COURSE SYLLABUS

INDONESIAN VALUES AND IDEOLOGIES

Credit: 3

Convenor/Contributor
Name : Amika Wardana, Ph.D
Mobile : 0815 7870 8276 (Muttaqin) | 081393471345 (Amika)
Email : a.wardana@uny.ac.id
Class schedule: Tuesday Time: 1330-1600 Room: U-304

Course Description:
The course is designed to explore and elaborate the historical and contemporary foundations
and trajectories of the Indonesian society from the pre-colonial period to the post-Reformasi
era. Primarily, the course will encourage students to re-read the history of the nation-building
of Indonesia; take a reflection on the internal diversity and the complex-and-bitter colonial
processes up to the construction of Indonesia as a nation. The course will further investigate
various social, political, cultural and economic challenges as well as potentials and opportunities
which have been being faced by Indonesia ever since; including the Reformasi 1998 and latest
developments within the state and society at large.

Course Objectives:
1. To build understanding among the student on the plurality of Indonesian cultures and
make critical analyses on its advantages and disadvantages in terms of its construction,
utilization, negotiation and further trajectories in this global era.
2. To build recognition among the students on the important of having values, identity,
characters and ideology in order to be a strong Nation in a global era.
3. T have comprehensive understanding of the Indonesians socio-cultural and economic-
politic behavior, this course will discuss Indonesian values and ideology and the debate
on them, including their contestation, transformation and their impact to social
practices.

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Course Method and Tasks/Assignments
• Intensive reading & reading report. There are 9 articles to read and discuss and 2
movies to watch/review. Every student should write at least 6 500-words-long reviews
of those 9 articles; with article 04, article 05, and article 06 as a compulsory task.

• Groups Discussion: Students will be grouped into 4 groups, each group will give
presentation based on selected reading material for the specific weeks.

• Group Movie Review: Students – grouped into 4 – will watch and review 2 movies
presented during the class session. The Review will be about 2-3 pages.

• Extended reading review as the Mid exam/assignment.

• Essay on Indonesian Values and Ideologies. Students individually are obliged to write
down a short essay – about 3-4 pages – relevance to the course themes as the final
exam/assignment; Suggested themes are:

▪ Managing the multicultural society of Indonesia

▪ The Future of Indonesian Youths: Millennial Challenges
▪ Promoting Social-Economic Justice for Indonesians
▪ Indonesian Democratization: Opportunities and Challenges
• Class session will be structured as follow:

▪ 30 minute Quizzes and/or introductory lecturer

▪ 60 minute students presentation and discussion
▪ 60 minutes lecturer
• Grades are based on individual weekly article reviews, 1 group presentation paper,
class participation and Essay on Indonesian Values and Ideologies. Student who fail to
produces one or all works mentioned will not receive grades. The grades are based on
the following accumulation assignment:

▪ Individual article review 30%

▪ Group Presentation 15%
▪ Group Movie Review 20%
▪ Mid & Final exam 30%
▪ Participation: class attendance, mini quizzes, contribution to class discussion
5%

Grading Scheme

A Students demonstrated the ability to understand the whole materials of

the course; completed all individual tasks and participated in all
students-study groups with excellent quality and originality.
B Students demonstrated the ability to understand the whole materials of
the course; completed all individual tasks and participated in students-
study groups with good quality and originality.

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 C Students were struggle to understand the whole materials of the course;
but completed all individual tasks and participated in students-study
groups with decent quality and originality.
D Students completed all individual tasks and participated in students-
study groups; but showed a lack of understanding of the materials of the
course.
E Not completed any individual tasks and students-study groups

Course Topics and References

Students
Meeting Topics Reading Materials
Tasks
Course Syllabus
Overview, Lesson
1 Contract & Introduction The Indonesian Contexts.
n/a
11 Feb to Indonesian Values & In Brown, C (2005) A Short History
Ideology of Indonesia: The Unlikely Nation.
Chapter 1: pp. 1-10

Article 01:

Socio-cultural context The Rise of States and the Age of

2 Commerce. Individual
of Proto-Indonesia
18 Feb Reviews
In Brown, C (2005) A Short History
of Indonesia: The Unlikely Nation.
Chapter 2 - 3; pp. 11-48.

Article 02:
The First Steps Toward National Individual
3 The Rise of Nation: Revivals. Reviews
25 Feb Indonesia (1)
In Ricklefs, A History of Modern
Indonesia, Since 1200pp.. Pp. 206-
226. |
Article 03:
Defining the Indonesian People
Group: 1
4 The Rise of Nation: Elson, R.E. (2005) Constructing
Indonesia (2) the Nation: Ethnicity, Race, Individual
03 Mar
Modernity and Citizenship in Early Reviews
Indonesian Thought. Asian
Ethnicity 6(3) pp. 145-160

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 Article 04:
Group: 2
Pancasila, Islam and Secularism in
The formation of Pp 1-17
5 Indonesia
Indonesian Ideology (1)
10 Mar
Individual
Ichwan, MN (2011) Secularism,
Reviews
Islam and Pancasila: Political
6 Debates on the Basis of the State
The formation of in Indonesia. Bulletin of the Group: 3
17 Mar
Indonesian Ideology (2) Nanzan Center for Asia and Pacific P 17-36
Studies 6; pp. 1-43

Movie Screening and Discussion:

7 The Independence: a Soekarno (2013) Students
24 Mar new beginning By Hanung Bramantyo study group

Mid-Term Exam
Extended Review of Yazid and Pakpahan (2019)

Article 05:
Democratization in Indonesia
Group: 4
8 The 1998 Reformasi and Yazid, S., & K. Pakpahan, A. Individual
14 Apr its legacies (2019). Democratization in
Reviews
Indonesia: Strong State and
Vibrant Civil Society. Asian Affairs:
An American Review, 1-26.
Article 6:
Managing Indonesian Religious Life
Hefner, R (2018) The Religious Group 1
9 Religious Diversity & Field: Plural Legacies and Individual
21 Apr Harmony Contemporary Contestation. Reviews
In Hefner, R. Routledge Handbook
of Contemporary Indonesia. P 211-
225

Article 7:
Citizenship in Indonesia
Van Klinken, G & Berenschot, W Group: 2
10
Citizenship in Indonesia (2018) Everyday Citizenship in Individual
28 Apr Democratizing Indonesia. Reviews
In Hefner, R. Routledge Handbook
of Contemporary Indonesia. P 151-
160

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 Article 8:
Politic and Popular Culture in
Indonesia
Identity and Politics in Group: 3
11
Tension Heryanto, A (2018) Popular Individual
05 May Culture and Identity Politics. Reviews
In Hefner, R. Routledge Handbook
of Contemporary Indonesia. P 357-
368.

Article 9:
Dangdut
Group: 4
12 Weintraub, A (2018) Nation, Islam
Nation in Dangdut and Gender in Dangdut. Individual
12 May Reviews
In Hefner, R. Routledge Handbook
of Contemporary Indonesia. P 369-
377
Movie Discussion:
13 Economic Challenges Students
Sexy Killers
19 May for Indonesia Study Group

Review the whole lecturer;

Conclusion, lesson
14 Materials for Final Exam
learned & further
02 Jun research questions