WPS 105 Trends in Age at Marriage in the Provinces of Indonesia

Earlier studies in Indonesia have shown that though age at marriage has been rising gradually over a number of decades, Indonesia is still characterized by considerable early marriage, as well as substantial numbers delaying marriage until into their 30s.  Urbanization and educational development have been key factors associated with the increase in age at marriage. Considerable …

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WPS 104 Women and Livelihoods in Post-Tsunami India and Aceh

The ways in which humanitarian aid organisations respond to natural disasters contribute significantly to how communities negotiate and endure the loss of family, homes, and livelihoods in disaster-affected areas. When the chaos of a natural disaster occurs, gender is often ignored in the planning and development of relief strategies and projects. The lack of understanding …

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Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement and Resettlement

In the past decade or so, historians, activists, and literary scholars have recovered stories of survivors of Partition in order to understand its human side and multiple dimensions of the ways in which “partitioned subjects” reconstituted themselves in relation to the violence. These collections are useful not only in uncovering the hitherto buried creative writing …

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WPS 103 Who Trusts Government? Understanding Political Trust among the Poor in Bangladesh

Evidence that political trust is in decline in established democracies seems conclusive, but there is less clarity about trends in political values in poor developing country democracies. This paper attempts to shed some light on the determinants of political trust in poor developing countries. It does so by exploring findings of unexpected levels of political …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 4 No. 1)

Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research, and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population studies …

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WPS 102 ‘Welcome To Bumi Sriwijaya’ or the Building of a Provincial Identity in Contemporary Indonesia

In typical Indonesian fashion, when you land at Palembang, the first public name to greet the visitor is that given to the airport: Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II, the last of the Palembang sultans, the provincial National Hero (Pahlawan Nasional), who resisted Dutch annexation, was subsequently exiled in 1821 and later died in Ternate. As you …

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