<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433771572510596645</id><updated>2011-10-11T03:24:37.473-07:00</updated><title type='text'>BFI Newsletter</title><subtitle type='html'>The newsletter of Bandung Fe Institute as media to communicate any new improvement and development in BFI circumstances as the research institute dedicated for social complexity in Indonesia.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bfinews.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5433771572510596645/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bfinews.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>BFI NEWSLETTER archieve</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433771572510596645.post-7734740653511589773</id><published>2011-01-10T13:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-10T20:23:00.899-08:00</updated><title type='text'>NEWSLETTER BFI 20110111</title><content type='html'>NEWSLETTER BANDUNG FE INSTITUTE (BFI)&lt;br /&gt;January 11th 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONTENTS:&lt;br /&gt;01. Message from the Administration&lt;br /&gt;02. BFI is now available in Facebook and Twitter!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;01. Message from the Administration&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear friends, colleagues, competitors,&lt;br /&gt;We have begun a new year 2011 after finishing great times we have in the year 2010. We have given our efforts to see the complexity of social life in the past year as it has been celebrated by our publications in the institute’s working papers, books, and scientific articles published in journals elsewhere. We are very grateful for a lot of occasions in which we can now more and more close to the implementation of research in Indonesia. As we know, that good science must be useful. And it is the task of any scientific research to make all the nature of complexity we found empirically simple enough for people to gain insights from it. For the simplicity out of the complexity of our social life will give humanity an important opportunity to handle the social system with more care, yet effective for the purpose of denouncing injustice as giving welfare for all people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last year has been a great one for our research has touched society as innovation for betterment in many occasions. We thank the Republic of Indonesia Research and Technology Ministry for awarding three of our research findings as some from the 102 representative innovations  throughout the country: generative music, the social complexity disc, and the Indonesian cartograms. All of these have been enrichment to the previous innovations that are now brought to business implementation: the physics of batik, as presented by the our fellows in acroBatik for this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the researches in 2010 we have seen a lot of scientific development on ethnic cultures in Indonesian Archipelago. There have been a great passion to deal with thousands of cultural objects of data as it has been collected by our fellows in Indonesian Archipelago Cultural Initiatives (IACI) in the open-digital library of Indonesian Culture: &lt;a href="http://www.budaya-indonesia.org/"&gt;http://www.budaya-indonesia.org/&lt;/a&gt;. We are very delightful for the growing data within it, as more data will become a fuel for us for more on our endeavors for more creative innovations as to human understanding about the cultural diversity. Indonesia to cultural evolutionary research is a place more like Galapagos to Darwinian biological evolutionary works. Our works on the ethnoclustering maps  by incorporating the works on phylomemetic tree – as proxy to the memetic model of human cultural evolution – has been improved more and more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of those works have made us to face the challenging life of the new world order on the capitalistic appreciation to cultural objects and it’s security. We are delightful to join the workshops brought regarding to this by our friends in the government: the ministry of foreign affairs and the ministry of culture and tourism of Republic Indonesia. The unity of Indonesian people gives positive impact for the restoration of our heterogeneity of cultures in this largest archipelagic nation on the planet. The security of Indonesian ethnic diversity has challenged the perspective on the intellectual property rights as being traditionally brought by the World Intellectual Property Rights Organization (WIPO). We are delightful for existence of the open-mindedness on this challenge from WIPO as well as friends in the United Nations on Education and Culture Organization (UNESCO) on this issue. We ask all of us, as citizens of the world, for support to the betterment of Indonesian cultural security in our introducing the Nusantara Cultural Heritage State License (NCHSL) on Indonesian cultural objects. The traditional culture of Indonesia cannot be handle with traditional views on intellectual property rights!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friends, colleagues, competitors,&lt;br /&gt;However, some tasks regarding to the complexity our social and economic life should also be more and more invigorated. As the higher gini index of Indonesia now should show us that the inequality of our social life in the country is not a good thing. It is an inevitable fact, that the free market ideology has induced growing hardhsip across the archipelago. We cannot close our eyes on the growing poverty issue in Indonesia. The traditional economists that are now becoming (or supporting) policy-makers on social and economic issues in Indonesia should be strengthened with the works in the institute on social complexity, evolutionary economics, econophysics, and all. This is not without saying that the political aspects and justice are out of the hands of complexity sciences. The works in the institute regarding to “legal physics”, computational political sciences, and all must also altogether in the sense of interdisciplinary researches should also being brought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Public policies for social, economic, and political life in Indonesia should be sharpened by the complexity sciences, a thing that has been a mission of the institute since her establishment eight years ago. It happens too often the wrong and far projections and risk analyses in any structural changes in prices, inflation regarding to policies on fiscal, monetary, and macroeconomic issues in the country, makes pessimisms have become inherent in realistic view on the future of the nation. It should have been a good moment now, complexity sciences showed action for the more optimism about our future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cherished the efforts held by colleagues in INVASA, our friends Billy Franata, Rolan Dahlan, Vande Leonardo, and Rendra Suroso for their day-night working hours building such enormous data backbone from the basic elements of Indonesian social living: villages. The incoming year should be the year full with celebration of more of our understanding&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friends, colleagues, competitors,&lt;br /&gt;The scientific endeavors on social system have shown a great enrichment from physics to social, economic, political, and legal studies. The dynamicity of social phenomena has witness the sharp and harmonious interdisciplinary sport between physics and social sciences. However, horizon of our scientific spectacles has seen that the social system does not change in dynamics, but also in the evolutionary sense. Structural changes of social life have been captured so well with statistical, computational, analytical and numerical physics, yet the cultural changes within can only be captured evolutionarily. A good thing is that the interdisciplinary approaches are now available for us to dig in further since biology and physics have been involved in a quite deep interplay much better than both with social sciences, in general.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today social sciences may be indebted to the comprehensiveness of physical sciences, yet the sciences of tomorrow lie in the biological and life sciences. The trend of evolutionary approaches in wide ranges of social studies confirms. The researches in the institute exploring memetic analysis in Indonesian traditional cultures, economy, and complex political studies are signature of the institute on this domain. The landscape of creativity and innovation lies in the evolution of the diversities existing in Indonesian fabrics, folklores, traditional music, ancient and traditional architectures, and more waiting for further comprehensive understanding on today economy, politics, and global cultures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friends and colleagues,&lt;br /&gt;Let us just embrace the new year as the incoming year full of excitement of our social and humanity betterment. May the research year 2011 is the year on which milestones of beautiful works of scientific research are marked in the institute as also elsewhere! God bless us and those expect development and improvement from sciences!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hokky Situngkir&lt;br /&gt;President of Bandung Fe Institute&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;02. BFI is now available in Facebook and Twitter!&lt;br /&gt;You can now be able to access and instantly receive any updates of research by joining/liking the institute's official Facebook page at:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="url:%20http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bandung-Fe-Institute/119717711380033"&gt;URL: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bandung-Fe-Institute/119717711380033&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to receive interesting research results from status updates as super-short summary from research finding conducted in the institute. For your mobile convenience, you might also want to join the institute official's twitter updates by following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/bandungfe"&gt;http://twitter.com/bandungfe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also post any of your interest or comment at the page above.&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to follow us, and let us make it our better place and social living.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BFI Administration&lt;br /&gt;Bandung Fe Institute&lt;br /&gt;Jl. Sarimadu 99&lt;br /&gt;Sarijadi Blok 25&lt;br /&gt;Bandung 40164&lt;br /&gt;JAWA BARAT&lt;br /&gt;INDONESIA&lt;br /&gt;ph./fax: +62 22 2011016&lt;br /&gt;mail: bfi@bandungfe.net&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bandungfe.net/"&gt;http://www.bandungfe.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5433771572510596645-7734740653511589773?l=bfinews.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5433771572510596645/posts/default/7734740653511589773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5433771572510596645/posts/default/7734740653511589773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bfinews.blogspot.com/2011/01/newsletter-bfi-20110111.html' title='NEWSLETTER BFI 20110111'/><author><name>BFI NEWSLETTER archieve</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433771572510596645.post-1948167759207366611</id><published>2010-10-14T21:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-14T21:37:11.174-07:00</updated><title type='text'>BFI in 102 Innovasi Indonesia</title><content type='html'>Bandung Fe Institute menerima penghargaan atas beberapa penelitian yang  diseleksi sebagai 102 inovasi paling prospektif di Indonesia selama  tahun 2010. Berikut Infografia yang diterbitkan dalam buku 102 Innovasi  Indonesia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/TLfaQ8JhneI/AAAAAAAAACA/8q4KAJQvHEw/s1600/pks.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 134px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/TLfaQ8JhneI/AAAAAAAAACA/8q4KAJQvHEw/s320/pks.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528127052179414498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/TLfYYaqKkXI/AAAAAAAAABw/jnNn2YAxAPE/s1600/genmuse.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 138px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/TLfYYaqKkXI/AAAAAAAAABw/jnNn2YAxAPE/s320/genmuse.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528124981605208434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/TLfYyFATiQI/AAAAAAAAAB4/qQT2hgRiVNs/s1600/kartogram.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 141px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/TLfYyFATiQI/AAAAAAAAAB4/qQT2hgRiVNs/s320/kartogram.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528125422469089538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5433771572510596645-1948167759207366611?l=bfinews.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5433771572510596645/posts/default/1948167759207366611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5433771572510596645/posts/default/1948167759207366611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bfinews.blogspot.com/2010/10/bfi-in-102-innovasi-indonesia.html' title='BFI in 102 Innovasi Indonesia'/><author><name>BFI NEWSLETTER archieve</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/TLfaQ8JhneI/AAAAAAAAACA/8q4KAJQvHEw/s72-c/pks.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433771572510596645.post-256564240786506243</id><published>2009-05-11T07:37:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-11T07:40:16.498-07:00</updated><title type='text'>BFI is moving</title><content type='html'>IMPORTANT: BFI is moving.&lt;br /&gt;By May 15th 2009, Bandung Fe Institute base will move from the current office to the new address, as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BANDUNG FE INSTITUTE&lt;br /&gt;Jl. Sarimadu No. 99&lt;br /&gt;Sarijadi Bl. 25&lt;br /&gt;Bandung 40164&lt;br /&gt;West Java - Indonesia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Should you want to have correspondence or visit, a detail map you might want to be printed of the new place is available here (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;click on image for larger view&lt;/span&gt;):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/Sgg4YmiRafI/AAAAAAAAABg/7_DA1443-2Q/s1600-h/bfi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 193px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/Sgg4YmiRafI/AAAAAAAAABg/7_DA1443-2Q/s400/bfi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334575753932663282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5433771572510596645-256564240786506243?l=bfinews.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5433771572510596645/posts/default/256564240786506243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5433771572510596645/posts/default/256564240786506243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bfinews.blogspot.com/2009/05/bfi-is-moving.html' title='BFI is moving'/><author><name>BFI NEWSLETTER archieve</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/Sgg4YmiRafI/AAAAAAAAABg/7_DA1443-2Q/s72-c/bfi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433771572510596645.post-7836757225052880032</id><published>2008-04-13T16:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-13T16:11:30.666-07:00</updated><title type='text'>BFI News April 14th 2008</title><content type='html'>NEWSLETTER BANDUNG FE INSTITUTE (BFI)&lt;br /&gt;April 14th 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONTENTS:&lt;br /&gt;01. New Book for Indonesian Readers: "Complex Indonesian Outlook 2008"&lt;br /&gt;02. A Complex Concept of Indonesian Silaturahmi&lt;br /&gt;03. BuletinBFI has now available online for Indonesian Readers&lt;br /&gt;04. Book Available: Indonesian Introduction to Econophysics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;01. "Complex Indonesian Outlook 2008" is available for Indonesian Readers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New Book on Indonesian Complexity is now available in local book stores! The book entitled "SOLUSI UNTUK INDONESIA" is a book for Indonesian readers presenting a perspective on complexity while observing and comprehending Indonesia. The book compiles research conjectures while proposing a new perspective for Indonesians while sees their own country in a great expectation gives an enrichment for the development of social sciences for the betterment of the country and the whole humanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the book the proposal for new "Wawasan Nusantara" (the way Indonesian look at Indonesia) is presented. The age of complexity should have changed the way we look and observe in order to be able to have alternative solutions for the betterment. The book is now available in your local (Indonesian) book stores, or you might want to contact the publisher to have one (c.p.Yohanis: +62 21 70227545 for rapid service) or just contact us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you speak Indonesian, you might want to see the glance view of the book contents in the following URL: &lt;a href="http://bfinews.blogspot.com/2008/04/buku-solusi-untuk-indonesia.html"&gt;http://bfinews.blogspot.com/2008/04/buku-solusi-untuk-indonesia.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;02. A Complex Concept of Indonesian Silaturahmi&lt;br /&gt;The paper has been published introducing the organization concept of silaturahmi that widely used as an important concept to maintain a lot of community structures in Indonesia. One of the organization is alumni forum where alumni gathers and establishes an institutional organization. The concept of silaturahmi is demonstrated to build a network among alumni that has been spread world‐wide by observing the clustered gathered in social clusters. The paper reports the small world topology emerged and discusses some interesting conjectures regarding to social institutions that is made upon the concept of silaturahmi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You might want to download the paper in the following URL, but you must be a registered user to be able to download it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bandungfe.net/?go=xpg&amp;amp;&amp;amp;crp=47f9b1fa"&gt;http://www.bandungfe.net/?go=xpg&amp;amp;&amp;amp;crp=47f9b1fa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To register for free, visit: &lt;a href="http://www.bandungfe.net/reg/"&gt;http://www.bandungfe.net/reg/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;03. BuletinBFI has now available online for Indonesian Readers&lt;br /&gt;The BuletinBFI introduces ECONOPHYSICS for Indonesian-speakers are now available online for free. The articles are written by the institute researchers while there was also invited articles written by sociophycists, Diettrich Stauffer. There were also two interviews with econophysicist, Marcel Ausloos (Liege University) and the author of the International Best Selling Book, Steven Keen. Ausloos was asked to share his visions about how Indonesian could use econophysics to view the unique (empirical) economic phenomena while Keen talked about how complex economics may help shape the better policy-making in Indonesian economic living.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can download the articles in the URL: &lt;a href="http://www.bandungfe.net/xbb/"&gt;http://www.bandungfe.net/xbb/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, you must also be a registered user to be able to download them.&lt;br /&gt;You may register here for free: &lt;a href="http://www.bandungfe.net/reg/"&gt;http://www.bandungfe.net/reg/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;04. Book Available: Indonesian Introduction to Econophysics&lt;br /&gt;A book written by BFI scholars to introduce econophysics for Indonesian readers has been published in the last year and it has been circulated in national major book stores. However, we have heard some difficulties to obtain the book. The book is now available by ordering the book directly to BFI administrative office in Bandung or Surya Research International office in Jakarta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interested readers may contact:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yohanis Kwee&lt;br /&gt;Surya Research International&lt;br /&gt;Ruko Cyberpark&lt;br /&gt;Jalan Boulevard Gajah Mada no. 2152&lt;br /&gt;Lippo Karawaci&lt;br /&gt;Tangerang 15811 - Banten&lt;br /&gt;Indonesia&lt;br /&gt;ph. +62 21 5512584&lt;br /&gt;mobile. +62 818144552&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----&lt;br /&gt;BFI Administration&lt;br /&gt;Bandung Fe Institute&lt;br /&gt;Sarijadi Blok 5 No. 151&lt;br /&gt;Bandung 40151&lt;br /&gt;JAWA BARAT&lt;br /&gt;INDONESIA&lt;br /&gt;ph./fax: +62 22 2018232&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bandungfe.net"&gt;http://www.bandungfe.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5433771572510596645-7836757225052880032?l=bfinews.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5433771572510596645/posts/default/7836757225052880032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5433771572510596645/posts/default/7836757225052880032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bfinews.blogspot.com/2008/04/bfi-news-april-14th-2008.html' title='BFI News April 14th 2008'/><author><name>BFI NEWSLETTER archieve</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433771572510596645.post-4618245524462501198</id><published>2008-04-02T07:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T20:41:59.990-07:00</updated><title type='text'>BUKU: SOLUSI untuk INDONESIA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/R_OrQy4SFhI/AAAAAAAAAAs/OGINh8xXOHs/s1600-h/buku_kcl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/R_OrQy4SFhI/AAAAAAAAAAs/OGINh8xXOHs/s200/buku_kcl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184675901057668626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Buku ini hadir sebagai upaya ingin memberikan apa yang menjadi pergulatan pemikiran dan perasaan sebagai bagian dari sebuah bangsa Indonesia yang bercampur-aduk dengan pergumulan bersama data-data dan detail komputasi dan analisis mekanika statistik. Kita seringkali menganggap bahwa apa yang menjadi permasalahan bagi kita adalah apa yang dilihat oleh dunia tentang kita, padahal permasalahan utama adalah bagaimana kita melihat diri kita sendiri. Ini merupakan landasan pentingnya konsep Wawasan Nusantara bagi kita semua, setiap generasi, seluruh golongan ekonomi dan kerja, semua elemen negeri. Buku ini bermotif mengetengahkan sebuah kacamata sains kompleksitas untuk hal ini, agar kita makin hari makin memahami diri kita, dan makin lama makin cinta dengan bumi pertiwi tempat kita lahir, hidup, dan akhirnya menutup mata ini.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buku ini diawali dengan mengetengahkan selintas darmawisata ke ranah sistem kompleks, kajian ekonofisika dan sosiofisika, dan dunia komputasi interdisiplin yang menjanjikan banyak hal untuk implementasi kajian sosial masa depan. Berbagai sendi kehidupan dibicarakan buku ini sebagai bentuk Wawasan Wiyatamandala, mulai dari sistemekonomi, politik, olahraga, seni dan budaya, dan sebagainya. Sebenarnya buku ini terlalu kecil untuk dianggap berbicara tentang Indonesia secara lengkap, namun buku ini memiliki janji akan memungkinkannya banyak kajian baru muncul yang akan memperkaya khazanah ilmu sosial kita di tanah air demi masyarakat Indonesia yang lebih baik. Buku ini dipersembahkan buat mereka yang haus akan ilmu pengetahuan, yang rindu akan implementasi sains dalam cakrawala sistem sosial secara umum, dan memiliki rasa cinta akan ibu pertiwi yang kuat. Yang jelas, buku ini adalah buah tangan tim penulis yang senantiasa berhutang pada banyak pihak baik di dalam atau pun di luar Bandung Fe Institute dan Surya Research International.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Semoga kehadiran buku ini dapat memperkaya khazanah kita, mempertajam berbagai alternatif solusi untuk perbaikan, atau setidaknya meningkatkan rasa cinta kita pada bangsa dan negeri kita, Indonesia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buku yang tersusun atas lebih dari 500 halaman ini sangat bergambar dan ditulis dengan kolaborasi tim yang dipimpin oleh Hokky Situngkir yakni Hoferdy Zawani, Rolan Mauludy, Deni Khanafiah, Yun Hariadi, dan Rendra Suroso, dengan supervisi dari ekonofisikawan, Profesor Yohanes Surya dan memuat tiga bagian utama yang dapat dijabarkan sebagai berikut:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bagian Pertama: BABAD TANAH AIR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;BAB 0. Kompleksitas:Wajah Sains di Tepi Chaos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ini adalah “bab nol”, sebuah bagian awal yang “boleh saja dilewatkan” bagi dua tipe pembaca. pembaca yang memang telah cukup biasa dengan berbagai “kosa kata” atau konsep-konsep dasar yang digunakan dalam pendekatan kompleksitas. pembaca yang ingin langsung melihat hasil dari apa yang ingin ditampilkan dalam buku ini secara luas atau lebih tertarik untuk melihat detail metodologi yang ditampilkan secara gamblang di bagian referensi. Untuk pembaca tipe pertama, pada dasarnya bagian pengantar ini ditulis dengan gaya yang “agak” menghibur. Sehingga mungkin saja Anda mendapatkan suatu gambaran baru yang setidaknya merefleksikan upaya kami agar konsepkonsep yang digunakan memang “tumbuh” di dalam aspek-aspek yang tengah dihadapi oleh Ibu Pertiwi. Bagi pembaca tipe kedua, bab pengantar ini dapat berfungsi sebagai sebuah penarik, sehingga Anda dapat dengan mudah memilah-milah bagian mana dari referensi yang ingin didalami. Bagi pembaca umum, bab ini dirancang dengan sebanyak mungkin ilustrasi sehingga bagi mereka yang tak memiliki latar belakang matematika dan komputasi masih dapat menikmatinya. Bab awal ini memiliki motif ingin menumbuhkan penggunaan konsep-konsep sains yang benar-benar lahir dari sebuah keperluan penajaman sains sosial dalam nuansa Keindonesiaan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bab ini membahas pengantar ringan ke teori chaos, otomata selular dan model agen, mekanika statistik dan ekonofisika, dan evolusi sistem sosial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bagian Kedua: WIYATAMANDALA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BAB 1. Wawasan Nusantara dalam Perspektif Kompleksitas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ini adalah bab satu sekaligus juga dapat dilihat sebagai bagian implementatif dari buku ini. Intinya adalah bagaimana cara pandang kita diubah dengan menggunakan berbagai perangkat kompleksitas sehingga kita memperoleh perspektif yang komprehensif atas siapa kita, dan bagaimana posisi kita di tengah-tengah masyarakat dunia, dengan memperhatikan potensi sekaligus beberapa kelemahan yang memang perlu kita perbaiki. Dalam hal ini, kita mengingat konsep Wawasan Nusantara, sebagai cara pandang bangsa Indonesia terhadap dirinya sendiri, sebagai sebuah kesatuan yang utuh dari seluruh aspek kehidupan humaniora dan kemasyarakatan. Babad Tanah Air diuraikan dalam visi Wawasan Nusantara dalam perspektif kompleksitas dengan memperhatikan evolusi kontrak sosial, representasi kompleks tentang konsep negara danwawasan evaluatif atas bagaimana kita berdemokrasi, bagaimana entitas masyarakat Indonesia disusun dalam sudut pandang demografis dan abstraksi tentang gagasan Keindonesiaan secara umum. Hal ini penting dengan adanya arahan bahwa manusia secara individual pada dasarnya selalu berada pada kondisi kritikal mengatur dirinya sendiri (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;self-organized criticallity&lt;/span&gt;) hidup dan berkembang. Babad Tanah Air dalam buku ini menjadi jembatan kita melihat Indonesia dalam perspektif kompleksitas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bab ini membahas tentang peluang menuju cara pandang ke-Indonesia-an yang baru, demokrasi sebagai sistem kendali dinamis, demokrasi &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a la &lt;/span&gt;Indonesia, representasi politik, pencarian untuk sistem pemilu yang adil, menuju wawasan nusantara dalam perspektif yang dinamis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;BAB 2 Kompleksitas Sosiologis dan Kemasyarakatan Indonesia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indonesia adalah masyarakat yang unik. Sebagaimana telah didiskusikan sebelumnya, keunikan aspek sosiologis masyarakat Indonesia ini dapat saja menjadi aral yang menghadang ketika kita hendak melakukan pembangunan sosial. Namun dalam perspektif kompleks kita melihat bahwa keunikan tersebut semestinya menjadi sebuah modal yang sangat positif dalam kerangka pembangunan manusia Indonesia seutuhnya. Pembangunan manusia dan sistem sosial bukanlah mengubah masyarakat menjadi seperti sistem sosial dan manusia menjadi seperti yang saat ini kita temui di negara maju, melainkan proses pengembangan evolutif yang justru menghasilkan sesuatu yang lebih, karena Indonesia unik dan indah. Inilah yang ingin kita pelajari dalam ke-wiyatamandalaan pertama dalam bab ini. Bab ini mendiskusikan aspek-aspek yang dapat kita pelajari melalui perbedaan yang ada di bumi pertiwi, mulai dari variasi di level etnisitas, agama, dan sebagainya. Kita juga mempelajari bagaimana media dan masyarakat berinteraksi, melihat sistem periklanan dan bagaimana ia membentuk pola konsumsi nasional, termasuk melihat kondisi yang sangat memprihatinkan seperti korupsi di berbagai level melalui banyak perspektif yang tersedia dalam kajian dan wawasan berbasis kompleksitas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bab ini membahas etnik dan konflik sosial di Indonesia, media dan konstruksi sosial, termasuk fenomena korupsi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;BAB 3 Ekonomi dan Keuangan Negeri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bab ini menyediakan lapangan wiyatamandala tempat untuk belajar dari ekonomi kita saat ini. Hal ini dapat dijadikan refleksi guna membentuk ekonomi yang lebih baik. Bagaimana ekonomi kompleksitas memandang kemiskinan dan berbagai aspek sosial yang dapat memiskinkan serta bagaimana caranya agar kita bisa keluar dari kemiskinan, yang menjadi bahasan pertama. Ini kita kaitkan pula dengan kondisi angkatan kerja di Indonesia, yang saat ini perlu mendapat perhatian lebih. Ketenagakerjaan tidaklah sesimpel melihat jumlah pengangguran dan ketersediaan lapangan kerja, karena dinamika sosial yang kompleks bermain di sini. Dalam perspektif sederhana saja, secara mikro aspek pengangguran bertali-talian dengan kriminalitas dan banyak aspek sosial lain. Ia membrojolkan situasi kompleks yang perlu dicermati dengan seksama. Aspek ekonomi lain yang perlu kita perhatikan adalah posisi pasar keuangan Indonesia di kawasan Asia Pasifik dan bagaimana sebenarnya iklim investasi di nusantara. Hal ini dilanjutkan lebih jauh dengan menggunakan berbagai perangkat-perangkat ekonofisika untuk melihat pasar modal kita, mulai dari dinamika per saham, hingga interaksi korelatif antar saham sebagai sebuah sistem kompleks. Terdapat banyak peluang inovasi analitik yang dapat kita pelajari di sini, sebagaimana halnya analisis tentang inovasi yang diketengahkan di bagian akhir bab ini. Bab ini membuka peluang. Namun, semua itu tergantung bagaimana kita dapat mengakuisisi semua itu, demi hidup yang lebih baik.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bab ini membahas makroekonomi kompleks Indonesia, posisi uang dan investasi, bursa efek Indonesia, dan Inovasi untuk ekonomi Indonesia masa depan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BAB 4 Pendidikan dalam Teropong Kebudayaan Nasional &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bab ini berusaha merekam wawasan wiyatamandala dalam paradigma kompleksitas sosial. Ketika permasalahan yang dirasakan telah menjadi bagian dari budaya, maka pendidikan menjadi satu-satunya jalan. Bagaimana kita berbahasa, menikmati musik, menonton televisi, berolahraga, dan bersekolah bisa jadi menyimpan berbagai aspek kognitif. Ia menjadi tempat bercokolnya segala permasalahan yang kita hadapi di level permukaan sistemsosial.  Masing-masing aspek dari bab ini berusaha memaparkan bagaimana kita dapat mengeksploitasi sains kompleksitas sosial sebagai sebuah modal untuk mengatasi persoalan yang kita hadapi. Ini merupakan sebuah semangat yang melandasi berbagai penelitian independen yang dipaparkan dalam buku ini. Sementara itu, kekecewaan terhadap wawasan kita akan diri sendiri, khususnya dalam dunia pendidikan, merupakan sebuah sumber kreativitas. Bab ini memiliki motif untuk menunjukkan keluasan aspek sains kompleksitas sosial, sekaligus berusaha mengajak pembaca untuk melakukan refleksi atas apa yang kita punya, apa yang selama ini kita lakukan, sekaligus bagaimana memandang masa depan secara optimis. Sikap ini dapat dimunculkan dari dalam khazanah sains yang berakar pada budaya dan keterlaksanaan pranata sosial kita sendiri. Ini merupakan sebuah proposal awal untuk mencari kerangka jangka panjang. Bagaimanapun aspek kebudayaan, dalam pengertian seluas-luasnya, adalah pusat dari banyak aspek kehidupan kita. Bab ini membahas variasi dan akuisis bahasa/linguistik, perspektif kompleksitas untuk prestasi olahraga nasional, telaah seni budaya nasional, televisi dan masyarakat, dan pendidikan nasional sebagai sejati wawasan wiyatamandala.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bagian Ketiga REFLEKSI KINI UNTUK MASA DEPAN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BAB 5 Tentang Terorisme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terorisme merupakan salah satu isu sosial politik terhangat dalam horizon masyarakat internasional saat ini. Kasus pasca perang Irak, isu seputar buronan Osama bin Laden dan kelompoknya, hingga kasus pasca pengadilan terpidana aksi terorisme di tanah air, merupakan isu-isu yang mendapat perhatian banyak kalangan dalam khazanah budaya dan politik nasional. Isu ini tentu saja sangat terkait dengan hubungan internasional. Kebanyakan anggota masyarakat berinteraksi langsung dengan isu tersebut melalui media massa. Interaksi ini biasanya monologis dalam bentuk pelaporan, reportase, atau pengkajian opini dan analisis di media massa. Dalam hal ini, sikap editorial media massa merupakan hal yang sangat penting dalam proses dan dinamika formasi opini, di seputar posisi isu tersebut di tengah-tengah masyarakat. Bab ini meletakkan fokus permasalahan pada sudut pandang jaringan kompleks dari konsep-konsep linguistik yang ditemui dalam korpora editorial dan tajuk utama di editorial media cetak nasional. Tujuannya adalah untuk mencari bagaimana media mengkonstruksi imagi tentang terorisme di dalam ruang kognisi masyarakat Indonesia. Deskripsi ini kita lengkapi dengan sebuah analisis serupa untuk mendeteksi respon aktif dan spontan dari masyarakat ketika salah satu dari editorial tersebut disajikan melalui media televisi. Keterkaitan antara dua hasil analisis ini diharapkan dapat memberikan sejumlah konjektur baru. Arahan tersebut tentu saja berkaitan dengan perspektif umum masyarakat terhadap isu terorisme dan kebijakan luar negeri Amerika Serikat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;BAB 6 Tentang Epidemiologi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Melalui kesadaran bahwa sistem sosial adalah sistem kompleks, epidemiologi bukan lagi sebuah lapangan yang melulu diskusi di bidang kesehatan masyarakat. Epidemiologi terkait dengan berbagai isu di luar isu medis seperti kondisi ekonomi, sosial, termasuk kesadaran publik atas sanitasi, yang berhubungan erat pula dengan tingkat pendidikan masyarakat. Penyakit baru senantiasa bermunculan, AIDS, flu burung, dan sebagainya, sementara masyarakat kita masih kelabakan dengan berbagai penyakit lama, persoalan seputar vaksin dan obat yang mahal, tentang gizi yang kurang, dan lain sebagainya. Ketimpangan ekonomi di sana-sini mengakibatkan di satu sisi sebagian kecil populasi kelebihan gizi dan sebagian besar lagi kekurangan gizi. Keduanya tak lepas dari penyakit yang menggerogoti ketahanan sosial kita. Epidemi penyakit berkaitan dengan epidemi sosial seperti kemiskinan, pengangguran, dan kebodohan. Mengatasi epidemi dengan memahami sistem kompleks tak mungkin lagi sekadar mencari vaksin karena “kompetisi” antara kemunculan penyakit baru atau mutasi penyakit lama senantiasa selalu menang dengan laju kemampuan kita mencari obat atau vaksin yang tepat. Secara populatif, kemampuan kita mengelola sistem sosial dan ekonomi rakyat merupakan sebuah langkah nyata untuk mengatasi merebaknya penyakit secara lebih jauh. Lebih jauh, pengentasan satu penyakit tak boleh terkotak-kotak. Pengentasan penyakit mesti dilakukan secara interdisiplin dari masing-masing jenis penyakit. Bagaimanapun, epidemiologi adalah permasalahan budaya masyarakat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;BAB 7 Menerawang Dinamika Ekonomi dan Keuangan Ke Depan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ekonomi yang mengglobal dan kapitalistik mau tidak mau telah menobatkan ekonomi dan keuangan sebagai kaisar ilmu sosial. Bab ini memberikan wawasan ke depan. Deskripsi ini dapat menjadi penggaris dalam memandang sistem ekonomi dan keuangan secara khusus di masa yang akan datang. Bab ini berdiskusi tentang pergerakan harga-harga saham di bursa efek per sektor yang menggunakan metodologi kompleks, yang biasa digunakan dalam ilmu hayat, tepatnya biokimia dan genetika. Hasil yang diperoleh sungguh menarik. Di sini, kita dapat melihat bagaimana pola klasifikasi dari saham-saham per sektor bahkan dari sisi informasi fundamentalnya, tak hanya memperhatikan pergerakan harga saham semata. Lebih lanjut, kita juga dapat melihat pergerakan harga beberapa komoditas yang diperdagangkan di pasar internasional. Tentunya sedikit banyak, ia akan mempengaruhi pola investasi dan kehidupan sosial ekonomi Indonesia, terutama bila dikaitkan dengan proses pengambilan kebijakan dan anggaran publik secara nasional. Bab ini mengakhiri perjalanan kita. Ulasan ini sekaligus menjadi contoh konkrit bagaimana wawasan wiyatamandala taman akademia dapat memberikan sumbangsih dalam memperluas cakrawala wawasan nusantara, yang dilengkapi dengan cara pandang sistem kompleks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bagian EPILOGIA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bagian ini berisi tantangan untuk mencari solusi terbaik bagi negeri, dimana sains dan pengetahuan merupakan salah satu alternatif terbaik.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anda dapat memiliki buku ini dengan mengunjungi toko-toko buku terdekat atau dapat juga menghubungi langsung Surya Research International, dengan &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;contact person:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yohanis Kwee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surya Research International&lt;br /&gt;Ruko Cyberpark Jalan Boulevard Gajah Mada no. 2152&lt;br /&gt;Lippo Karawaci, Tangerang 15811 - Banten&lt;br /&gt;ph. 021 70227545 dan 021 5512584, mobile. +62 818144552&lt;br /&gt;mail: bfi@bandungfe.net&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;atau pada &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;jam kerja&lt;/span&gt; (Senin-Jum'at) untuk Bandung, dengan &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;contact person&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sdri. Asri&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Bandung Fe Institute&lt;br /&gt;Sarimadu 99&lt;br /&gt;Sarijadi Blok 25&lt;br /&gt;Bandung 40164&lt;br /&gt;Jawa Barat&lt;br /&gt;ph. 022 2011016&lt;br /&gt;mail: bfi@bandungfe.net&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5433771572510596645-4618245524462501198?l=bfinews.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5433771572510596645/posts/default/4618245524462501198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5433771572510596645/posts/default/4618245524462501198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bfinews.blogspot.com/2008/04/buku-solusi-untuk-indonesia.html' title='BUKU: SOLUSI untuk INDONESIA'/><author><name>BFI NEWSLETTER archieve</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/R_OrQy4SFhI/AAAAAAAAAAs/OGINh8xXOHs/s72-c/buku_kcl.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433771572510596645.post-4319252589281498054</id><published>2008-01-06T20:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-06T20:36:58.147-08:00</updated><title type='text'>NEWSLETTER January 7th 2008</title><content type='html'>NEWSLETTER BANDUNG FE INSTITUTE (BFI)&lt;br /&gt;January 7th 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONTENTS:&lt;br /&gt;01. The New Year Speech From the Office&lt;br /&gt;02. BFI 1st Lustrum&lt;br /&gt;03. Book Plan: Complex Indonesian Outlook 2008&lt;br /&gt;04. Book Available: Indonesian Introduction to Econophysics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;01. Presidential Speech of The New Year 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the presidential speech for the closing of research year 2007 and opening of 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friends, competitors, colleagues, and all readers of the institute,&lt;br /&gt;It is now the time we change the calendar of research as the calendars in the wall will be replaced by the new year of 2008. The year of 2007 has been a very interesting year for the celebration of a lot of empirical researches by our scholars and researchers. The topics are various: from the romance story of love to the enhancement of stock market forecasting techniques, from the evolution of languages to Indonesian strategic economic views, from the world of sports to the interesting patterns in Javanese batik. All were done and discussed in the institute and with interesting spirit of research with betterment of our society and humanity through scientific research. The year also was signed with the accomplishment of the new book can be regarded as an Indonesian Outlook 2008. A compilation of what BFI researchers view of Indonesia in the sense of complexity sciences. Everything has been very exciting, to me as the president of the institute and also friends and the people in the institute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also want to recall the very happy Ardian Maulana for his internship in the institute studying political sciences in the institute regarding to social conflict, game theoretic analysis, and social balance theories in the Dept. Computational Sociology. The year of 2007 is also a very interesting year for this year the institute has  held the first Lustrum, the fifth years of the establishment of the institute. I congratulate the people in the institute for their struggle for research with very limited resources and possible pressures each experienced, be it from people who do not like the accomplishment and our heart of steel or from ourselves teasing to be alike with most people who are lazy enough not to change corrupt things in our localities. Our pride is in our hope for the possible betterment of the society in which we are living, or at least the social induction we made through a lot of publication we created throughout the year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friends, competitors, colleagues, and all readers of the institute,&lt;br /&gt;Personally I would like also to express that the future world we are heading will be harder, not because of the lower appreciation we would have, but because we have made a single step in this thousand miles journey we begin in the institute. Our works should be followed by more works in the future: scrutinizing data in our dirty works for the advancement of our scientific endeavors. Our achievements will never be enough as the better life has been transcending in our spirit for seeking truth and knowledge. We will never feel enough. And this feeling will make our journey even harder and harder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friends, competitors, colleagues, and all readers of the institute,&lt;br /&gt;We are facing the new year, and hopefully we will make it better since for us: yesterday is good, to day is better, but tomorrow is the best! Thus, in the name of all BFI researchers and scholars, I would like to warmly convey to all of you the very happy new year eve we are facing, and let us do better. The power that will always be in any scientific researchers are the optimism that is being led, since there is no pessimistic sciences. This is the beauty of any science, and we are holding on to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have a nice time reading, and let us enjoy life through science…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hokky Situngkir&lt;br /&gt;President BFI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;02. BFI 1st Lustrum 2007&lt;br /&gt;BFI is now in its 5th years for serving sciences of social complexity. The celebration of the 5th year was held in Taman Budaya Bandung, Jawa Barat, Indonesia (Bandung Cultural Park, West Java, Indonesia). The commemoration was attended by closed friends and colleagues of the institute's researchers. The event was closed with dining together and the cut of Tumpeng, an Indonesian traditional steamed rice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/R4Gqepe_eHI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uj2rNUaklbw/s1600-h/Untitled-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/R4Gqepe_eHI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uj2rNUaklbw/s200/Untitled-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152586892197197938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;the presentation of Yun Hariadi's (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;above&lt;/span&gt;) and Hokky Situngkir's (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;below&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were two papers presented at the moment:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Statistical Properties of some Indonesian Songs&lt;br /&gt;presentation by: Hokky Situngkir&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Fractal Geometry of Indonesian Batik&lt;br /&gt;presentation by: Yun Hariadi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both papers can be downloaded in the BFI working paper list in the institute's website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;03. Book Plan for Complex Indonesian Outlook 2008 and ahead&lt;br /&gt;The institute in support and cooperation with Surya Research International Co. Ltd. has planned to write a book about Indonesian Outlook 2008 covering interdisciplinary social issues in the perspective of social complex analysis. The book is expected to tell us some description about Indonesia, from Indonesian, for general readers interested about Indonesia. The book is planned to be eclectic and written in Bahasa Indonesia with contents mostly powered by the institute's researches throughout these years, regarding to some important issues, e.g.: sociological aspects, political issues, economic and financial along with interesting aspects of culture and arts. A writing committee has been lined up and would be chaired by president of the institute directing the institute researchers, Yun Hariadi (Dynamical System Dept.), Rendra Suroso (Cognitive Science Dept.), Deni Khanafiah (Computational Sociology Dept.), Rolan Mauludy (Computational Sociology Dept.), along with research assistants Ardian Maulana Effendy and Kurniawan Hadi Yusro. An external writer, Hoferdy Zawani, would also help the general writing processes. There is possibility that some other external writers may also contribute to this book despite the book is programmed to be ready for publication in the next couple of months. The committee are also open for sympathetic hands that might want to help the publication of the book. Please contact the institute if you would like to know in which side you might want and are able to participate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;04. Book Available: Indonesian Introduction to Econophysics&lt;br /&gt;A book written by BFI scholars to introduce econophysics for Indonesian readers has been published in the last year and it has been circulated in national major book stores. However, we have heard some difficulties to obtain the book. The book is now available by ordering the book directly to BFI administrative office in Bandung or Surya Research International office in Jakarta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interested readers may contact:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yohanis Kwee&lt;br /&gt;Surya Research International&lt;br /&gt;Ruko Cyberpark&lt;br /&gt;Jalan Boulevard Gajah Mada no. 2152&lt;br /&gt;Lippo Karawaci&lt;br /&gt;Tangerang 15811 - Banten&lt;br /&gt;Indonesia&lt;br /&gt;ph. +62 21 5512584&lt;br /&gt;mobile. +62 818144552&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----&lt;br /&gt;BFI Administration&lt;br /&gt;Bandung Fe Institute&lt;br /&gt;Sarijadi Blok 5 No. 151&lt;br /&gt;Bandung 40151&lt;br /&gt;JAWA BARAT&lt;br /&gt;INDONESIA&lt;br /&gt;ph./fax: +62 22 2018232&lt;br /&gt;http://www.bandungfe.net&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5433771572510596645-4319252589281498054?l=bfinews.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5433771572510596645/posts/default/4319252589281498054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5433771572510596645/posts/default/4319252589281498054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bfinews.blogspot.com/2008/01/newsletter-january-7th-2008.html' title='NEWSLETTER January 7th 2008'/><author><name>BFI NEWSLETTER archieve</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3TfpZs26I50/R4Gqepe_eHI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uj2rNUaklbw/s72-c/Untitled-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry></feed>
