MILITARY AND STATE IN 20TH CENTURY INDONESIA16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Associate Professor C A Coppel.
Normally, 25 points of first year History.
Second semester
Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
On completion of this subject students should be able to: test the applicability of theories of comparative politics about the political role of the military to the Indonesian historical experience in the 20th century; question whether a political system in which an army plays a prominent part is an aberration from an assumed norm; reflect upon whether justifications of certain practices in Indonesia in the name of culture or tradition might be rationalisations of the interests of those in power; reflect upon whether Australian criticisms of the role of the military in Indonesia in the name of universal human values might be ethnocentric or even projections of Australian feelings of guilt or fear.
The increasingly important role of the military in Indonesia since the proclamation of independence, in the light of theories about the role of the military in politics.
A 2,000-word essay (40%), a 1,000-word class paper (10%) and a 2-hour examination (50%), totalling not more than 5,000 words.
Said S Genesis of Power: General Sudirman and the Indonesian Military in Politics 1945-49 Sydney, 1992
Lane M 'Openness', Political Discontent and Succession in Indonesia Australia-Asia Papers No 56, Centre for the Study of Australia-Asia Relations, Griffith University, 1991
MILITARY AND STATE IN 20TH CENTURY INDONESIA16.7
Associate Professor C A Coppel.
Second semester.
Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial each week.
On completion of this subject students should be able to: test the applicability of theories of comparative politics about the political role of the military to the Indonesian historical experience in the 20th century; question whether a political system in which an army plays a prominent part is an aberration from an assumed norm; reflect upon whether justifications of certain practices in Indonesia in the name of culture or tradition might be rationalisations of the interests of those in power; reflect upon whether Australian criticisms of the role of the military in Indonesia in the name of universal human values might be ethnocentric or even projections of Australian feelings of guilt or fear.
The increasingly important role of the military in Indonesia since the proclamation of independence, in the light of theories about the role of the military in politics.
A 2000-word essay (40 per cent); a 1000-word class paper (10 per cent) and a 2-hour examination (50 per cent); totalling not more than 5,000 words.
Said S Genesis of Power: General Sudirman and the Indonesian Military in Politics 1945-49 Sydney, 1992
Lane M "Openness", Political Discontent and Succession in Indonesia Australia-Asia Papers No 56, Centre for the Study of Australia-Asia Relations, Griffith University, 1991
MILITARY AND STATE IN 20TH CENTURY INDONESIAAvailable in 1996.
Second semester
MILITARY AND STATE IN 20TH CENTURY INDONESIASecond semester