Vol. 5 No. 8 (2006)

The following is the summary of paper presented by Professor Wiranto Arismunandar concerning the establishment of a study program spesialising in the social sciences and humanities in Institut Teknologi Bandung. The idea is stimulated by the fact that the appreciation of the society on the advances of technologies and sciences as well as their products and services has not been so satisfactory. He, therefore, suggests that ITB establish a study program in which the students specialize themselves in social sciences and humanities. The students are expected to be able to interact equally with…

The empowerment of the small and medium scale businesses (SMSB) through the employment of technologies are constrained by two factors: (a) the lack of SMSB capacity in adopting the technologies and (b) the less proactive efforts of the technology producers in promoting their technology products. The constraints of the SMSB are, among others, that they are lack of funds for their entrepreneurship, inconsistent in their entrepreneurship, lack of support from the mainstream industries, lack of conducive laws on the technology transfer for SMSB, and not accustomed to using information and data…

Indonesian people are generally less precise and creative in using the Indonesian Language. Most of them are satisfied when other interlocutors understand what they said. This belief cannot be tolerated in both scientific and technology-related communication. The point is that science and technology requires preciseness. Many instances of impreciseness in scientific and technology-related communication result in negative impacts. Besides their being imprecise, they are less creative in using both dictions and terminologies of science and technology. The following are the examples of both…

Higher education in Indonesia tends to appreciate education of science and technology more than the other field of studies. This condition seems prominent at a higher education specialising in the field of science and technology such as Institut Teknologi Bandung. However, Institut Teknologi Bandung -- as one of the oldest higher education in Indonesia -- has learnt the importance of the role of humanities for solving the social problems because of the fact that science and technology only cannot be used to solve the current world

The development of science, technology, arts, social and humanity science is characterized by the trends of their getting more interrelated and interdependent among one another in a more intense complex relationship. In such condition, the dynamism of knowledge development is highly determined by the openness of any discipline epistemologically, institutionally, and culturally. At the epistemological extent, there is a tendency of epistemological rift in which the disciplinary demarcation or border no longer exists. In such a climate, the endeavour to build a new group of disciplines,…

The classical work of Al Ghajali, Minhaj al-Abidin, describes the role of Ibadah or Islamic way of worshiping Allah (the almighty God)) in details. Ibadah is a compulsory duty of a moslem. To do the Ibadah rightly, a moslem is required to obey the suggested pointers (aqabah). He drew an analogy between aqabah and the idea of “climbing a path with many hindrances”. Aqabah consists of seven kinds. The first is aqabah al-ilm. This type of aqabah is applied in scientific endeavours. The second is aqabah al tawbah. This one is applied in purifying oneself from his sins. The third is aqabah…

The shared thinking pattern between the information provider and the information recipient is the key to the success of their communication. Therefore, both the information provider and recipient have to use the same language, or the language that has been converted into the recipient’s language. In the case of the communication between the Cipta Gelar community and the Halimun Mountain Park’s Officers (the information provider), the officers have to convert their formal language into the language of Cipta Gelar community’s local language. Without such an effort, a conflict of interest…

Judul buku ini, "Bisakah Orang Asia Berpikir", juga bisa ditafsir dari berbagai sudut seperti itu. Ia merendahkan, provokatif, tapi sekaligus bisa mengajak orang Asia untuk mengevaluasi dan melakukan repleksi diri. Jika kita hanya membaca judulnya, tafsir yang akan muncul kemungkinan besar yang pertama, yakni Mahbubani, penulisnya tengah memandang sebelah mata bahkan meniadakan orang Asia. Namun, jika kita melihat biografi Mahbubani yang juga dilahirkan di Asia dan lebih jauh membaca tuntas apa yang dipaparkannya, tafsir tersebut tidak mungkin terlontar. Setelah selesai membacanya orang akan…

The title of this research is called " Adverbia Temporal Berpreposisi dalam Bahasa Inggris" or "žThe Prepositional Phrase of Adverb of Time (AT) in English"Ÿ: This reseach focuses on: i. What the structures of Adverb of Time are; ii what prepositions of the Adverb of Time and their positions are; iii what temporal meaning of the adverb of time are; iv which prepositions of the Adverb of Time can be deleted or obligated in AT phrases. The method used in the research is descriptive and synchronic linguistics. The analysis based on the classificaton of data results in: First, the prepositional…