Title: Perceptions of citizenship in Indonesia before and during ReformasiSubmitted by: Dr Mary Fearnley-Sander, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania, AustraliaThe 1978 Guide for the Perception and Implementation of Pancasila (P-4) which mandated the New Order interpretation of Pancasila in schools was ended after the fall of Soeharto in 1998. These guidelines had advanced an integralist account of the relationship between the state and the citizen, opposite to one of the fundamental orientations of liberalism in affirming an identity of interest between the citizen and the state. This paper reports on the legacy of a schooling in integralism on the political dispositions of adolescents in West Sumatra. The findings are drawn from a study extending from 1997 to 1999 of the civic orientations of adolescents from different social and ethnic groupings. The study looks in particular at how young people are positioned by their education in citizenship to respond to the possibilities for democratic change in Indonesia; and at the implications for current Indonesian debate on civic education of the study's findings. Return to Abstracts menuCarol Burnett Phone: 61 - 3 - 9349 1899 Email: c.burnett@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
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