DINA'S CANON

Speaker: INDO ICC 2015, Depok-INDONESIA

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:39:00 +0000

Presenting a joint research at:
The 3rd Indonesia International Conference on Communication "Communication and Collaboration"
FISIP University of Indonesia, Depok Campus
10-11 December 2015

Paper title:

"ASEAN-Related Information Exchange by Indonesian Twitter Users"

Indah Pratidina and Jonathan Lewis

Hitotsubashi University

Speaker: The 13th Asia Pacific Conference 2015, Oita-JAPAN

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:30:00 +0000

Presenting a joint research at:
The 13th Asia Pacific Conference "Societal Transformation in Asia Pacific: Charting the Waves of Change"
7-8 November 2015
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Beppu, Oita, JAPAN

Paper Title:

"How the Japanese Public Regards Japan-ASEAN relations: Evidence from Social Media"

Indah Pratidina & Jonathan Lewis

Hitotsubashi University

Participant: Program on Negotiation 2015, Harvard Law, Boston-US

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:22:00 +0000

Participating on:
Program on Negotiation and Leadership
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Boston-U.S.

27 September - 3 October 2015
*first time USA, so excited and had wonderful time

Participant: Japan Foundation's Summer Institute 2015, Kyoto-JAPAN

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:09:00 +0000

Participant

Japan Foundation's Summer Institute

25-31 July 2015

Doushisha University, Kyoto-JAPAN

Summer Institute 2015

The Hitotsubashi University Team

Speaker: JSA-ASEAN 2014, Bangkok-THAILAND

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:47:00 +0000

Presenting a joint research at:
The 4th International Conference JSA-ASEAN 2014
"State and Non-state Actors in Japan-ASEAN Relations and Beyond"
Institute of East Asian Studies, Thammasat University
Bangkok-Thailand, 15-17 December 2014

Paper title:

"Tweeting About Japan-ASEAN Relations: An Analysis of Online Communication in Japanese by State and Non-State Actors"

Indah S. Pratidina and Jonathan R. Lewis
Institute for the Study of Global Issues, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Japan.

Speaker: ICONAS 2014, Yogyakarta-INDONESIA

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:36:00 +0000

Presenting a joint research at:
International Conference on ASEAN Studies (ICONAS) 2014, "Inner and Outer Look on Southeast Asia in 2015: Championing ASEAN Community"

Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta - INDONESIA
October 1st, 2014

Paper title:

Is Awareness of the ASEAN Community Spreading Beyond the Elite? — An Analysis of ASEAN-Related Indonesian Tweets

Jonathan Lewis and Indah S. Pratidina

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

Happy Note on Gramedia's 40th Anniversary

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:27:00 +0000

One of those very proud days when your name was mentioned among other dedicated editors and translators of PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama!

On The 40th Anniversary of Gramedia Pustaka Utama: Terima kasih dan terus jaya, Gramedia!

Speaker: International Symposium OISAA 2014, Tokyo-JAPAN

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:21:00 +0000

Presenting a joint research at:
International Symposium OISAA Tokyo
Tokyo Institute of Technology
20 September 2014

The event was a collaboration between The Indonesian Students Association and ASEAN Youth Network in Japan (AYNJ).

Paper title:
"Is Awareness of the ASEAN Community Spreading Beyond the Elite? -- An Analysis of ASEAN-Related Indonesian Tweets"

Indah S. Pratidina & Jonathan Lewis
Hitotsubashi University

Speaker: Jissen Women University 2014

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:11:00 +0000

Guest speaker in
"Indonesia"
Class: 異文化コミュニケーション (Intercultural Communication)
Professor Atsuko Asami’ｓ seminar
実践女子大学　（Jissen Joshi Daigaku）
June 2nd, 2014
*It was my second time to speak in Asami-sensei's seminar

Speaker: ASAHK 2014, HONG KONG

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:54:00 +0000

“The Ninth Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong”

The School of Modern Language and Cultures, University of Hong Kong

HONG KONG, 14-15 March 2014

Title of the paper: Representing ASEAN Identity: A Case Study of the 40th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation Projects of the Japan Foundation

Speaker: ICONSEA 2013: Southeast Asia Rising

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:42:00 +0000

“The 5th International Conference of Southeast Asia (ICONSEA 2013): Southeast Asia Rising”

The Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya.　

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, 11-13 December 2013

Title of the paper: Defining ASEAN Identity: A Case Study of the 40th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation Projects of the Japan Foundation

Translation: Senyum

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:32:00 +0000

Smile
SENYUM

Raina Telgemeier
June 2011
224 pages

A graphic novel
Published by: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama
English - Bahasa Indonesia

Translation: Nenek Hebat dari Saga

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:43:00 +0000

Saga no Gabai Baachan
Nenek Hebat dari Saga

Yoshichi Shimada
April 2011
264 pages
Published by: Kansha Books a division of Mahda Books
Japanese - Bahasa Indonesia

*Translating this book, was as much fun as reading it, more perhaps :)
** So proud, as this book is my first ever novel translation totally done from Japanese to Bahasa Indonesia

Editing: Shin Suikoden 1

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:19:00 +0000

Shin Suikoden 1
Eiji Yoshikawa

Translated by: Jonjon Johana
Edit with Kansha Books team
488 pages
Published by: Kansha Books a division of Mahda Books
Japanese - Bahasa Indonesia

Editing: Perempuan Menjunjung Separuh Langit

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:56:00 +0000

Perempuan Menjunjung Separuh Langit
Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

English title: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Volume: 501 pages
Published: December 2010
by Gramedia Pustaka Utama
English to Bahasa Indonesia

Moderator: Discussion & Launching of The Tombs of Atuan

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:50:00 +0000

Ngobrolin Earthsea, Harry Potter & Klasik Fantasi Diskusi & Launching Buku The Earthsea Cycle Buku Kedua: The Tombs of Atuan

Gramedia Matraman 2nd Floor
Saturday, December 11 2010

Moderator:
Indah Pratidina (Translator & Editor)

Speakers:
Poppy Damayanti (Translator, Editor & Fantasy Book Writer)
Mhd Haikal (MKF Publisher)
Ismanto Hadi Saputro (Komunitas Indonesia Harry Potter)

Speaker: Inter Asia Cultural Typhoon 2009

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:17:00 +0000

"Inter Asia Cultural Typhoon" Conference
Cultural Studies in Asia: Past, Present and Future
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)
3-5 July 2009

Paper:
Japan Image Shifting Through Translation in Asia: The Toyota Foundation "Know Your Neighbor Translation-Publication" Program

** basically same paper which I presented in NUS, with more recent progress in the research

**picture: with the panelists from University of Indonesia

Translation: Botchan

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:02:00 +0000

Published: February 2009
PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Writer: Natsume Soseki
Cover: Martin Dima
Indonesian Title: Botchan
Book; 224 pages; English/Japanese-Bahasa Indonesia

Speaker: Translation in Asia "Theories, Practices, Histories"

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Sun, 10 May 2009 07:45:00 +0000

5 - 6 March 2009

Organized by Asia Research Institute and the Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore at the ARI Seminar Room, Tower Block, Level 10, Bukit Timah Road

Title of Paper

Japan Image-Shifting through Translation in Southeast Asia: The Toyota Foundation “Know Your Neighbor Translation-Publication” Program

Institutional Affiliation

Institute for the Study of Global Issues
Graduate School of Social Sciences
Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

Abstract

In this global information age the concept of power has broadened to encompass soft as well as hard power. Soft power is expressed through sharing rather than hoarding information (Nye 2004). Clearly, language plays a key role in the sharing of information between countries with different languages.

Japan has long used translation to pursue its goals, for example westernization and modernization during the Meiji era (1868-1912). Today, people throughout Asia, and much of the rest of the world, celebrate Japanese cultural products as expressions of a popular culture with an identity distinct from those of the United States or other Western countries. But since World War II, Japan has also faced hatred from countries that were victims of the war. One part of the effort to change Japan’s image in the eyes of countries formerly occupied by Japan has been the use of philanthropy by private Japanese organizations.

This paper will focus on one such case of private philanthropy in the cause of Japanese soft power, the efforts by the Toyota Foundation to support translation. This paper first establishes the historical background to Japanese efforts at image-shifting in Southeast Asia. The paper then discusses the history of translation in Japan and how Japan uses translation as a tool of foreign policy. The paper then describes the Toyota Foundation and its “Know Your Neighbor Translation-Publication” Program together with the experience of one participating publisher Mekong, before drawing some conclusions.

Biography

Graduated from Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Indonesia in 2002, majoring in Mass Communication. Worked as a Fiction Book Editor for General Publisher Gramedia Pustaka Utama, Jakarta-Indonesia (2002-2007). An English and Japanese translator since 1999. Currently a first year master degree student in Institute for the Study of Global Issues, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.

Translation: The Guy Next Door

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:49:00 +0000

Published: Juni 2003
PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Writer: Meg Cabot
Cover: Maryna Roesdy
Indonesian Title: Pria Impian di Sebelah Rumah
Book; 560 pages; English-Bahasa Indonesia

MC: The 17th Indonesian Scientific Meeting in Japan

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:31:00 +0000

Master of Ceremony for

The 17th Indonesian Scientific Meeting in Japan &
Indonesia-Japan Friendship Forum

Language: English
Venue: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
August 25-26, 2008

Article: Momok Bernama Harry Potter

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:38:00 +0000

Momok Bernama Harry Potter?

Category Article : Hot Issues»Light

Perspektif - Januari 2008

Karya sastra kerap dipakai sebagai alat untuk mere?eksikan kehidupan sosial masyarakat. Dalam novel Harry Potter (HP) karya J.K. Rowling, hal itu tergambar dengan jelas.

PERTENTANGAN KELAS

“Harry Potter bercerita soal kelas sosial dan perebutan kekuasaan,” kata Drs. Yoseph Yapi Taum, M.Hum, dosen pada Fakultas Sastra Universitas Sanata Dharma Yogyakarta. Menurut kandidat doktor dalam bidang sastra itu, J.K. Rowling berhasil meramu pertentangan kelas menjadi sebuah bacaan yang memikat dan memanjakan imajinasi anak-anak.

Deskripsi stratifikasi sosial ini, menurut Indah, tidak saja dijumpai pada sifat baik yang selalu ditempelkan pada kelas menengah/bawah, tetapi juga pada deskripsi fisik. Wajah Malfoy yang dingin dan pucat karena jarang berkeringat dan terkena sinar matahari sungguh berbeda dengan keluarga Weasley, orangtua Ron, yang kulitnya berbintik-bintik dan berambut merah akibat sering tersengat matahari. Kesimpulan Indah, Rowling sedang menawarkan kepada pembaca novelnya untuk bersama-sama memerangi dominasi kelas atas. “Rowling menempatkan diri sebagai anggota kelas menengah/bawah. Dia juga menempatkan pembaca pada posisi yang sama, lalu mengajak ´memerangi´ dominasi kelas atas dan mewujudkan a classless society,” bilang Indah.

“Bagi saya karya ini sangat memanjakan imajinasi anak untuk memasuki sebuah dunia alternatif. Mereka diajak untuk keluar dari berbagai keterbatasannya sebagai manusia, yaitu keterbatasan ruang, tempat, dan waktu. Anak-anak diajak melihat dunia dengan cara lain,” tutur Yapi. Hingga buku keenam, garis besar cerita HP masih dilandasi oleh sisi buruk pengkotak-kotakan dalam masyarakat. Pertama kali ditampakkan di sekolah Hogwarts saat murid baru diharuskan mengenakan topi seleksi untuk menentukan di asrama manakah mereka tinggal. Penentuan asrama ini pun berdasarkan sifat dan keunggulan mereka. Gryffindor tempat para pahlawan yang berhati berani, jujur, dan ulet. Hufflepuff tempat tinggal orang yang adil, sabar, dan loyal. Penghuni Ravenclaw adalah orang-orang yang cerdas dan mau belajar. Sedangkan asrama Slytherin dikhususkan bagi mereka yang licik dan rela menggunakan segala cara untuk mendapatkan kepuasan pribadi. Draco Malfoy yang selalu tampil klimis itu tinggal di Slytherin.

Asosiasi yang terbentuk atas sifat masing-masing penghuni asrama sangatlah jelas. PenghuniGryffindor terkesan terhormat sedangkan Slytherin terkorelasi negatif. Sejak awal memasuki sekolah Hogwarts, Harry tidak menyukai penghuni Slytherin. Demikian juga sebaliknya, murid-murid Slytherin selalu berseteru dengan Gryffindor karena merasa mendapat saingan tangguh.Di kalangan masyarakat penyihir sendiri ada sebutan-sebutan khusus di antara mereka. Pure-blood adalah keturunan penyihir murni. Half-blood merupakan keturunan campuran antara penyihir murni dan manusia biasa. Mudblood sebutan bagi manusia biasa yang mempunyai bakat sihir. Squib adalah keturunan penyihir yang tidak memiliki kemampuan sihir.

MENAWARKAN IDEOLOGI

Indah S.Pratidina pernah menulis skripsi tentang Analisis Wacana pada Sastra Anak: Ideologi J.K. Rowling dalam Dunia Sihir Harry Potter (2001). Pertentangan kelas menurut dia memang menjadi bumbu menarik atau bahkan menjadi isu utama bagi penulis-penulis fiksi dalam menyajikan karya fiksinya. Biasanya kisah fiksi menyajikan kaum menengah/bawah sebagai pahlawan yang meraih kemenangan, sementara kelas atas, para aristokrat adalah penjahat yang selalu sial.

Stratifikasi sosial ini sangat terasa dalam penggambaran Harry yang yatim-piatu, miskin, dan menitip hidup pada keluarga Dursley. Lawannya adalah Draco Malfoy dari keluarga terkenal dan kaya-raya, punya puri dan macam-macam materi lain. Harry dalam novel HP adalah representasi kelas bawah yang mesti berpeluh untuk tetap bertahan hidup, sementara Draco Malfoy adalah representasi kaum aristokrat yang punya banyak hak istimewa karena keturunan bangsawan dan kaya. Teman-teman Harry di Gryffindor setali tiga duit. Coba lihat Ron yang selalu mewarisi jubah, buku, dan tongkat abang-abangnya. Kontras sekali dengan Malfoy yang tinggal bilang ke babenya jika ingin berganti sapu terbang model terbaru.

DIJAWAB OLEH WAKTU

Bagi Prof.Dr. Bakdi Sumanto, secara kualitas novel HP tak jauh berbeda dengan novel-novel teenlit karya anak bangsa yang banyak digemari remaja seperti Dealova atau Me VS High Heels. Bedanya, kata Bakdi, HP didukung oleh sistem kapitalis yang luar biasa besar sehingga mampu merambah ke berbagai pelosok dunia. “Sistem kapitalis turut serta membesarkan HP. Kita di Indonesia tidak punya sistem itu. Sementara kalau karya kita mau masuk ke penerbit luar negeri harus melalui agen,” jelas Bakdi. Karya sastra adalah alat seniman untuk menstimulasi orang berpikir. Maka bagi Bakdi karya sastra tidak untuk dikotak-kotakkan. “Setiap karya ada kelebihan dan kekurangannya, tetapi itu tetap sebagai hasil olahan kehidupan manusia,” ujar guru besar Fakultas Sastra UGM itu.

Apakah HP dapat dikategorikan sebagai karya sastra bermutu (high literature)? Menurut Bakdi HP belum sampai ke sana. Sebagai karya komersial (commercial literature) HP memang tak terelakkan. “Waktu yang akan mengujinya. Apakah 10-20 tahun ke depan masyarakat masih suka membaca HP? Kalau masih berarti karya itu menjadi klasik dan termasuk dalam high literature,” jelas pengagum karya-karya Charles Dickens itu. Apa kriteria sebuah karya layak disebut karya sastra? “Setelah membacanya orang menjadi lebih baik. Tetapi kalau sebaliknya, membuat dia ingin membunuh, itu bukan karya sastra,” jelas Prof. Dr. Riris Kusumawati Toha Sarumpaet kepada Rumintar dari Bahana. Karya sastra bermutu menurut Riris dapat membawa pembacanya masuk ke dalam persoalan. Dengan masuk ke dalam persoalan seseorang jadi lebih matang, lebih dewasa dan lebih toleran.

Biasanya karya bermutu, kata Riris, lebih bertahan lama. Orang mau baca lagi. Makin dibaca makin ada yang baru yang bisa dipetik dari sana. Kita menjadi lebih suka pada karya tersebut. “Sehingga saya tidak berani mengatakan ini bermutu bagus dan yang lain tidak. Bermutu atau tidak, itu dirasakan. Itu sebabnya, yang bermutu harus dijawab oleh waktu,” ungkap Riris. Menurut Riris, jangan karena sebuah karya sedang begitu cantiknya, begitu digemari, langsung dinilai bermutu. Kemungkinan besar itu hanya sensasi.

JANGAN DIANGGAP MOMOK

Riris menganjurkan supaya HP dinikmati sebagai bacaan fiksi saja. HP jangan dianggap sebagai momok. Yapi Taum sepakat. Kalau ingin menanamkan budaya membaca bagi anak-anak, menurut dia, biarkan mereka meluangkan lebih banyak waktunya untuk merasakan kenikmatan dan keasyikan membaca. Bagi Yapi, HP adalah bacaan yang bermutu, juga bagi anak-anak kristiani. Memang, ketika pertama kali muncul dan membius pembaca seantero dunia. Gereja ikutan gusar karena dinilai tidak mendidik anak-anak. Sosok dan gaya sihir Harry Potter dinilai tidak sesuai dengan iman Kristen. “Tapi, apakah iman kita goyah hanya karena karya fiksi macam itu?” ujar Yapi. Bagi Yapi iman tidak sekadar percaya. Iman terkait dengan pengalaman akan Tuhan. Iman yang berakar pada pengalaman personal akan Tuhan tidak mudah digoyahkan oleh hal-hal yang sebenarnya tidak perlu dianggap sebagai ancaman. (Alex Japalatu, Rum, dbs)

Source: BAHANA Magazine
http://www.bahana-magazine.com/?p=productsMore&iProduct=351&sName=Momok-Bernama-Harry-Potter-

Thesis: J.K. Rowling's Ideals in the Magical World of Harry Potter

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:06:00 +0000

UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA

FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Communication Science Department

“Discourse Analysis on Children’s Literature:

J. K. Rowling’s Ideals in the Magical World of Harry Potter”

A Bachelor Degree Graduation Thesis by Indah S. Pratidina

Vii + 227 pages; 34 books, 31 articles; 2 theses

Language: Bahasa Indonesia

Bibliography: 1975-2001

Completed: December 2001

Graded: A

ABSTRACT

This research was conducted using critical discourse analysis, and therefore consequently the analysis units—Indonesian editions of Harry Potter books number 1 and 2, each with the title Harry Potter dan Batu Bertuah (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) and Harry Potter dan Kamar Rahasia (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret) published by PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama—had been viewed as a discourse with specific characteristics. A discourse at this point was viewed as an action that could not be separated from its social and historical context, also the elements of power and ideals within.

The background for this research was built from the positive attitude towards reading books. Books were always considered to have lots of utilities to their readers, this is why numbers of suggestions were endlessly given to every one every where to make use of this most permanent form of mass media. These recommendations were particularly offered to children. The writer of Parents Who Love Reading, Kids Who Don’t, Mary Leonhardt, stated ten advantages in reading books, a few of which: enable the readers to practice their high sense of language, broaden its reader knowledge, offering various perspectives on life, etc.

The vision of making books as children’s best friend felt so close to realization when the Harry Potter series were published. The book that told a story about 11 years old orphan who happened to be a wizard instantly grabbed the world’s attention short after its publication. TIME.com wrote in an article dated December 17^th, 2000, that Harry Potter series had sold as many as 76 million copies and translated into 42 languages. But beyond that we should not forget that a book, a children book nonetheless, was a medium to its writer, a non neutral discourse.

Using Sara Mills’ discourse analysis method, this research would attempt to answer the question “What were the latent notions (ideals, values) that were being implemented by J. K. Rowling, considering her role as a member of British society, in Harry Potter series?” Therefore the objects of this research were to discover and disclose the hidden ideals within the text by correlating the text with its context.

The perspective used in the frame of thinking were the critical paradigm, along with the French Discourse Analysis approach which was very much influenced by Foucault’s theory of discourse and Althusser’s theory of ideology. A discourse in this approach was perceived endorsing ideology’s effect, defining the position of one’s ideology. Integral also to this approach, this research attended Sara Mills’ theories about author-reader position and how one was positioned by the text’s subject.

In the theoretical framework, this research applied the theory of mass media mediation by Dennis McQuail, which stated that one of media’s function is to connect its public with reality because media can be a mirror that reflects society’s image to itself—even with biases. The ideas of mediation role were then narrowed to the media content analysis theory. According to McQuail, media content was often viewed as proof of several matters, such as the society or culture where it had been produced, the media producers and their goals, the targeted audiences, etc.

Other than the reasons already mentioned above, Charles Wright stated that mass media content, more often than not, contained invaluable sociological aspects that were usually taken for granted. Seeing the analysis units were books, some of the literature’s theories had also been noticed, although not thoroughly, to strengthen the arguments. Wright’s notion was parallel to the genetic structuralism perspective of literature, which implied that a work of literature was considered to be born within the society as the result of imagination and reflection of the social symptoms at its surroundings. On account of seeing literature’s presence as a part of society’s life and acknowledging it to be rooted to its cultures/values, literature could easily viewed as a social-culture document. To build context in order to understand the text, the data gathering method used in this research was Reading Culture Material and Record.

Ideology was well known to be often found in the history of children’s literature itself. One of the three books recognized as the foundation of children’s literature, The History of Stanford Merton, already portrayed the issue of class conflict in it. Then, Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll were legendary for using fantasy fiction’s representation to challenge family authority using animals, cards, chess pawns, to take the role of adults.

The relation between children’s literature and ideology had always been close and this idea had repeatedly mentioned by Peter Hunt (1990), Kimberley Reynolds (1994) and other researchers in their notions. While critical discourse analysis often used to disclose the dominant’s or capitalist’s power within a text (usually a news article), this research used it differently. Analysis would show that power was everywhere and being used by all, even individuals and smaller subjects, linear to Foucault’s concept.

Using Sara Mills’ discourse analysis, analysis focused on text’s subject-object positioning and author-reader position. On the first part of analysis, this research tried to define how the social actors in the story were being positioned, who was positioned as the interpreter in the text—through his eyes would all the events in the story were interpreted, and the effects of this positioning. And the second part of analysis focused on the author’s and the reader’s position in the text.

From the analysis, it was found that Rowling chose her hero Harry Potter’s viewpoint as the story’s point of view. By doing so, Harry Potter had automatically become the interpreter for every matter and every characters in the story. Consequently the reader almost certainly would tend to be sided with the main character and in result, hating the hero’s enemies (the antagonists). It was interesting to find that there were a lot of social class representations in this story. Many of the characteristics of social classes amazingly corresponded with some of the traits owned by the characters in Harry Potter series. Harry Potter and his friends had the similar features with those known as the middle and lower class members, while their opponents strongly resemblance members of a higher class.

The conclusion reached in this research was that media could not be separated from the society from which it was born. Media as a discourse could not be comprehend and analyzed without considering its social historical context. From the analysis, it was found that Rowling: believed in the social class system; acknowledged that the society was divided into three groups (upper class, middle class and lower class); endorsing that conflict does exist between this social classes; and dreaming of a classless society.

Speaker: MCIA Conference, Nov 2007

noreply@blogger.com (ispdina) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:06:00 +0000

Bi wa Kizu and the Image of Cultural Globalization in Contemporary Japan: A Case Study of an Indonesian Novel Translation

Japan’s role in globalizing Asia has been widely recognized. Ever since the 1990's, Japan has been exporting waves of it's cultural products such as anime or animated films, television dramas, music, manga or comics, novels, and so on. These spreads of cultural products across the borders of Asia have sprung new hope for Japan's relationship with other Asian countries. Through the consumption of Japan's cultural products, it can promote cultural dialogue, and hopefully Japan can overcome its unfortunate history with the rest of Asia, especially regarding to the World War II.

However, globalization not only demands an integration of cultural diversity in the global community. It also reflects peoples' (nations') needs to develop a strong self or cultural identity (ies). In this light, one can see that Japan is not only an exporter of media. Rather, Japan has also been receiving various media from other Asian countries; such as Korea with its television dramas.

Though Indonesia it does not share the same amount of attention as Korea does in the Japanese market, Japan has also been receiving media from the former country as well. This study will look at one of these contributions, the novel Bi wa Kizu (Beauty is a Curse). In 2004, Cantik Itu Luka (Beauty is a Curse) was published in Indonesia by one of the leading publishing bodies of a large Indonesian media group, KOMPAS Gramedia Group.

The novel revolves around the life story of a half-Dutch half-Indonesian woman, Dewi Ayu, from the end of Dutch’s colonial rule to the Japan’s invasion (1942-1945), up until the era of communist revolution in Indonesia (1960s). One of the turning points of her story was the time she was forced to become a comfort woman for the Japan Imperial Army. As a piece of historical fiction, this work has been received widely in Indonesia.

What is surprising is that despite the contents of this novel, in 2006, the Japanese company Shinpusha purchased the publishing rights and a translation of this work was published entitled Bi wa Kizu. For foreign countries to succeed in penetrating a target market, every cultural product must overcome the language barrier; in the case of this study, the language barrier between Indonesian and Japanese. This is where translation plays a major role.

In this study, I found it interesting how a Japanese publisher decided to publish a novel about the life of a comfort woman in Indonesia during War World II, and in the translations I have observed that there certain sections of the novel where the brutality of the Japanese Imperial Army was described stayed unaltered. Nonetheless certain sections were slightly altered, probably for the sake of the Japanese market.

This study wishes to show some samples of the author's observations, and analyses about how Japan is portrayed by the novel (both the original and translated versions), and, through the consumption of this novel in the Japanese market, whether this can be seen as a sign for Japan's willingness for self-reflection about its past.

Indah S. Pratidina

Research student, Institute for the Study of Global Issues, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

**Was my first International level talk. After all the Japanese that I am forced to swallow, luckily my english didn't abandon me that time. Alhamdulillah~ This is a well overdue entry, but better now than never, I supposed.

Presented in

Media Culture and Industry in Asia (MCIA), Hallym University, Seoul-Chuncheon, South Korea http://www.hallym.ac.kr/~icat/200711/ November 16, 2007

Editing: The Bartimaeus Trilogy # 1: The Amulet of Samarkand

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Published: May 2007
Gramedia Pustaka Utama

Indonesian Title: Amulet Samarkand
Writer : Jonathan Stroud
Translator : Poppy Damayanti Chusfani
Volume : 512 hlm; 20 cm

English-Bahasa Indonesia