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The Many Faces of Indonesia: Knowledge Production and Power Relations

Author(s) -

Hanneman Samuel,

Oki Rahadianto Sutopo

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

asian social science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1911-2025

pISSN - 1911-2017

DOI - 10.5539/ass.v9n13p289

Subject(s) - indonesian , argument (complex analysis) , power (physics) , epistemology , state (computer science) , sociology , process (computing) , sociology of scientific knowledge , production (economics) , positive economics , social science , political science , economics , philosophy , computer science , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , macroeconomics , operating system

Conceptualizations of modern Indonesia were active agents in shaping the way we saw the present Indonesia and its problems. This study is concerned with some major conceptions of modern Indonesia, namely, the primordial sentiments thesis, the transitional stage thesis, the historical structural thesis, and the cultural imperialism thesis. Our specific interest was on comparing the way they treated the Indonesian state and society. It is our argument that involvement of scientific knowledge in the formation of modern Indonesia had been a complex process: scientific knowledge intertwined with common sense in power relations. This had meant Indonesian societies and identities could never be considered to have been monolithic

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