Imagining Multiculturality : Young Indonesians in Movement
Author: Lucia Ratih Kusumadewi, luciaratih@gmail.com
Department: Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques
University: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
Supervisor: Michel Wieviorka and Philippe Bataille
Year of completion: 2019
Language of dissertation: French
Keywords:
Multiculturality
, Social movement
, Youth
, Indonesia
Areas of Research:
Social Classes and Social Movements
, Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change
, Youth
Abstract
The world today is faced with the strengthening of ethnocentrism. In many cases, excessive ethnocentrism has succeeded in degrading and even destroying community civilization by eliminating others. As a multicultural society, Indonesia faces considerable challenges related to the strengthening of ethnocentrism and management of shared life in its cultural diversity. This is not easily achieved when cultural diversity has become a political commodity that is played from time to time by many interested parties to gain political power and economic resources. This study is a study of the multicultural movement in Indonesia, which is an effort of its citizens to create and maintain a multicultural society, namely people who are able to manage their cultural diversity, respect other’s lives and respect each other, without the dominance and superiority of certain groups over other groups. The study has been conducted in 2010 and 2011, using qualitative research methods with in-depth interviews and by organizing an « intervention sociologique » which was followed by a group of young activists from the multicultural movement in Yogyakarta. In addition to identifying the various problems faced by the multicultural movement in Indonesia in general, and the movement initiated by young people in Yogyakarta in particular, through the « intervention sociologique » we also tried to go further into a more in-depth study of social movements that touched on questions about how social actors and « Subjects » work in that movement.
