Mulder Niels. Inside Indonesian Society: an interpretation of cultural change in Java

Bangkok: Editions Duang Kamol, 1994. — 209 p.Mulder Nils. Indonesian Society from the Inside: Toward an Interpretation of Cultural Change in Java (In English)This book is both an introduction to contemporary life in Javanese society and an analysis of the emerging Javanese Indonesian culture. Since the Javanese constitute half of the highly diversified population of two hundred million, it is only to be expected that they should have a major impact on the evolution of Indonesia as a modern nation-state. Their dominance in the country's affairs inevitably gives rise to various tensions, and the Javanese-Indonesian culture the new power-holders are moulding is not to everybody's liking either. This study analyses these developments, explaining cultural persistence and change in a historical perspective and on the basis of the author's twenty-five years of first hand observations.Three windu in Yogyakarta.
The cultural process in Yogyakarta.
Javanization.
The ideology of Javanese-Indonesian leadership.
Images of men and women.
About psychology, women, and conflict.
Summarizing patterns of thought.
The evolution of culture under the New Order.
The dominant image of society.