When I was asked whether I wanted to provide an access worldwide to the book I wrote, as it is called "dissertation", I said "yes" to my professor, Franz Husken. He knew my passion to my people for bringing the clarity of what was happening to our society. I got the full scholarship from a competitive Dutch grant, WOTRO, for the whole of my PhD training. Therefore I wanted returning what the Dutch and all people had contributed to my education for giving this access for the world society to read. Several friends have read the book and told me that they felt like I was a novelist who can describe the complex situation to touch people heart. For those who think in the way, I wish I can write many books with this line of passion.
I honour my Professor who had left us forever in last May 2010. He had waited for the book to be published as a hard copy. I haven't done it, but I know he understood my way to build my understanding on the knowledge of violence, conflict and peace making efforts.
To another professor who was in my journey, Leontine Visser who sensesed my passion for deconstructing what was going on, taught me to be honest for what I knew and not. I think she knew that my closeness to the people might be a problem for writing this research as an academic account. Her carefully guidance has made me to be aware about my bias therefore I have reshaped many many times in the way I positioned myself. I thank for her passion to push me for looking from different perspectives.
Both of them like to treat me after a long examination every time I submitted my chapter. They cooked for me at their home. I think my students now always hear this story and sometime enjoy my cooking I make for them. Cooking for those who are in the pain after regular examination is like an enlightment. I remember its pain to have with my students now also, especially those who are doing their PhD studies at ICRS Yogya.
My professors, their questions to push me getting out from a grand jargon of theories have lived now with me. Any word has its own meaning that I have to explain for a better description to answer such a word has lived in various contexts of people's life. Being as an anthropologist comes in my PhD training for sure. Only Leontine who ever said my decision to leaving Jakarta to go working in the remote islands of Indonesia, in Halmahera has shown that I had a blood of anthropologist. Perhaps the blood was given by my grandparents who served in Papua for many many years. In the book I distinguished between the travelling ethnograpic notes and my own.
I thank to Prof.Laksono from UGM who always knows that I can make a trouble for asking so many questions. Some time we had a different way to see the problem, and I stood to my position. His patience to guide me was so priceless. I value all his efforts to let me to be a person in my construction of my knowledge.
The more of that was my husband who allows me to have my own imagination. He said that I always appear as a little girl who like to question and question. I think they know I was born with questions as my mother said that she got difficulty to teach me how to read. Then after I had the idea to understand every words I would not stop reading everywhere on the road. She knew I was a slow person to comprehend when I was a little. But I had passion to know and to imagine. Perhaps the quality has given through the spirit of my parents who named me in the call. Their wisdom to bringing me up was a blessing in my life.
To all teachers, my husband and my parents I thank you. Your imagination has planted in me to channel the way to go. I hope to hold your spirit to inherit down to my students and all people to whom I share my stories.
When you read the book, you will think that you were there with me and the people.
Have a good time today. God bless you all. Salam. F
repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/2066/56413/1/56413_poliriani.pdf
I honour my Professor who had left us forever in last May 2010. He had waited for the book to be published as a hard copy. I haven't done it, but I know he understood my way to build my understanding on the knowledge of violence, conflict and peace making efforts.
To another professor who was in my journey, Leontine Visser who sensesed my passion for deconstructing what was going on, taught me to be honest for what I knew and not. I think she knew that my closeness to the people might be a problem for writing this research as an academic account. Her carefully guidance has made me to be aware about my bias therefore I have reshaped many many times in the way I positioned myself. I thank for her passion to push me for looking from different perspectives.
Both of them like to treat me after a long examination every time I submitted my chapter. They cooked for me at their home. I think my students now always hear this story and sometime enjoy my cooking I make for them. Cooking for those who are in the pain after regular examination is like an enlightment. I remember its pain to have with my students now also, especially those who are doing their PhD studies at ICRS Yogya.
My professors, their questions to push me getting out from a grand jargon of theories have lived now with me. Any word has its own meaning that I have to explain for a better description to answer such a word has lived in various contexts of people's life. Being as an anthropologist comes in my PhD training for sure. Only Leontine who ever said my decision to leaving Jakarta to go working in the remote islands of Indonesia, in Halmahera has shown that I had a blood of anthropologist. Perhaps the blood was given by my grandparents who served in Papua for many many years. In the book I distinguished between the travelling ethnograpic notes and my own.
I thank to Prof.Laksono from UGM who always knows that I can make a trouble for asking so many questions. Some time we had a different way to see the problem, and I stood to my position. His patience to guide me was so priceless. I value all his efforts to let me to be a person in my construction of my knowledge.
The more of that was my husband who allows me to have my own imagination. He said that I always appear as a little girl who like to question and question. I think they know I was born with questions as my mother said that she got difficulty to teach me how to read. Then after I had the idea to understand every words I would not stop reading everywhere on the road. She knew I was a slow person to comprehend when I was a little. But I had passion to know and to imagine. Perhaps the quality has given through the spirit of my parents who named me in the call. Their wisdom to bringing me up was a blessing in my life.
To all teachers, my husband and my parents I thank you. Your imagination has planted in me to channel the way to go. I hope to hold your spirit to inherit down to my students and all people to whom I share my stories.
When you read the book, you will think that you were there with me and the people.
Have a good time today. God bless you all. Salam. F
repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/2066/56413/1/56413_poliriani.pdf
