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"Entikong, salah satu daerah yang berbatasan dengan negara Malaysia, merupakan daerah yang merespon krisis ekonomi secara berbeda dari sebagian besar daerah di tempat lain. Jika sebagian besar wilayah negara Indonesia mengalami 'kebangkrutan' akibat krisis ekonomi, sebaliknya, masyarakat di daerah perbatasan ini justru meraup keuntungan. Masyarakat Entikong justru menginginkan tetap berlangsungnya krisis ekonomi, karena hal itu membuat semakin bergairahnya kehidupan mereka. Harga jual komoditi pertanian, perkebunan, kehutanan, dan keperluan barang sehari-hari melalui lintas batas antarnegara relatif tinggi. Hal itu terjadi karena selisih kurs yang sangat tinggi. Bahkan, harga barang yang dibeli dari warga negara Indonesia jauh lebih murah daripada harga barang yang sama di Malaysia. Faktor itulah yang mengakibatkan masyarakat Malaysia bersedia membeli barang-barang Indonesia. Faktor pendukung dari keuntungan masyarakat Entikong itu berkaitan dengan fasilitas sarana dan prasarana di Entikong yang relatif memadai. Warga Indonesia atau warga Malaysia tidak terlalu sulit mencapai garis perbatasan sebagai titik pertemuan mereka untuk melakukan interaksi. Selain itu, tingkat ekonomi warga Malaysia relatif lebih tinggi dibandingkan dengan tingkat ekonomi warga Indonesia. Warga negara Indonesia pun mampu menawarkan komoditi dengan kualitas yang tidak terlalu rendah dan harga bersaing dengan barang-barang yang diperjualbelikan di Malaysia. Bahkan, tingkat harganya sangat rendah dipandang dari sudut kacamata ekonomi Malaysia."

"This paper, using a political demography perspective, attempts to reconstruct the perception of the center on the borderland of West Kalimantan and Sarawak, Malaysia. Basically there are two important views that dominating the center's perception on the borderland: 'perceived economic advantage and perceived threat'. Based on these twofold perceptions, policies and programs were implemented to serve the political and economic interests of the center. These policies and programs have generally resulted in the marginalization of border's people livelihood. Among the crucial policies that significantly changed the social and cultural dynamics of the local population is the transmigration program and the village enlargement project. These two programs represent the center's demographic engineering policy deeply rooted in the perception that the border areas should be militarily secured from various threats from abroad. The current moves toward regional autonomy and decentralization will likely provide new avenues for the local population in West Kalimantan to reassert their economic and political aspirations."

"Briefly, the author describes about swamp-rice swiddens of the Kantu' in the upper reaches of the Kapuas river valley, West Kalimantan. Besides the cultivation of dry-swiddens, the Kantu' can utilize swamp-land surrounding their place to increase their food because it result a quite high harvest. The return of per work-day in the swamp-swiddens compared with in the dry-swiddens is 11,3 liters/day with 9,7 liters/day. However, the other things more important are planning in the swamp-land relatively "safe" since only such land which is immune to the ever-present threat - along the river - of flooding, and the brief fallow periods just take 1,2 to 2,5 years."

"Death can be understood merely as a transition from one life to the next or simply as an end of life. These two conceptions are established due to our lack in knowledge about what will happen to us after we die. In order to make any sense, both conceptions require an understanding of death (and also life) as individual matter, that the only death (and life) I experienced is always my own. Nevertheless, in the first conception death does not exterminate one?s self, while in the second conception death exterminate one?s self. However, nonexistence of any access to the first-person death experiences causes our understanding about death is always constructed from third-person point of view?in this case, live person?s point of view. As the result, we see that death also brings ontological transformation regarding to one?s corporeal body and identity. As endeavors to undertand what death is, there are tendencies to bring these conceptualizations of death to such philosophical universalism or anthropological particularism. This paper suggests that explanations about death must explain this event without strictly take one of these tendencies."

"The increasing of elderly proportion is now being a new challenge in Indonesian population. It needs further reinterpretation and comprehensive studies which uncover its interrelation with social organization system, tradition continuity and the dynamic of local community, so that the impact, of the growing number of the elderly can be explained. In this article the author explores the problems of elderly without children in Minangkabau society, well known as an ethnic matrilineal system and strong traditions of migration. The author identifies three categories of elderly without children in Minangkabau: childless elderly never got married, childless elderly due to reproductive failure, and the elderly not having children. The author also describes that elderly without children in Minangkabau face problems socially and psychologically, specifically relations between man and woman in matrilineal system, marriage relationship problems and migration."

"The people of Minahasa appeared to have always been responsive to market signals. Geertz's view of a dynamic expansion of the economy in outer island of Indonesian seems applicable to Minahasa. The Minahasan people appear to have shifted rapidly from one crop to another, from one agricultural technology to another and the change can be explaine by the change of factors prices. The influence of market economy seems to have affected mapalus, which is a traditional means to achieve social integration that seems to have been gradually and rapidly disappearing. It still possesses the name and the value, but has not longer been a common phenomenon of social integration to tackle various economic activities and problems. Most benefits previously provided through mapalus appear to have become available at cheaper process through the market. Very recently, an attempt to revive mapalus as a form of not only social but also economic integration has been made. It however remains an open question whether such attempts would be successful."

"This article examines a dispute over proper religious practice in an all-Muslim village in Buton, Southeast Sulawesi. Traditionalists and modernists disagree over whether agricultural ceremonies involving offerings for territorial spirits should be allowed to continue. Local views on this dispute are explored with reference to the historical context of religious practice in the village, and processes of social change over the past several generations. It is argued that key social, political and economic dynamics which are relevant to the current religious dispute include the decline of agriculture in the village, the eclipsing of the Butonese Sultanate and integration into the Indonesian state, and new patterns of mobility whereby many villagers have become migrants to urban centers in eastern Indonesia. Thus it traces how processes of the increasing penetration of capitalism, the decline of traditional authority, and new patterns of mobility have played out in this particular village in the context of a dispute over religious practice."

"Badan Pertahanan Nasional sebenarnya masih memiliki sejumlah "pekerjaan rumah". Salah satunya adalah bagaimana menerapkan UU Pokok Agraria sesuai dengan keragaman kenyataan di lapangan yang tersebar di seluruh Indonesia. Apakah kita sudah memiliki suatu peta tanah adat masyarakat yang aktual dan empirik? Melalui tulisan ini penulis hendak menunjukkan betapa peliknya masalah tanah adat dan faktor-faktor yang terkait dengannya, khususnya di Kalimantan. Pendekatan terhadap masalah pertanahan selama ini cenderung seragam, searah dan legalistik sehingga mengalami kesulitas ketika berhadapan dengan keragaman sistem lokal khususnya dalam menetapkan status kepemilikan rumah. Penulis memberi contoh mengenai masih lazimnya status kepemilikan tanah berdasarkan tradisi lisan dan turun-temurun. Pada bagian akhir ia mengusulkan perlunya satu gambaran untuk peta tanah adat berikut corak penguasaan, status kepemilikan, dan pola pemanfaatannya. "

"Since the formal opening of the Border Crossing Inspection Posts (Pos Pemeriksaan Lintas Batas-PPLB) in Entikong West Kalimantan and Tebedu Sarawak, mobility of people and goods between West Kalimantan and Sarawak has increased significantly. This paper discusses the nature of mobility of goods and people between the two neighboring regions. Mobility of cars and labour is also discussed since mobility of cars affects mobility of people and goods while mobility of labour is an important part of mobility of people. The data show that the number of goods and people, which are out from the Entikong Post, is always greater than the number of goods and people, which enters to the Entikong Post. It is finally predicted, that economic benefits gained by West Kalimantan due to the Entikong Post, will be difficult to sustain in the future era of free trade. Especially if the government at the border districts does not enhance the capability of people to compete with foreign labour as well as foreign products"