The subjectification of citizenship: student interpretations of school teachings in Bali

Parker, Lyn

doi:10.1080/10357820208713329

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“…Development was equated with modernization, or the process of moving from subsistence to an industrialized society (Heryanto 1995). This specific image of a developed nation was insidiously and successfully promoted by the state through textbooks, school curriculum, popular media, and special indoctrination for civil servants (Parker 2002;Kitley 1999;Warouw 2004;Moser 2010).…”

Section: Paternalism and The Rhetoric Of Family In Indonesiamentioning

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Supporting Children, Blaming Parents: Frontline Providers’ Perception of Childhood’s Adversity and Parenthood in Indonesia

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This article explores the construction of childhood and parenthood in rural communities in Indonesia based on a series of focus group discussions with service providers, community decision makers, and paraprofessionals; a group that we refer to as “frontline providers”. By examining the providers’ definition of successful children and their perception of factors that could undermine a child’s success, we provide insights into how frontline providers understand the role of parents, and how parenthood is constructed accordingly. We found that the providers’ definition of successful children reflects a strong neoliberal logic and that education is seen as the primary mechanism of such investment, an evolution of the idea of a modern nation under the previous regime that has permeated into an individual assessment. The paternalistic culture has further cemented the tendency among the frontline providers to problematize parents as the main risk factor for children’s educational achievement and to ignore the structural and ecological factors. We traced this paradigm in Indonesia’s educational and child protection policy framework, prompting a myriad of parenting programs that put parents from the underprivileged group as the main subject of intervention. Informed by studies in different countries, we argue that without changes in structural factors, any intervention on parenting will be deemed ineffective.

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Section: Paternalism and The Rhetoric Of Family In Indonesiamentioning

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Supporting Children, Blaming Parents: Frontline Providers’ Perception of Childhood’s Adversity and Parenthood in Indonesia

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“…Wary of prior regional tensions, the Suharto government also moved to look at identity, ethnic and otherwise, as multiple so that Indonesians where Indonesian citizens first and members of ethnic and religious groups second. This was achieved through the commodification and domestication of ethnicity, whereby ethnicity was strongly linked with region, attire, housing, custom and tourism (Schefold 1998:274–276; see also Parker 2002; and the papers in Hooker 1993a). An example of these neutral to positive evaluations of ethnicity can be seen in the Taman Mini (Mini Garden) in Jakarta which stereotypically represents housing and ways of life from all over Indonesia (e.g., Hoon 2006).…”

Section: Language and Ethnicity: From Colonial To New Order Indonesiamentioning

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Enregistering, Authorizing and Denaturalizing Identity in Indonesia

Goebel

2008

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This article focuses on one aspect of processes of enregisterment in Indonesia, namely the ways in which institutional representations of language use formulate semiotic registers linking language use to performable social categories of personhood and relationship. I examine three types of institutional and thus authorized speech events: schooling, census practices, and television. Of particular interest are three patterns of representation which I exemplify with excerpts from three television series. The first is the language-ethnicity link long established in colonial practices and found in all three institutional representations of language use. The second pattern relates primarily to some of the new inflections created as part of the first pattern, namely the representation of Indonesian as an index of the ethnic other. The third pattern of representation resembles a type of competing ideology where language-ethnicity links are denaturalized through practices of adequation.

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“…These writing arts, however, are actually more popular among non-Malay students and, according to the principal of an SLTA school, female students of Minangkabau background form the larger group of adepts. It has been documented that schooling under the New Order meant students drifting away from family, home and village and towards the prosperity and comfort of modern Indonesian city life (Parker, 2002). It is Indonesia, even more so than Singapore, which remains synonymous with urbanity for many Tanjung Pinang youth.…”

Section: Indonesian Metropolis Malay Kampungmentioning

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Popular discourse on identity politics and decentralisation in Tanjung Pinang public schools

Faucher¹

2006

Asia Pac Viewpoint

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This paper explores the discrepancies between the official rhetoric on Malayness and the emerging discourse on national identity among the urban Malay (Melayu) youth of the Indonesian province Kepri. The population of the Riau Archipelago is multiethnic, with Malays as the majority and Kepulauan Riau represents an important historical centre for the whole Malay World. Because of this, local leaders have engaged this newly formed province in a series of attempts to revitalise a transnational ethnic awareness based on an inclusive Malay identity framework. However, most of the students I met during my recent fieldwork in Tanjung Pinang’s public schools tend to reject most ideas of reinforcing the bridge with the Malays of neighbouring nations, and prefer to perceive themselves primarily as Indonesian. This should not come as a surprise. Since 1998, the popular culture scene has been largely influenced by reformasi movements all over Indonesia. For the Tanjung Pinang youth, urban Indonesia, represented especially by Jakarta, is synonymous with dynamism and democratisation, while Malaysia and Singapore are regarded as moralistic and patronising.

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The subjectification of citizenship: student interpretations of school teachings in Bali

Cited by 30 publications

References 10 publications

Supporting Children, Blaming Parents: Frontline Providers’ Perception of Childhood’s Adversity and Parenthood in Indonesia

Supporting Children, Blaming Parents: Frontline Providers’ Perception of Childhood’s Adversity and Parenthood in Indonesia

Enregistering, Authorizing and Denaturalizing Identity in Indonesia

Popular discourse on identity politics and decentralisation in Tanjung Pinang public schools

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