scholarly journals Behind the trend of Englishing the business names in Aceh, Indonesia: A postcolonial analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Jarjani Usman ◽  
Nurul Faridah ◽  
Mulia Mulia

This study critically analyzes the recent trend of Englishing shop names in Aceh province. Borrowing Bhabha’s postcolonial theory, this study attempted to uncover the shop owners’ perceptions of privileging English and marginalizing local languages, even though their customers are mostly local. Data collection was by taking pictures and interviewing 20 owners of the shops, four females and 16 males. Results show that the 120 shop names in Banda Aceh and surrounding it are in English, modified English and Indonesian ordering, hybridized English and Indonesian ordering, hybridized English Acehnese language and English, English and English ordering, and mixed owner’s names and English ordering. They voluntarily mimicked the Western culture by using English names because they believe that English is marketable, modern, practical, flexible, familiar, and short for shop branding, while the local language looks not modern, unpractical, and weird. In conclusion, most shop owners in the two districts in Aceh negotiate the Western hegemony for the economic benefits.

Author(s):  
Arja Rautio ◽  
Natalia Kukarenko ◽  
Lena Maria Nilsson ◽  
Birgitta Evengard

Climate change in the Arctic affects both environmental, animal, and human health, as well as human wellbeing and societal development. Women and men, and girls and boys are affected differently. Sex-disaggregated data collection is increasingly carried out as a routine in human health research and in healthcare analysis. This study involved a literature review and used a case study design to analyze gender differences in the roles and responsibilities of men and women residing in the Arctic. The theoretical background for gender-analysis is here described together with examples from the Russian Arctic and a literature search. We conclude that a broader gender-analysis of sex-disaggregated data followed by actions is a question of human rights and also of economic benefits for societies at large and of the quality of services as in the health care.


Author(s):  
Toon Haer ◽  
W. J. Wouter Botzen ◽  
Vincent van Roomen ◽  
Harry Connor ◽  
Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo ◽  
...  

Many countries around the world face increasing impacts from flooding due to socio-economic development in flood-prone areas, which may be enhanced in intensity and frequency as a result of climate change. With increasing flood risk, it is becoming more important to be able to assess the costs and benefits of adaptation strategies. To guide the design of such strategies, policy makers need tools to prioritize where adaptation is needed and how much adaptation funds are required. In this country-scale study, we show how flood risk analyses can be used in cost–benefit analyses to prioritize investments in flood adaptation strategies in Mexico under future climate scenarios. Moreover, given the often limited availability of detailed local data for such analyses, we show how state-of-the-art global data and flood risk assessment models can be applied for a detailed assessment of optimal flood-protection strategies. Our results show that especially states along the Gulf of Mexico have considerable economic benefits from investments in adaptation that limit risks from both river and coastal floods, and that increased flood-protection standards are economically beneficial for many Mexican states. We discuss the sensitivity of our results to modelling uncertainties, the transferability of our modelling approach and policy implications. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Advances in risk assessment for climate change adaptation policy’.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 778-789
Author(s):  
Muhammad Maggalatung ◽  
M. Ridwan ◽  
Syarifudin Syarifudin ◽  
Darma Darma ◽  
Sulaeman Sulaeman

Threat language can be found in various local languages in Indonesia, including the Sepa language of the Indigenous peoples of Amahai, Moluccas, where the nationalization of Indonesian is a threat to its extinction. This paper aims to look at the extinction of regional languages from the framework of modernization and contestation of regional languages with national languages. This study is conducted qualitatively, data collection based on interviews, literature study, and observation obtained from Raja Sepa, community leaders, customary stakeholders. Research shows that the language in Maluku is almost extinct in line with the narrowing of regional language spaces; the language has been abandoned by its speakers because of the process of modernization and migration. This study shows the need for revitalization of the Sepa language through facilitating the mapping of the Sepa language comprehensively, making the Sepa language dictionary, and integrating the Sepa language into the local curriculum.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rina Syafitri

Education is a very important element to create quality human resources.Learning is doneevery day of the week starting from morningtill night for six months more quickly proven to helptheir improve their languageskills. By using the communication strategy learning in teachingand learning in the SMPIT Nurul Ishlah. The purpose of this study was to determine thelearningstrategies used in the the SMPIT Nurul Ishlah Banda Aceh, teacher communicationprocess with thestudents in learning English, and know the communication media used inteachingand learning in the SMPIT Nurul Ishlah Banda Aceh.This study uses qualitativeresearch methods with the presentation of analysisdesktriptif. The informants are teachers aslecturers and students of Englishvillages were selected purposively. Data collection techniquesused wereobservation, interviews, and documentation. The validity of the technique used inthisresearch is triangulation and extension of participation. In analyzing the data, the researcherused the Constant Comparative Method.The results of the research is shown that students in theSMPIT Nurul Ishlah at learning procesess applied communication strategies by doing classinstruction, word coinage, codeswitching, and appeal for help, without the knowing. That washapped autonomous.Keywords : Communication Strategy,English, SMPIT Nurul Ishlah, Teaching


2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Djailani Djailani

To achieve vision, mission and the objectives of an institution is determined by capability of the teachers. The development and improvement of teacher must be done systematically, systematic, and be oriented to the four teacher proficiencies. This study aims to determine of how the pattern on increasing the teacher competence in Islamic Junior High School, Banda Aceh, using descriptive methods and the data collection is through observations, interviews and documentation. The subject of the study is head master of the school, chairmen of MGMP, teacher supervisor. The study also uses qualitative analysis. The study shows that: 1) the improvement of the teacher competence at MTsN Banda Aceh has not been supported by realistic program, comprehensive and operational. 2). The implementation of improving the teacher competence is not supported through teacher needs-based program in order to be implemented systematically, well-planned, and sustainably, 3) There is still many internal and external obstacles in implementing the teacher competence through school headmaster supervision and the supervisors could not reach the expected target.


Author(s):  
Muhammad Sahlan ◽  
Siti Ikramatoun ◽  
Khairul Amin

AbstractTangse is one of the sub-districts that located in Pidie district. About 190 km from Banda Aceh the capital of Aceh province. Since 2011 until 2018, disasters have become an annual routine of Tangse society, from landslides to flash floods coming every year. In this regards, this paper aims to discuss the dialectics of the community with disasters that befall in Tangse. The Data in this paper derived from observations, interviews and literature studies, then analyzed using a sociological approach. The results of this study found that many things have been done by local governments to cope with disasters. From prevention to reduce the risk of disasters that befall the community, when disasters are increasingly happening, the perspective of the community towards disasters begins to change. Now for some people in Tangse, disasters are not only viewed as calamities but also seen as "benefits". As a result, although the public has a sense of disaster risk, it does not make the community stop the activity that invites disaster in the land of Tangse.   Tangse merupakan salah satu kecamatan yang berada dikawasan pegunungan Kabupaten Pidie, berjarak sekitar 190 km dari Kota Banda Aceh, Ibukota Provinsi Aceh. Sejak tahun 2011 hingga tahun 2018, bencana telah menjadi langganan masyarakat Tangse, mulai dari tanah longsor hingga banjir bandang silih berganti menghampiri masyarakat. Terkait hal itu, tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mendiskusikan tentang dialektika masyarakat terhadap bencana yang terus menerus terjadi selama beberapa tahun belakangan di Kecamatan Tangse. Data dalam tulisan ini bersumber dari hasil observasi, wawancara dan studi literatur yang kemudian dianalisis menggunakan pendekatan sosiologis. Berdasarkan hasil kajian yang dilakukan ditemukan bahwa telah banyak hal yang diupayakan pemerintah daerah berserta unsur-unsur terkait untuk menanggulangi datangnya bencana, mulai dari pencegahan hingga mengurangi resiko bencana yang menimpa masyarakat. Namun, ketika bencana semakin akrab menyapa masyarakat, maka pergeseran cara pandang masyarakat terhadap bencana pun terjadi. Jika pada awalnya bencana dilihat sebagai suatu musibah dan masyarakat selalu menganggap diri mereka sebagai korban, kini bagi sebagian masyarakat tangse, bencana tidak hanya dilihat sebagai musibah tetapi juga sebagai “berkah”. Akibatnya, meski ada kesadaran tentang resiko bencana, namun hal itu tidak membuat masyarakat menghentikan aktivitas yang mengundang datangnya bencana di bumi Tangse.


2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Alicia M. Gorton ◽  
Will J. Shaw

AbstractAs countries continue to implement sustainable and renewable energy goals, the need for affordable low-carbon technologies, including those related to offshore wind energy, is accelerating. The U.S. federal government recognizes the environmental and economic benefits of offshore wind development and is taking the necessary steps to overcome critical challenges facing the industry to realize these benefits. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is investing in buoy-mounted lidar systems to facilitate offshore measurement campaigns that will advance our understanding of the offshore environment and provide the observational data needed for model validation, particularly at hub height where offshore observations are particularly lacking. On behalf of the DOE, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory manages a Lidar Buoy Program that facilitates meteorological and oceanographic data collection using validated methods to support the U.S. offshore wind industry. Since being acquired in 2014, two DOE lidar buoys have been deployed on the U.S. east and west coasts, and their data represent the first publicly available multi-seasonal hub height data to be collected in U.S. waters. In addition, the buoys have undergone performance testing, significant upgrades, and a lidar validation campaign to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the lidar data needed to support wind resource characterization and model validation (the lidars were validated against a reference lidar installed on the Air-Sea Interaction Tower operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution). The Lidar Buoy Program is providing valuable offshore data to the wind energy community, while focusing data collection on areas of acknowledged high priority.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleix Bassolas ◽  
Hugo Barbosa-Filho ◽  
Brian Dickinson ◽  
Xerxes Dotiwalla ◽  
Paul Eastham ◽  
...  

Abstract The recent trend of rapid urbanization makes it imperative to understand urban characteristics such as infrastructure, population distribution, jobs, and services that play a key role in urban livability and sustainability. A healthy debate exists on what constitutes optimal structure regarding livability in cities, interpolating, for instance, between mono- and poly-centric organization. Here anonymous and aggregated flows generated from three hundred million users, opted-in to Location History, are used to extract global Intra-urban trips. We develop a metric that allows us to classify cities and to establish a connection between mobility organization and key urban indicators. We demonstrate that cities with strong hierarchical mobility structure display an extensive use of public transport, higher levels of walkability, lower pollutant emissions per capita and better health indicators. Our framework outperforms previous metrics, is highly scalable and can be deployed with little cost, even in areas without resources for traditional data collection.


2018 ◽  
Vol 229 ◽  
pp. 01005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Azan Ridzuan ◽  
Rina Suryani Oktari ◽  
Noor Azmi Mohd Zainol ◽  
Haslinda Abdullah ◽  
Jessica Ong Hai Liaw ◽  
...  

Issues related to the community resilience became more popular after the earthquake and Tsunami tragedy in the Indian Ocean and Aceh, Indonesia, 2004. The community resilience is the ability of communities to withstand and mitigate the stress of a disaster, there is less clearness on the detailed resilience-building process. The risk perception is concerns how an individual understands and experiences the phenomenon and believed to affect people’s preparedness for, responses to and recovery from natural disasters. Aims of this study are to identify the relationship between the community resilience elements such as community experience, community exposure, community reaction, community attitude, community knowledge and the community risk perception using survey gathered from 542 samples of Banda Aceh Province community, Aceh, Indonesia. Results found out there is a significant relationship between the community resilience elements such as community experience, community exposure, community reaction, community attitude, community knowledge and the community risk perception. Statistically, results confirm that the implementation of the community resilience elements such as community experience, community exposure, community reaction, community attitude, and community knowledge act as an important determinant of community risk perception towards disasters risk management at Banda Aceh Province community.


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