Center for Prehistory
and Austronesian Studies
CPAS Indonesia
Our Vision
To become a leading institution and a centre of multidisciplinary study in prehistory and Austronesia, digging up and counseling the value of prehistoric culture and Austronesia, both on national and international framework.
To become a leading institution and a centre of multidisciplinary study in prehistory and Austronesia, digging up and counseling the value of prehistoric culture and Austronesia, both on national and international framework.
Our Mission
1.To study the origin, dispersal and the development of prehistoric peoples and Austronesian language speakers, form the time of their emergence until now, including environmental evolution and their culture in the frame of Indonesia territory and its global correlation.
2.To publish all research results and actualize the virtue in prehistoric culture for the development on life in present time and the future.
3.To gain appreciation on prehistoric remains and virtue inside it so as to establish the spirits and expand cultural productivity in frame of national cultural development.
4.To enhance the spirit of togetherness, openness, and friendship among the nations through a collaborationin study of prehistory and Austronesia and of course its publicity.
1.To study the origin, dispersal and the development of prehistoric peoples and Austronesian language speakers, form the time of their emergence until now, including environmental evolution and their culture in the frame of Indonesia territory and its global correlation.
2.To publish all research results and actualize the virtue in prehistoric culture for the development on life in present time and the future.
3.To gain appreciation on prehistoric remains and virtue inside it so as to establish the spirits and expand cultural productivity in frame of national cultural development.
4.To enhance the spirit of togetherness, openness, and friendship among the nations through a collaborationin study of prehistory and Austronesia and of course its publicity.
Contact
This institution addressed at Jl. Ahmad Dahlan IV/20, Kukusan, Depok, 16425,Indonesia.
This institution addressed at Jl. Ahmad Dahlan IV/20, Kukusan, Depok, 16425,Indonesia.
Telp. +62-21-78881968; Fax.+62-21-78881968;
E-mail:cpas.indonesia@gmail.com; simanjuntaktruman@gmail.com
CP European Union region : fauziruly@gmail.com
CP European Union region : fauziruly@gmail.com
Field of studies
In the context of Indonesia prehistory, a long prehistoric life started about 1.5 million years ago is an extensive timeline enriched with cultural and environmental dynamics. These dynamicity appeared more vigorous on the last 4000 years ago, when a group of people known as Austronesian people arrived in the archipelago and then developed as s precursor of Indonesian people. Emergence of both archaic and modern human in Indonesian archipelago becoming a valuable asset (which not owned by most of the country) for understanding the history of human culture and civilization, not only for national profit but also can be important in regional-global frame.
During this long extensive historical timeline all virtues inside a cultural value just like a story written by a golden ink in the prehistory of archipelago. Most of those values are still surrounded by a mystery and have not been explored yet. How are these prehistoric peoples arrived in the archipelago and adopt to an environment which is known having a high diversity and manage to stay for more than a million years? How far these environmental and evolutionary aspects influenced variety and development of culture in archipelago? How was their competence and superiority in nautical technologies involved their dispersal and migration until they succeed to colonize numerous islands separated by a wide sea and straits? How was their capability and technique in making a monumental construction during megalithic period as a religious place to honor the spirits of their ancestors? These are some topics which drive our passion to answer and explain through CPAS activities.
In the context of Indonesia prehistory, a long prehistoric life started about 1.5 million years ago is an extensive timeline enriched with cultural and environmental dynamics. These dynamicity appeared more vigorous on the last 4000 years ago, when a group of people known as Austronesian people arrived in the archipelago and then developed as s precursor of Indonesian people. Emergence of both archaic and modern human in Indonesian archipelago becoming a valuable asset (which not owned by most of the country) for understanding the history of human culture and civilization, not only for national profit but also can be important in regional-global frame.
During this long extensive historical timeline all virtues inside a cultural value just like a story written by a golden ink in the prehistory of archipelago. Most of those values are still surrounded by a mystery and have not been explored yet. How are these prehistoric peoples arrived in the archipelago and adopt to an environment which is known having a high diversity and manage to stay for more than a million years? How far these environmental and evolutionary aspects influenced variety and development of culture in archipelago? How was their competence and superiority in nautical technologies involved their dispersal and migration until they succeed to colonize numerous islands separated by a wide sea and straits? How was their capability and technique in making a monumental construction during megalithic period as a religious place to honor the spirits of their ancestors? These are some topics which drive our passion to answer and explain through CPAS activities.
Global
Cooperation NetworkCPAS establish a work link with another institution which have the same
interest with us in prehistory and Austronesia study. Some of working link and
scientific collaborationhave been made
by CPAS are HopSEA (Human Origins Patrimony in Southeast Asia), EMQP or Erasmus Mundus
Quaternary and Prehistory (as consultant and giving lectures or seminars), IPPA
(Indo-Pacific Prehistoric Association), and MNHN (Muséum National de Histoire
et Naturel) Paris.
Hongkong 2005
HopSEA meeting, Manila, Philipines 2006
Johor, Malaysia
2008
Taitung, Taiwan
2008
WIKIPEDIA source link
Austronesia, in historical terms, refers to the homeland of the peoples who speak Austronesian languages, including Malay, Filipino,Indonesian, Maori,
(linked to Wikipedia Encyclopedia 2010)
Seoul, Korea
2008
Paris, France
2007
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