April 20, 2021
EMPO.CO, Malang – Pusat Studi Pesantren (PSP) Institut Agama Islam Qomaruddin melakukan digitalisasi manuskrip atau naskah tua keislaman. Selain untuk mengisi Ramadan, digitalisasi tersebut ditujukan untuk melestarikan manuskrip tua keislaman kepunyaan pondok pesantren yang berlokasi di Kecamatan Bungah, Kabupaten Gresik, Jawa Timur, itu. Read the Full Article
April 20, 2021
Dreamsea.co – Welcoming the holy month of Ramadhan, the Center for Pesantren Studies (Pusat Studi Pesantren, PSP) of the Islamic Institute Qomaruddin Gresik took the initiative to preserve its Islamic manuscripts by having them digitised. This was done in cooperation with the Digital Repository of Endangered and Affected Manuscripts in Southeast Asia (DREAMSEA) which is executed by the Center for the Study of Islam and Society (Pusat Pengkajian Islam dan Masyarakat (PPIM) UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) of the University of Hamburg. The chairman of the PSP, Mohamad Anas, explained that the […]
April 13, 2021
Dreamsea.co – Indramayu is a region where manuscripts are still found in large numbers while it also has an abundance of intangible culture. The manuscripts in the region still play a vital role in many cultural activities the Indramayu people engage in. However, because they are still widely used but often ill treated, these manuscripts also run the danger of becoming damaged and their condition is indeed often rather bad. It is for this reason that DREAMSEA (Digital Repository of Endangered and Affected Manuscripts in Southeast Asia) took up a mission to safeguard the manuscripts owned by the Indramayu people […]
April 1, 2021
JAKARTA – Indonesia memiliki kekayaan manuskrip yang sangat beragam, mulai dari aksara, bahasa, bahan, hingga tradisinya. Upaya pelestarian berupa preservasi dan konservasi sedang giat dilakukan oleh berbagai lembaga maupun perorangan. Digitalisasi merupakan salah satu upaya preservasi dengan mengalihmediakan manuskrip ke dalam format digital untuk kemudian disajikan secara daring dengan akses terbuka. Read the full article
September 22, 2020
Dreamsea.co – Al the images of 450 Manuscripts from the Vat Maha Tat Rasabovoravihan collection, Luang Prabang city, Laos have been uploaded on the DREAMSEA digital repository database as part of the ongoing effort of the DREAMSEA program to offer open access to Southeast Asian manuscript images to the public. Anyone can now enjoy perusing and reading these manuscripts as they can be accessed for free. The original manuscripts are kept in Vat Maha That Rasabovoravihan, one of the oldest monasteries in the city of Luang Prabang. These manuscripts show that already in the past the monastery was a centre of religious […]
August 3, 2020
The DREAMSEA program has started to digitize manuscripts from Solok Regency in West Sumatra. The mission started on 14 July and will continue until 12 August 2020. The mission is under the leadership of Pramono, a philologist from Andalas University in Padang, West Sumatra. A number of experts from Manassa and from the State Islamic University Imam Bonjol and the State Institute for Islamic Studies Batusangkar have been added to the field team. This is the 19th mission and the first to be executed during the Covid-19 pandemic. While he was supervising the field, DREAMSEA data manager, M. Nida Fadlan […]
July 8, 2020
Dreamsea.co – DREAMSEA has resumed the digitisation of manuscripts from Cirebon after having halted the activity in early March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In order to finish the digitisation of these manuscripts, the activity was resumed on 6 and 7 July by strictly following a health protocol. The digitisation was resumed by using a health protocol in order to ensure the health and safety of the digitising team and the PPIM staff. M. Nida Fadlan, the DREAMSEA Data Manager and digitisation field manager expressed that it was very important to continue the digitisation by making sure that the […]
June 11, 2020
Shifting Landscapes: Remapping the Writing Traditions of Islamic Southeast Asia through Digitisation
ABSTRACT Studies of the languages and literatures of the Malay world of Nusantara have long been shaped by thecollections of manuscripts held in western institutions, which strongly reflect the interests of colonial officialswho formed them. A very different picture of the writing traditions of maritime Southeast Asia emerges froma survey of manuscripts still held in local communities digitised through the Endangered Archives Programmeand DREAMSEA. Primarily concerned with Islamic topics and often written in Arabic, the study of thesenewly-accessible collections has the potential to lead to a remapping of the intellectual landscape of the region. Keywords: digitisation; manuscripts; writing traditions; Islamic […]
May 19, 2020
Book Review: Richard Fox, More than Words. Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali.
Richard Fox, More than Words. Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2018, 264 p. ISBN 9781501725357. Writing and letters in Bali are not just ways to transmit, preserve and disseminate ideas and simple or complex messages and literature. In Bali, writing goes far beyond these more or less ‘universal’ simple reasons why people resort to putting things on paper, or nowadays in the mobile telephone or computer. Letters and writing assume more ‘exoteric’ and ‘esoteric’ roles in Bali which not only linger on but assume new and vibrant new roles on the […]
March 25, 2020
At present, the world is facing a global pandemic due to the spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19). Herewith we express our deep concern and hope that this situation will end soon. For the time being, for safety reasons, we have decided to stop sending out missions for the preservation and digitization of manuscripts throughout the Southeast Asian region. This policy shall come into force on 26 March 2020 and will last until normal conditions have returned. Nevertheless, we keep access open to our collections that have already been put online. At present, 20,129 images with a high-quality resolution of 593 […]