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Sociology for Whom? Sociological Theory Building and Social Policy Making in Southeast Asia Jakarta, March 2-3, 2017 Welcoming Remarks_______________________________________ The 2017 ASEAN SYMPOSIUM OF SOCIOLOGY with the main theme of SOCIOLOGY FOR WHOM? Theory Building and Social Policy Making in Southeast Asia is the first international symposium of sociology organized and hosted by the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia. It is an honor to be able to welcome all the distinguished guests and participants both from our Southeast Asian neighbors and The East Asian countries together with our fellow Indonesian academics and students. The main theme of this academic symposium will comprise of three sub-themes: Theory Building, Policy Sociology, and Public Sociology. It is clear that this academic symposium main objective is to be able to theorize in order to contribute both for policy and public sociology; to make Sociology more relevant and more able to contribute towards academic work, policy making, and public activism. Hopefully this academic symposium will be the first step of a series of symposia and discussions for a more relevant and significant Sociology in Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia in the long term. On behalf of The Department of Sociology, Universitas Indonesia, I would like to gratefully acknowledge the active participation and contribution of all our distinguished academic participants both from Southeast Asia and East Asia and our fellow Indonesians. Appreciation is especially given to the key speakers, Prof. Syed Farid Alatas, Ph.D. from National University of Singapore and Prof. Dr. Paulus Wirutomo from Universitas Indonesia. I would also extend my gratitude to Prof Kamanto Sunarto, Ph.D., Prof. Dr Robert M.Z. Lawang, Prof. Iwan Gardono Sudjatmiko, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. der Soz. Rochman Achwan, Prof. Dr. der Soz. Gumilar Rusliwa Somantri, Prof. Dr. Sudarsono Hardjosukarto, and Prof. Dr. Dody Prayogo, for their full support in initiating and active contribution in making this academic symposium possible. These two day international symposium which consists of one full day symposium open to the public and one half day round table discussion for invited guests would not be possible without the kind contribution and voluntary support of both the Steering Committee and the Organizing Committee organized by Dr. Rosa Diniari, Lugina Satyawati Setiono, Ph.D., Dr. Ida Ruwaida Noor, Daisy Indira Yasmine, M.Sc, Dr. Indera Ratna Irawati Pattinasarany, Raphaella Dwianto, Ph.D., and Heidy Angelica and all our lecturers and students; to all of you, my gratitude. Hopefully this first international academic symposium will be a successful learning process and exchange of ideas between fellow sociologists in ASEAN and East Asia. Selamat datang di Jakarta! Welcome! Jakarta, 2 March 2017 Francisia Seda, Ph.D. Head of the Department of Sociology 2 Sociology for Whom? Sociological Theory Building and Social Policy Making in Southeast Asia Jakarta, March 2-3, 2017 Background_____________________________________________ Sociology as a modern discipline have developed only recently since the 19th century with thick European and North American societal, philosophical, and historical change. After the end of World War II, sociology came to Southeast Asia through, both local and foreign, scholars educated in the western hemisphere and through states' endorsement for positivistic development studies. Such background calls for questions concerning the nature of sociology's universalistic nature and its course within the indigenous categories. Moreover, some dominant sociological analyses are limited their concerns to concept formation and theory construction which are solely useful for a limited sociological and academic community. It is sociology for sociologists. On the other hand, these sociological activities ignore the local community as their subject and they can actually provide policy recommendations to improve their social well being. It is sociology for society as discussed in Lee’s “Sociology for Whom” (1976) and Burawoy’s “For Public Sociology” (2005).1 In other words, sociology is reduced to benefit sociologists while ignoring society-community as their subjects of study. There are two fundamental issues in Southeast Asian sociology: first, to construct local theories to advance sociology; and second, to provide local policies to improve society. The first issue is a challenge to local sociologists to increase their contribution to local theory building that can enrich a more general sociological theories as shown in King’s “underdevelopment of Southeast Asian Sociology” (2008).2 Presently, local sociologists in Southeast Asia are demanded to fulfill this challenge. On the second issue, the local sociologist are actually involved in social policy development and public advocacy or sociology for society. However, their policy analyses and recommendations on corruption, poverty, and social exclusion are not well disseminated in sociological forum and journals. It is a need to disseminate their works in order to give feedback to a wider academic sociology and to contribute to a more general sociological theory. These two issues are immanently relevant notably when the 2016 ISA Forum has inscribed “The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and Struggles for a Better World” as its heading. Global sociology could only reign from the rich contributions of various sociological studies around the globe, including Southeast Asian sociology-may that be in discourses, grounded theories or empirical researches. On the other hand, Southeast Asian sociologists seem to face a challenge as they are highly engaged in activism and academic practices but hardly making impact in theoretical discourse. 1 See Alfred McClung Lee. “Presidential Address: Sociology for Whom.” American Sociological Review 1976, Vol. 41 (December): 925-936 and Michael Burawoy. “2004 Presidential Address. For Public Sociology.” American Sociological Review, 2005, Vol. 70 (Fberuary: 4-28). 2 Victor T King. The Sociology of Southeast Asia: Transformations in a Developing Region. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2008. 3 Sociology for Whom? Sociological Theory Building and Social Policy Making in Southeast Asia Jakarta, March 2-3, 2017 Objectives We encourage ASEAN sociologists to discuss the questions within three general themes in this symposium: 1) public sociology, 2) policy sociology, and 3)sociology in the professional field. The symposium will invigorate such subjects through inquiries such as, but not limited to: 1. How Southeast Asian sociologist could play roles in Southeast Asian societies? (How Southeast Asian sociologists could contribute to sociological theory building?) 2. How to view or approach "Southeast Asian sociology"? How to set the influence of indigenous categories in sociological discourses? 3. How sociology and sociologists could influence and direct Social Policies in Southeast Asian societies? 4. How interconnection and collective work of sociologist could develop the discourse? 5. How can sociologist share and learn best practices in theory building and policy making in Southeast Asian Societies? 4 Sociology for Whom? Sociological Theory Building and Social Policy Making in Southeast Asia Jakarta, March 2-3, 2017 Schedules_____________________________________________ Date Time Activity Registration 08.00 - 09.00 at AJS Hall Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Welcoming Speech Arie Setiabudhi Soesilo 09.00 - 09.15 Dean, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Universitas Indonesia Keynote Speech: 09.15 - 10.30 Syed Farid Alatas (National University of Singapore) Paulus Wirutomo (Universitas Indonesia) 10.30 – 10.45 Coffee Break Theme 1 Theme 2 Theme 3 Theory Building Policy Sociology Public Sociology March 10.45 – 12.00 Panel 1.1 Panel 2.1 Panel 3.1 2nd 12.00 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 14.45 Panel 1.2 Panel 2.2 Panel 3.2 14.45 – 15.00 Coffee Break 15.00 - 16.15 Panel 1.3 Panel 2.3 Panel 3.3 16.15 – 17.15 Panel 1.4 Panel 2.3 - Closing Plenary: Shujiro Yazawa (Hitotsubashi University and Seijo University) 17.30 – 18.30 Hyun Chin Lim (Seoul National University) Kamanto Sunarto (universitas Indonesia) Gala Dinner at AJS Hall 19.00 – 21.00 Faculty of Social and Political Sciences March 8.30 – 9.00 Coffee Break 3rd Round Table Discussion 9.00 – 12.30 (closed invitation) AJS Hall 5 Sociology for Whom? Sociological Theory Building and Social Policy Making in Southeast Asia Jakarta, March 2-3, 2017 List of Panels______________________________________________________________________ Panels on Theory Building Panel 1. 1 Panel 1.2 Panel 1.3 Panel 1.4 Urban Food Consumption, Construction of Identity Structure, Agency and History Internationalization of Sociology Multiculturalism and Social and Social Movement in Japan Knowledge Room: AJS Hall Room: AJS Hall Room: AJS Hall Room: AJS Hall Chair: Francisia SSE Seda Chair: Francisia SSE Seda Chair: Rochman Achwan Chair: Rochman Achwan Nanay Gulay: Food Scavenging and Producing Identity through Violence: Women’s Agency and Economic Life Similarities and Differences among Motherhood in the Face of Urban Embracing Materiality in Sociological Changes of Fishermen: Community in Asian-Pacific Sociologists in the Poverty. Theorizing of Violent Action. the Thousand Islands. Attitued toward international Bitalac, Joshua Philip D. Riyanto, Geger Rosyidah, Ida Standards of Sociological Work: From a Questionnaire for the Participants in 2014 ISA World