Dr. Sylvia Tidey Bidang ANTROPOLOGI BUDAYA

21 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013

10.1 Dr. Sylvia Tidey

Warga Negara : Belanda Jabatan : Postdoctoral Researcher Institusi : University of Amsterdam No. SIP : 035 SIPFRPSMII2013 11. HIVAIDS, Gender and the Body: An Ethnographic Study of Moral Experience in Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia Tujuan Penelitian : Mendapatkan pemahaman yang lebih baik tentang pengaruh-pengaruh wacana sekitar moral dan gender terhadap orang dengan pengalaman HIV AIDS di Aceh dan Sumatra Utara Bidang Penellitian : Antropologi Budaya Daerah Penelitian : Aceh Banda Aceh dan Sumut Medan Lama Penelitian : 12 dua belas bulan mulai 20 Agustus 2013 Mitra Kerja : ICAIOS - International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh Saiful Mahdi, Ph.D. Abstrak The number of HIV infections in Indonesia has grown rapidly over the last decade, afecting relatively more and more women and spreading from high risk groups to the broader population. In addressing the HIVAIDS epidemic, knowledge, prevention and care are crucial. This ethnographic research project examines how these and other aspects of HIVAIDS are entangled with concerns about morality and the body, both in public debates and in everyday experiences. It especially focuses on gender as a central component of these moral discourses and experiences. The main objective of the project is to better understand the inluences of moral discourses around the body on gendered experiences of HIVAIDS of Aceh and North Sumatra. The central question is: How do everyday moralities and moral discourses about the body inluence gendered experiences of HIVAIDS in Aceh and North Sumatra? 22 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013 This question will be explored through qualitative methods that link discursive, material and phenomenological levels of HIVAIDS, gender and morality. These methods are, mainly: interviewing, participant observation, and focus group discussions. These methods will be complemented by an analysis of public debates on morality and HIVAIDS in local and national mass media. The study focuses on three key research populationsorganizations, namely: 1. people living with HIVAIDS 2. civil society organizations working in the ield of HIVAIDS and gender, and 3. policy makers concerned with issues of HIVAIDS and gender. Aceh and North Sumatra were selected as suitable locations for the research, because of their diverging public moral discourses and because these provinces have diverging numbers of HIV prevalence, which makes them extremely interesting for comparison. The largest part of this 12-month study will be spent in Banda Aceh nine months, with a smaller comparative study focusing on Medan three months. The researcher is hosted by the International Center for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies ICAIOS, part of Syiah Kuala University, in Banda Aceh. This study has a high theoretical and societal relevance. Based on previous studies in other parts of the world, it can be expected that a better qualitative understanding of the relations between HIVAIDS, morality, gender and the body will provide recommendations for the containment of the epidemic. This research project is therefore committed to contributing insights that will help to ight HIV AIDS, in Aceh and North Sumatra, in Indonesia, and beyond.

11.1 Ms. Annemarie Samuels