Sylvia Tiwon

Date and place of birth

9 December 1946, Indonesia.
(Indonesian National)

Academic background

• Sarjana Muda (Law, Universitas Kristen Indonesia, 1968;
• Sarjana Sastra (English Literature), University of Indonesia, 1976; 
• M.A. English, Stanford University, 1978; 
• Ph.D. Southeast Asian Studies (Dept. South and Southeast Asian Studies), UC, Berkeley, 1985.

Professional background

• From July 1996: Associate Professor, DSSEAS
• July 1989-June 1996: Assistant Professor, DSSEAS, University of California, Berkeley.
• 1980-1986: Lecturer, DSSEAS, University of California, Berkeley.
• 1976-1980: Lecturer (Dosen), Faculty of Letters, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Workshops, Reports, Conferences

• Report, Critical Cultures in Indonesia, for NOVIB (Netherlands). 1997.
• Report on NGOs in Aceh, for HIVOS (Netherlands), 1998
• Report on Gender and NGOs in 9 Indonesian provinces and East Timor, identification mission for HIVOS. 1998.
• Advisor Indonesian Human Rights Network, Washington .DC.
• Media advisor, KQED, Pacific Time. San Francisco,2000.
• Planning workshop, Indonesian Women's Coalition for Democracy and Justice, Jakarta, 2000.
• Convener, Conference on Local Knowledge and Global Forces, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, University of California at Berkeley, California.
• Workshops on Contextualizing Gender for consultants, (Remdec), Bogor, 2001, 2002.
• Workshop on Cultural Strategies for consultants and activists, Remdec.  Bogor, 2002.

Consulting, 1994-2004

• Assessment and Evaluation: including women's, labour, human rights organizations, NGO networks, Plan International Indonesia.
• Programming facilitation and advising for women's, labour, peasant, human rights organizations and networks with special emphasis on gender. 
• Expert witness on asylum and labour issues, INS courts, USA.
• Training on human rights in Indonesia, including impact of rape in Jakarta (1998), Aceh and Papua. Asylum Branch, Immigrantion and Naturalization Service, US Dept. of Justice, San Francisco. 1998.
• Assessment, Basic Social Services for Indonesia.  NOVIB. 2000
• Evaluation of the Community Recovery Programme with emphasis on gender, UNDP, Indonesia, Nov-Dec 2001.
• Strategic Planning, Women’s Organization Network, Papua. 2001.
• Evaluation, APIK/ APIK Legal Aid Programme.  For NOVIB, 2002
• Strategic Planning, FOKUPERS, East Timor.  2003
• Evaluation of Yayasan Kalyanamitra Organizational and Programmes sponsored by Novib, 2002.
• Facilitation, Indonesian Parliament Women’s Caucus (on the 30% quota for women’s representation).  2003.
• Evaluation of INFID with emphasis on gender, 2003.
• Evaluation, TIE-Asia (Labour, based in Sri Lanka).  2003
• Needs Assessment for NGO Capacity Building.  ACCESS (Indonesia, with Remdec team), 2003-2004.
• Module Development, Social Analysis and Gender.  With Ayi Bunyamin, Remdec. 2003.
• Module Development, Contextualizing Gender.  Remdec; in progress.
• Needs Assessment for NGO Capacity Building in Papua (with Remdec team). 2003.

Media interviews

• National Public Radio, PBS/Lehrer Newshour, ABC, KPFA (USA).
• CNN Asia, Australian Broadcasting (radio), New Zealand.

Selected Bibliography

• Ekonomi Indonesia (Jakarta: Obor/Gramedia). 1987. Translation.
• Cita-cita Pemerintahan Konstitusional di Indonesia (Jakarta: Grafiti/Tempo). 1995. Translation.
• Breaking the Spell: Colonialism and Literary Renaissance in Indonesia. (Leiden: Semaian), 1999.
• Militerisme di Indonesia, S. Tiwon, A. Bunyamin et al. (Jakarta: ISAI). 2000. 
• (General educational work on militarism in Indonesia, with introduction).
• "Utopia Upside-down: an analysis of a Western myth in texts on the East," Tenggara, June 92.
• "Ordinary Songs: Chairil Anwar and Traditional Poetics" Indonesia Circle No. 58, June 92. 
• "Perempuan Indonesia Antara Kartini dan Gerwani," in Tanah Air, June 1993.
• "Models and Maniacs: Rearticulating the Female in Indonesia" in L. Sears, ed. 
• Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia (Durham: Duke University Press), 1996.
• "From East Timor to Aceh: The Disintegration of Indonesia" in BCAS, Vol. 32, Nos. 1 and 2 January-June 2000.
• "Constructing Boundaries and Beyond" in Households in Indonesia, J. Koning et.al, eds. (London: Curzon Press). 2000
• "From heroes to rebels" Inside Indonesia No. 62. April-June 2000.
• "A Widow's Notes" (translation from Nyala Panyot by Putu Oka, et. al), Inside Indonesia No. 62, April 2000.
• "Failure of the Imaginary: Gendered Excess of the Indonesian Nation" in Marking 
• Times and Territories: Genders in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia. 
• S. Sarker And E.N.De, eds. (in press). Durham: Duke University Press.

Selected Papers, Lectures, Keynote Speeches:

• "The Impact of the Indonesian Educational System on East Timor: lecture at conference on East Timor and Indonesia. Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley. Spring 1997.
•  "Culture, Aesthetics and Social Change" paper presented at the Centers for South and Southeast Asia Studies, University of Washington Seattle; University of British Columbia, Vancouver,. Spring 1998.
• "Ibu Pertiwi and Postcoloniality" paper presented at the Workshop on 
• Postcoloniality in Indonesian Literature. Sydney University, Australia. Summer 1998.
• "The Banyuwangi Witch Hunts" paper presented at Center for Southeast Asia Conference, Spring 1999.
• "Gender and the Idea of Civil Society" paper presented at Conference on NGOs and the Challenge of Reform, Yogyakarta, Spring 1999.
• "The Aesthetics of Terror" keynote speech at the Indonesia Symposium, UC Irvine, Spring 1999.
• "Do Female Sex Workers get HIV-Infected because of their work or because of their feelings?" with Ivan Wolffers, et.al. UNDP conference on Women and HIV in Asia, Fall 1999. 
• "Rebellion and the Veil in Aceh", paper presented at Center for Southeast Asia Conference on NGOs, Religion and Civil Society. Spring 2000.
• "Learning to govern in many voices" Keynote speech, PERMIAS Conference on Indonesia's Road to Recovery. UC Berkeley. Spring 2000. 
• "Gender and the Interface with Capitalism" Keynote speech, Leiden University Women's Studies Program. December 2000.
• "Women and Military Violence" Keynote panel presentation, Indonesian Human Rights Network Conference, Washington DC. February 2001.
• Editorial Board Member, Critical Asian Studies. (2000-)
• Editorial Board Member, Encyclopaedia of Women in Islamic Cultures (Netherlands: Brill). (2001-).