Multicultural Indonesia in Geographical and Cultural Perspectives

DOI

10.2991/icsse-17.2018.71How to use a DOI?

Keywords

multiculturalism, demographic transition, urbanization, cultural policy, Indonesia

Abstract

This paper argues that there are unresolved tensions between the forces driving cultural diversity in Indonesia, namely Indonesia's demographic transition and urbanization, and the state's approach to multiculturalism. It argues that multiculturalism under the New Order can be defined as hierarchical multiculturalism, where ethnic groups are aligned with the administrative units of the state at different levels and locations. This form of multiculturalism is a key reason for the proliferation of administrative units (pemekaran) since decentralization, and is in tension with the powerful forces for socio-demographic change mentioned earlier. I suggest a place-based multiculturalism would be more appropriate for Indonesia given the trend towards increasing cultural diversity.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Tod Jones
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TI  - Multicultural Indonesia in Geographical and Cultural Perspectives
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences Education - "Multicultural Transformation in Education, Social Sciences and Wetland Environment" (ICSSE 2017)
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