Fri 17 Apr 2009 - 10:52

Evaluasi persiapan kegiatan

Semua narasumber sudah fix dan sampai saat ini belum ada diantara mereka (khususnya yg dari mainland) yang membatalkan kedatangannya.

Informasi kedatangan Pak Duta Besar RI hingga sekarang belum pasti dan kemungkinan juga pembicara dari pacific command akan batal.
Sebagai alternatif, maka Pak Terry akan berbicara sebagai keynote speaker.

Mohon kepada Pak Sulaiman agar mengfollow-up info kedatangan pak Dubes paling lambat hingga minggu depan.
Sehingga kita ada waktu untuk meminta kesediaan Pak Terry utk menjadi kenote speaker.

Tempat pelaksanaan conference di Koi Room, Jefferson Hall sudah direserved dengan mendapatkan harga khusus dari EWC dan dibayar dengan dana dari ASUH dan SAPFB.

Tempat registrasi peserta akan dilakukan di samping Koi room dan berdampingan dengan cultural exhibition(akan dilakukan fundraiser dgn menjual baju2 batik atau souvenir).

Sosialisasi kegiatan sejak dua minggu lalu sudah diedarkan/dipasang pamflet di seluruh gedung di kampus manoa. Pemasangan pamflet akan dilakukan lagi seminggu sebelum acara karena beberapa pamflet yg sudah dipasang sudah tercabut.

Press release akan disebarkan ke media2 lokal (honolulu).
Mbak erda akan menginformasikan alamat2 email yg pernah digunakan pada ICCE 2008 lalu ke Erenst.
Untuk erenst, mohon mengemail Pak Terry press release agar bisa membantu sosialisasi event ini lewat mailist EWC.

Kami juga sangat berharap agar kawan2 bisa menginformasikan acara ini ke classmatenya di departemen.

Event juga akan dipublikasikan di Ka Leo pada hari rabu (April 22) dengan biaya $92 sebesar 1/4 halaman.
Serta di Facebook (fokus di jaringan Honolulu) dgn biaya $20 pada hari rabu (April 22) dan kamis (April 23)

Kondisi pendanaan
Tambahan dana terakhir dari Kedutaan Besar Ri sebanyak $1000.
Jadi total dana saat ini : $ 5000
Tidak semua bantuan dana yg didapatkan dalam bentuk cash.

Namun hingga kini baik dari dana Konjen maupun Kedutaan belum ada yg ditransfer.

Dana yang saat ini digunakan panitia hanya bersumber dari Oceanit/Pak Sullivan ($500) dan Kak Yati ($200).

Dana ASUH dan SAPFB dalam bentuk reimburse.

EWC Education Program akan menanggung dana tiket dan hotel Michael Buehler (Columbia Univ) dan coffe service (coffe dan kue2nya) yang akan kita hidangkan selama conference.

EWCPA membantu dalam penggunaan Hale Halawai dan penggunaan fasilitas sound systemnya pada pelaksanaan cultural event nanti.

Panitia (indonesian club) masih akan berupaya melakukan fundraising di jhon f kennedy theatre dan juga akan menjual souvenir pada saat cultural booth selama conference.

Pembagian Tugas pada saat hari H

Kami sangat berharap bantuan dan partisipasi kawan2 yang mempunyai waktu lowong (nggak ada kuliah atau kegiatan penting lainnya) pada hari H.

Sharima (Malaysia) akan membantu panitia untuk meminta bantuan volunteer dari kawan2 EWCPA community.

Koordinator setiap kegiatan adalah :

1. Seminar/conference : Sulaiman (2.00 - 6.30 pm)
Lokasi : Koi Room
Membutuhkan volunteer untuk :
- petugas registrasi (2 orang)
- MC
- Fotografer (liza/rezki)
- Movie recorder (lance/mayco)

2. Cultural booth : Zulhan
Lokasi : Waelana room (1.30- 5.30 pm) & Hale Halawai (6.45-9.00 pm)
Membutuhkan volunteer untuk :
- penjaga stand atau penjual souvenir
- pengatur dan mengangkat barang2 exhibition dari Waelana room ke Hale Halawai.

3. Cultural performance : Erenst ( 6.30 - 9.00 pm)
Lokasi : Hale Halawai
Membutuhkan volunteer untuk :
- mengset-up Hale Halawai
- mengatur komsumsi (rahma, ninik)
- MC (erda)

- Persiapan pentas budaya

Acara ini akan dilaksanakan di Hale Halawai dengan setting makanan (dinner) dihidangkan di halaman belakang Hale Halawai, posisi stage di dalam Hale halawai menghadap ke barat.
Semua sofa dan meja dalam hale halawai akan dikeluarkan ke teras.
Pintu akan dibuka selebar2nya agar memungkinkan para penonton yang diluar bisa menyaksikan performance.

Performance yang akan tampil (selain fashion show di atas):
- Gender music
- Ratuh Duek (Indonesian Club at BYUH)
- Angklung
- Fashion show baju adat (mahasiswa kelas bahasa indonesia)
- Poco-poco
- Dangdut

Salah satu performance nanti adalah fashion show budaya daerah oleh mahasiswa kelas bahasa Indonesia (muridnya Pak Uli) sebanyak 9 orang (mohon dikoreksi Liza kalo keliru) .

Karena mereka tidak mempunyai baju adat jadi diharapkan pinjaman baju adat dari kawan2 untuk mereka kenakan nanti.

Saat ini baju yang tersedia atau kawan yang bersedia meminjamkan:

- Rahma
- Ninik
- Didik
- Anshori
- Latifah
- Erda
- Yani
- Baju Amir (penyanyi) tari saman/ratuh duek dari Ari (yani)

Bagi kawan2 yang ingin membantu meminjamkan baju adatnya (batik atau semacamnya) silahkan menghubungi Liza: lizaningtyas@yahoo.co .

Para peserta dan panitia cultural event sebaiknya melaksanakan gladi bersih sebelum acara dimulai.

Rapat evaluasi panitia akan dilaksanakan lagi pada hari Minggu, April 19. Jam dan tempat pertemuan akan diinformasikan kemudian.

Kami menghaturkan banyak terima kasih bagi kawans yang telah menyempatkan waktunya datang di pertemuan tadi.
Saran dan support kawans sangat berarti buat kita semua dan kesuksesan acara ini nanti.

Saran, tanggapan, partisipasi dan solusi kawan2 tentu saja kami harapkan.

Tabik,

Andi Ahmad Yani

Tue 21 Apr 2009 - 19:50

Dear all,

Pada hari minggu/ April 19, 2009, 12.30 - 1.30 pm di Lounge 914 Hale Manoa, Panpel, SC n kawans/volunteers kembali bertemu untuk mengevaluasi progress persiapan ICCE 09 serta merencanakan agenda penting lainnya menjelang (H-4) ICCE 09.

Hasil pertemuan tersebut :

1. Perkembangan persiapan ICCE


Tim KJRI yang akan datang adalah Ibu Magdalena F.W.Tompodung (Head of Chancery) dan Pak Edot.
Kabar terakhir tadi pagi (komunikasi P Sule n P Devdi) hingga saat ini belum ada kepastian siapa yg akan datang menghadiri ICCE 2009. Besar kemungkinan tidak ada yg dr KBRI yg akan datang.
Baik KJRI maupun KBRI berjanji untuk mentransfer dananya 1-2 hari ke depan.
Keynote speaker ICCE adalah Charles B. Salmon,Jr (Foreign Policy Advisor Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies/APCSS)
Dari 2 pembicara tamu (di luar UHM) hanya Bu Merlyn (Arizona State Univ) yang berhalangan hadir karena sesuatu dan lain hal.
Michael Buehler (Columbia Univ) akan datang dan hotel, pesawat, dan taxi vouchers ditanggung Education Program East West Center.
Publikasi di Ka Leo 1/4 page pada hari Rabu( April 22, 2009)
Publikasi di website UH bisa diakses di :
http://www.hawaii.edu/calendar/uh/2009/04/24/9723.html
http://www.hawaii.edu/calendar/manoa/2009/04/24/9723.html

Pamflet sudah kembali kami pasang hampir diseluruh Building UHM kemarin sore.

Abstrak para narasumber (kecuali keynote speaker) dapat diakses di :
http://permias-hawaii.blogspot.com/

2. Agenda H-4


Pemasangan pamflet (sudah dipasang kemarin sore)
Pembuatan booklet (didesain oleh Zulhan)
Name tags peserta/panitia (diprint oleh Yani)
Parking vouchers utk undangan (KBRI/KJRI/ APCSS) (sudah disiapkan Erenst)
Lei untuk tamu dan narasumber (jika budget cukup)

3. Agenda hari H dan penanggungjawab/volunteers

- Conference dikordinatori oleh Sulaeman (1.30-6.30 pm)
MC oleh Kasey
Tim registrasi : (latifah, erenst, liza,)

- Cultural booth/fundraising dikordinatori oleh Zulhan
Akan memulai set up pada pukul 10.00
Ambil patung garuda di burns hall (kordinasi dgn teh neneng)
Tambahan jualan fundraising dari Mbak Nani (akan dibawa pd hari H)

- Cultural performance dikordinatori oleh Erenst (6.45 - 9.00 pm)
MC oleh Erenst.
Volunteer Komsumsi (Ninik, erda, helen, rahma)
Kartinian fashion show dikordinasi dgn Liza (Makasih buat Mbak Nani, Mbak Ninik, Mbak Latifah dan kawans lain yg bersedia meminjam kan kostumnya).
Sound system akan dipinjam dr EWCPA dan akan dihandle oleh Mayco (butuh volunteers utk angkat dr Burns Hall.
Disiapkan lampu yang lebih terang untuk halaman belakang (tempat meja perjamuan dinner).
Disiapkan sejarah singkat Bu R.A. Kartini (Helen)

Fotografer : Liza dan Mas Rezki

Video recording : Lance/ Mayco ?


Angkut alat music gender : Lance

Angkut komsumsi dr Bu Roesman : Mas Trisno dan Teh Neneng

Kami sangat berharap kawans (yg belum ada namanya di atas) dapat mengemail saya (cc ke kordinator) untuk mengkonfirmasi pada saat kapan bisa membantu untuk jd volunteer.

Jangan lupa menggunakan baju batik bagi yang volunteer pada saat conference.

Untuk lebih lengkap dan detilnya bisa dilihat pada rincian kegiatan ICCE 2009 yg terlampir (Created by Erenst).

Mari kita bersama berdoa semoga kegiatan ICCE 2009 ini dapat terlaksana dgn sukses.
Partisipasi kawans semua sangat kami harapkan.

Terima kasih banyak bagi kawans yg telah menyempatkan waktunya datang dan makan siang bersama pada pertemuan kemarin.


Tabik,
Yani

P.S. Shalat Jumat akan dilaksanakan di ruang conference dgn imam sekaligus khatib Al-Mukarram H.Sulaiman Mappiasse, LC, M.Sc.

On April 24th, the 2009 Indonesian Conference and Cultural Event (ICCE 2009) will be held at the Hawaii Imin International Conference Center at the East-West Center, 1777 East-West Road, Manoa from 2 PM - 9 PM. Please open event agenda at http://picasaweb.google.com/permiashawaii.com/AgendaICCE09?feat=directlink

The topic for this year is 'A Decade of Reform 1998-2009’; looking at changes after Soeharto's regime ended in 1998. The Spirit of Reformation promising democracy, equity, and justice among Indonesian people has been the underlying force guiding these changes. However, after a decade of reformation, Indonesia’s democracy has been questioned in relation to its ability to ensure that every individual has rights and access to maximize his or her opportunities. Democratic forms of authority and politics have not showed their correspondence to the culture of democracy at the grass-root level. ‘Power’ has not been distributed equally to every citizen as democracy promises. ICCE 2009 is expected to be one way for Indonesian students and experts on Indonesia to exercise their academic intellect for the good of Indonesia while promoting Indonesia to the outside world without promoting a particular political or religious message.

There will be two seminar sessions at the conference covering contemporary politics and arts and culture in Indonesia, with speakers including professors and graduate students from UH Manoa, Arizona State University, and Columbia University. Furthermore, cultural celebrations will include cultural exhibits, traditional dance and music from Aceh to Bali, Kartinian ethnic fashion show, Dangdut music (Indonesian popular music), and Indonesian food.

ICCE 2009 is organized by the Indonesian Student Association in the US (PERMIAS) Hawaii Chapter, Nusantara Society, and Nongkrong Yuk! Indonesian Club (both at UH Manoa); and co-sponsored by the Embassy and Consulate General of Indonesia in the US and East West Center Education Program.

Further details and press kit are available at the PERMIAS website: http://www.permiashawaii.org/search/label/Agenda

Contact: Erenst Anip at erenst@gmail.com or +1 808 722 6184

1. Menunggu kepastian waktu dari KBRI tentang kunjungan Dubes RI ke Hawaii.
2. Menyampaikan alternatif waktu pelaksanaan ICCE 2009 (4,11, or 25 April 2009). 25 April adalah alternatif terburuk.
3. Perlu ada bagian pameran dalam kepanitiaan ICCE 2009.

Kawans,

Sebelumnya terima kasih banyak kepada kawans yang menyempatkan waktunya datang ke meeting tadi.

Hasil pertemuan perdana Panpel ICCE 09 :
1. Waktu pelaksanaan ICCE 2009 akan diundur ke April 24, 2009/ Friday.
Tempat kegiatan akan dipindahkan ke Korean Centre Auditorium.
Rencana jadwal tentatif :
2.00-2.15 pm Open Ceremony
2.15-4.15 pm Conference Session I
4.15-4.30 pm Break
4.30-6.30 pm Conference Session II
6.30-7.30 pm Dinner
7.30-9.00 pm cultural events
Perubahan jadwal ini berdasarkan :

* jadwal awal (April 11) itu bertepatan dgn long weekend jd besar kemungkinan banyak pemateri akan memanfaatkan waktunya untuk liburan.
* menghemat dana komsumsi (breakfast) dan biaya gedung di IMIN
* persiapan acara diharapkan akan semakin mantap

2. Mengundang ke kawan2 mahasiswa Indonesia untuk menjadi presenter pada conference ini.
Kami mengharapkan kawan2 dapat menyetor abstrack paling lambat March 14. Paper kami harapkan dapat
kami terima paling lambat pada April 11.
Tema paper sesuai dgn tema pokok : A Decade of Reform.
Serta 2 sub tema :
- Local Politics in Indonesia: Aspirations and Prospects
- Arts and Culture in Contemporary Indonesia
Kami akan membuat email khusus untuk ini.

Terima kasih ke Mas Teguh atas kesediaannya menjadi presenter pada sesi I.

3. Saat ini kami masih berkomunikasi dgn pihak Kedutaan mengenai jadwal kedatangan Pak Dubes ke Hawai'i agar dapat disesuaikan dgn jadwal event ini. Jika pun memang jadwal beliau tidak connect dgn jadwal yg kita tawarkan, maka kita akan tetap menyelenggarakan event ini sesuai jadwal yg disepakati (April 24)

4. Kami sangat mengharapkan partisipasi dan dukungan kawan2 untuk kesuksesan event ini nanti.

Tabik,
Yani

"The Medium and the Message: Art, Politics and Identity in Contemporary Indonesia: During the twentieth century the acceptance of “modern” art helped expand the space in which Indonesian artists could express their views visually and act as effective social and political commentators. From the 1950s heated debates arose concerning the degree to which art should operate as an agent for political views, and during the Suharto years the government moved quickly to eliminate any left-wing tendencies among artists. In the atmosphere of greater freedom that has characterized the last decade, the development of popular art forms like installations and graffiti have given rise to new questions about what constitutes “art”, and about the role of artists as critics of contemporary society. In contrasting the Orde Baru time with the post-Reformasi era, this presentation will illustrate some of the ways in which Indonesian artists have relayed their views about contemporary concerns to a range of different audiences."

Full information about ICCE 2009

Political Islam One Decade after the fall of Soeharto

The fall of Soeharto in May 1998 fundamentally changed both the political structure and the political culture within Indonesia. This change is a result of the decline of authoritarian rule, which was followed by the people of Indonesia’s increased enthusiasm for democracy. In addition to this, the debate on political Islam within Indonesia has also been regenerated and revived. This is not only a classical subject but also a fundamental issue in modern Indonesian discourse.

Undoubtedly, Islamic groups were one of the key players and co-founders of modern Indonesia. During the revolution and pre-independence era Islamic clerics and ulamas strongly contributed to the formation of an independent Indonesia. The Islamic Trading Union (SDI), for instance, was one of the first modern organizations in the colonial era, which embodied a sense of Indonesian nationalism.

One of the fundamental factors contributing to Indonesian nationalism has been the spread of Islamic teachings throughout the country and the use of bazaar Malay by many middle class Indonesians. Both the distribution of Islamic teachings and the use of bazaar Malay have been occurring for hundreds of years throughout the archipelago.

I will define political Islam as any activity carried out by any individual or Muslim group, using whatever means possible with the purpose of influencing and stimulating the political process. Therefore, the individuals and Muslim groups aim to determine the practice of democracy. I also define two types of political Islam, the first is the electoral political Islam and the second is the non-electoral political Islam.

In this presentation I focus more on the electoral political Islam, thus describe and explain the position of Muslim political groups within Indonesian politics for the decade following the fall of Soeharto. There is a strong tendency that all Indonesian major political parties, including the more secular parties, perceive Islam aspiration as one of their political agendas. The latest development of political Islam concerning to the result of the 2009 Election will also be illustrated and explained. There is also a strong suggestion that the more secular political parties have defeated electoral political Islam camp.

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Teguh Santosa is currently a contributing journalist for Rakyat Merdeka Daily. Previously Teguh was an executive editor for this newspaper and Editor in Chief for its counterpart Rakyat Merdeka Online. Teguh has visited several countries to cover the tensions between the East and the West and is currently working on his master’s degree in Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.


Full information about the Indonesian Conference & Cultural Event (ICCE) 2009, visit http://www.permiashawaii.com

This presentation aims to examine how the strategy of political mobilization is applied by the two largest Islamic women’s organizations in Indonesia, Fatayat and Nasyitaul Aisiyah. It attempts to compare women’s perspectives of politics in relation to the practices of political mobilization that work within these two women’s organizations as well as to the influences exerted by their patron organizations of Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah, and how they affect their political agendas. The discussion on the two Indonesian Islamic women’s organizations, Fatayat and NA, in terms of political mobilization is interesting and certainly raises some difficult questions: First, what is their respective perceptive on the role of women in the area of politics?; Second, what are the strategies they use to encourage their members to be active in politics (i.e. to be good voters, parliamentary candidates); Third, do they have different strategies for the political mobilization of women?; Forth, how do their patron organizations (i.e. Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah) exert influence on their political activities?

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Nihayatul Wafiroh, born in the city of Banyuwangi, the eastern city in island Java, Indonesia, earned her B.A. in religious studies from IAIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta. In 2005 she was elected as the recipient of Ford Foundation-International Fellowship Program, by which she then had an opportunity since 2006 to pursue Master’s degree in Asian Studies with a focus on women’s issues, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Committed to women’s empowerment, she devoted significant effort in strengthening the position and rights of women living in rural community. Pesantren Darussalam, an Islamic Boarding School, is among her important starting point where she began cultivating her interest in and giving particular attention to women’s issues through teaching, training, and mentoring. And then, to voice her commitment and make it public, she writes essays and articles on women’s issues and its relation to various contexts of religion, culture, and politics in books, mass media and journals and also presents papers in both national and international conferences.

Full information about the Indonesian Conference & Cultural Event (ICCE) 2009, visit http://www.permiashawaii.org

Indonesian Cinema Ten Years After Reformasi
The 1997 currency crisis and the fall of Suharto in 1998 crippled the Indonesian film industry: annual movie production in the Republic dropped to almost zero in the late 1990s. The once ubiquitous family melodramas which reified the patrimonial dictatorship vanished, and the exploitation movies which featured screen siren Suzzanna and ur-hero Barry Prima were no longer mass-produced for popular audiences. But a decade later, a new generation of filmmakers are making almost 50 movies a year – despite the stark problems of piracy, screen quotas, and neocolonial international film distribution. Their films are finding audiences – and acclaim – at festivals in America and Europe. The story of this new era in Indonesian cinema will be analyzed through personal interviews with the new generation of filmmakers, including Garin Nughuro (autuer director of film festival favorite OPERA JAWA), Riri Riza and Mira Lesmana (the nation’s most commercially-successfully filmmaking duo, and creators of ADA APA DENGAN CINTA), and filmmakers at the margins like Edwin and Prima Rusti (who are documenting Indonesian Chinese stories for the first time). Particular attention will be given to the case of Nia Dinata and the production of PEREMPUAN PUNYA CERITA in 2007. Dinata's struggle in distributing the film commercially and her fight with censors afford a window into the politics of post-New Order Indonesia, where patrimonialism persists and art production remains politicized. Finally, the 2007/2008 challenge to Indonesia’s film censorship laws championed by the Masyarakat Film Indonesia will be used as a litmus test for examining the strength of Indonesian civil society and democratic reform.

Speaker Biography
Christian Razukas is a former film programmer for the Hawaii International Film Festival and worked on eleven film festivals. He worked as a film and video archivist in San Francisco, served two tours in the foreign service personnel in Washington, D.C. for the Peace Corps and rescued three men and a dog while at sea on a U.S. Navy destroyer in the North Atlantic. Razukas is currently an MA student at the University of Hawaii in Asian Studies with an emphasis in Southeast Asia, and a graduate assistant for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. He earned a BA in History from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and was born and raised in New York City. Razukas works as roving correspondent for Cinepod and has been quoted or referenced in Filmmaker Magazine, the Phillipine Star, the Philippine Inquirer, the Honolulu Weekly, Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. His research interests focus on mass media, film and civil society throughout Southeast Asia.

Full information about the Indonesian Conference & Cultural Event (ICCE) 2009, visit http://www.permiashawaii.org/search/label/Agenda

Representations of the Chinese Minority in Indonesian Advertising

Having experienced overt discrimination virtually since Dutch occupation up to the fall of President Suharto, the ethnic Chinese minority are slowly regaining their rights in a more democratic Indonesia. Although negative sentiments against the Chinese minority still exist, bans restricting public display of Chinese culture have been lifted and the Chinese New Year has been acknowledged as an official national holiday. These regulation changes enforced in the post-Reformasi era have enabled commercial entities to utilize elements of Chinese culture as a means for optimizing the demand of their goods and services. This presentation will illustrate how advertising appropriates ethnic Chinese elements in a context where prejudice still permeates in society.


Angeline Nariswari is a first year International Management PhD student at the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is also a teaching staff at the Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Universitas Indonesia. Her current research interests relate to advertising, consumer culture, and international branding of Southeast Asian firms.

She completed her master degree in Advertising from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with support from a Fulbright scholarship and holds an undergraduate degree from the Faculty of Economics, Universitas Indonesia. Prior to committing to the world of of scholarly work, Ms. Nariswari has worked in the magazine and market research industry for several years in Jakarta.

Full information about ICCE 2009

Why do some Islam-based movements succeed politically while others fail?
Comparing local politics in the state of Kelantan in Malaysia with local politics in South Sulawesi province in Indonesia, this article argues that Islam plays less of a role in gaining access to the political system politics for Islamic groups in Kelantan than it does for similar groups in South Sulawesi. Paradoxically, it is the relative unimportance of religion as a mobilizing factor that allowed Islamic groups to win elections in the state of Kelantan in Malaysia. In contrast, Islamic groups continue to be marginalized politically in South Sulawesi province due to the fact that Islam has remained the single most important ideology for Islamists in the region in their attempts to mobilize the population.

Buehler's Biography

Full information about ICCE 2009

[b]Location  Cost  Description[/b]
 
Behind Kennedy Theatre  $2 per half hour  6:30am - 4:00pm*
 
Along Varney Circle
$2 per half hour  6:30am - 4:00pm*
Spaces fronting Hawaiʻi Hall
limited to 30 minutes 

Bio Med Parking lot
$2 per half hour  6:30am - 4:00pm* 

Center for Korean Studies
Parking Lot  $2 per half hour  6:30am - 4:00pm* 

Kuykendall Parking Lot
$2 per half hour  6:30am - 4:00pm* 

*Flat rate of $3 from 4:00pm; Monday - Friday and all day Weekends
Refunds provided during 15 minute grace period from entry. 

More details, see at http://www.hawaii.edu/parking/information/visitorparking.html

Please visit PERMIAS HAWAII Website for details.

Ehito Kimura is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He studied at Georgetown University (BSFS), Yale University (MA), and University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD). He was a Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University. Dr. Kimura is interested in the nexus of Southeast Asian politics and comparative political change. His focus is on Indonesia's recent transition to democracy and the factors influencing changes in domestic territorial boundaries. He is also interested in issues of ethnicity and identity, political economy, and regionalism. His Ph.D dissertation explores factors leading to the formation of the new Gorontalo province in Indonesia's North Sulawesi region. Full CV ...