Political sociology: Meaning and transformation of political power

This "Political sociology," published by Gadjah mada University Press (2010) is a series of critical reviews on critical issues relating to the authority or power, the relation 'state' and 'civil society', democracy and the formation of classical and contemporary society, elite and class studies, and studies of stability and social instability. The study of critical issues on political power was conducted with reference to the many perspectives of thought, from Hobbes, Montesquieu, Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Althusser, Horkheimer, Gramsci, Alexis de Tocqueville, Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, SM Lipset, H. Crough, F.W. Riggs, Schmitter, Nordhaus to C. Wright Mills, Liddle, Hefner, Fukuyama, and a number of other thinkers. In this context a dialogue also constructs elite, the Java community, and Islamic thinkers about the power of thought refers to Anderson, Ibn Khaldun, Abd Ali. Raziq, in addition to the thought of Mawdudi as well. This book assess the relation elite and community or civil society. It had placed in the context of the use of power. Elites tend to dominate the civil society. Kenneth Minogue (1994) Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the London School of Economics said that an elite party, or vanguard, takes over all the power and proceeds to tutor the population in how to think and to act. In the historical practice even tend to use violence. Therefore, this book invites the reader understanding the tendency of elites using violence, especially by the elite who have lost their moral sensibility as it appears in the study of C. Wright Mills. Transformation and political change towards modern politics assessed through the general election in this case is placed as a step towards the consolidation of power and democracy. It's studied also through cultural preconditions necessary to consolidate a democratic political system. Empirical experience is necessary, in this case taken from the experience of Indonesia, a nation that has a known population base of a powerful religious political legitimation.

Reconstruction of Modern Social Theory

It's my book. "Reconstruction of Modern Social Theory" published by Gadjah Mada University Press, 2012. This book is written departs from the fact that the world grows increasingly complex and dynamic.This reality confirms what was revealed by Durkheim that the world evolved from the simplest to the more complex life. But the world is not entirely filled with the harmonious order. The world is full of conflict. This fact was confirmed with the Marxian thinkers. Not really as Marxian thought, people do not want to constantly be in conflict. Communities also wants to build a consensus during their life, though often encountered is the pseudo or false consensus. Now the society are in post-industrial era. They are heterogeneous, caused by awareness of the uniqueness of the model to which every citizen of the world in responding to the reality. Weberian thinkers, focusing on the unique world of human consciousness and subjective, in the middle of the dynamic and complex world. This book invites readers to critically reconstruct the three streams of social science. The three streams of school are consensus, conflict, and the stream of the world concerned with human consciousness. The world is a product of human consciousness. Although the human consciousness is also a product of a world where people are.

BNPB: Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana

BNPB: Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana

BNPB: Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana

BNPB: Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana: "6. DAMPAK BENCANA GEMPA SUMATERA BARAT
(Siaran Pers/Siaran Pers)
Sampai pukul 16.00 WIB, Rabu (21 /10) korban meninggal dunia pascagempa Sumatera Barat berjumlah 1.117 orang, korban luka berat 1.214 orang dan luka ringan 1.688 orang, dinyatakan hilang 2 orang.
Wednesday, 21 October 2009"

Mikail's Dream

Mikail Oasis Prabowo, graduation of SMA Trimurti Surabaya. He looks very happy and proud of wearing academic gown of CIC Curtin University of Technology. He just graduates from International Business programme of diploma at CIC. The graduation ceremony celebrated last April 22, 2009. Now he looks very busy as well, as he has so many asignment for his bachelor programme in the third smester of International Busines in Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.

PIBT Graduation Ceremony

PIBT Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, took graduation ceremony, last April 17, 2009. The graduands came from difference countries across the world. One of the graduands is Renda Haniefa Rahmi (red box). She graduated from diploma of communication studies. She is very busy right now with her third smester in bachelor of communication studies in the same university.

Birokrasi Perkoncoan

Buku saya ini mengajak pembaca untuk memahami potret perilaku elite penguasa pemerintahan Jawa di kota besar dalam mengkonstruk agama di tengah relasinya dengan kekuasaan. Kekuasaan masih dipandang analog dengan tanah yang tidak bisa diperluas. Setiap usaha memperluasnya, hanya berarti mengurangi kekuasaan orang lain. kekuasaan masih milik sebuah "enclave", dalam hal ini milik segelintir elite yang memiliki kesamaan kesetiaan, kepentingan dan skisma aliran

Kekuasaan merupakan permainan politik kaum elite yang cenderung tidak terbagi. Kalau toh harus berbagi, sedapat mungkin dilakukan dengan orang dekat dan orang-orang setia atau para "zealot". Dalam birokrasi, maka lahir sebuah praktik "birokrasi perkoncoan" yang tidak jauh beda dengan patrimonialisme, mereka saling melindungi di antara sesama kelompok kepentingan dan skisma aliran. Di sisi lain, agama yang menyebar, memang merupakan sumberdaya politik yang efektif. Namun,dalam praktik, pengambilan simbol agama bergeser makna ke dalam pencarian legitimasi dari pusat-pusat kekuasaan. Moralitas kekuasaan telah menggeser pola pemaknaan atas agama: bukan sebagai sumber membangun the new age spirituality atau the new religious consciousness, tetapi sebagai sarana meraih kekuasaan.