FROM CHARITY TO SOCIAL INVESTMENTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: A STUDY OF PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTIONS IN INDONESIA (2025)

Asian Transformations in Action The Work of the 2006/2007 API Fellows

Philanthropic activities in the Asia Pacific region – a solution for the emerging global challenges?

Sciortino, 2017, Philanthropy in Southeast Asia: Between Charitable Values, Corporate Interests, and Development Aspirations

Austrian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (ASEAS), 2017

This article presents an overview of the evolving state of philanthropy in Southeast Asia, driven by global and local impetuses and shaped by often conflicting notions of charity, development, and business. Despite the lack of an enabling framework, new home-grown foundations and forms of institutionalized giving continue to emerge. At the same time, changes in the donor landscape and shifts in philanthropic paradigms towards business-like and technocratic approaches affect funding of development causes and organizations. In the process, gaps have begun to surface in the resourcing of human rights and social justice work by civil society, which is essential for attaining inclusive growth and more equitable development.

Philanthropic structuring: The Asian context

2020

Commentary on Indonesia philanthropy rank

Serambi, 2023

Indonesian philanthropy has experienced substantial turmoil since early 2020. The Doing Good Index 2020 survey raised Indonesia's position to 'Doing Okay' after several years in the 'Not Doing Enough' position. This index includes indicators such as monetary donations, time contributions, and assistance to foreigners. Indonesia often ranks high on the indicators for contributing time and assistance to foreigners in this index. The question that arises from this ranking is whether it has anything to do with Islamic philanthropy? and whether the alleged misappropriation of charitable funds through various social and commercial activities will affect public confidence. This commentary focuses Strictly on the perspective of Islam and Indonesia in general in understanding philanthropy. Public interest statements This brief provides practitioners and academics with information on the development of philanthropy in Indonesia during and after the COVID-19 pandemic and after the revelations of the ACT case. Regardless of trends and rankings, philanthropy helps raise social awareness of the problems and challenges faced by society. Philanthropy involves developing human values such as kindness, empathy, cooperation, and concern for others.

Philanthropy and the Indonesian Community in Seattle: The Cerdas Foundation Experience

Kultur: The Indonesian Journal of Muslim Culture, vol. 5 issue 1, 2010

As the number of Indonesians migrating to foreign countries grows, so do the remittances they send back to Indonesia. The amounts are significant. The World Bank's Migration and remittance Factbook noted that in 2008 Indonesia ranked thirteenth in world's top remittance-receiving countries. In 2006 Indonesia received inward remittance flows of 5.722 million US dollars, or 1.6 per cent of the nation's GDP. However, few studies have been conducted of the Indonesian diaspora's philanthropic organization. This article will examine the experience of the Cerdas Foundation in managing Indonesian philanthropy in Seattle, in the United States of America. In accomplishing its mission statements, the Cerdas Foundation faces obstacles and challenges generated by the problems of distance from Indonesia, inadequate organizational structure, and an "open ideology". Despite this, the Cerdas Foundation arguably has the potential to contribute sustainably to Indonesia's social and economic development through its education and disaster relief programs, if it can transform itself from a gathering of nostalgic Indonesians in Seattle to a functional corporation. This is possible, the article argues, if the Cerdas Foundation adopts a more hierarchical organizational structure and balances its stance of philanthropic amateurism.

Philanthropy, Giving, and Development in Southeast Asia

2017

This special issue on the evolving state of philanthropy in Southeast Asia provides an overview of the trends and tensions in this sector, which is being shaped by often conflicting notions of charity, development, and business. Philanthropy is viewed as an age-old practice, yet not many are familiar with the term (Payton & Moody, 2008) and even fewer know its etymological origin from ancient Greek, literally meaning ‘love to humankind’. Classic definitions describe philanthropy as a private initiative for the public good (as cited by Gardner in McCully, 2008) or a voluntary action for the public good (Payton, 1988) aiming at improvement in the quality of human life (Bremner, 1988). These definitions, however, are quite broad and leave open to interpretation what philanthropy actually implies in specific contexts and settings. In trying to operationalize the concept, practitioners tend to take a narrower view of philanthropy centered on its financial dimension as implying a donation...

Innovation in Asian Philanthropy (2013)

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Philanthropy in Southeast Asia: Between Charitable Values, Corporate Interests, and Development Aspirations

Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2017

This article presents an overview of the evolving state of philanthropy in Southeast Asia, driven by global and local stimuli and shaped by often conflicting notions of charity, development, and business. Despite the lack of a strong enabling environment, new, ‘homegrown’ foundations and local forms of institutionalized giving continue to emerge. At the same time, changes in the donor landscape and shifts in philanthropic paradigms towards business-like and technocratic approaches affect how development causes are funded. In the process, gaps have begun to appear in how work by civil society organizations on human rights and social justice is funded; this may jeopardize more equitable and inclusive development.