NEWSLETTER BFI 2006 11 14
Bandung Fe Institute
November 11 2006
CONTENTS:
01. BFI now in the 4th year of research: Dies Natalis
02. Special Issue of Journal of Social Complexity
01. BFI now in the 4th year of research
It is inevitable that intellectuals are those the latest hope for the
betterment of society - especially in Indonesia whose a lot of
historical moments were signed by the roles and social activities of
intellectuals. It is not an exaggeration to say that in the
dictatorship era of Suharto, a lot of people were relying on student
movements for the democratic aspiration through intra-parliamentary
channels was plugged. Nonetheless, in the era of reform, a lot of
hardships are being still there and grievances are being still heard, a
big challenge must be faced by the intellectuals. While the
conventional theoretical rules of thumb are used to rebuild the nation,
some things do not work, and the moment has come to question the
theoretical references.
It is a fortune that we are now living in the world understands,
recognizes, and realizes about such things. The era we are living now
lay upon the moment that the cutting edge scientific endeavors are
running through the interdisciplinary works. The well-known phrases
like econophysics, sociophysics, evolutionary economics, computational
sociology, social dynamics, and so on are now decorating the
celebration of a lot of scientific state of the art. Those give a lot
different colors in the way social analysts think nowadays and as the
new kinds of science work on giving some corrections, verification, and
probably falsifications to their predecessors, we change our
perspective in our main goal to build a society a new: democratic,
just, and revived from social crises. This mission has brought the
Bandung Fe Institute to Indonesia and the world for the whole previous
four years in the umbrella of social complexity sciences.
Bandung Fe Institute was established on October 20th, 2002 by some of
Indonesian youths with great willingness to change the situation, to
give comprehensiveness in alternative solutions for the betterment of
the whole society. Recently, the anniversary was celebrated in BFI
home-base by the event of 4th Dies Natalis BFI, November 11th 2006. At
the event, some of friends were invited to join general lecture and
cognitive science workshop held in the institute. The lecture was
delivered by president of the institute, Hokky Situngkir, presenting
the paper entitled: "What can we do with the Research Institute for
Social Complexity Sciences in Indonesia?
Bandung Fe Institute Perspective". The paper shows some theoretical
background of building the social complexity research in Indonesia and
how it evolved within the past four years. There are also some outline
of the organizational structure of the ideal research institution as
adopted by BFI. You might want to read it at:
http://www.bandungfe.net/hs/dies_ph.pdf
The workshop from the Cognitive Science Dept. delivered some research
steps in computational linguistics by the chairman of the department,
Rendra Suroso. There were great enthusiasm vibed in the workshop and
brought interesting discussions at the workshop.
02. Special Issue of Journal of Social Complexity
The institute is now on post-preparation of the publication of the new
issue of the Journal of Social Complexity. This new issue is a special
edition since the papers included in this issue have been presented at
the Economic Science Association 2005 European Regional Meeting, held
in Alessandria, Italy (September 15-18th). Professor Marco Novarese
(Centre for Cognitive Economics, Università del Piemonte Orientale,
Italy) is the guest editor of the special edition. We will inform you
as the issue hit the readers.
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