abstract: This thesis examines the narratives and meta-commentary of Indonesian users of English about their English as a Second Language (ESL) experiences. It approaches interview data with ten Indonesian second language (L2) speakers of English from a narrative analysis/inquiry perspective. Each interview was transcribed according to a modified set of discourse analysis (DA) transcription conventions, then coded by the researcher. The first research question addressed what linguistic devices members of this population used to achieve cohesion and coherence in their narratives, and the second research question examined how members of this population portrayed their L2 selves in their narratives. The data yielded 21 linguistic devices that fell into three levels of frequency. Connectives, discourse markers, and repetition were by far the most common linguistic devices, followed by adverbials, embedded clauses, intensifiers, and the word like (non-comparison uses), which were somewhat frequent linguistic devices. The data also showed that participants constructed their L2 selves using three main categories: agency, identity, and perceptions of English and the U.S.. In regard to identity, participants invoked membership categorization, where they portrayed their identities in relation to other individuals. The study concludes with suggestions for future research, especially relating to Indonesian L2 users of English. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis English 2015

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The sociological tools of Margaret Somers are employed to dissect Indonesian high school history teachers' narratives about teaching controversial history of post-independence Indonesian communism. Twelve semi-structured interviews form a qualitative foundation to generate analysis on history teachers' stories about what enables the entanglement of alternative narratives of Indonesian communism in their teachings. This current study explores how various stories influence the teachers' standpoints on it. Moreover, the study highlights the socio-historical context of how their standpoints were formed. Empirical findings in this study suggest that the teachers draw on different narratives that navigate them to teach alternative versions, in order to counterbalance the mainstream story of Indonesian communism in school textbooks and the history curriculum. However, for some teachers, it is more challenging to teach a subject on Indonesian communism in line with their standpoints. The ease and challenges in teaching controversial history vary since each teacher is embedded in different relationships. Therefore, the social context of their teachings is also discussed.

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Lee Tsz Lok. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-123). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.i / ACKNOWLEDGMENT --- p.iii / CONTENTS --- p.v / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- Introduction: Domestic Work from Premodern to Modern --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Research Objective / Chapter 1.2 --- Research B ackground / Chapter 1.2.1 --- History of Chinese Domestic Servants / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Demand for Foreign Domestic Workers / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Legislation Governing Employment of Foreign Domestic Workers / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Questions / Chapter 1.3 --- Research Significances / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- Literature Review: Private-Public Interpenetration， Power Relations and Social Negotiations in Domestic Employment --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1 --- Hegemonies and Homes / Chapter 2.2 --- Private-Public Distinction / Chapter 2.3 --- Power Dynamics / Chapter 2.4 --- Between the Personalized and the Bureaucratized / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- Conceptual Framework: The Personalized/ Bureaucratized Typology and Interactive Dynamics in Domestic Employment --- p.25 / Chapter 3.1 --- Assumptions of the Present Study / Chapter 3.2 --- Typology of Worker-Employer Relations / Chapter 3.3 --- The Personalized Type of Relations / Chapter 3.4 --- The Bureaucratized Type of Relations / Chapter 3.5 --- Micropolitics in Domestic Work / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- Research Methods and Data --- p.39 / Chapter 4.1 --- Methods and Data Collection / Chapter 4.2 --- Characteristics of Informants / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Characteristics of Employers / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Characteristics of Workers / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- The Personalized Type of Relations --- p.45 / Chapter 5.1 --- Affective-Based Particularism / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Working Philosophy / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Workers' Presence in Public Spaces / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Confrontations / Chapter 5.2 --- Diffuse Work Obligations / Chapter 5.3 --- Personal Attachment / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Materialistic Relationship / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Strategic Personalism / Chapter 5.4 --- Concluding Remarks / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- The Bureaucratized Type of Relations --- p.75 / Chapter 6.1 --- Rule-Based Universalism / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Working Philosophy / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Workers' Presence in Public Spaces / Chapter 6.1.3 --- Confrontations / Chapter 6.2 --- Standardized Work Obligations / Chapter 6.3 --- Impersonal Relations / Chapter 6.4 --- Concluding Remarks / Chapter CHAPTER 7 --- "Discussion and Conclusion: Global-Local, Private-Public Matrix of Employment Relations" --- p.97 / Chapter 7.1 --- Discussion / Chapter 7.2 --- Areas for Further Inquiry / Chapter 7.3 --- Conclusion / APPENDICES / APPENDIX A Case Descriptions --- p.106 / Profiles of Employers / Profiles of Workers / APPENDIX B Consent Form --- p.110 / Consent Form (English Version) / Consent Form (Chinese Version) / APPENDIX C Interview Schedule --- p.112 / Interview Schedule for Employers / (Translated Version) / Interview Schedule for Employers / (Original Chinese Version) / Interview Schedule for Workers / REFERENCES --- p.120

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This diploma thesis aims to illuminate the issue of global climate change, its progression and describes the components of the climate system. The thesis addresses the impact of greenhouse gases on the climate system, the phenomenon of global warming, and the consequences along with their manifestations in the nature itself. The paper includes one chapter solely dedicated to the characterisation of environmental protection in historical context, with emphasis on the climate protection. The chapter also mentions a number of key international agreements and conferences. The second part of the thesis is concerned with the Indonesian legislation on climate protection in Indonesia. It also describes the global-scale impacts of selected activities and mentions number of international agreements and Indonesian regulation seeking to tackle the issue of climate change.

This thesis is about the everyday cultural practices of communal television viewing by urban kampung people. It challenges the institutional frameworks and constructs about the television audience. To achieve this, the thesis looks at the cultural context of the television set and its uses in urban kampung households and the neighbourhood system. Studies on urban kampung community in Indonesia so far have focused on the socio-economic and cultural practices of the people in relation to state ideological matters (e.g. Guinness, 1989; Sullivan, 1994; Brenner, 1998). This thesis is an attempt to extend the investigation about the cultural practices of the kampung community in relation to media use in the era of competitive private television in the early 2000s. As those kampung people have existentially engaged in fashioning their own lives neither as rural subjects nor urban/ity subjects, their narratives in responding to televised images and representations (of women in particular) shape the particularity of the cultural scene of these marginalized subjects. Taking up their social economic background and the particularities of socio-cultural circumstances of the kampung, this present study takes a close look into the day-to-day communal viewing practice of the kampung female viewers of the most-watched local program on Indonesian television, that is sinetron (television drama). / Extending the argument of Ien Ang and others into the Indonesian context, the thesis concludes that the national television audience as a unified, atomistic and controllable entity, as is institutionally imagined, does not exist. Rather, watching television, particularly among the urban middle to lower class community, is a discursive practice overwhelmingly showing the diverse, particular, and unpredictable attitudes, which challenge the account of 'the audience' that characterises the industry, the state and, ironically, also the intellectual critical knowledge producers.

台灣與其中華文化並不像伊斯蘭人民將回教有很強的宗教關聯性。然而歷史上回教和穆斯林在中華的歷史中扮演著一個重要的角色。從1990年代初期，從東南亞有一批勞動者移民來到台灣，並在當地工作。近期，印尼籍的工作者已達到20萬人，他們成為台灣外籍工作者中數量最大的一群。在這當中，絕大部分的印尼籍勞動者都是穆斯林。為了保留自己的身分認同與文化，這群身在台灣的印尼籍穆斯林竟而形成了以宗教為主的許多社群，並因應在地差異與台灣的華人穆斯林進行社會適應上的交流與互動。 此篇研究的目的在於為台灣的回教與穆斯林研究踏出第一步，尤其是印尼穆斯林與當地的華人穆斯林如何進行社會適應，以及在台灣這樣一個異地環境，身為少數族群的他們如何保有自己的身分認同。此研究採用質性研究方法進行資料蒐集，並以集中性的田野調查中第一手資料的蒐集與觀察進行文獻探討，這些調查資料來自臺北、桃園、中壢、台中以及高雄等地。 此研究發現印尼籍穆斯林聚集並在台灣形成特定的印尼穆斯林組織，並與華人穆斯林有著積極互動，形成他們社會適應過程中的一環。然而，由於文化背景的差異，這些印尼穆斯林社群更需要改變他們社會中的生活習慣以因應在台灣的生活。 / Taiwan and its Chinese culture is not associated with Islam as religion and Muslim people. However, historically Islam and Muslim play an important role in Chinese history. Starting in early 1990s, there was a growing number of immigrant worker, mainly from South East Asian countries to Taiwan to work in informal sector. Currently Indonesian numbered 200,000, and become the biggest in terms of foreign workers in Taiwan. Majority of these Indonesian workers are Muslim. In order to preserve their identity and cultural life, the Indonesian Muslim in Taiwan formed various religious-based community, do a social adaptation with their environment and interact with Chinese Muslim in Taiwan. The objective of this study is to initiate the study of Islam and Muslim development in Taiwan, specifically how the social adaptation of Indonesian Muslim with Chinese Muslim in Taiwan, as well as how they preserve their identity as ethnic minority in Taiwan. Qualitative approach on data collection was undertaken, using literature review followed by collecting primary sources from intensive field research and observation in Taipei, Taoyuan, Chungli, Taichung and Kaohsiung. It’s found that Indonesian Muslim gathered and formed some Indonesian Muslim organizations in Taiwan, and they actively interact with Chinese Muslim as the part of their social adaptation. However, due to some differences in cultural background, those Indonesian Muslim communities need to adapt their habit and social life in Taiwan.