TALKING ACCOMMODATION IN INDONESIA
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If the 1930s marked the decline of nationalism and the rise of internationalism in Vietnam, the opposite trend was found in anti-colonial politics in Dutch Indies. The rise of nationalism in Indonesia was due to the work of a new batch of young activists such as Sukarno and Hatta. But the cause these activists promoted did not go unchallenged. "The nation" as their favorite theme was vigorously contested from day one. We have seen that communists attacked nationalism as an outdated bourgeois ideology. Dutch suppression of PKI following its failed rebellion in 1926 and 1927 loosened the communist stranglehold on nationalist ideas. But resistance to nationalism came also from conservative Sarekat Islam leaders who believed in Pan-Islamism. In their view, "the nation" (bangsa) and "home land" (tanah air) were simply the masks of chauvinism that led countries to fight each other.
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Trích "Paths to Development In Asia -
South Korea, Vietnam, China, and Indonesia",
Tuong Vu, 2010
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