nangis2 di kebun karena informan kena union busting, bingung mau cerita ama siapa karena sinyal ilang seharian, pas akhirnya dapat sinyal buka chat, eh temen ngajak main padel “biar trendy.” Hidup emang srimulat aja kadang2 😭

funny how @ramadante.bsky.social has only known me less than a year & met me only twice in person, but he already saw & listened to me cry big times & mourn twice. Ya Allah, makasih buat Temy.

Finally in the warmth of Toba women’s foods & Riau cuisine 😮‍💨

Agents and opponents of neoliberal globalization: military elites and the reorganization of global supply chains in a post-neoliberal era: academic.oup.com/ser/article-...

biking with my sundress through Blok M and a bunch of adorable kids (biking & parking) were in awe & said, “that sister looks so cute biking in dress, dammit Budi, don’t peak through her skirt!”

Happy birthday to my most favorite philosopher, Gillian Rose. Thanks for making me realize that I’m capable of falling in love with someone over a good & challenging writing. (excerpts from Love’s Work & “Beginnings of the Day” in Mourning Becomes the Law)

Kerjaan apa yang minta aing cuma baca Gillian Rose & novel2 obscure tapi gajinya masih bisa beli rumah di kaki gunung Himalaya dengan kebun bunga & bebek2?

Seems like “you can’t buy homeowner’s insurance on your house anymore because there are too many floods and fires” would be a kitchen-table issue

Prendjak tea, homemade kue lapis plum, & Gillian Rose’s “Love’s Work.” A remedy in a very physically challenging day. ”You may be weaker than the world, but you’re stronger than yourself.” ♥️

‘The goal isn’t to alter one’s consciousness or enter a separate “spirit realm”, but more like code-switching to a mode of reality in which it is possible to interact with the non-human persons who are present but invisible in normal life.’ Mike Jay on shamanism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

21 years ago, the government of Indonesia murdered Munir, Indonesia’s prominent human rights activist. He was a fierce critic of the Army’s rampant abuse in Aceh & East Timor. Baik-baik, orang baik. (Arsip foto: Willy Alfarius, sejarawan).

What is the power of ‘direct land politics’ today, from the Americas to SE Asia? Me in conversation with @antidogmatist.bsky.social with guest editor @kaibosworth.bsky.social in @thefunambulist.bsky.social, a vital source for all things politics and culture. thefunambulist.net/magazine/ten...

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" Well, have you consulted a historian who says ‘it’s a bit more complicated than that’ and gives you an overly detailed narrative of the last 800 years?

🙏🏼 Sangat bersyukur 🤍 Social scientists using my poetry to teach/talk abt their subjects is The Dream, especially the best kind of academics a la Pepe. Oof, so much to say abt ‘proyek’ as cornerstone of ‘development’ in Indonesia and elsewhere (inner gag reflex).

Discussing the word “proyek”/“diproyekin.” I love instead of academic wasweswos, I refer to a poem/poems by @mailbykite.bsky.social to talk about ”development” studies ♥️

I approach land as a web of social relationships that entangle peasant farmers, state officials, civil society groups, and plantation capitalists. The book addresses how and why ties to land are socialized in different orientations, particularly for capital versus the peasantry. 3/4

"The police killed Affan" Graffiti in Manado, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.

🌟 Dr Colum Graham has been awarded the 2024 John Legge Prize for his doctoral thesis about agrarian transitions in Indonesia 🌟 Please join us in congratulating Dr Graham, and Dr Minglei Wang who was recognised with the award of runner-up 👏 Read the press release: asaa.asn.au/news/thesis-...

Honoured to have won this award. Thanks to @edwardaspinall.bsky.social for supervising me, my committee members Ben Kerkvliet and Jim Fox for their continuous support over the years, and the ASAA award panel @asiancurrents.bsky.social

Three killed in Makassar, South Sulawesi, where the regional legislative assembly was set alight. Victims were staff who had been trapped inside, from what I've seen in local media www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Transjakarta & MRT halt their operation today. I literally just arrived at the bus stop.

Protests have expanded across the country, as they often do, and some of the footage is already very nerve-wracking. I'm keeping an eye especially on East Java, where #IndonesiaGelap protests were the hardest and the relationship w/ Police already destroyed after Kanjuruhan

Congratulations @clmgrhm.bsky.social for winning 2024 Legge prize for his PhD on agrarian transitions in Indonesia asaa.asn.au/news/thesis-...

Two-day protests @ Indonesia’s Legislative House over rampant corruption, increased property tax in several districts, the reps’ exuberant salary & denigrading remarks. 150+ injured. Few critical conditions. One bike taxi driver dead ran by anti-riot cop’s car, he was only 21.

A poem of mine is in INDIGENOUS WATERVIEWS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORY, SONG & PROTOCOL FOR WATER ETHICS (pub’ed by Siwar Mayu, A River of Hummingbirds & Indigenous Environmental Network). Tx editors for bringing us together. Avail as free, Open Access PDF as well indigenous-message.org/anthologies-...

Back to Bandung next week to talk about Ward Berenschot, Afrizal, Ahmad Dhiaulhaq, & Otto Hospes's book on rightlessness in Indonesia's oil palm plantations with the author. Online registration: tinyurl.com/poconflicts The project's dataset & details: www.kitlv.nl/palm-oil-con...

Pleased to share a new article, co-authored with @dalupton.bsky.social, just published in the journal Sociology: '"Most People with Long COVID Are Their Own Doctors": Self-Tracking and Online Patient Groups as Pathways to Challenging Epistemic Injustice'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2

The cargo company called & verified my address because my stuffs from Chicago have arrived. My logistics nightmare is about to come. Eight boxes, with roughly 200-300 books each.

Reminder about my very first ANNAH, INFINITE event, pls do sign up and let’s try to take down whatever colonial structures of disbelief we can. No disability justice without a free Palestine. And do support the wonderful work of @workshops4gaza.bsky.social, translator-run. Lead yr own wshop!

My face when Nik & Vera in panic woke me up from my nap because of earthquake and we were on 16th floor:

Went to Central Jakarta today. I forgot it’s independence day. Too many people were failed by bad infrastructure & so noisy because of air shows. But the train is only Rp 80 (US$ 0.005) until tomorrow 🤓 and ofc: some me time @ Ragusa (another bad decision, it’s behind the Army Command Center!)

One perk of having an accountant mom is that every phone call is an opportunity to appraise trendy assets.

Why would I anonymize my field sites and provide the location maps....

U Chicago "has undertaken extraordinary quantities of leveraged spending in ways that benefit select units, while others, who have achieved high international ranking with little aid, have instead suffered from a withdrawal of operational in order to finance those endeavors"

Grief did come like an avalanche on a rainy day while waiting for a bus in this fake city.

Talk by @quahsayjye.bsky.social next week for the ANU Southeast Asia Institute seminar series. It's online. This pic of Lee Kuan Yew and Samuel Huntington from 1970 is a nice teaser of Quah's argument and his wider project on global intellectual history. events.humanitix.com/the-singapor...

"In the relationship between the metropole and the protectorate, oil granted Brunei significant bargaining power. British oil interests deterred the metropole from withdrawing unilaterally from Brunei or forcing it to join Malaysia."

“Wedang jahe matcha” — have I not suffered enough from being a citizen of this country?

a thread on things that I read during my ridiculous 2-hour commute to work:

All-symposium mood. Glad it’s over. Off to writing its second chapter.

how going a bit too far in appeasing HR & admin teams by baking them a choco-cheese bolen cake feels like:

Honestly, this one I'm okay with

getting lost in a mall is scary but what a gem:

Talking Indonesia with Ara Simanjuntak: betting the farm. On oil palm smallholding, indebtedness (“complex debt network”), corporate subjugation, & gambling with the future of land in Indonesia. indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au?p=81943

- Home - office (via a very expensive highway): 25 mnts (roundtrip: $7 — A LOT) - Home - office via public transit, already optimized with me bike-commuting in between: 2 hours ($2). Peak of an evil planning & a car-centric city & the developer of my office’s city is of a plantation company? Jail.

@ Indonesia National Library, “200 Years of Java War” exhibition. Of course.

ANNAH, INFINITE comes out AUG 19. Terima Kasih Byk kl sdh pesan. Pre-orders mean a lot to authors, so I’m v thankful for all yr support. Enormously grateful for this blurb from Preti Taneja. (Blurbers are part of this book, readers are part of this book 🙏🏼) www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...

When your employer believes that your picture in Little Italy weighs more than your presentation title for an academic event. Online/offline event @ Monash Indonesia. Registration: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...

Haydon Cherry once said for every anxiety I have over sketchy (sociological/political) theories that try to explain social changes, there will be a Gillian Rose’s passage to guide. But why it’s always Hegel Contra Sociology.

Q from the audience @ this climate corruption panel: you interviewed a lot of the “villains” in oil palm plantations. Were you not in dilemma doing so? 😃: I had a dilemma of whether or not to punch them in their face.