Indonesia has an active role in the global community to open access, create dialogue, and build (new and old) relations of different communities at local, regional, and international through multi-disciplinary approaches to different aspects of the spice routes. Further, this collaboration also aims to answer arising and existing global challenges and contemporary issues in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.

This International conference is part of the series of activities in the International Forum on Spice Routes to provide scientific and research-based knowledge and information regarding the spice routes in contemporary society.

For the Conference, Conveners accept selected abstracts and papers to be presented in the 2022 IFSR held on 20-21 September 2022 in hybrid form (in Jakarta, Palembang, and also through an online platform). Different panel themes are:

The Conference will cover several specific themes as follows:

This panel covers issues such as spice routes as the entry point to revisit, rethink and research different possibilities of international cooperation to establish global fellowship and peace. This condition will create further mutual dialogue, respect, and recognition of cultural diversities and their heritage within the spirit of justice and equality. This panel aims to help construct a shared ground for national, regional, or global identities that uphold respect and protect humans of different races, languages, traditions, and other differences.

This panel covers issues such as natural diversity and its protection for future sustainable development. It can also discuss natural and maritime resources being traded, ethnomedicine using herbs from different countries, maritime ecosystem restoration, land and coastal degradation, local wisdom, and folklore in managing natural and maritime resources.

The main theme of this panel is intercultural understanding as a key to creativity and innovation to sustainable economic development, creating jobs, responsible economic investment, and many international cooperation opportunities. This also enhances the role of culture in pushing forward revitalisation and protection of cultural heritage, previously overly traded, or on a brink of extinction. Issues covered will also include sustainable and responsible tourism.

This panel covers issues, but not limited to, such as climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic that disrupt human life in every way possible. Health and global economic crises influenced countries along the spice routes. Human adaptation and resilience during and after the disaster will be the focus of this panel, which will include the development of coastal cities, coastal areas, or small islands that leads to or follow natural or man-made disasters and reconstructions. The panel will also seek to discuss new and alternative solutions to the matters.

Fishers and fisheries are two inseparable issues and are getting more and more important in the global arena. On the one hand, the world’s increasing population needs sufficient and healthy food, and fish is one of the important commodities to fulfill this need. On the other hand, we are witnessing a growing crisis of the world’s fisheries all around the world, from the coldest arctic regions to the warmest tropical seas. Or in McGoodwin words, ‘… there are too many people chasing too few fish’ (McGoodwin 1990: 1). Fishers – particularly small scale – are caught in this circumstance. The contribution of small-scale fishers is very significant to the landed fish globally, yet they are often found to be living in poor conditions on land and in the sea. New strategies and approaches should be developed to understand more the nature of the problems and options to be taken to tackle these problems.

This panel is dedicated to share lessons learned and initiate connections of people from various countries connected via the spices routes in looking at the fishers and fisheries problem and innovative strategies/approaches to deal with the issues. We expect the discussion will also be in line with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

This panel will seek to discuss the different aspects of seafaring and trading routes, according to history or in current practices that connect countries, regions, and continents. The discussion will also cover maritime commerce, maritime and trading policies, and the practice of local or traditional trade in particular socio-economic and political activities of different governments being connected by the routes. Further, it can also cover discoveries of archaeological remnants from these seafaring and trading activities, which will increase our knowledge of items being shipped or traded throughout history. Further, this panel also discusses knowledge or scientific transfers between countries, as trade and seafaring become one important means of exchanging knowledge, languages, and cultures.

31 July 2022                : Deadline for abstract submission

1-7 August 2022          : Abstract review and selection

8 August 2022             : Notification of accepted abstracts

15 September 2022      : Full paper submission

20-21 September 2022 : The Conference / International Forum on Spice Route 2022

We invite contributors to submit an abstract of 300 words. Abstract should include proposed research questions, main argument, and methodology. Submissions should also include a title, name of the author(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address, and personal biography of 150 words. They should be submitted to https://ocs.brin.go.id/ or https://linktr.ee/negerirempahfoundation

Those whose abstracts are accepted will be expected to submit a full paper of between 5000 – 7000 words. Selected papers will later be included in the Proceeding of International Forum on Spice Route published by the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN).

Dr. Dedi Adhuri (National Research and Innovation Agency, BRIN) [+6281383940111/dediadhuri@hotmail.com]

Dr. Maulana Ibrahim (Negeri Rempah Foundation / Khairun University, Ternate) [+6281328386512/maulanarch@gmail.com]

Contacts

Widya Safitri +62 812 10294804

Gemala Putri +62 818 809768

Email: internationalforumonspiceroute@gmail.com