of change is improving the production techniques since rattan products were manually created using hand plaiting techniques. The sixth stage of change made by industrial entrepreneurs is holding a cooperation forum which aims to increase industrial development and resolve various existing problems. In conclusion, the furniture industry in Trangsan needs to partner up with large-scale furniture companies both within and outside of Surakarta to support business expansion. To support international marketing, entrepreneurs need to use information technologies.
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DIY Style
Armed with cheap digital technologies and a fiercely independent spirit, millions of young people from around the world have taken cultural production into their own hands, crafting their own clothing lines, launching their own record labels, and forging a vast, collaborative network of impassioned amateurs more interested in making than consuming. DIY Style tells the story of this international do-it-yourself (DIY) movement through a major case study of one of its biggest, but least known contingents: the \"indie\" music and fashion scene of the predominantly Muslim Southeast Asian island nation of Indonesia. Through rich ethnographic detail, in-depth historical analysis, and cutting-edge social theory, the book chronicles the rise of DIY culture in Indonesia, and also explores the phenomenon in Europe and the United States, painting an evocative portrait of vibrant communities who are not only making and distributing popular culture on their own terms, but working to tear down the barriers between production and consumption, third and first world, global and local. What emerges from the book is a cautiously optimistic view of the future of global capitalism - a creative, collectivist alternative built from the ground up. This exciting and original study is essential reading for students and scholars of anthropology, fashion, media studies, cultural studies and sociology.
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Knowledge sharing and absorptive capacity in improving the innovation performance of MSMEs handicrafts in Indonesia
Knowledge sharing in MSMEs refers to sharing information, skills, or experiences between business owners, employees, customers, or other parties such as mentors, business communities, or educational institutions. This study aims to analyze the relationship between innovation performance and knowledge-sharing outcomes within handicraft MSMEs in Medan, Indonesia. It highlights the role of absorptive capacity as a crucial intermediary, emphasizing its importance in enhancing the connection between shared knowledge and improved innovation performance. A quantitative methodology is applied in alignment with the study’s objectives, as the research involves numerical and statistical data. Methods for collecting the data included interviews and questionnaires. The total population for this study comprises 165 managers/owners of handicraft MSMEs in Medan, Indonesia. The analysis is conducted using the SEM-PLS technique. The findings indicate that knowledge-donating and knowledge-collecting, as pillars of knowledge sharing, are key in bolstering absorptive capacity and advancing innovation performance. This relationship is statistically supported with a p-value of less than 0.05. Indirectly, knowledge-donating significantly affects innovation performance through absorptive capacity (p < 0.05), and knowledge-collecting significantly affects innovation performance through absorptive capacity in handicraft MSMEs in Medan, Indonesia (p < 0.05). Based on this study’s results, MSMEs in the craft sector can increase innovation by building a culture of knowledge sharing internally among employees and externally with business partners, communities, or clients. AcknowledgmentThe study was funded in 2024 under the Basic Research - Regular (PF-R) category by the Republic of Indonesia’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology. The administration of the Faculty of Economics and Business, as well as the staff of the Institute for Research and Community Service (LPPM) at Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara, were also thanked, along with the other levels of administration at the university.
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Female Empowerment and the Preservation of Local Handicraft Home-based Industries in Java
This study demonstrates the central role of women in preserving local cultural handicrafts as a home-based industry and the role of government bodies and stake holders in preserving these cultural handicrafts. The study focuses on five villages located in four regencies on the island of Java. Data collection was obtained through interviews and questionnaires. Over the course of one month data was collected from 258 craftswomen and managers as respondents. The results show the importance of the roles occupied by women within local handicraft industries. These women are often viewed as subordinate to their male counterparts, yet these women are expected to shoulder multiple burdens and roles, both work-related and domestic. The conclusions of this study indicate that both central and local Governments are not providing adequate support to meet the needs of these women.
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Opportunities of using Spirulina platensis as homemade natural dyes for textiles
Some previous studies on
show that this species contains pigments that can be used as natural dyes in textiles. However, research on the usage of spirulina natural pigment in certain types of conventional textile handicraft home industries in Indonesia has not been conducted. The purpose of this study is to utilize the potential of
as homemade natural dyes for the development of designs in textiles. Through an experimental methodology, various experiments starting from the extraction process and dyeing were conducted to find out the right way to produce home dyes using spirulina and techniques of surface textile design to apply them in textiles. This is useful as one of the solutions today, since an increasing number of consumers are consciously seeking sustainable products, with no exception to the types of textile products. Therefore, this will provide an opportunity for business collaboration ideas in agribusiness and craft textiles. Additionally, it can add to the nature of textile natural dyes derived from various plant species in Indonesia.
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Seriation Based on Agglomerative Clustering:An Example Using Ceramics Imported to Sulawesi, Indonesia
Similarity coefficients between artifact samples can be used for constructing larger groupings or for seriating the artifact samples. Indeed, these two approaches work well together, because the construction of groupings assists the seriation of the samples within and across groups. Sequentially grouping the samples into a single total sample, through hierarchical analysis of their coefficients, enables the use of these coefficients to seriate the artifact samples in the reverse order of their grouping. If the main point of interest is the composition of the groupings (for instance, as a summary of attribute similarities between artifact samples), seriation is still valuable in providing the hierarchical structure with an overall orientation that would otherwise be lacking. Alternatively, if the main point of interest is the seriated order (for instance, based on patterns of co-occurrences between the artifact samples), grouping analysis provides a structure to the seriation that would otherwise be lacking. Moreover, because we are dealing with samples, these can be subjected to stepwise agglomeration (rather than hierarchical clustering as commonly understood) during the grouping process, and then subjected to reverse-order sequential partitioning during the seriation process. The advantage of using agglomerated samples is that the coefficients between them can be calculated directly rather than derived indirectly from the constituent sample coefficients. How this approach can be applied to the seriation of artifact types is illustrated through a revisited analysis of high-fired ceramics imported to Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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Local Strategies for Economic Survival in Touristically Volatile Times: An Indonesian Case Study of Microvendors, Gendered Cultural Practices, and Resilience
This article utilizes a qualitative ethnographic approach to examine the economic survival strategies pursued by Indonesian souvenir artisans and handicraft microvendors in touristically turbulent times. Resilience-oriented approaches have offered promising frameworks for understanding
regions', destinations', and communities' capacities to adjust and adapt to challenges: this article complements these broader approaches by offering a fine-grained analysis of individual strategies for finding creative solutions to the economic challenges thrust upon them. My approach melds
a constructivist approach accentuating local peoples' creative responses with gender-aware and practice-oriented approaches. These findings draw from data collected over three decades of ethnographic research in the Toraja highlands of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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Protection, policies, prisoners and prosecutions linked to nautilus shells in traditional handicrafts
In the 1980s a novel handicraft was established in the city of Mataram on the island of Lombok, Indonesia, using nautilus shells inlays in wooden objects and furniture. The ‘traditional’ motives initially were simple but over time became very complex resulting in furniture sets containing 1000s of shell pieces requiring weeks to complete. This industry expanded and dozens of shops and wholesale traders produce, sell and export handicrafts and furniture. The industry developed without considering national legislation and international agreements; nautilus is a protected species and export requires CITES permits. Local governments promote nautilus shells inlay handicrafts and furniture as ‘traditional and uniquely Lombok’ to domestic and international buyers. The West Lombok penitentiary runs a rehabilitation project for prisoners, whereby inmates are taught the art of making nautilus shell inlay handicrafts and furniture. The penitentiary is now one of its larger producers. Surveys in 2022 to 2025 reveal widespread availability of these handicrafts and furniture; we estimate that annually ~10,000 chambered nautilus shells are needed to meet the demand. Shops, including ones at international airports, offer these handicrafts to international tourists, and traders showed evidence of (illegal) export of furniture to Europe and the USA. The sale of these types of handicrafts, including their export, continues with impunity, and there is no evidence of confiscations, arrests or prosecution for trading protected nautilus shells in this manner. Reflecting on our observations it is evident that national legal protection and international trade regulations are in direct conflict with local policies and sale promotions.
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Cultural Changes and Willingness to Change in Indigenous People of Penglipuran Bali Tourism Village During the Covid-19 Pandemic
As economic drivers (especially in rural communities), touristic villages have faced a very difficult situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sluggish tourism industry has greatly impacted the income of rural communities that depend on tourists who visit them. This study aims to understand and explore how the Penglipuran tourism village community survives amid the sluggish tourism industry due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The unit of analysis in this study was the Penglipuran Bali tourism village community, which is included in the Top 100 World Sustainable Destinations. This case study used a qualitative approach to both data collection and data analysis. Observations and semi-structured interviews were used to obtain information. The study results found that the indigenous people of the Penglipuran tourism village are willing to change and are adaptive to cultural changes to use technology without eliminating traditional norms to survive in sluggish tourism. The habit can be seen in the activities of indigenous people who return to farming and raising livestock as well as utilizing social media and e-commerce in marketing tourism villages' products, including local handicrafts.
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