Organizer: Deconstructing Indonesia, NYSEAN, and the Indonesia Film Forum New York

Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY

Description:

Join Deconstructing Indonesia, NYSEAN, and the Indonesia Film Forum New York for a screening of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) directed by Cypri Dale and Dandhy Laksono. This investigative documentary exposes the human cost of the world’s largest forest-conversion project, 2.5 million hectares of Papua turned into biofuel plantations. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Cypri Dale and representatives of the Malind Indigenous Community about the Red Cross Movement and resistance on the frontlines.

About the Speaker:

Cypri Jehan Paju Dale is a social anthropologist with research and professional interests include politics of development, anthropology of Christianity, endogenous transformation, social movements, governance, and systemic corruption. He completed his PhD at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern Switzerland in 2018 with a dissertation entitled “Development as Self-Determination: Anti-colonial Struggles, Endogenous Transformation, and the Role of Christianity in West Papua”. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in West Papua and Europe, this dissertation investigates how through development, external forces (states, Christian missions, corporations, and non-governmental organizations) have shaped West Papua and Papuans’ lives, and how Papuans as historical actors have strategically engaged, resisted, and reinvented development and Christianity in order to pursue transformation on their own terms. This study proposes a theory of development that emphasizes the role of indigenized Christianity in envisioning development as self-determination. 

Registration:

To attend the event in person, please register here.