Popular and Scholarly Articles
Throughout the years, I've written a number of articles - mostly features and essays - along with scholarly articles for national and international academic journals.I am a passionate lover of history so I'm often compelled to write historical topics in my free time.
Popular Articles
The following are a number of popular articles I've written for different audiences.
How the Dutch Became Masters of Their Own Fate - Dutch Commercial Policy in the 17th Century (2018)
One little known fact in world history often overshadowed by larger (though smaller in impact) events were those that circled a small nation in Northwestern Europe between the 16th and 17th centuries. A small nation, largely irrelevant in preceding centuries (especially in comparison to her neighbours, the French, English, the Spaniards, even the Flemish) that managed to throw the largest empire in the world off its knees, becoming a force to be reckoned with, standing amongst giants and despots as its own powerful entity feared not only in its skill of waging war, but in the sciences, civil liberties, and most importantly, mastery over world trade. [...]
At Their Mercy - Lessons for Indonesia from the Invasion of the East Indies 1942 (2019)
Recent events have put the fear of global conflict back into the hearts of people from both the West and East. With the great powers in play: US-Iran tensions skyrocketing at the wake of the bombing of General Soleimani, Turkey sending troops to Libya, unending war in the Middle East after the Arab Spring, Russian expeditions in eastern Europe, and the PRC’s continuous and relentless creeping expansionism in the South China Sea (and previous trade wars with America, among other things), the turn of the decade (to 2020) makes of a world that seems to be again, at the brink of war. [...]
(Indonesian) Urban Legends: Mitos Rokok yang Dibalik (2017)
Begitu banyak kisah kepercayaan atau urban legend yang beredar di kalangan masyarakat, salah satu yang paling dekat dengan Masyarakat Indonesia adalah rokok. Sebagai seorang perokok pastilah kita pernah melihat rokok terbalik di kotak rokok milik teman atau sesama teman perokok kita. Fenomena membalik rokok ini dinamakan sebagai laste, kuncian, lucky cigaratte di kalangan masyarakat. Melihat definisi dari Urban Dictionary, lucky cigarette is a cigarette that you turn upside-down first before smoking any others in the pack, and is intended to be the last cigarette of the pack that you smoke. [...]
Scholarly Articles
I have written a few scholarly articles as an independent writer and as a research assistant at the Universitas Indonesia Faculty of Law.
The Role of the NYPE Inter-Club Agreement as a Modular Apportionment Mechanism for Cargo-Claims across Multiple Jurisdictions
Written with my lecturer, Tiurma P. Allagan, Ph.D. (Universitas Indonesia Law), this article discusses the application of choice of law in respect to both charterparties and the Inter Club Agreement cargo claim provisions, under maritime law. Drawing from recent cases and precedent from several different jurisdictions, the article aims to compare how courts interpret and apply applicable law provisions and doctrine for the ICA.Indonesian Journal of International Law Vol. 19 No. 1 (2021), Art. 4
Why We Still Need the Indische Staatsregeling: a Take on Indonesia’s Controversial Colonial Legacy through the Eyes of Contemporary Politics, History, and Legal Pluralism
Paper discussing legal pluralism in Indonesia, tied in with the historic Indischestaatsregeling (I.S., a Dutch East Indies basic law) law of the 1800s and the political and cultural circumstances that justified its creation. The article argues that the I.S. remains relevant, and necessary, even today.Juris Law Journal Vol 10.
Dzuriyat Kesultanan Banten v Sultan Banten: Conflict of Laws Issues in the Succession of the Bantenese Throne
Legal pluralism in Indonesia, where European, Islamic, and Adat private law stand side-by-side as three distinct systems of private law, has set continual discussion and development of Indonesian internal conflict of laws, a field of law thought by some to be defunct due to its colonial roots. The continuous development of internal conflict of laws could be witnessed in the case of Sultan Banten, where judges at all three levels of the religious courts throw their heads back and forth to answer the question of whether Islamic or Adat law applies over a man’s historic claim over the throne of the Sultanate of Banten. Having considered a plethora of factors including social, cultural, political, and historical to determine which law is applied, the considerations brought by the judges in Sultan Banten shows that Indonesian internal conflict of laws is alive and well.This work analyses Sultan Banten through several aspects, exploring the claimant’s historic claims based on an adat rule of succession, Indonesian jurisdictional pluralism, legal pluralism, as well as the many rules ascribed by the Indonesian conflict of laws, specifically those pertaining to inheritance and the doctrine of characterisation. Aside from conventional sources of law this work also takes into account historical and anthropological studies relevant to the substance of the case in order to achieve a more holistic approach in analyzing Sultan Banten.
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