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Perkasa, Dr. Adrian

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Adrian Perkasa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) Leiden. His research is about Pranata Mångsa, a Javanese agricultural calendar; cultural heritage and the politics of knowledge (re)production. Furthermore, his project involves inventorying and researching the histories, practices, and uses of Pranata Mångsa and other grass-roots knowledge about agricultural calendars and seasons in Java.

Adrian has been a research fellow at different institutes, including the Asia Research Institute, the International Institute for Asian Studies, and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies. From July 2023 to August 2024, he worked as the 13th International Convention of Asia Scholars Project Manager, which was organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies.

Selected Publications

With T. Jones, ‘Sites: Reconstruction and resident relationships with Majapahit heritage’, in: T. Jones(ed.), Heritage is movement: Heritage management and research in a diverse and plural world. Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2024.

With T. Jones, ‘Residents and artifacts’, in: T. Jones (ed.), Heritage is movement: Heritage management and research in a diverse and plural world. Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2024.

‘Capres terpilih, kementerian kebudayaan itu perlu’, Opinion in Jawa Pos, 12 February 2024.

With A. Arainikasih, ‘Looking back from the periphery; Situating Indonesian provincial museums as cultural archives in the late-colonial to post-colonial era’, Wacana 24-3: 363-391, 2023.

With R. Padawangi & P. Rabe (eds.), River cities in Asia: Waterways in urban development and history. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022.

‘Gotong royong and the role of community in Indonesia’, in: H.B. Shin, M. McKenzie & D.Y. Oh (eds.), Covid-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a post-pandemic world. LSE Press, 2022.

‘Ironi peringatan World Heritage Day di Indonesia’, Opinion in Kompas, 23 April 2021.

‘Panji in the age of motion; An investigation of the development of Panji-related arts around Java’, Wacana 21-2: 214-234.

With T. Jones, Crimes against cultures: How local practices of regulation shape archaeological landscapes in Trowulan, East Java’,  in:  Carl J. Griffin, R. Jones & Iain J.M. Robertson  (eds.) Moral ecologies: Histories of conservation, dispossession and resistance. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

With R. Padawangi, ‘Living heritage of ruins? Contesting the paradox in Trowulan’s Majapahit heritage’,  in: H.H.M .Hsiao, H. Yew-Foong & P. Peycam (eds.), Citizens, civil society and heritage-making in Asia. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2017.