This article is based on a research study focussing on correspondence among Proto Malay Polynesian (PMP, for short), the Yogyakarta Javanese dialect, and Indonesian. The research employed a top-down reconstruction analysis. The results of the analysis have indicated that PMP is reflected in the Yogyakarta Javanese dialect with the retention of the vowels/a/, /i/, /u/, and /e/ and the consona…
ince 2002 up to now, if we observe the KOMPAS short stories published every Sunday, we will notice that the ilustrations are different from those published before. It is because sence 2002 many artist are involved in producing the ilustrations, such as Sigit Santosa, Joko Pekik, Samuel Indratme, FX. Harsono, Dewi Aditya, Made Wiyanta, Tisna Sanjaya, Ang Hary Wahyu. The latest name is very well …
In the last ten years, it has been huge number of design institution in the main city of Indonesia which is providing program for diploma or strata 1. It has been such great full because of people consciousness which will allow design plays significant role in developing economy of the country. Even in the globalization era, this role tends to be more increased. On the other hand, education exe…
The comic world in Indonesia still becomes home industry. It is organized with an unprofessional and unproportional work pattern. Thus, when it has to compete with foreign comic industries, it cannot match the foreign industries' quality in narrations, story logics, and pictures. Often times the development of comic in Indonesia is conducted by plagiarizing foreign comics. To reinvigorate comic…
Art auction is a medium for collectors to get qualified art works or to sell their art work. Art auction in Indonesia has been recorded since 1981, achieved by Yayasan Lingkar Mitra Budaya. Nowadays, there are many art auctions in Indonesia. According to catalogue of Larasati and Masterpiece art auction, there have been only 12 women artists that their works entering to art auction during 2001-…
The Javanese spoken by its speech communities in East Java has characteristics different from those of the Javanese spoken by its speech communities in other regions of Java. The characteristics can be examined in terms of its word form and word choice in everyday utterances made by its speakers. The differences become more marked when one relates the utterances with the social-class background…
In their development, the languages referred to as Bahasa Indonesia (or BI, for short) and New Javanese (or NJ, for short) have absorbed a quantity of lexicon from Sanskrit. Much of the same lexicon has been absorbed from Sanskrit into BI and NJ. Granted that BI and NJ influence each other, perhaps BI has absorbed the Sanskrit lexicon from NJ or vice versa. However, referring to historical aspe…
Manuscripts of Javanese literary texts with a Christian nuance are difficult to obtain. Compared with the development of the Hindu, Buddhism, and Moslem traditions in Javanese literary culture, that of the Christian tradition is still relatively new. Only a few Javanese literary texts with a Christian nuance are assumed to be currently in existence. The writer has in hand a manuscript containin…