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131-037 Military and State in Indonesia | |
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Note | Formerly available as 131-223/323. Students who have completed 131-223 or 131-323 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Charles Coppel |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of first year history, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour lecture for six weeks, a 1-hour lecture for six weeks, and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | This subject focuses on the 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. On completion of the subject students should be able to test theories of comparative politics about the political role of the military in the Indonesian historical experience of 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 projections of Australian feelings of guilt or fear. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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