In Memoriam - Thee Kian Wie : Dedicated Scholar and Public Intellectual

In Memoriam - Thee Kian Wie : Dedicated Scholar and Public Intellectual

With the passing of Thee Kian Wie (hereafter ‘Kian Wie’) on February 8, 2014, aged 79 years, Indonesia lost one of its most distinguished citizens. Kian Wie, or ‘Pak Thee’ as he was widely known to Indonesians, was a dedicated and productive scholar, a public intellectual, a life-long civil servant,...

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Main Authors: Hill, Hal, Negara, Siwage Dharma, Wihardja, Maria Monica
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor and Francis 2014
Subjects:
scholar
public intellectual
civil servant
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20480
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spelling okr-10986-204802021-04-23T14:03:56Z In Memoriam - Thee Kian Wie : Dedicated Scholar and Public Intellectual Hill, Hal Negara, Siwage Dharma Wihardja, Maria Monica scholar public intellectual civil servant With the passing of Thee Kian Wie (hereafter ‘Kian Wie’) on February 8, 2014, aged 79 years, Indonesia lost one of its most distinguished citizens. Kian Wie, or ‘Pak Thee’ as he was widely known to Indonesians, was a dedicated and productive scholar, a public intellectual, a life-long civil servant, a mentor, a raconteur, and a cosmopolitan able to converse with ease in several languages. He had a remarkable empathy with people across nationalities, ethnicities and socioeconomic classes. His circle of friends and colleagues at home and abroad was extraordinarily wide. In fact, it is difficult to think of any other Indonesian academic social scientist of his generation with a wider international network; he was a bridge between the Indonesian and international scholarly communities. And above all else, he was a warm, charming, generous, principled and modest human being, with a fierce sense of justice and support for the less privileged. 2014-10-28T20:54:07Z 2014-10-28T20:54:07Z 2014-07-30 Journal Article Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 0007-4918 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20480 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article East Asia and Pacific Indonesia
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public intellectual
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Wihardja, Maria Monica
In Memoriam - Thee Kian Wie : Dedicated Scholar and Public Intellectual
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description With the passing of Thee Kian Wie (hereafter ‘Kian Wie’) on February 8, 2014, aged 79 years, Indonesia lost one of its most distinguished citizens. Kian Wie, or ‘Pak Thee’ as he was widely known to Indonesians, was a dedicated and productive scholar, a public intellectual, a life-long civil servant, a mentor, a raconteur, and a cosmopolitan able to converse with ease in several languages. He had a remarkable empathy with people across nationalities, ethnicities and socioeconomic classes. His circle of friends and colleagues at home and abroad was extraordinarily wide. In fact, it is difficult to think of any other Indonesian academic social scientist of his generation with a wider international network; he was a bridge between the Indonesian and international scholarly communities. And above all else, he was a warm, charming, generous, principled and modest human being, with a fierce sense of justice and support for the less privileged.
format Journal Article
author Hill, Hal
Negara, Siwage Dharma
Wihardja, Maria Monica
author_facet Hill, Hal
Negara, Siwage Dharma
Wihardja, Maria Monica
author_sort Hill, Hal
title In Memoriam - Thee Kian Wie : Dedicated Scholar and Public Intellectual
title_short In Memoriam - Thee Kian Wie : Dedicated Scholar and Public Intellectual
title_full In Memoriam - Thee Kian Wie : Dedicated Scholar and Public Intellectual
title_fullStr In Memoriam - Thee Kian Wie : Dedicated Scholar and Public Intellectual
title_full_unstemmed In Memoriam - Thee Kian Wie : Dedicated Scholar and Public Intellectual
title_sort in memoriam - thee kian wie : dedicated scholar and public intellectual
publisher Taylor and Francis
publishDate 2014
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20480
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