NEWSLETTER BANDUNG FE INSTITUTE August 17th 2007
Bandung Fe Institute
August 17th 2007
CONTENTS:
01. Complex Statistical Properties of Indonenesian Mass Conflict
02. Report: Indonesia's Strategic Position in Asia Pacific
03. The new issue of the Journal of Social Complexity is coming ahead
04. Book Available: Indonesian Introduction to Econophysics
Today, Indonesia is celebrating the 62th anniversary for freedom.
Freedom is something to be struggled about and sometimes it is
something that put a cost too high. In the understanding of the
complexity of the social system, we realize that the love of
Indonesia, a country, is a love for humanity. Since the latter is the
basic of all form where any concept of freedom laid upon. Happy
birthday, Indonesia!
01. Complex Statistical Properties of Indonenesian Mass Conflict
"We must learn from history in order to improve our goodness and not
to do the same mistakes". It is an old saying of Indonesian proverbs
that has invigorated research on complex properties of Indonesian
social conflict and mass violence. By the years after the fall of the
New Order regime in the period of social transformation to the
politically reformed era, Indonesia has witnessed many civil wars
among its people respect to various issues driven them (religious or
ethnic ones) and broad impacts to the national strength; apparently
with distinctive numbers of casualties and severances must be paid.
Nonetheless, practically speaking, the events of social conflict or
civil violence are never too easy to analyze since any social
movements at the occurrences of the conflicts were comprised by great
deal of mixed and twisted issues and relevancies. Social mobilizations
could be brought in to its highest escalation - turning out to be
bloody and disruptive massive violence - not by solely one issue. The
motives can be derived from a great deal of aspects, e.g.: social and
economic hardships, social clusters and gaps, the lack of widely
accepted sovereign government or political regime, and a lot more
roots of the social conflict.
One of the biggest and severe massive civil violence was occurred in
Ambon, Maluku (1999-2004) with casualties of thousands of people. At
this particular case, the social mobilizations were basically
recognized to be driven by the religious issue between those who were
Christians and Muslims. This was one of the longest and most
sophisticated civil conflict occurred in the country while in return
sacrificed most human souls as it appeared to be one of the broadest
social conflict and massive violence geographically.
A research conducted by Deni Khanafiah & Hokky Situngkir has reported
the complex statistical properties of the recorded data in the series
of social clashes and violence in the mass conflict. The scaling laws
are revealed and the power-law fitting procedures and analysis are
conducted. The results also reviewed some findings in wars among
countries in the worlds now well known as Richardson's Law. The paper
also discussed the plausible explanations in the sense of possible
underlying process of the famous self-organized criticality by
reviewing the classic forest fire model. Some further sociological
explorations in the sense of computational and agent-based model
approaches are also conjectured.
The technical report is written in English and available as BFI
Working Paper Series WPG2007.
Paper title: Bird's Eye View to Indonesian Mass Conflict: Revisiting
the Fact of Self-Organized Criticality
Language: English
Author(s): Deni Khanafiah, Hokky Situngkir
Publication: BFI Working Paper Series WPG2007
URL: http://www.bandungfe.net/?go=xpf&&crp=46501d0e
Interested reader might also want to review a previous related
research that has been published as an article in the Journal of
Social Complexity.
Paper title: On Massive Conflict: Macro-Micro Link
Language: English
Author(s): Hokky Situngkir
Publication: Journal of Social Complexity 1(4):3-13
URL: http://josc.bandungfe.net/josc1/v1n4a.pdf
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02. Report: Indonesia's Strategic Position in Asia Pacific
There has been progressive research accomplishments in the sense of
methodology approaching a lot of economic empirical data pioneered by
physicists collaborated with some economists since the 90s. However, a
glance view depicts some sort of tendency to apply those interesting
frame of work only in financial market. This has motivated us to give
a shot on applications and implementations in the challenging domain
of political economics. We employ two main methods of diffusion
cartogram and concepts of correlation in ultrametricity to view
economic strategic position in Asia Pacific region. Here, some
interesting features are obtained concerning geographical and
demographical patterns on foreign exchange market, stock market, as
well as macroeconomic features. Implementation of the two simple
methods is in such a way providing us interesting tools to discover
some new facts or scientific justification to some common sensical
economic figures in the field of political economics as a possible new
ground where econophysics may contribute.
The report paper is written in Indonesian by Rolan Mauludy Dahlan and
Hokky Situngkir, and can be accessed online as a publication in BFI
Working Paper Series.
Paper title: Menuju Perspektif Ekonofisika untuk Posisi Strategis
Ekonomi Indonesia di Kawasan Asia Pasifik
Language: Indonesian
Author(s): Rolan Mauludy and Hokky Situngkir
Publication: Journal of Social Complexity 1(4):3-13
URL: http://josc.bandungfe.net/josc1/v1n4a.pdf
There are some cartograms used in making this paper, and it is
available in website of Kartogram Indonesia. You might be interested
to check.
URL: http://compsoc.bandungfe.net/kartografi-indonesia/topik.html
03. Available now: Printable poster for Computational Sociology
BFI new scholar, Ardian Maulana is now in his intership in the
department and one of his first interesting work is on making the
poster resume about the use of Computational Sociology in Social
Analysis and Theoretical Explorations. You might want to download the
poster and print for yourself for free. The poster is in portable
document format (PDF) and quite big size for its high-resolution
contents (approx. 10Mbytes). Download for the Computational Sociology
poster, here:
URL: http://compsoc.bandungfe.net/compsoc.pdf
You are also invited to see some recent updates in the department.
URL: http://compsoc.bandungfe.net/
04. The new issue of the Journal of Social Complexity is coming ahead
The publication of the next issue of the regular Journal of Social
Complexity is on the road right now. Papers from authors are being
reviewed with management conducted by Deni Khanafiah as the Editor in
Chief right now. We will keep you informed with any recent updates
regarding to this reviewing process in the next issues of the
Newsletter.
05. Book Available: Indonesian Introduction to Econophysics
A book written by BFI scholars to introduce econophysics for
Indonesian readers has been published in the last year and it has been
circulated in national major book stores. However, we have heard some
difficulties to obtain the book. The book is now available by ordering
the book directly to BFI administrative office in Bandung or Surya
Research International office in Jakarta.
Interested readers may contact:
Yohanis Kwee
Surya Research International
Ruko Cyberpark
Jalan Boulevard Gajah Mada no. 2152
Lippo Karawaci
Tangerang 15811 - Banten
Indonesia
ph. +62 21 5512584
mobile. +62 818144552
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