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Info re second SISC seminar follows.
Leonie
Leonie Wittman
R/Senior Curriculum Adviser
Languages Unit
Curriculum K-12 Directorate
3a Smalls
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Ryde NSW 2112
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Fax: 9886 7160
Email: leonie.wittman@det.nsw.edu.au
From: Peter Worsley
[mailto:peter.worsley@arts.usyd.edu.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 16 February 2005
9:11 AM
To: Peter Worsley
Cc: Greg Fealy
Subject: Greg Fealy on Indonesian
Terrorism SISC Seminar 16th March
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to let you know that our second SISC seminar will be held at 5.30
pm on Wednesday 16th March when
Dr. Greg Fealy of the Australian
National University
will speak on the topic of Indonesian terrorism. I shall let you know the
venue when I send the reminder later this month.
Speaker: Dr Greg Fealy
Greg Fealy holds a joint appointment as research fellow and lecturer in
Indonesian politics at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, and
the Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian
National University,
Canberra.
His main research interests are Islam and post-independence Indonesian
politics. He is currently studying the rise of Islamic neo-revivalism in Indonesia as
well as the impact of globalisation upon religio-political behaviour. He
gained his PhD from Monash University in 1998 with a study of the history of Indonesia’s
largest Islamic party, recently published in Indonesian under the title Ijtihad
Politik Ulama: Sejarah NU, 1952-1967. He is the co-editor of Nahdlatul
Ulama, Traditionalism and Modernity in Indonesia
and Local Power and Politics in Indonesia:
Decentralisation and Democratisation. His most recent publication is
Joining the Caravan? The Middle East, Islamism and Indonesia (co-authored with Anthony
Bubalo). He was the C.V. Starr Visiting Professor in Indonesian Politics
at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC,
semester one, 2003. He has also worked as an Indonesia analyst at the Office of
National Assessments and a consultant to AusAID, The Asia Foundation, USAID,
and BP.
Topic: The Dynamics of Indonesian
Terrorism: Historical Legacies; Contemporary Agendas
Abstract:
Many terrorism specialists have written about Indonesian terrorist groups such
as Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) as if they are an entirely contemporary
phenomena. A closer examination of Indonesian history shows, however,
that violent jihadism has been present in various forms since independence in
1945. The Darul Islam (DI) movement of the 1950s and early 1960s, which
sought to establish an Islamic state through jihad, cost thousands of lives and
caused immense social and economic disruption. Moreover, DI has had a
major impact on the shape and activities of JI. It is a well-spring for
JI recruits, ideology and organisational methods and many JI leaders regard
former DI commanders as inspirational figures. The links between the two
movements are of continuing relevance. For example, some of those
involved in the Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta last September (including the suicide
bomber) were from DI circles, not JI, though they had been recruited by JI
figures. In this seminar, I will trace the legacy of Darul Islam within
Jemaah Islamiyah and consider the degree to which contemporary Indonesian
terrorism is indigenous rather than ‘imported.
SISC.
Time and Date: 5.30 pm Wednesday
16th March.
Venue: To be announced.
Should
anyone have any inquiries my mobile phone number is 0405 363547.
We look forward to seeing you all there.
Peter Worsley
For
The SISC Organising Committee
