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CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF : A SYLLABUS HISTORY STUDY PROGRAM, FACULTY OF CULTURAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITAS GADJAH MADA

Course name : Contemporary History of Indonesia (Code: BDS 3633) Instructors : Dr. Agus Suwignyo and Dr. Farabi Fakih Credit Points : 3 credits Status : Elective for BA in History Semester : VI / February - June Prerequisite : - Syllabus prepared by: Dr. Agus Suwignyo (17.2.2016)

Course description This course offers a landscape of understanding on the changes of the Indonesian state and society over the recent past period, approximately from the fall of the in 1998 up to the present. In particular, discussions will aim to answer such central questions as: (1) what changes (e.g. progress or regress) can be identified following the authoritarian regime up to the present for example in terms of State’s performance, citizenship and public welfare creation? (2) why are they and what are the trajectories? Indonesia is perhaps the country in South East whose making and being was, and is, the most arduous as much in the process as in the analysts’ perceptions of it. Following the fall of the New Order in 1998, Indonesia had to search for new foundations to its political, economic and, more seriously, socio-cultural structures in order to cope with the impact of the abrupt and drastic shift of regime. The past twenty years have witnessed a gradual progress in a number of sectors, especially politics and economy. However, a number of fundamental issues related remain to be a serious challenge to the future path of the country, especially with regard to state’s performance, welfare distribution and citizenship, none the least the spread of radicalism.

Objectives: 1. to understand the background to the fall of the New Order 2. to provide a landscape of understanding on the political, economic and social changes approximately between 1998 and 2010s 3. to identify trajectories of the changes 4. to stimulate discussions on related issues by way of students’ own selection of readings

Instructional method: 1. Individual reading assignment 2. Lecture 3. Student group presentation 4. Focused group discussion 2 of 3

Evaluation system: 1. Weekly individual 1,000-word review of a journal article or a book on related topics 2. Mid-term test—structured and defined 3. Final examination

Grade components: Final grade is decided upon the following components 1. Weekly assignment 30 % 2. Mid-term test 30 % 3. Final examination 40 % There is university’s prequisite of minimal attendance of 75% for course participants in order to be allowed a seat in the final exam.

Time table, topics, assigned readings:

Time Topic Readings Method

Week 1: 10.2.2016 Introduction: course Syllabus Lecture outline Week 2: 17.2.2016 The Fall of the New Lecture Order Week 3: 24.2.2016 Political break-up and List #1 & #2 Group presentation make-up

Week 4: 2.3.2016 Decentralization and List #3 & # 4 Group presentation economic distribution Week 5: 16.3.2016 Citizenship and the List #5 & #6 Group presentation quest for democracy Week 6: 23.3.2016 Post-New Order List #7 FGD Historiography of Indonesia Week 7: 30.3.2016 Mid-term test

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Reading list:

1. Edward Aspinall and Mark T. Berger, “The Break up of Indonesia? Nationalism after Decolonization and the Limits of Nation-State in Post-Cold War ”, Third World Quarterly 22, 6 (2001): 1003—1024. 2. Marcus Mietzner, „Comparing Indonesia’s Party Systems of the 1950s and the Post Soeharto Era: From Centrifugal to Centripetal Inter-party Competition“, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 39, 3 (2008): 431—453. 3. Anne Booth, „Splitting, Splitting and Splitting Again: A Brief History of the Development of Regional Government in Indonesia since Independence“, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 167 1 (2011): 31-59. 4. Elizabeth Morrell, „Strengthening the local in national reform: A cultural approach in political change“, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 32, 3 (2001): 437—449. 5. Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken, “Introduction“ to Renegotiating boundaries: Access, agency and identity in post-Soeharto Indonesia (: KITLV Press 2007), pp. 1—29.

6. Irine Hiraswari Gayatri, ’Nationalism, democratisation and primordial sentiment in Indonesia: Problems of ethnicity versus Indonesianness (the cases of , , and )’, Journal of Indonesian Social Sciences and Humanities 3 (2010): 189-203.

7. Agus Suwignyo, „Indonesian national history textbooks after the New Order: What’s new under the sun?“, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 170 (2014): 113—131.