Organizer: New York Southeast Asia Network; SUNY/CUNY SEAC; GETSEA; Wagner Office of International Programs

Type/Location: Hybrid / New York, NY

Description:

Join NYSEAN, SUNY/CUNY SEAC, and GETSEA for this simulcast screening of Hot Stuff: Exposure of Indonesia’s Geothermal Dreams is an AIFIS award-winning documentary and part of a trio of Indonesian films that delve into energy policies in Indonesia, corporate ties to those policies, and their detrimental effects on local environments and populations.

Director Dandhy Laksono and Producer Cypri Dale will join us live from the University of Michigan’s Center for Southeast Asia Studies as over 20 universities from across North America connect to watch Hot Stuff simultaneously, followed by a discussion about the film, energy policy in Indonesia, and the new Prabowo Subianto administration’s response to local grassroots movements in the country.

A virtual-only option will be available for viewers from around the world to join as well. You can register for a remote viewing of the film & event by clicking here.

NYU Wagner provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests for accommodations for events and services should be submitted at least two weeks before the date of the accommodation need. Please email jjg5@nyu.edu or call 212.998.7400 for assistance.

About the Speakers:

Dandhy Dwi Laksono (Born in Lumajang, June 29, 1976) is an Indonesian activist, investigative journalist, and filmmaker. Dandhy is the founder of the documentary production studio Watch Doc. Dandhy is known for directing a documentary film called Sexy Killers, which was released on April 14, 2019, ahead of the ballot day of the Indonesian 2019 general election. The film sparked national debates as it revealed the ties between the presidential candidates and the coal mining industry, which caused environmental destruction and economic impact on the impoverished classes. The film is a final piece to Laksono's 12-part documentary series Ekspedisi Indonesia Biru (Blue Indonesia Expedition), which aims to assess economic development and its environmental impact in Indonesia.

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 Links:

To attend the event in person, please register here.

To attend the event virtually, please register here.