Dissertation Research: Translocal Indentity In Indonesia

该项目涉及斯坦福大学一名人类学学生的论文研究，研究印度尼西亚被界定为具有少数社会地位的个人和组织。 印度尼西亚正试图发展一种民族的、资本主义的、中产阶级的身份，而与此同时，要研究的个人受到一场关注民权和疾病问题的全球运动的影响。 西方的行为模式强调个人的选择和责任，而传统的印度尼西亚模式强调来自家庭或宗教社区的群体价值观。 该项目将评估性取向属于少数群体的个人如何根据印度尼西亚正在兴起的争取合法化和接受的全国运动，将其当地经验与全球概念和问题结合起来。 学生将在三个城市学习，使用民族志技术和密集的采访以及观察。 这些地点将是一个具有强大的国家和全球联系的大型中央穆斯林工业城市，一个旅游和移民中心的印度教城市，以及一个远离中心的省级城市。 通过在每个地方的当地艾滋病毒/艾滋病中心担任艾滋病毒教育工作者的志愿者工作，学生将学习少数性活动家团体的历史，结构和活动以及他们对疾病的理解。 将在每个地点举办活动家和非活动家重点小组活动，以探讨当地对身份、民间社会和疾病的概念。 在全球媒体力量和国际援助活动的背景下，印度尼西亚少数民族性行为运动正在兴起，同时新的民族文化和中产阶级身份正在发展。 这个项目将展示马来西亚人如何使用这些政治和经济类别以及更传统的文化类别，如性别，亲属关系和家庭，来解释他们自己的身份和社区的概念。 这项研究将促进我们的边缘群体如何与来自他们的传统社会和国际来源的主导文化类别的理解。

This project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from Stanford University studying individuals and organizations in Indonesia who are defined as having minority social status. Indonesia is attempting to develop a national, capitalist, middle-class identity, while at the same time the individuals to be studied are influenced by a global movement concerned with issues of civil rights and disease. The western model of behavior stresses individual choice and responsibility, while the traditional Indonesian model stresses group values derived from families or religious communities. The project will assess how individuals of minority sexual orientation combine their local experiences with global concepts and issues in light of Indonesia's emerging national movement for legitimization and acceptance. The student will study in three cities, using ethnographic techniques and intensive interviews as well as observations. The sites will be a large, central Muslim industrial city with strong national and global connections, a Hindu city in a tourism and migration center, and a provincial city distant from the centers. Through volunteer work as a HIV educator in local HIV/AIDS centers in each place the student will study the history, structure and activities of minority sexual activist groups as well as their understanding of the disease. Focus groups of activist as well as non-activist persons will be conducted in each site to probe local conceptions of identity, civil society and disease. The Indonesian minority sexual behavior movement is emerging at the same time that a new national culture and middle-class identity are developing, in the context of global media forces and international aid activities. This project will show how Indonesians use these political and economic categories together with more traditionally cultural categories like gender, kinship and the family, to interpret their own identities and the notion of community. This study will advance our understanding of how marginal groups relate to dominant cultural categories emanating from both their traditional society and from international sources.