| ID | 072650 |
| Title Proper | Constructing the nation |
| Other Title Information | ethnicity, race, modernity and citizenship in early Indonesian thought |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Elson, R E |
| Publication | 2005. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article examines the ways in which some early twentieth-century Indonesian thinkers conceptualised the state they had so recently imagined, and particularly how they attacked the vast problem of accommodating ethnic difference within the framework of that new state. Notwithstanding the highly promising beginnings of Indonesian self-appreciation in the early twentieth century and an extraordinarily successful cooptation and, as necessary, subjugation of local and regional expressions of ethnicity to the notion of a united Indonesia, there developed at the same time the new and strange concept of an 'Indonesian race'. That concept represented a regressive reluctance to dispense completely with pre-modern notions of culture and belonging, and created a damaging feature of the understanding of Indonesian citizenship that endures to this day. |
| `In' analytical Note | Asian Ethinicity Vol. 6, No. 3; Oct 2005: p145-160 |
| Journal Source | Asian Ethinicity Vol: 6 No 3 |
| Key Words | Indonesia ; Nationalism ; Nation ; Ethnicity ; Modernity ; Citizenship |